Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-23

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that it was fair transaction. What is
the State2 1t is only four millions OF
people he thought, who are all trying to
be rich-struggling, cheating, by hook
or by crook, every man for himself, and
the devil take the hindmost, to be rich.
These men would be fools not to take
my money. And he smiled his fat smile
and paid literally for all that was in
market.
There we're some papers, whose price
he could not ascertain, which persisted
in speaking i'll of him and his pals. If
the fools did not know their own interest
enough to be content with good price
say, of corporation of Advertising
they must be silenced. The conceit of
virtue must not be pushed too far. So
one day his legislature passed bill vir-
tually giving his judges power to i'm
pris)n editors at their pleasure. But
virtue-that is in the Tweed theory of
life, obstinacy in holding out for high.
er price mustered such really respec
table protest that the public project of
coercion failed, and private methods
we're tried. Tweed had no doubt that
reputation could be bought as we'll as
power Peter Cooper builds an insti-
tute for the education of the poor, does
he? You mean said Tweed monument
to his own glory. He pays a certain
number of thousands of dollars for the
reputation of philanthropy. And Mr..
Stewart builds working woman's pal
ace. All! And Mr.. Astor POUNDS a IL
brary. Indeed And they are benev-
olent gentlemen and benefactors of their
kind? Not at all. They merely invest
money in certain kind of fame. That
pleases their taste, as fast hors es,
and yachts and pictures please the taste
of other people. l will show you how
It's done says the faithful believer in the
Dollar. And he gives fifty thousand
dollars to the poor just as winter is be-
ginning. "Let the cavilers say what
they will, exclaimed myriad voices,
that shows good heart" Tweed as it
were, tips a wink. | told you how it
was done, he seems to say; what is
there that money will not buy?
Is 1t surprising that such man did
not try to evade justice? Justice in his
view was commodity like Legislative
honor, like newspaper independence, like
the reputation of benevolence. The re-
form movement was to him a sudden
and confusing furry, in which strikers,
to whose terms he would not yield, had
somehow gained momentary advan-
tage. He had perhaps made a mistake
in not buying them at their own price
Success had possibly put him off his
guard. He was sure that if an indict-
ment were found, that would be the end
of it, and he had no feeling of shame.
His friend Fisk had shown what lawyers
were made OF, and he himself would buy
lawyers and judges, sheriffs and juries.
He knew that the one thing that in
needy and greedy world cannot fail is
money. He came to his first trial, and
the jury disagreed naturally for he had
bought some of them. The evidence is,
of course, moral only, but it is conclu-
sive. If Justice, facetiously SO called,
wanted another bout, he would come
up smiling" There was no trick OF
quibble that lawyers could devise for
which he had not made munifcent pre-
paration, even to asserting that the Judge
who obstinately refused to name a price
was disqualified from sitting al the trial
Money had never failed before; it GER
tainly would not at this last pinch.
But it did, and the bewllderment and
CONSERVATION of this simple devotee
were pitiful. He had but one article in
his faith, and that was now destroyed.
He had staked everything upon the Ger.
tainty of the Almighty Dollar, and he
had lost.-Harper's Magazine for FEB.