Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-04-01
Large Fortunes.


RoTHcHILDs fortune has been in
process of acc ulation one hundred
years, and nc mounts to three hun
dred millions t has increased at the
rate of eleven pee cent. per annum,
while the average increase of the ma
tional wealth of the world, is only
three per cent. By long and quite
intricate calculation the Graphic
proves to mathematical certainty
that at the end of the year 23OO the
family of ROTHGHILDs will own the
whole property of the world; and will
perhaps establish kind of peonage
among all the tribes of the human
race. This is rather a gloomy outlook
for LUCKY BALDWIN, JOHN P. JONES,
PETER DoNAHUE,A. T. STEWART and
all the balance of us. There is how
ever, one consolation left; if ROTH
CHILDs owns us he'll have to feed and
clothe us. That is about all we get
now, and we have to struggle as
hard for it now as we will when ROTH
CHILDs gets bill of sale of us, unless
he should happen to put hard task
masters over us. We don't see that it
makes much difference who owns all
the property, whether one man, or ten
thousand inasmuch as we do not own
any of it. Ws poor devils generally
manage to get as much comfort out of
it, as the owners do. A great surplus
of property is like fine picture gal
lery. The owner who has made a
slave of himself to establish fine art
gallery takes no m ore comfort from it
than the poor hod carrier, who has a
good pair of eyes. They can both
stand and gaze. 1t was only made to
look at. Indeed, we don't know but
the hod carrier has the advantage, for
while the owner is gazing his thoughts
are divided between the scene before
him and his depleted purse, which he
emptied to pay for the sight, but the
hod carriers mind is undivided and
he drinks in the scene. The same is
true of fine houses and fine iewelry:
these are all things for the public to
look at, and the poorest man on the
streets enjoys them as much as the
owner does, provided he is not blind.
1t is also true of fine apparel and fine
equipages. 1t does not require great
deal to supply all the real wants OF
life. All we have beyond that is bur-
densome and only tends to enslave us.
The richest men in the world are the
greatest slaves. This race after prop
erty, over and above enough to make
a man and his family com Portable, is
nothing but a race into bondage. 1t
is foolish idea of the poor that the
rich are happier than they. 1t is true
they have some luXuries that we can
not afford, but we are perhaps better
off without them, and they would be
too, if they knew it. These luxurious
livers do not live long as rule. Their
health is soon undermined. The
wealthy man often sits down to his
table, groaning under luxuries, with
dyspeptic stomach, and With a sigh
he leaves without tasting the danties
saying: "I'd all haye for the
stomach and Il petite of py porter"
No, it's all mistake, the poor man
in good health With a few comforts
and a clear conscience is as happy as
RoTHeHILDs, OF any other rich man.
So much comfort we have taken from
the Graphic's view of the case. But
there is another view that may con-
sole the Graphic. Wealth is diffu-
sive thing, and reqbires strong grasp
to hold it. A man or a family in
boarding up large amount of wealth
m ay be compared to dam across a
stream. They may check and even
dry the bed of the current below for
the time; but the reservoir is filling
above. 1t can only hold a certain
amount and when it is full the dam
either breaks, or it runs over or cuts a
new channel and floods the country
below. This we presume will be the
case with the fortune of the ROTH
CHILDs, and all other great bodies of
wealth. These mammoth capitalists
are compelled to have great many
agents when they begin to take
mortgage upon the property of the
world and among the vast number re-
quired they will be very apt to get a
few BELKNAPs, BRIsTows and PIN
NEYs among them who will appropri-
ate and scatter it to the four winds.
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