The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-02


"Your newspapers make a great
FUSS" said one of the wealthiest
men in New York to q World re-
porter, "about the sufferings of the
poor map during these hard times,
but l don't see that any of them mo-
tice particularly the diabolical dis
tress of the rich man."
The reporter wasn't aware that
the rich man suffered at all.
"That," said he of the wealth, sis
because you don't know anything
about it, Why, cir, / undergo more
actual, absolute torture in An hour
than any poor wretch in the city.
If hadn't cent in the world, I'd
have some svmpathy, some rest,
some assistance. AS it Is, / am
bounded to death, Pm despised, be-
set, annoyed, condemned, back kitten,
waylaid. The papers, write edito-
rails about me. If j go to church,
/ am told that a camel can get
through the eye of needle slicker
than can get into heaven. If do
EOt dress my family in an extrava-
giant manner hear that am an old
shipflint-lfI do, en- told that all
think of my money is to make a
vulgar show with it. l suppose i
worked as hard as any man for
more than two-thirds of my life to
accum ulate q fortune, but j believe
most people think l ought TO give
1t away and begin over again. In a
winter like this you've no idea OF
the hardships of the rich. If / help
all the people who apply to me,
might as well 60 to the poor-house,
and yet all of them expect il, and
most of them, dare say, are wor-
thy. Its out of the question. So
they curse me, 1 suppose. All the
benevolent societies, charities, pub
lie Institutions and church organi
zations have their agents out. / am
waited upon by committees, run
ners, clergYmeD, secretaries. They
send me half q bnshel of letters
day. They drop upon me in most
unexpected places. They get into
my private office. They wait in
my library before l am up. They
sit on my front steps. They follow
me int the horse-cars. What is a
man to do? II l let them have
their way, my name will be para
ded as If wanted to advertise my
charities. II don't, the press will
want to know what he has ever done
for New York. The other day, a
reporter came to see me about my
will. He said the public would
like to be Informed as to the pro-
posed disposition Of my property at
my decease. suppose if were to
get cold in my head there'd be a
brigade of them quartered under
my windows. ] begin to think that
n rich man Is q disgrace to the COM
munity-that somehow have COM
mitted crime. l don't like TO look
g man sQuarely in the face for fear
his hatred of me will show itself, or
that he will stop aud ask me to lend
him thousand dollars to get his
starving family some food 10 eat. 1
tell you, sir, this winter is awful
hard on the rich man. He doesn't
even eat his dinner in peace. How
can he when there are over 10000
who are dinnerless? His money
gets to be 3 reproach to him, and
he feels as If he'd like TO give the
whole Of 1T away in one lump, and
try the luxury of being poor for a
while. But you needn't say any
thing about that, or I'll have fresh
battalion here tomorrow, and half
the idlers in town will be writing
me letters. In fact, l wouldn't say
anything about 1t if were you, but
it's fact that the rich man suffers
in hard winter q good deal more
than the peer man. You take my
word for it. And the poor don't
pity him bit.-N. Y. World.