The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-08-23
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their children by excessive indulgence
and we fear that there is some justice ir
the charge. Suddenly-acquIred wealth
with the caprices for ease and pleasure il
engenders, is more apt to affect injuriously
the offspring Of the rich than the rich
themselves.
The mere acquisition of fortune is gen
orally proof of the possession by him who
has acquired it, at least If he has done sc
through Ills own skill and industry, of Ger.
tain robust qualities of mind or body
which are more or less protection against
some of the obvious influences of wealth.
The industry he must needs have exercised
the energy exerted, and self-denial prac.
tieed, and which have become to a great
extent habits of life, will surely tend to
guard him from lapsing into the indo.
lence, apathy and luxurious enjoyment to
which the possession of riches often tends.
The vices of selfacqdired wealth are, for
the most part, of different kind, and may
be regarded only as the very qualities dis
played in the acquisition, but carried to
excess in the possession. The man who
has been the maker of his own fortune
will seldom be conscious of any enjoyment
it can give beyond the increase of which
itself supplies the means. He accordingly,
being the same man, with his circum-
stances, indeed, changed, but only in the
sense of extending his scope, continues
the exercise of his habitual propensities.
With increased power comes naturally a
moro intense application of it, and his
early industry, energy and self denial, are
apt, so far from abating in the least, to be
stimulated into excess, and we often see
him in the midst of his superabundance, a
more eager, restless and unenjoying be-
ing than ever. Self-important, purse
proud and niggardly he will be, perhaps,
but there is little chance of his becoming
luxurious idler or enervated debauchee.
1t is well known that in our large COM
mercial and manufacturing towns the
most eager, active and successful makers
Of money, are those who, having long
since accumulated large fortunes, have
the least occasion for it. Retiring from
business means with lis in the United
States merely changing from one occupa-
ton to another, and the dry goods or other
dealer closes his shop to day only to take
his place in the Exchange or bank to-mor-
row. Such men are not likely to acquire
that rust in lust of which the proverb
speaks, whatever else of i'll their souls or
bodies may receive in the course of their
ceaseless pursuit of wealth.
1t is quite otherwise with their offspring,
who have never. like their parents who be-
gan life in poverty, been subjected to that
grinding process of adversely which wears
away all the soft parts and leaves nothing
but the gritof mans nature. Prosperity
cuddles them from the beginning, and
guards them carefully from all the rubs of
life. II might be supposed that sire who
has accumulated Lis riches by the hard and
long strain of his energies, and clings to
them with that fond tenacity characteristic
of such, would deny his children the ease
and luxury which can only be attained by a
more or less free expenditurcof his darling
money. Il is not so, however. It will be
often observed that even the most avari-
cious Of wealthy men. with all their ordi-
nary tightness OF hand to the usual claims
upon their bounty, open it freely to the
prodigsl demands Of their children. The
maker of his own fortune is generally eager
to display evidences Of it, and is thus not
seldom 0stentatious in every outward ex-
preston of wealth. As he builds SNOWY
house, supports flashy establishment,
throws costly jewels upon the neck Of his
wife, and seeks ali possible ways of max
ing manifest to the public consciousness
The abundance Of his dollars, So he displays
bis sons and daughters in the snowy
aspect of fine gentlemen ard ladies. With
this purpose IN view, he meets their
prodigal demands with rcady profusion,
and willingly supports them in all the en-
pense, luxurious ease and other indul-
gences which are supposed to be recog-
hixed BY the world as evidences Of being
! rich mans children.
It may be confidently stated as fact
that the children Of the n0uccoux yicAes,
md, indeed, of the prosperous generally
In our large metropolitan cities, are far
more INDUCED in every luxury than the |
offspring Of Princes and Mobiles in Eu-
rope. The children Of the Grown Prince
# Germany sre very 6pastans in their
bringing up il comparison with those Of |
he Now York citizen who but few years
lince Wae srudging about with pack |
npon his back. Old established families |
4 rank and wealth IL England are con- |
Ifently e. 10 guard to project their Oh. |
IpfinG from the enefvating intlnencos of |
|oxnfl. md t6us Il Il th6f al the manly
lxefc1Dee which demand robuet effoft IA |
lrcg11 NGaEenioe induleehc aro % greatly |
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