The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-11-16
Frank n. Pixley on the Wealthy
Men Of California.
ArGOnau'. Oct. q.

III =.
Rees', Luning. Latham, and Others
VIII se names | might mention are. the
wenlthiest men In California.
THIS is an error, although | do not
wish 10 injure their credit; but the fact
l., they are among our poorest men.
They are compelled to daily toll. and
rec-ive for It bat their daily bread.
They are all of them under salary.
Reese aud Luning are at work for
their board and clothes; Stanford,
Latham aud Mills are. as an addition
al compensation. provided with COM
Portable homes ard furnished with pic
lures, and books, aud works of art.
For these things. in lien of salaries.
they are required to toll from one years
eud to another
Flood Is mine manager. Stanford is
building railroads. Mills is q banker,
Latham is rairoadiug. Lunning and
Reese keep pawnbroker shops, and
they are all sentenced to hard labor for
the term of their natural lives
They have no prospec: Of being re-
iieved from their burdens; they have
no hope Of increase of salary; they can-
not get out of the country TO travel;
they have no leisure to read. and very
Little time for social intercourse
Their condition in this world is a
psinfal aud lnborious one. and they are
entirely cut off from the hope of glo-
rious immortality through their utter
inability to wrisgle through the eye OF
u needle.
Yet they seem happy. and we pre-.
sume they are. Content, doubtless, to
fill to the best of their ability the linn
tied spheres to hich they have been
assigned.
Governor Stanford is proud of his po-
sition rs President of the Central Pa
c,fic Railroad and ambitious to own two
continuous lines of roads across the
continent from San Francisco to New
York from Golden Gate to He'll Gate.
When he has accomplished this he
will desire to combine all the lateral
roads, monopollze the Mississippi river.
the Gulf OF Mexico, the Northern
Lakes, the Erie Canal, have toll gate
sr the entrance of New York and San
Francisco harbors. in order that he may
better develop the resources of the
country and promote its general welfare
by transporting all the people and all
their goods.
When Mr.. Latham has completed his
North Coast Railroad to the Pole. mo-
popolixed all the ice.ields. fur islands
and fisheries. secured all the forests
and sa "mllls. he will extend his enter
prise southw to Patagonia.
When Flood is wealthier than Roths.
child, and has more money than Moh-
te Christie. When Mills has made the
Bank of California to outrank the
Bank Of England. When Reese and
Lnning have sweated the last ducsts.
When Lux x Miller have acquired all
the pastures that the Devil pointed out
to Christ, and all the cattle upon a
thousand hills. When Haggln shall
have absorbed the dry land. and Shar-
on the waters OF the earth. When they
shall have accomplished all these
things
Thcn-well then.
They will crawl humbly away into
their little tombs. over them will be
said each in turn a short prayer. and
over them (laid out Of their own earn
ings) we will erect monumental shat
of marble bronze or granite. and on it
will inscribe their withstand this the
only reward for life of toll some-
times think we are not sufficiently
gratef to these. our servants. fnt
their faithful ami unpaid lnbors
lam surprised that any reasonable
man should envy them.
In conversation with u wealthy friend
the other day--one of fhnse close mon-
ey machines that deal ia bullion and
exchange. that can transfer your furds
from S~n Jose to Bagdad. convert corr
liz Illinois. estton in Georgia. wine in
e lifnrnia. woal in australia Into coin
and lay it down in Moscow or Madrid
asked him WHY he did not own a town
aud country house. yacht and carriage;
why he did not enjoy hlmselff
Il do enjny life. was the reply,
mime is the joy to make money! mine
the pleasure TO accumulate. delight
in the chase. l am playing a game
with all the world. / calculate human
passions for the chances Of war
watch the rains for crops. l forecast
the policy Of kings | study the cleo
iions in France regard the prosper.
i,y of countries that may know where
trade balances lie watch whose pa-
tions borrow, and whose bankers lend
l study the movements Of armies, no
sice the conduct Of Bismarck, Andrassy,
Gortschakoff. Disraeli. keep my eye
on Bourbon. ORLEANS and Bonaparte. l
study the movements Of mobs and com
munes All these hations. kings pre-
miers. armies. peoples. ara bishops.
knights. castles ani pawns being
moved for my benefit. l watch the
game. and in selling exchange I bet
npou the result. II iosc. am cha
grined; il win. laugh. Ii is my
pleasure: it is my life. l am happy
in It"
And ~, when all is said and done,
when the philosophy of life is exhausted.
il cnmes down to this. the happy man
is he who is content.
IL may be under bread fruit ar ba-
mana tree with hreech- -clnut ard PAns-
ma hat. with a hut and hammock. or il
mar be at the head Of armies or in
royal palace. in Bourse or hank or
pswnshop, in active. ambitions, tan
gled life. on field or farm. in shop or
library.
We know the happiest man in Cali
forria
He has outlived his ambition. He
has seen his enemies eat carh other up.
ua ss.aSchos Aham now hanging up0n