The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-07
How the Rich Suffer In Hard Times.

Your newspapers make great russ,
said one of the weaithiest men In New
York to q World reporter, "sbout the
sufierings Of the poor man during these
hard times, but don't notice that any
of them notice particularly the diaboiicsl
distress of the rich man"
The reporter wasn't aware that the
rich man suffered at all.
That" said ne OF the wealth, sis be-
cause you don't know anything about 1t.
Why, sir, l undergo more actual, soso-
Lutte torture in an hour THAI any poor
wretch in this city. II i hadn't cent
in the world, I'd have some sympathy,
some rest, some assistance. AS it is. I'm
bounded to death; I'm despised, bese',
ANNOYED, condemned, bsck-bitten, way
laid. The papers write editorials about
me. If I 60 to church l am told that q
camel can 60 through the eye OF q needle
slicker than I can get into heaven If l
don't dress my family in an extravagant
manner. / hear that l am sn old skin
firt; if l do, am told that all l think
of my money is TO make vulgar show
with it. suppose l worked as hard as
any man for more than two-thlrds OF my
life to accumulate fortune, but | be.
lieve most people think l ought to give
il away and commence over again.
In q winter like this you've no idea
of the hardships Of the rich. If
help all the people vino apply TO me, l
might as well 60 to the poor-house, and
vet all of them expect 1t, and most OF
them, l dare say, are worthy. It's out
of the question. So they curse me, l
suppose. All the benevolent societies,
charities. public institutions and church
organizations have their agents out. i
am waited upon by committees, runners,
clergymen, secretaries. They send me
half bushel of letters q day. They
drop upon me in the most unexpected
places. They get into my private office.
They wait in nay library before l am
I'd. They sit on my trout steps. They
,ollow me into the horse cars. What Is
a man 10 do? III let them have their
wsy nv nsue will be psrsded as if |
wanted to advertise my charities. II l
don't the press will want TO know what
he has ever done for New York. The
other day q reporter came to see me
sbou, by will. He said the public would
| ike to be informed as to the propose d $.
position of my property al my decesse
| suppose II I were TO get cold in my
hesd. there'd be brigade Of them quar-
tered under my windows. l begin to
feel that rich man is q disgrace TO the
community-thst somehow l have com.
mi,ted q crime. l don't like TO look 8
man squsrely in the face for
fear his hatred Of me will show
itself, or he will stop and ask
me to lend him q thousand dollars
10 get his starving family some food TO
eat. tell YOU, sir, this winter is awful
hard on the rich man. He doesn't even
es, his dinner in peace. How can he
when there are 10000 who are dinner
less! HIS money gets to be reprosch to
him, and he teels as il he'd like to give
the whole of it away in one lump and
try the luxury of being poor for awhile
But you needn't say anything about that
or In have fresh battalion here to-mor'
! row, and half the idlers in town will be
writing me letters In fact l wouldn''
say anything about il, if were you, but
lis fact the rich man suffers in hare
winter q good deal more than the poor
mall. You take my word tor it. An'
\ the poor don't pity him q Bit