Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-18
A TOP-HEAvY VEGETABLE.
A Candid and Correct Asaafysis of Tandcr
bits Claims to Public Consideration.

A TOP-HEAVY VEGETABLE
A Candid and Correct Asafysis of Tander-
bits Claims to Public Considerations.
The following from the Cincinnati Ca
zette will no doubt prove interesting read
ing to Vanderbilt on his homeward trim.
and may prevent him from inficting more
| of his peculiar views upon the publicswhen
he returns home:
1t Is surprising, to say the least, that the
sayings of man like Vanderbilt should so
disturb the world in general and country
editors in particular. His Chicago inter-
view amounts to nothing at all. and the
public is giving both Mr.. Vanderbilt and
his silly talk altogether too much promi-
hence. If he were great railway mana
ger Or great fnancier. or if he understood
! the first principles of the science of trans
portation. some weight might be attached
to his utterances. But he is nothing of
| the kind. From a tiller of the soil. and
very common tiiier at that, he sprang at
one bouud to the top round of wealth
But in point of experience in the ways of
trade and commerce, and in the elements
of greatness, he stopped short off in the
| sub-cellar of progress, philanthropy, gen.
| crosby, and brotherly love. The pub
lie condemn him for doing and saying out
landish things when he cannot help doing
| and saying them. He knows no better.
The public should be charitable, and not
expect great things or great sayings from
small men. It is true that tall oaks from
| little acorns grow, but they do not all be-
| come straight and majestic kings of
the forest, by a jugful. Some of them
grow up SO knotty, crooked, and
uninviting that even the birds of
| the air shun them. The latter
growth is not often transplanted from their
natural homes to lawns and gardens, but is
| left to the depths of the woods, where their
| crookedness and unsightliness cannot mar
the beauty of well-kept parks. Occasion
| ally, however, one of these shaggy and top
heavy vegetables, by some strange chance.
| manages to be blown into the tide
| when it is at its food, and is
forced onward and upward to the
very topmost round of fortune. But its
success is attributable to luck. not brains.
To be born lucky, and not rich, is good
enough. But to be born with big luck in
| ones pocket and bushel of cash in the
other, is positively bully. But to return to
the CentraFs president. In one respect he
| is great man. He is great coupon
| clipper, and the combined force of the
proceeds from his coupons makes
| him a first-ciass railway gambler. Aside
| from the high and honorable calling of n
/ lamb shearer, Mr.. Vanderbilt is not very
great man, although he said 10 the writer
| Of this article once upon time: You do
not seem to understand that I am not an
| ordinary man. That little speech was
made when he thought he had spread his
great. foot all over the state
of Ohio, including the laws,
| the judges, the rights Of individu-
| ais. and the rights OF property. It was
when he thought the Ohio railway a fixed
fact, in spite of injunctions and all
other hinderances and opposing forces. It
will be remembered that the supreme
court of the state laid this railroad king
across its judicial lap and gave him
a sound spanking, so to speak, and made
him make amends for his wrong doing. In
the hands Of the court he was a very
ordinary man" indeed. Mr. Vanderbilt
has few of the elements of greatness
aside from his ability as coupon-clipper.
He is a warrior-that is, if killing people
make him warrior. OF course he never
rode at the head of an army of soldiers.
| OF course not. He is not that kind of a
general. But he gets in his work on the
lives of the people all the same, as
can be proven By the ghosts
| of the slain at Spuyten
Duyvil and in the Harlem tunnel. II is too
much to expect that Mr.. Vanderbilt should
know that but for the franchise and other
privileges which the sd-n public have
granted to his railway company he would
have no roads, and for that matter no
| cash either, for the old commodore made
Williams money out of the Central
| and the Hudson river roads. Neither
is it to be supposed that Mr.
W. b. has ever read the decisions and
| opinions of the United States supreme
court judges on the subject of the rights
of the ''d-n public" in the premises. He
is so vain in his own conceit that even
chief justice Waite cannot teach him any
thing. He has grown so fat, insolent,
and profane on his monthly income
of 81 100000 that nothing short of an
other spanking by an Ohio court
will bring him to his senses. Although
he is mot an ordinary man." he is by
no means a great man, nor a cunning man,
nor BUSINESS man; therefore he will never
be dangerous man except when opera
| ting trains past his Spuyten Duyviis and
| through his tunnels. But as the ''d-n pub
lie" is not obliged to patronize roads that
are mot run for the benefit of the dear
public" this dangerous man can be
avoided by passing by on the other side of
his railway lines. Diseases, desperate
grown, by desperate appliances are re-
| Heved.
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