Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-01-04
AFRAID for BILL"

According to the New York Sun ,
very shrewd old railroad man of New
York said, in referring to the purchase
of the Omaha stock by VIM. II. Van
derbilt, 81 begin to be afraid for Bill
There must be something wrong witt
him. He talks foslishly and acts fool
ishly. His roads kill u lot of people
and he damns the public, He sells hi,
government bonds and buys up worth,
less stocks" 1t is certainly very sad
to think that man enjoying an in.
come Of only 80 a second should squan.
der his money in Improbable invest
ments. 1t is some comfort, however,
to know from his own lips that William
never speculatcs. What he purchases
is for family use, and on a 90 per
cent margin. He is believed to have a
controlling interest in not less than a
dozen extensive railroads, having an
aggregate capitalization of 1886, ,OOO,-
900.
Whatever shrinkagc may come in
these stocks, bill" is not likely to suf-
fer want, for already he is obliged to
practice frugallty. Bad digestion com.
pcls spare diet and good hours. The
old Commodore had an iron constitu-
ton, and keen relish for the good
things of this world He was far adj
yanccd in years when he reached the
supreme eminence of being the richest
man IN America, not excepting Astor
or Stewart, but he lived to quafr CO.
piouslv the nectar of satisfied ambition.
There were none his rights to dispute,
and he determined, without the aid of
primOgcniturc laws, that his son and
heir should sit upon the patcrnal throne
without 4 rival.
But JcrOboam whom Solomon de-
spiSed has been busy trying TO supplant
our Rehoboam, and this daring rival is
said to be making rapid strides, COB
bling up railroads and telegraph COM
pancS at rate which would have
alarmed even the Commodore himself
and Justly makes the intelligent locker
on afraid for Bill" The recent deal
by which II. II. Porter lost the Prcsi-
dcncy of the Omaha Road is thought
by some who ought to know Shrewd
device of the victim to victimizc the
son of his father, BE that as it may, if
Jay Gould is allowed to continue his
operations n few more years he is
pretty sure TO take the front rank.
Brains will tell, especially when backed
by an illimitable bank credit
Gould has thrifty habit of selling
on bull market and buying on a bear
market. The crab, and not the ape,
must have been his remote ancestor
When he is supposed to be n heavy
buyer it usually turns out that he was
selling all the while, and Just when his
cart is being loaded the silly public
thinks it is being dumped. The public
be gulled, is his version of it. But
the Sun man, previously referred TO,
says that "Bill can not sell anything at
all of his holdings of Lake Shore, Mich
igan, Central, Canada Southern, New
York Central, or any other of his
stocks, for he will break the market. -
To be thus placed under bonds, and in
the stocks, is to be pitiablc convict.
There is another cause of apprchen.
sion which seems to have escaped the
attention of the shrewd New York rail
road man. 1t is that the people may
wake up some day TO the feudalism
which has established itself through
the agency of the corporate system.
When one man controls property worth
hundreds Of millions of dollars, and
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