The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-22
ACCUMULATION


ERnlLr bought during the pa 81 week the
Celebrated Leigh court collect on of paint
n2s, these being some Of th 20 best known
Ind most valuable pictur'A extant. The
,rice paid was something over $500 600. As
piece OF news the item Is Of interest as |
.he outlay Is a heavy one, even for Euro
pean nobility, and seemingly much more
30 for private citizen OF this country. But
as some journals with communistic ten
dences ere seeking TO read
hereby lesson of antagoHism be-
tween capital and labov, and TO show that
tle rich ere growing richer AID the poor
poorer, It may be opportune TO offer some
remarks suggested by the circumstance.
Sometime ice thN papers were filled with
details Of the splendid summer home OF
Mr.. Jay GoULD, aud again Of the full par
ticulars about hds yacht. And 80, too, OF
Mn. BENEFITS fast sailer. Now there are
malcontents who are disposed to argue
that such facilities Of enjoyment to a
privileged few while others have
Ito labor Tor their daily bread
is all wrong. But moments
honest and impartial reelection will serve to
correct the sentiment in double aspect.
10 the first place these vast expenditures
mean the employment and remuneration
o. labor. To build hoases, lay ont gardens,
construct yachts, to paint pictures, all
/ ,,,n Of Inr no
iicienCy OF manua! or of mental effort. If
I lose wealthy gentlemen should hurt the
general good by creating contraction
through the locking up of their monies
there insight be some cause for complaint.
bat :, the reverse is the case, Tor
distribution is the result. The man whose
Income is but $1,000 year is eager to
equal his friends living, which fools up
81 500 And no on with the richer, who
would initiate the richer still. Where,
then, Ia the limit at which the expenditure
should cease? Who shall say? Another
view Of the case Is, that though to tho poor
man II might seem that yachts, paintings,
fine no ises, superior horses and car
riages ETC., would bring an infntude OF
enjoyment, yet the fact Is the mas
ter IL equally day-laborer. is
| II to he assumed that the man
rolling in luxury has no wants, no cares,
no work to do2 Our wants are relative.
Man is indeed so constituted that, stage
after stage, he regards as fresh starting
point the place which he has reached. And
IL is true that the head ola wealthy corpora
ton, or the owner of millions ofdollars, is
IN his elegant vehicle than the poor man is
of the pleasure Of wearing shoes. He has
an endless series Of wants, the one
growing out OF the other. Take
/ he case Of an individual who has
become wealthy from toll and poverty,
When he has provided shelter and anu
Pile food for himself and family, he finds
that his desire to procure additional ard
better comforts and some luxuries for them
increase az they ARE thrown in contact with
this social world. He suddenly finds, too,
that while he has been success on the mar
row plane of money making, he Is woefully
deficient In the many requirements of that
great social world. His education has been
neglected while he was In pursuit ofthe
dollars and cents, Nearly every man and
woman he meets he observes TO
be his superior, better trained
more refined, more polished
more thoroughly informed than he. This
rich man hereupon begins to feel that after
all he is quite poor in many respects. He
finds that in taking care of his material
wants he has neglected on of mental
and moral wants more imperious and des-
polic than the former. Nor is he even at
rest when he has made his financial invest
monts. He may not be in his office or
store as many hours rs he was wont to b.
Ia earlier days, but his mind his constantly
charged with thoughts as to those invest
ments, The stocks and bonds in which he
has placed the bulk OF his wealth may at
any moment depreciate to lose him the
major portion OF his fortune, The mind,
whilst apparently recreating on the drive
In the park, at the banquet, is oppressed by
habit with some late intelligence as to
values. His time is heavily drafted on by
all manner OF calls upon his personal Ell.
forts or influence. His movements are
watched, he is misinterpreted here, and
abused there. lie is annoyed by
this scribbler and by that.
Blackmeil is sought to be levied
against him in all its varied forms. Al,
his money cannot prevent these disagree.
able features in his lie. This envy, this
Jealousy is oil founded in 0 ror. Win the
poor stop to consider moment that they
would be many times poorer. laboring
more and earning less, II they were sur
rounded by only the poor2 No; let VAN.
pERRILT, and GOULD, and BENNETT, and the
rest oxpend Their monies as they please
they are but remunerating labor In some OF
Its forms they are but putting into circula.
ton funds that should not DO locked up. And
let no man envy them their possessions,
for they are in reality ne happier than the
poorer people who eau afford, perhaps, but
one luxury, the luxury OF an easy conscienc
and contented disposition.
sTARrLINa SLAVE TRADEENpOsuRRs,