The Portland daily press., 1883-02-26
a Rich Mans Pleasures,
The New York Times Reads jay Gould
Lecture.

The King will amuse himself, says the
New York Times Mr.. Jay Gould is going
abroad, strange countries for to see. When
Mr.. Gould was feted and toasted by com
pany of his flatterers and admirers, once up
on time, he confided to them that it could
not be expected that a man so rich as he
should keep on making money because he
in Wall street were undertaken solely for The
purpose of furnishing him amusement. 1t
pleased him to hear the bleatings of the
shorn lambs. He snatched savage JOY
from the lamentations of those who were
crippled by his occasional raids upon the
stock market. He did not need the money,
not he; but it was pleasure to pile up use
less and superfucus millions, just to show
that it could be done. And when his faith
full messenger had brought into his office
from their receptacle fifty and odd millions,
to show casual caller, he said, SIS there
any more upstairs, MOrosini?' as house
wife might say, lis there any cold ham in
the pantry, Mary Jane?' Some men make
money because they have nothing else to en-
ploy their time. Others because they are
misery and never satisfied with their ac-
ket and has plundered corporations simply
for the amusement of the passing hour He
is your true sybarite. He long since had
more money than he really wanted. But he
has enjoyed getting money away from 9th
ers, precisely as one of the old-fashoned
robber barons enjoyed swooping down on
peaceful travellers, stripping them of their
goods, and whipping them until they howled
right merrily. After certain point, Gould
said his fiOno s,ag
dental.
But even this diversion has fiually palled
upon the taste of the rich man. He no lon
ger takes pleasure in the anguish of the
shorn lambs, and there are very few cerpor-
atoms left for him to wreck. Stockholders
now know him so we'll that they drop their
property and flee at his approach, and he is
denied the old delight of bringing his craft
and skill TO overcome their resistance. No
body dares to oppose him, and existence be-
comes monotonous to man of whom it may
be said that nobody differs with him, be.
cause he has such strong opinions
ard wears such heavy boots. The
rich man has exhausted his own
country in more senses than one,
and he would go abroad. He has
used the boundless continent as his play
ground and the great commercial enterprises
of the republic as his playthings. Now, with
the wrecks of his broken toys about him, he
turns his eyes to other and foreign lands and
reaches out his hand for new experiences.
Why should he not go? With the loot of in
Vulnerable corporations and myriads of
stock raids III his Golfers, he may build and
equip feet to serve his pleasure and COM
fort. No more royal or imperial potentate
can travel as Gould can, if ne choose. This
choice representative of honest toll can go
forth TO the nations of the Old World con
yoyed by magnifcence to which the gorgeous
pomp of a Venetian doge would be but
tawdry show. He contents himself with
modest steam yacht, the fastest of its build
adoat, and the cost of which no man can es-
innate. The King will amHse himself in
merely royal fashion.
Probably no man ever went ON long va
cation followed by so many wishes for his
continued enjoyment abroad as Mr.. Gould
VIII draw after him when his Yacht glides
down the shining seas, bearing lis precious
freight OF GINNING, wealth and unscrupu-
iousness. The world of business will hone
Tor him vacation so enjoyable that he w II
never want to come back. Timid peonle
who wake up o. nights and fancy that thew
hear him breaking into their banks, railroad
offices and safe deposits may then sleep in
peace. The stockholders of legitimate bust
ness corporations may breathe freer when he
is gone, and sundry hard-worked Judges
may then turn their attention to the PRAYERS
of clients who have nothing but the Justice
of their claims to bring into court.
THE LAW AND THE LAWYERS.
may take long vacation. For two years or
more there will be no pressing demand for
injunctions, receivers, mergers, stays Of pro
ceedings, intervenors and the other machin-
cry and chicanery of the courts. His news
papers are now 80 well trained that they cry
out whenever any of his little jobs are threat
ened; and they no longer need his personal
orders. The Swashbuckler raves about pro-
istsrians and revolution whenever legIsla-