The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-09-11

did 80, and young Gouid got $ouO on
of it.
Something whispered to him tina
he had a genius for railroadiug. II.
brought bonds of the Rutland and
Washington for 10 cents in the dollar
and Union Pacific stock from 81
down, the latter upon the recon-
mendation of Horace Clark. In these
ventures he gained a great deal Of
money. Clark died soon afterward.
The autobiography strangely omits
to give any account of the gobbling
of the New York and Erie railway by
Gould and Jim Fisk. But everyone
knows that Gould gained a prodigious
amount of money in that highly
moral business enterprise.
The most notable character of the
autobiography of Mr.. Gould is in its
showing the unselfsh, the broadly
bene VIOLENT, motives which have guild
ed him in all his undertakings. He
has exercised his genius and exerted
his powers only for the good of others.
His rapid and vast gains have been
only incidents of an active ambition
to be public benefactor. He COB
bled the Erie railway in order to
facilitate moving the crops. He got
control OF the Union Pacific, from 80
down in order to open coal and iron
mines, es tabiish trading posts, en-
courage agriculture, and developed
the natural resources of the far west.
Much to the surprise of everybody"
the stock began to 60 up and when
it got pretty high up the cry arose all
over the country that it was Jay Gould
road" and that j. G. was working it
forJ G.'s profit. That was what made
him sell out. He could not bear to
have the public suspect thatJsy Gould
was not laboring to promote the gen.
eral good. "Thinking it best to bow
to public opinion, placed my stock
in the hands of others as soon as /
could. Among them were many Wild
ows and orphans and poor people,
Soon after that, to the surprise of
some people. the stock began to 60
down.
So, too, in his purchase of the Mis-
sours Pacific.
He Ibid not buy it to make money!
he "simply wanted 10 see what he
could do with it, to benefit the pub
lie, of course. 1t was earning $780,
900 a month, and he saw what he
could do with it by making it earn
s5, 900, 900 month.
In going into Western Union the
scope of his humanitarian motive
seems to have been little narrower,
though not less unsel6sh. He looked
upon that telegraph company, particu-
arly after it had swallowed its rival,
the Atlantic and Pacific (Which We
to OWN, as ian integral
part of "a great civilizations" bit his
particular object in buying it was to
make his dear friend, General Eckert,
general manager of the whole consoli.
lation. This by his own account, was
The least comprehensive Of all Mr..
iould's undertakings to improve the
condition of the human family.
1t ia not within the scope of this
'eview of the Interesting biography |
which Mr.. Jay Gould has given to the
public of himself to make any COM
nent on his views upon certain much
nooted social questions. touching the
Citations of labor and capital, private
and the government funct-
On, etc. They are the views of a
hrewd. careful. acute observer, de-
uced from ample experience and
borough practical knowledge of busi-
ess affairs. Some of them deserve
nd probably will command thought
ul attention. In particular, his show
ng of what would be found the un-
character of a government
biography system is unanswerable,
nd must be convincing Ito all who ap.