Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-02-28
Poverty II =.'ros: dents.

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Il You will look back over the
liSt. writes the Washington cores.
poadent of the Cleveland (Ohio)
Leader. YOU will see that from the
beginning most Of DIR Presidents
have beer poor men George Wash
ii.tou was, perhaps the wealth
lest of them and Rutherford Is.
HAYES will perhaps rank next
john Adams, at the ASe OF G6, nj.
IL. swsnty-six Years Of continuous
pHblic service. retired to his little
estate at Quincy. Mass. with bare
ly enough property to give him tue
needs ofli on Il f;rm. Thomas
.Ie iterSou had to borrow something
less than $4,000 OF Il Richmond
bank to pay his debts before he
lp. the White House and the his.
tory of the last seventeen wears OF
his life is ore almusl constant ii
u ,lcial embarrassment. President
\! allison left some property at the
l.;,le of his death, but his widow,
tie peerless Dolly. WAS for Il time
d, pcndent on the bread and meat
tu.niShed her by all Did negro ser
want. and hcr last tlan.> we're made
easy only 10y Congress buying OF
lie for $4,000 the manuscript
ne,cSot the debates oithe Constltu,
1;rnal Convention which Madison
had taken. President Menroe,
trough he declined, i is said. sos
Ouii from the government for his
piDiic services, died very poor III
Nv York. John Qgincy Adams
must have received over halt Il
n.llion dollars in government sal
aries. and he is one OF the few Pres
llcnts vino again took up l'te after
II, left the White House. He re
nsllued in retirement only about
Year. and then enfc.ed the Lower
lBouSe of Congress. After about
sixteen wears of service. there he
,.cd in the Capital i'll 1S4s. eN-
Claiming. "TliS Is the end OF earth,
i am content" Andrew jackson
gained nothing in wealth troiu lis
White House salary 1t cost hlin,
IT, says. every cent oi it to pay Ills
expenses. and the NEST OF TIL pro
coedS of his cotton crop i'll addition
He returned to Washington at
the close oi' lis second term with
il.>f $40 in his pocket. to find his
farm going 10 ruin, and himself SO
deeply in debt that lie had TO sell
plrt Of his land to GEL OUT. Van Blu
lyn WAS Il close, cautious, money
making fellow. He got goo law
fees aud began to learn economy
wiiiie SAVING enougil us Il young
man to get married. Al his estate
a l.indenwal,l. whtrc he lived dur
i; . his last years, he WAS surroun-
I'D with comforts. President Han
lj,oll owned a farm IN ONO when he
WIS lnaugurated President. Ii WAS
ste to say he WAS poor. Tor he had
i.-en lately doing Ills dradSery ota
c.,.lk of the court III Cincinnati.
President Tyler Supplied much OF
Ire money which ran the White
louise out of his OWL pocket. ana
congress would not pay the salary
. his own private SECRETARY.
Moderately wealthy while here at
;lShingion. he lcii little to his
c:!il,ren. and one OF lis SONS is now
II clerk in the Treasury Depart
acnt i'll Washington. Zach. lay
-. waS 10y no nleanS wealthy wheu
he died in the White House.
'ameS X. Poll; left 4 bic house and
enough to keep his widow, and
3filard Fillmore, WHO started life
- a wool carder, Glcd ten years
AGO With enough ol..;tn estate TO ere
:aje Il lawsuit over tie sanity OF his
second wife. james Buchanan did
not leave such an estate as ell
pled Harriet Lane 10 keep Wheat
iands, and within tie past vearlt
las been advertised Tor sale.
Buchanan spent al his salary as
Presidential Washington. and what
II. had left alter pay in@ his White
ijUuSe expenses he -;;rc in charity.
Abraham Lincoln died poor. ami
was due to Congress that his fam
!, WAS provided for. Andrew
as,hnson welt back 10 his house a.
,:reenvl!ie, Tenn, Were he started
a;caS Il tailor. lie G.ed by Il stroke
III paralysis, and lei no fortune be
i.jnd. or the other Presidents
Grants necessities are aSltatlnS
he country to-day. and Gariield'>
family is wealthy Only through the
goluntary subscriptions Of the PEG.
nc. Truly. us Sldne.s Smith used To
ny, '.;flere is nothing 50 cXpenslvt
Is glory"