Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-09
Vanderbilt and Gr.,,,

About once In so often !,
the duty of The Sun to Saw seccrs
decent of a millionaire, ana ~onelhiat
respectable people have almoua's ven
to the conclusion that this nan -
regularly retained by millionapef
stand by them when thew s..
tight place. No man is "a sym
The San will not do him iust;oa ta]
no man can be so rich that II w;n az
a national injustice done him : W
enter a protest. The subieet ~ aa
interesting sketch is William II M
derbilt, Of New York. Half tha sas
in the country r warming wgaaEpea
up one side and down the oths.
cause it is alleged that he Is VA; y
General Grant by causing him 10 ma
gage all his property, trophies ~0t
ents, etc, to secure the hundrsaPNs
fifty thousand dollars Grant horssae
the day before his firm failed
papers say Vanderbilt is a ba.,,s
wretch, a whelp and a nine.saes
Vanderbilt Takes Allm is the NV
ing OF the article going the ronss'
and editors who can think Of ss
thing mean to say, say it, and sssr
quick and often. Aud vet. yans.n
bilt is showing more genuine hear,
the matter than Grants mos. inl;ra.al
friends, and has allowed this sine
Grants to be covered by his mortras
IN order to save the trophies iror
Grant away from the creditors Of n. [
thief Ward. Did Vanderbilt show
very mean disposition when c..
went to his house one SUNDAY anu
asked for a check for a hundred .~
fifty thousand dollars, to save n.
bank, and "Bill' signed the check an
handedit over to UlyssesP VanderhN
simply knew Grant as a great general
and he didn't ask any security exeen,
his word. Would he have done Il.
| same by any business man in Nsv
York; Not likely. He was not lend
ing money rs a business, and was NJ,
protecting banks from failure, In.
there came to him an ole man, hob
bling on crutches, a man who had
saved his country, as nearly as ous
man could save a country. He IA
not come rs a business man, but As !
neighbor, a friend. Vanderbilt would
have lost the money before he would
have Inundated the old man by asking
security. He just handed the money
out as he would lend a shirt to a friend
whose shirts had not come back from
the laundry. The next day the check
was used, and the bank busted, and
there were not assets enough to nut
in tea. Vanderbilt no doubt felt sore.
but he didn't feel as sore as Grant
did. Grant knew what Vanderbilt
had a right to think of him. He had a
right to class Grant with Ward, the
thief, and Grant went right to him and
told him he had been deceived, and
having borrowed the money on hi:
own personal account he wanted %
secure Bill, SO he mortgaged every.
thing he had on earth. 1t is well he
did, and well that a man with so kind
a heart as Vanderbilt, the abused mil
~lionaire, holds the mortgage. Wher
a subscription was started to raist
money to pay the ''~Shylock" wht
held the mortgage on Grants property
the "Shylock" says, "Well, you pu
me down for about sec, 600" And
no money was raised the mortgage
would never be foreclosed.
1t is a very serious thing for a maj
TO be worth as many hundred milliOI
dollars as Vanderbilt is, because /
sets thousands and hundreds of thous
ands of people talking and writin
against him, and a man has got t
have a pretty level head to keep froI
hating the whole world, il he reads
thOusandth part of the bad things sal
of him, but we doubt if there is a ma
In America who does more good wit
money than this same Vanderbilt. II
cannot stand on the street or in b
Office and be giving all the timc,
fact he ean scarcely give at all, pc
sonally, except in cases like the ha
million dollar gift to the College
Physicians and Surgeons. IL he ga'
audience to one in ten of those VIII
want TO talk to him to bleed him, {
TO get subscriptions, 1t would tai
him twenty hours a day, aud becau
he refuses to be i~mportuned, he
called a hard-hearted wretch, and y
through others he gives away enoug
every year to build a hundred miles
railroad, His action in regard 20 &c
eral Grant is generous, kind heartt
and noble, and that case is not
isolated M by any means. Ii {
public knew OF a hundredth part
the good that ide-whiskered man doe
they would take off their hats to hi
when he passes on the street, inste,
sneering as many do. and when tn
pass mis- mansion on Fifth Avenue tn,
you'll say "God bless that man." !
stead of what they often do say, al
II the time eve came when his hou
was surrounded by a mob, as was j;
GoNld's recently, a million men wou
march TO its defense ut |: moment
notice, and mako "a human wall aTouI
Bill Vanderbilt and his loved ones tn
no crazy mob in all the world coul
have any impression on. 1t is cruz
unpatriotic and desperately mean fl
respectable newspapers to allow irr
sponsible reporters and cheap write
to have carte-5tanche toabuse a m;
like Vanderbilt, and il is little wondI
that he delights in getting in o wage
behind a fast horse. and flying avs
from all mankind, and forgetting tn
he is abused and misunderstood al
maligned because he is rich and do
not advertise in the newspapers ever
time he gives away n million dolla
for charity. About fifty years fro
now the fellows that are abusir
Vanderbilt will be giving money free
to build a monument to him. and thu
will ask pardon of high heaven for Il
wrongs they have lone him. He is
thoroughbred. and the time will con
when everybody will believe it. Peek
Sun.
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