The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
Vanderbilt and Grant.

decent of q millionaire, and soma
respectable people have almo i onny
to the conclusion that this nanos oh.e
regularly retained by millionairea I
stand by them when thew ret e =
tight place. No man is SO moor
me VIII not do him justice. and
no man can be so rich that it will ses
a national injustice done him and NO. oe
enter a protest. The subject az tb;s
interesting sketch is William II. van
derbilt, of New York. Half the nanars
in the country are warming WilI;em
up one side and down the other ~
cause it is alleged that he is mimi
General Grant by causing him to morfs
gage all his property, trophies. nras.
ents, etc, to secure the hundred and
fifty thousand dollars Grant borrowad
the day before his firm failed. tn
papers say Vanderbilt is a heartlass
wretch, a whelp and a nine-spot
Vanderbilt Takes All!' is the head.
ing of the article going the rounds
and editors who a think of anv.
thi~g mean to say, say it, and say Il
quick and often. And yet, Wander.
bilt is showing more genuine heart n
the matter than Grants most intimats
friends, and has allowed this stuff ~
Grants to be covered by his MORTGAGE
in order to save the trophies from
Grant away from the creditors Of the
thief Ward. Did Vanderbilt show .
very disposition when Grant
went to his house one Sunday and
asked for a check for a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, to save his
Dank, and "Bill" signed the check and
handedit over to UIyssesP Vanderbilt
simply knew Grant as a great general.
and he didn't ask any security except
his word. Would he have done the
same by any business man in New
York; Not likely. He was not lend.
ing money as a business, and was not
protecting banks from failure, but
there came to him an old man, hob.
bling on crutches, a man who had
saved his country, as nearly as one
man could save a country. He did,
not come as a business man, but as a
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 put
in tee. 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 his
w personal account he wanted to
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. When
a subscription was started to raise
money to pay the ''Shylock' who
held the mortgage on Grants property,
the ''Shylock'' says, "Well, you put
me down for about $60,000." And if
no money was raised the mortgage
would never be foreclosed.
1t is a very serious thing for q maj
to be worth as many hundred million
dollars as Vanderbilt is, because it
sets thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands of people talking and writing
against him, and a man has got TO
have a pretty level head to keep from
hating the whole world, if he reads q
t%housandth part of the bad things said
of him, but we doubt if there Is q man
in America who does moro good with
money than this same Vanderbilt. he
cannot stand on the street OF IN his
office and be giving all the time, ID
fact he can scarcely give at all, per.
sonally, except in cases like the hall
million dollar gift to the College OF
Physicians and Surgeons. Ii he gave
audience to one in ten of those who
want to talk to him to bleed him, OF
to get subscriptions, it would tax
him twenty hours a day, and because
he refuses to be importuned, he Il
called a hard-hearted wretch, aud ye.'
through others he gives away enougl
every year to build q hundred miles o
railroad. His action in regard to Gen,
eral Grant is generous, kind hearted
and noble, and that case is not al
isolated one by any means III I'M
public knew of a hundredth part o
the good that side-whiskered man does
they would take off their hats to hin
when he passes on the street, insteas
sneering as many do, and when the,
pass his mansion on Fifth Avenue the,
would say ssGod bless that man., ~
stead of what they often do say, am
If the time ever came when his nous
was surrounded by a mob, as was "a.
Gould's recently, a million men woui
march to its defense at q moment
notice, and make q human wall aroun'
Bill Vanderbilt and his loved ones tna
no crazy mob in all the world coul,
have any impression on. 1t Is crue
unpatriotic and desperately meal 70
respectable newspapers to allow irrs