St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-06-12
Rich Senators.
shreveport journal.

little sum of S162,605 900. Stanford, of
California, leads with S75,0OO,0OO, con-
sisting of railroads, mines and real es-
tate Fair, of Nevada, comes next with
$5O,OOO,0OO in gold mines. Brown, Of
Georgia, is put down at S4,000,00O, real
estate, mines and railroads Payne, OF
Ohio, $50,0O0,000, Cleveland city prop
erty and stocks, Sherman OF OHIO,
81 100000, real estate and bank stock ;
Lawyer, of Wisconsin, S4,000.O0O. saw
mills and lumber Cameron. OF Penn-
syivania, S5,0O0,000, railroads, ban and
real estate Miller, of New York, $4,000
600, wood pulp; Vest. OF Missouri,
S250, 900. kahsas City real estate, etc.
The correspondent then proceeds to
comment as follows:
| don't suppose so many rich men
have ever been collected together III
one body, and when you consider that
there are dozen men in the house
whose aggregate wealth amounts 20
over S4O,00O,0O0 you will see that this
Congress is the richest ever brought to-
gether in any country. Think OF the
enormous income of these men, and as
you do so remember that the million
aire can turn his money SO that it often
brings him much more than SIX per
cent. But even at per cent. these men
have greater incomes than many kings.
Leland SUanford's property must bring
him in nearly S5,000,0 900 a year, and this
would amount to $4,000 a week, OF
more than $4,000 day. Every hour
that Stanford sleeps his pile grows big
ger by $500. and he could pay ont SO
every minute and still have enough to
live upon from the remainder OF his
income.
Fairs income, if he is not estimated
too high as think he is, is more than
he can spend, and Phiietus Sawyer at
six per cent, has an income OF S346.0O0
a year. Joe Browns income must
amount to at least $1,000 a week, and
that of Payne and Don Cameron to
more than 100000 Il year. Mahone.
Van Wyck, Beck, Hale, Sherman, Tel
ler and Bowen, at this rate. have
100000 to spend outside of their
senatorial salaries, and Miller, of New
York, with his fortune in wood pulp,
can spend $500 week and have pocket
money to spare.
In the lower house, Scott of Pennsyl
yania is put down at S12,0OO,0OO, and
FELTON,, of California, at S15,0OO,0OO.
Put both of these millionaires upon the
scales and they will not weigh 270
pounds. Still they are worth 7,0O0,-
900, or 100000 to every pound OF their
human anatomy.
sat in the pr IS gallery yecterday
and thought of the changes in the con-
ditions of these rich men. knew their
lives we'll, aud my memory went back
TO the days of their poverty. Joe Brown
was the poorest Of poor boys. He used
to pl0w his neighbours gardens for a
pittance and his sole possession when
migrated to Georgia was the bull, with
the bell upon his neck, which carried
him thither. At last he came to a
stream which he had TO cross by ferry,
and he had no money to pay the fee. He
gave the bell to the ferryman to take
him across. Bob Toombs, who hated
Brown, used to say that he wished the
ferryboat had collapsed and drowned
Brown and the bell and the bull.
Henry B. Payne's father owned a
brick yard, and those long. thin hands,
which by stroke of the pen can now
make a piece of blank paper worth
81, ,OOO, 900, helped them to load brick,
and oft carried clay to the mOulder.
Stanford, the Cr9sus of to-day, fol-
lowed the plow as a boy, and thirty
four years ago when he had just begun
the practice of law in Wisconsin, a fire
burned him out to the west and to for
tune. Twenty-Five years ago, Tom
Palmer. who now owns home here
worth $4,000, had failed in business
and vas worth less than nothing. He
married a business mans daughter, and
his brains allied to capital, ground pine
lumber into gold Plumb, of Kansas,
worth $40 and more for every black
hair in his thickly thatched herd, was
thirty years ago poor printer sticking
type in an Ohio village, and shortly
after this Warner Miller, whose Fortu-
natus cap is made Of wood pulp, was
teaching school in little village in
New Pork State.
When Philetus Sawyer, who now
owns land by tens of thousands OF acres
and whose lumber goes all over the
world, was thirty one years OF age his
total savings were $219S. At 1S he
bought his time from his father and
paid him $500 for it. For u years he
skrimped and saved, and then went to
Wisconsin,, and with his small capital
made himself millionaire. He told
me tile other day that each dollar OF his
investment had multiplied itself over a
thousand times, and doubt not that it
is true.
John Sherman began life as survey
or, and when he was married as a young
LAWYER in Mansfield, Ohio, he deter
mined to save and invest $500 a year.
The principle carrie d out has made him
a millionaire, and the house he lives in
here is worth, doubt not, as much as
he in early years ever expected to amass
Beck is now worth a million but he
came from Scotland to Kentucky poor,
and Scotch economy allied to invest
ment has gwen him fortune. He
married too, the grand niece of George
Washington, and some coal lands be
had from the Washington estate