The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-11
WOES OF THE RICH.

favored persons are anything bu1
conterted. They are frequently
miserable beyond the power of gold
to compensate. We once before
mentioned that one Of the Armours.
when at Aiken, where, we believe.
he died of some chronic trouble
literally starving to death-would
have parted with the bulk of his
millions tor the possession OF we'll
developed negro's digestion. And
here comes the Pittsburg Post with
additional testimony on this line.
Mr.. Depew testified that a mans
cares and responsibilities increase
with his fortune. He is often per-
picked how to use it, and, even in
schemes Of philanthropy, his disap>
pointment is grievous, for it is diff
cult TO bestow money with profit or
wisdom.
Cyrus W. Field, when prosperous,
said that the chief source of pleasure
was in the power money gave-the
exulta ton of success; but Cyrus w.
Field ended a comparatively poor
and utterly wretched man, surviving
all that sweetened life in other days.
His great glory in the laying Of the
cable was as dust and ashes on the
verge of eternity.
Russell Sage works harder than
any mechanic, because he is habi,u-
ated to low plane of accumulation.
He has many millions Of dollars but
no children. He is not to be envied,
and more likely to be pitied.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson started
life as a servant, and married mil
lionaire, whose wealth she inherited.
She declares that her money, in
spite of constant munificent charity,
has brought her only wretchedness.
She says: "For twenty years l
have sown it like chaff-given away
$4,000 every year, and it seems to
have produced only misery. 1t sent
n
to a drunkard's grave a member of
my own family. Ithas alienated my
best friends. 1t appears to help no.
body for more than an hour. |
hardly now hear a word from those
| have helped except when they tell
me it is all gone and they want some
more. don't know which way to
turn. | am at bay. So much of my
money has disabled and crippled
honest men, made them lazy and
spiritless and dependent-multiplied
beggars instead of diminishing them
l arraign myself at the bar of con:
science for my bad stewardship"
This unhappy woman also has the
misfortune of being a disciple of
Bob Ingersoll.
A shrewd, but. in some degree,
practical gentleman, is quoted 9s
saying:
1.-The men who do the most good
in this world are not the profession
al philanthropists, but the great
capitalists who keep their money
busy in processes of reproduction.
The man who equips and keeps go
ing great factory does more good
than he who builds an aims house ;
and he who launches a steamship or
establishes a railroad confers more
benefit on the world than he who
endOws an asylum that will keep
thousands from starving. He who
teaches men to help themselves-he
is the real benetactor of his kind"
These and many more examples
might have beer reproduced BY
Hon. Tom Watson in his campaign
book, as the other side of his cru
SADIE against capital or plutocracy
had the congressman been more of {
philosopher than politician.
Some OF the sincere and over-zeal
Gus leaders of the Peoples part,
may not inaptly be compared witt
the hero OF Robert Buchanan,
"Shadow of the Sword" Thi.
young man, though brave as a lion
refused to yield himself, as his kins'
men did, to Napoleon's CONSUMPTION
He regarded the Emperor as mon
ster, and his imagination took fire
when he broodeC over the WRONGS n,