Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-16
HE HAD A HEART.

,ears"
To say that Goldstone's emotion affected
me is putting it very mildly l was
young fellow, and the great capitalist was
comparatively stranger. He had been
reading a tender little poem to me when
he suddenly broke down and looked at me
with fearful eyes.
fell in love with the man Oh the spot.
He might have stern look at times and
blunt way Of speaking, but felt that I'M
der his rough exterior there was heart OF
gold.
After this revelation | watched Gold
stone, and when we were thrown together |
led the conversation to subjects that would
naturally interest sympathetic man.
Whenever drew draft on his sympa
thy 1t was promptly honored. Together we
outlined various plans for the reformation
Of the world, and during these talks my
companion would frequently yield to his
emotional nature and walk off blubbering
like child
It was a rare treat to me to observe
Goldstone from distant seat at the thea
ter. l liked to see him frown upon the
stage villains, and it was pleasure to see
him weep over the pathetic incidents in a
play and applaud the final triumph of the
weak and helpless. Whenever a character
in play was exceptionally mean and hard
in dealing with the poor my friend would
hiss him Indignantly, and when his victim
would finally get the better of the perse-
cutor Goldstone would wipe his eyes, and
his face would glow with delight.
Goldstone cut a big figure at prohibition
Sv,o do ir;o
and moral reform came up for discussion.
At these gatherings my tender hearted
friend always spoke eloquently, with the
tears raining down his face, and my eyes
never failed to grow moist when listened
to him.
Sometimes I thought that he was too
easily moved and that it would be better
for him if he would control his feelings.
Young and thoughtless persons made jest
of his sensibility, and at the theater one
night heard young man say:
Look at that weeping willowp'
That was what he called my friend, and
the remark made me very indignant
One day found Goldstone looking very
blue. We had organized an antitobacco
society and it was proposed to furnish free
chewing gum to the victims Of the tobacco
chewing habit as harmless substitute for
the poisonous weed. This required some
money, and we counted on Goldstone for a
good subscription. He pleaded hard times,
and when l called on him he was still la
menting his inability to contribute to the
good cause He talked SO feelingly about
it that tried to comfort him, and finally
he wiped his eyes and regained his usual
cheerfulness.
After this in casual way discovered
that he did not subscribe anything to the
reforms he was so energetically pushing
Yet he was a rich man, and it was pretty
well known that he always had plenty of
cash on hand.
tried to believe that the capitalist was
temporarily hard up when he was called on
for assistance, but in the course of few
months was forced to the conclusion that
he was more liberal with his sympathy than
with his money.
"a good fellow" said to myself, "but
jus. naturally stingy He can't help it,"
The time came, however, when had to
revise even this opinion. was in Gold
stones Office waiting for him when heard
him out in the hall talking to his clerk.
He was instructing his clerk to turn one of
his tenants out. Against this the clerk
| protested, saying that the tenant was a
poor widow with several small children,
and as she had always paid promptly until
a spell of illness had disabled her it was
cruel to turn her out in the dead of winter.
| But Goldstone was firm. He insisted that
the woman should be turned out.
Here's a pretty thing" he said mo-
ment later when he found me in his office
II was reading it this morning, and 1t quite
overcame me-"
glanced at the poem and saw that it was
| full of pathos But could not talk about
it. The scene in the hall was in my mind
| and soon took my departure. Goldstone's
conduct worried me. and spoke to an init
mate friend-a young lawyer-about it,
"Oh, the weeping willow" he laughed
"Well, he lisa rare bird. He would rather CRY
over the sorrows Of others than 60 to ban
quet, but he never gives a cent to gooc
object and he is the meanest, hardest mar
in business that can be found in the whole
city. His grinding methods have reduced
several families to beggary, and l have
never known him to lend money to mar
without finally absorbing the victims en-
tire estate"
What attracts him, then, to religious
prohibition and educational meetings, ant
to the theater when there is a play that ap
peals to the hearth"
| 'Idon't know" replied the lawyer. {"
| have known other men just like him. The.
undoubtedly have emotional natures wher
their own interests are not directly con
cerned, but they become strictly bushes
the moment they see chance Of making o
losing dollar"
you would not call him a hypocrit
then9'
by no means. He is unconscious Of hi
own meanness. lie is simply narrow an,
one sided in his own affairs, and broa'
minded when he is disinterested spectator
When he sheds tears and talks about hi
tender heart, he is thoroughly in earnest.
l called the lawyers attention to Gold
! stones treatment of his sick tenant an
said that had seen him weep over siniila
distress on the stage.
YES" was the reply, "but he thinks tina
! all his poor tenants are worthless fraud
trying to swindle him, while woman 4
. trouble on the stage is prosecuted sain
in his eyes. This explains his cruelty il
the one case and his sympathy in tn
other"
l decided to cut loose from Goldstont
and now we hardly ever meet. Still car
not judge him harshly. He seems to be
good man SO constituted that he cannot d
good except with his tongue. When ! las
heard from him, he was bathed in tears q
the meeting of some charitable societ,
J From my point of view he is an emotions
lunatic. Wallace p. Reed in Atlanta Cor
stitution.
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