The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-05
GATH SCORES THE BROKERS'.

Coprerheads In 1851
During the week I have made two visits
into the district below Fulton street, and
the mixture OF Stiffness and sullenness
among the billiards was at first surprising
and at last ridiculous.
TO me nothing was clearer than that
gambling and criticlsing lead into each
other: the man at the green cloth is al
ways heard cursng his luck, and 80 me
censor over human events becomes hnaliy
like Diogenes the inhabitant OF his tub,
and II he have In that tub any amusement
1t is playing solitaire or throwing dice
with the street gamns
| To be wiser than your country Is GER
tainly not to be happy and generally no.
TO be as sensible One of the most cheer
| full things In the situation is the spontane-
Gus right side-up character oil the young
| and the employees Whenever one desires
| TO tone zip his stomach and mind he OUTS
| the quarter whore newspapers are pun
lished and schemes are launched to hear
| the jocund sounds of those citizens, who
are hardly ever over full month ahead
OF the world but are better insured in
their natural and loyal confidence than II
each of them carried policy OF 100000
| In fact. | have wondered WHETHER the
pains to be insured against all contingent
cies do not make new state of slavery.
THE well-,to-do downtown man paying
large rent, large life insurance, big club
money, carrying perhaps an annuity and
| raging big taxes, never has much liberty.
| Therefore, when plain events press to their
| crisis in action, this sort of slave III
| haunted by thousand timiditics. His big
house. at Newport, which he purchas d IL
| order to play a game upon some SGT mere
| wealthy than himself, is now liable to
bombardment by the enemy. and the taxes
| thereon have Increased.
His tailor bill does not lessen in the war
and he pays 500 for hi overcoat and al
| most as much for his plain business suit.
lie has no knowledge OF whore shops are
cheap nor restaurants moderate in their
| charges, His life has been lived on an
artificial elevation and his wife has as
much terror of poverty as her ancestresi
had of wild Indians
Happy Is the man who does not hire car
rlagos nor yet venture his daily earnings
upon another mans sweat cloth. I have
lived amidst all the temptations EXCEPT
those of wealth and my observation Is
that one or two good habits will save
mans whole life. Among these habits |
IN any way, and he who goes into the stock
market is a gambler whatever he may
call himself The highest element of char
acter in the Spectator IL desperation.
said to one of the greatest brokers in
the world, who belongs to the old German
Tyre and makes money with an accro ion
of grcediness that shows on his face Ike
glutton: Tell me how any railroad or
other genuine piece of property can be in
jured by tho Spanish WARP
Ho replied:
time loans though you can borrow 1t for
per cent on real loans Nobody Is going
money ia ,bot h htE ,"'Ne "ui'n'nE "nen
Said |. IAN he bu,ldi,.s l,,o,, o
thing about were constructed at per cent
WY Shouln money be higher at per cent
=" ."'' iuNtea' OF oelhg safely invested at
.pooonso ,.,, /" W., 'ou ..,..
Instantly ~ n 10 ~ ~ ~ NV, ,nto casn
stocks for socuri,v ,,,1 -, "" nav. we
market Won cnn oy,ond -, -, 80 y, 'no
But in war times Tho mor,n" -, w, , ,oans'
erty Ia too long an nneratInn , v. io", p.op,
"You are surely mis,ol,er Tha i ,NnS
Chicago as we'll az Nm Toni. rnc ~ o.
highest impetls durinc o,,. IN, t.uelVeu lts
war Until tbnt war; Wo ou, omn greg. ctVii
halted permanently and d,,rirc 49,, ny NV
war IL grew as ncver hsforc M l., e",,.o |
Of New York CITY in tbo ton ,,oor so, p,s0
ing 1860 was preot hmt Ct, So".S .ui'oW-
Washington nearly dorbIcd tr 80 'lpl;u.
long cvll war the country on spn.e u. t,e
90 per cent. Every intorrosi,,on S nc',lF
turn OF war is Tho nron,I.tn y. tne ma
sublime necessity, Tho rtaljan ot,, ouo, ~, WI
Venice and Genoa whom M. '.,'o', re
up the Mediterranean wac Sn,o ~ 49,,
intrusion of the Turks into ~ ny we
10 work and invented the comnasn 'po, ~
classical learning ard sts.s.'p 'eNiNFu |
N'''e'io''
The genius of modern h,r,,ia .
York g N dr,, -, !" We"
si,,o q" "'"'" money as pos |
"'o uepoS'ts paying low inter |
est therefor and then lending these |
deposits upon stocks and bonds -, vhil
r,a,,,e, e'e's '"st OF the
Tte uubannv s,,,,os,or ,
a brokers' account. and nut nm Sio So p.', son
an operation which requires 500, 900 more
so,, Ky an.eaus' On the latter sum and
when thev sci, n"t 1 III. sne stoeks' and
continue these commissions so Ia s.''
tween interest and commissions and the
n"'u'"' percentage against the gambler, he