The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
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where he built up a fortune, and has
since been disbursing it according to his.
own strictly original and eminentIy
useful ideas
His address is of some length, hut The
Sunday Spy guarantees that whoever
reads the opening sentences will greed
lily finish the whole remarkable storyl
~ shall talk to you tonight, if I am
able to talk, in plain language. I am
about to say some things that 1 have
never before mentioned in the presence
of an audience. In other words, / pro-
pose to be very frank, very plain. My
subject is; What to do with money
how to use it?' In order to so illustrate
my subject that you may clearly under
stand 1t, ] shall introduce several object
lessons. am going to take you to the
places where we make use of money [
am going to take long journey tonight
and take you along with me. / shall also
bring in a little history incident to the
places We are to visit. I shall be under
the necessity of frequently using the
word T. An old man has the right to
make himself the hero of every story he
tells. 1t is perfectly right-it is alto
gether proper In the young man this
would not be admissible, but an old
man, approaching four-score years, has
right to tell what ne has done. / flke
to hear old men tell what they have
done, and / am going to tell you what
! have done, for a particular object
not because l am proud of it, or vain
about it, neither do | pose as a beneVo-
lent man, remember that. I am thrifty
and frugal old man. 1 have labored
nearly eighty years to make money, and
l have made it-and honestly, too.
The statement may seem very
strange to you, when l say / do not
pose as a benevolent man. 7 have no
benevolenee in me-not particle |
am the most economical, close listed
man you ever put your eyes on. You
can see it in my FACET is there / do
not think / ever foolishly spent 500 in
my life. ] never went to theatre but
once in my life, and then l was
ashamed Of myself. l never went to a
horse race or a foot ball game or a base
ball game, over which our students all
over the country are making such con-
summate fools Of themselves, and by
allowing which the presidents and
faculties are making idiots Of them
selves.
Il am doing all that 1 am doing on
business principles. When I came to
the age of 20 years, after working hard
20 years to lay up money, with rigid
economy, 1 said to myself: What am
I going to do with this? / can not
carry it out Of the world in my dead
hands Look around and see where you
are. You can't take it with you. COT
fins we're not made to carry money in.
You have got to leave it; that's the
way to look at it. Now, what shall l
do with it?' / looked around Chicago.
and helped TO build a hospital helped
two theological seminaries with three
or four hundred thousand dollars,
helped the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation and the City Missionary So
eiety and other institutions
But that did not satisfy me. I want
ed to help the poor boys and girls of
our country. ] wanted TO lay up some
thing that they could live on while get
ting an education. / was deprived by
poverty of an education, and / wanted
to fix ii so, that these boys and girls.
the sons and daughters of wage earn
ers, could have a chance to get an edu-
cation. l wanted to fix it so that these
boys and girls could have the privilege
Of a college close to them 50 that they
could get a liberal education For this
purpose ! turned my attention to six
teen different colleges. ! did not start