Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-03-14
Michigan Man Astonishes the
House With Many Epigrams.
SOME REFLECTIONS ON WEALTH.

Edward L. Hamilton Says, 1.-THE Cap !
italist Plays For Thousands Like
schoolboys Play For Marbles and
ID Not So Mach Interested In the
Money ~ In the Came"
A new wit developed in the house of
representatives the other day-Edward
L. Hamilton of Michigan, Republic
an, who Is serving his third term, says
a dispatch from Washington to the
Philadelphia Press. He talked on
Tariff and Trusts" and literally
spouted epigrams for an hour. He re-
ceived an ovation when he finished.
His speech was succession of short
sentences delivered In loud voice that
echoed through the chamber. Here
are some Of the things Mr.. Hamilton
said
"There is really nothing to be gained
by denouncing wealth. Wealth is very
likely to consider denunciation the
tribute which envy compels.
"The wheel Of life turns high, turns
low, but there is no point where the
average man, rich or poor, is willing to
stop. Above a certain moderate sum
wealth becomes financial expression,
column Of figures.
"Wealth is the victim Of it's own en-
vironment When you see one of those
figures in grocery window grinding
coffee, the figure seems to be running
the machine, but in reality the machine
is running the figure, and the figure
/ cannot very we'll escape the tyranny Of
It's own surroundings.
"Those who denounce wealth are
very likely to be suspected of hypocri-
sy Most people would like to try the
experiment Of wealth. When a farmer
gets 40 acres of land, he wants 80, and
when he gets 80 he wants 100, and
when he gets 100 he wants more.
1T is currently reported that legis-
lator who used to denounce stocks and
bonds with great force and violence
went up to New York at the close of
the last congress and cashed IN a tip
of something like $250,0OO.
at is hard to please people anyhow
If a man is economical, you call him
parsimonious; if he is spendthrift
you call him fool; if he is rich, you
call him plutOcrat.
"To the men of moderate means un
limited wealth seems good deal like
unlimited jam to the small boy but he
can hold only about so much anyhow
Generally speaking, it means rather
dreary round, certainly not more inter
esting than the keen ambition of the
man seeking to get there.
1.-THE capitalist plays for thousands
as the schoolboy plays for marbles ant
is not so much interested in the none!
as in the game. After all, enjoyment il
not so much in the thing tasted IS ii
the palate Of the faster.
"The millionaire maintains palace
and finds his comfort in one room
keeps many servants to wait on on
another; keeps a carriage and walk
for exercise; has plenty to eat AM
diets for his health; has unlimite'
means for diversion and seldom ha
time for diversion; gets tired Of watch
ing the boundaries Of his own posses
slons, but has to remain on guard.
every once in while after h
drains all there is in it he turns state
, evidence against the world, the fees
, and the devil, good form, charitabl
brokerage and the we'll dressed tread
, mill generally and tells us there
nothing in 1t, but we keep right o
after it.
, capital is only labor grown prosper
GUS, and when it becomes prosperou
, It acts Just as prosperity always act
and gets envied in turn just as prosper
ity is always envied."