The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-07-31
FRANZ W. ROACH
THE MAN WHO MARRIES MONEY

In Thomas Nelson Pages new novel
there is the usual shrewd philosopher
whom we find in the modern novel.
In this case he is a good one. Young
Rhodes. an engineer of strong push
ing qualities, runs across the old man,
who gives him this counsel:
You take my advice, son; don't
marry no rich mans daughter. 1hey
will always think they nav done you
a favor, and they will try to make
you think so, too, even If your wife
don't do it. You take marnin' by me.
When | married / had just sixteen dol
lars and my wife she had seventeen,
and | give you my word | have never
heard the last of that one dollar from
that day to this"
1t happens later in the story that
Rhodes marries an English heiress
and becomes about as miserable as it
is possible for a man to be. He finds
the English social life empty, unreal,
puerile. He declares he is bored to
death. Il was no born for this" he
exclaims, Il was born to do something.
But for giving up | might have been
like Stevenson or Eads or your mar
Maury, whom they are all belittling
because he did it all himself instead
of getting others to do it. By George!
] hope to live till l build one more big
bridge or run n more long tunnel.
Jove. to stand once more up on the
big Orders, so high the trees look
small below you, and see the bridge
growing under your yes where the
ola croakers said nothing would
standi"
Married money is gossip's chief NOR
sci, and it chews il increasingly. II
is the kind of thing hat a to be
delicately handled when discussed in
print, and the Queerest part of it is
that there is no reason for treating it
d~elicately. In the first place, it is a
libel to say that man marries a wom-
an Dr. a woman MARINES a man Who'll
ly for cash. The gossips always dc
say it, but gossips tell the truth only
by mistake. Love goes with millions
just as often as it abides with poverty
Moreover, in the better state of the
uynrId nann1a naf a hrnadnr uiaur ~
the facts; and one of these facts IL
that a man with ability, a rising man
is a fair bargain for a girl with mil
lions. His future is worth as mucf
to her, in the contract, as her none,
is to him.
We have instances of ii in the pres
ent day. John Hay was not a ricl
man when he married an heiress, bu
he has become a brilliant Secretary o
State, rising TO a reputation which il
entirely beyond a question of finances
Lord Curzon was door when he mar
ried an American wife who possesses
great fortune, but he has won his wa,
TO a position in the world that shoulC
make even the gossips ashamed T.
assert that American money did it all
Certainly, old Peter Cooper, if he hat
lived, would have glorifed in the ca
reer OF his son-in-law. Abram S
Hewitt. And so the list might east.
be extended, including novelists an,
preachers and men Of all profession
and callings who have measured u,
to their talents all the better becaus
they had the money of their wives t
help them along.
There was a time when the ric'
woman was to be pitied, for only tn
best men remained away from her an
she had around her only the societ
whipper-snappers and money-hunter:
Now quite frequently it is different
Millionaires have become common
place. The men Of today whom goo
women want as husbands are the me
who do things, the men who striv
for careers. Rhodes, the engineer
was caught in the conventions of
foreign society. IL he had RENAME
in America he would have broke
his barriers and built his bridges.
So no young man who wants to 81
up In the world need give up becaus
be falls in love with a rich girl. III