Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-07-12
THE ECCENTRIC MR.. SCOTT.

er, who has truck 1t rich IN the Nevada
desert. Is being whirled over the Santa
Fe railroad from Los Angeles to Chi
cago in a special train for which he
will pay from $4,000 to $4,000 is eaus-
ing a great deal of comment, and com
ment that is not very favorable to the
judgment or even sanity of Scott. For
it seems that Scott not only has no
business in Los Angeles, but has no
business in Chicago, and that there is
no cause for hurry in his trip what
ever except his own desire to move IA
rapidly.
This same miner has been renting a
few floors of an expensive hotel in or
der that he might have room enough to
stretch his legs without going out in
the street. he has been showing Los
Angeles whas a spender should be. Scott
is being called all manner of things
from idiot to braggart, and his order
for special train to take him and a
single companion to Chicago has eaus-
ed Mysteries in some quarters.
1t seem likely that Scott s extrava-
ganees have been magnifed, that they
have been stretched to good newspap-
er story. And why should he.
The money is his own; he has work
ed for it; probably he has worked hard.
The man who finds rich streak of dirt
in the west nowadays usually has to
work for it; fortunes are not around
falling in laps of miners, and if this
man has found his after working for
it. why shouldn' t he spend it as he
likes! Given that his extravaganees
are as extreme as has been reported, is
this man not little improvement over
that other kind of rich man who care
fully takes his money and places it in
such way as to make it grow and
grow until it reaches such a magnitude
that he cannot spend the ineome2
The western miner has taken his
money out of the ground. He is spend
ing it, turning the wealth of the earth
into circulation among the people. He
worked hard and alone for his money,
injuring no one, doing no one an injus-
tice. His methods seem somewhat bet
ter than those of the other kind of ex-
travagant rich who have secured their
millions by Overcharging the people
/ for the necessities If life. and, while
using the power of these millions to
double or ever treble them every five
years, are easing troubled conscience
by giving millions to educational in
stitutions, already worth many mil
lions, the money that of right belongs
to the poor people who have earned it
and paid it in at extravagant prices
for the necessities of living.
Which kind Of man is most open to
ridicule and contempt, the miner who
is turning loose in lunches the money
he has taken from the ground by his
own honest toll. at his own risk. for
his own pleasure; or the man who is
giving away millions that he does not
miss. from a great fortune made pos
sible by modern business methods?
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The Wabash has abandoned its Ella
borate spy system, which has beer
in force for number of years Thos,
in charge of the railroad have evident
" reached the conclusion that sys
tematie espionage does not pay. i
experience had demonstrated that it re
suited in great saving it would doubt
less have been continued. The aband
onment Is a bit of indirect evidene,
that the devil is not always as blaze
as he is painted.
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There Is a fine prospect of the public
having an opportunity to show its dis
appreciation of the theatrical trust b!
patronizing the shows of a rival cor
= poration, but it is dollars to doughnut
that the original combine, no matte
what hard stories may be told abou
it, win still continue to enjoy publi
patronage if it gives the best shows.
!. = !.
= Hon. Lafayette Young advocates tn
best kind of reciprocity. He says, lik
l charity, it should begin at home, an'
1 reminds the manufacturers of New
) England that if they try the dodge o
: getting free farm products from Can
l ada, the western farmers may rotor
5 by moving for free manufactured cot
tons, etc, from other countries.