The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-29

gum has bought ont their manor
houses and is riding in their carriages.
The thing today, my son. is to get
rich as fast as possible. The popular
idea is that when you have got a mil
lion dollars together old Plato or
Cicero isn't in it with you. There are
several ways Of getting rich. If you
and two Or three other fellows can
corner all the pieplant in the country
the rest of us will have to come to your
terms. All you have TO do is to form
a trust and begin squeezing the people.
No matter what you invest in you can
rob the people with impunity. You
can laugh at the newspapers, sniff at
the people and urn your back to the
law in contempt.
What l was going to advise was a
little different ~course-that is, do your
robbing and plundering in a more hon.
est manner. There are hundreds Of
banks in this country waiting to be
robbed. Three or four smart fellows
can always find a way to their vaults.
Find it n clean and places out. Be
open and ~aboveboard about it. Even
If you have to kill the watchmen to
get your hands on the dough thespublic
will respect you more than if you
made it through a trust. If caught you
may have to go to state prison, but
while serving your sentence you will
have the consolation of a clear con-
science in comparison.
Another way to get rich is to go into
politics. Don't go into politics to b.
satisfied with an aldermanship. The
stealings are very fair. and you are
always served at the bar Of a saloon
first, but there is no wisdom in being
a small bad man when you can become
a big bad man. Gas companies, rail
roads and other corporations are wait
ing for you to reach the legislature and
congress. They have money to buy
you. You can earn it by selling the
right. title and interest of your con-
~stituents and helping to defeat law and
justice all over the land.
Don't be a small bad man in politics,
my son. Either get to the top, where
the people can faSten q tag on you as
q big bad man, or cut the thing alto
S~>ASh "tNA 'iAiS odt a liz" h1Oley
cure or Il new brand of vinegar. AS a
big bad man you are known to have
taken your price, and any speeches you
may make or any interviews you may
give out VII be taken for what they
are worth. So will you. You will have
power II influence, and a certain set
will fawn and fatter, but down in
. v0JJT. ho9 IF Won will ,.ao1iu0 how, %J,
honest yeOmanry feel toward you. The
majority of the people today do not
believe that there is such a thing
among US as an honest politician. They
won't believe in your honesty if you
become one. but if you let it be broad
~ known that you are not in the bust
ness for your health you will be spoken
We do certainly like an honest man,
but it is just as certain that we also
admire Il rascal who is honest enour'r
to tell US to look out for our purses
hen be is around.
One thing more. my son. When you
have acquired great wealth in the prac-
tee being followed today buy you a
plot Of ground in some cemetery and
spend Il hundred thousand plunks in
marble shafts and sorrowing angels
and golden epitaphs. Rest assured
that your heirs won't 90 it after your
death, nor viii the squeezed public
ever discover what a philaDthrOpist
you Were in lie unless heading the
statement cut with q chise1.
NJ. QUAD.