The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-07-12
# Leopard, Though Rich
UM Jh0W His Spots

The popular song, IF I Were a Millionaire = is perhaps very much in har
mony with the feelings of most of u.s. We are all more or less prone to condemn
the tactics pursued by a great many of our miIionaires and yet how many of
is YOU'D refuse an invitation to exchange places with tn objects OF our seorn.
This is human nature the world over.
However, there are a few mihonaires today who do nt occupy a very m
vahe position and the majority Of these reside In Pittdburg, or at least their
fortunes were made in the smoky city" They ire a type of millionaire
made wealthy through their connections with the steel industry and many have
some up from the ranks of the toner within the past decade To this type of
millionaire there seems to be many Objectionable features They seen TO be
utterly lacking a sense of refinement and culture and as a result III papers
are filed with their domestic scandals and the courts with their divorce suits
What they may have been before fortunes smiled upon them so lavbhly renders
their present conduct all the more surprising In the majority of cases they are
men of middle age and presumably o staid demeanor. They have o success
in the world Of finance by dnt o fceaseless struggle and true perseverance. The
upward road vas beset with trials and disappontments sufficient to qul any
but the stoutest heart. Through all these years a patient wife struggled with
them, ever ready with a soothing sympathy for the trials and a warm pleasure
when fortune smiled. When at Lasts success has crowned their efforts, why
should they turn their backs upon the patient wife, their friends of another
days Men of power, men whose abilities have placed them far above ordinary
men in the world of business, and yet in spirit they are not compatible with the
positions which their energies have wn for them. The accumulation OF wealth
opens up to men a wealth of opportunities. To the spiritual mn there are OPP
potunities for the qualification of self in N direction and Ito the animal nan
these do not appeal 1t does not occur to the animal man that by means of his
wealth he can do much toward the betterment Of social conditions among his less
fortunate fellow men,. 1t does lot occur to him because in the thought there
is 10 responsive feeling # pleasure. Among both the anima millionaire and
accompanies the accumulation of wealth. The mere matter of making money is
no longer both an occupation and a pastime. For the latter he must look ese
where after a time and the course which he pursues indeibly stamps either
the beast or the "a We " many examples of the course of the beast
course of William Ellis Corey, the nal who rose from a forty dollar cerkship
to great wealth and position, is m Of the most striking. apd for rs the nest err
ample of the beast, because of our familiarity with the details of his pettiness
Likewise a single reference to the nam of Andrew Carnegie furnishes us with
a n example of the spiritual millionaire, and by a strange anomaly he is also
q product of Pttsburg and the steel industry
We can draw n conclusions, then, as 20 the character of the industry most
apt o produce either the leopard or the man The steel industry has furnished
however. Environment and industry may 10 much toward shaping the charac
tersa and minds of men, but eve in a sinble generation Carnegie and Corey
were each alike to al outward appearances in the beginning. Both we're poor,
~ Oon possessed e~'raor"nary ta-ents In the sam an they won their
way, but wsn the final test came Corey, the leopard, showed his spots