Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-01-31
HOW TO MAKE MONEY
BY %NvESTMENTS"
FLOATING PROVERBS OF THE
GREAT AND INTERESTING GAME
OF easy MONEY"

Ny son, as thee starts out in
to the great whirlpool calleC
life, take this leaf from the ole
man s experience for although
thou art admittedly smarter thar
thy forbears, yet the game is
much the same, the water is al
ways fine, and the invitation to
"come in is very cordial.
If it be thy fortune to save &
bit and the world know thee fol
a man with a savings bank ac-
count, they who live by theil
wits will come to thee saying
"Give me thy money to hold
From such turn aside as from
the peddler of glass diamonds
or from the fortune teller at the
fair grounds. They purpose to
do thee as the hawk doeth the
spring chicken.
Of investments in the heavens
above or in the earth beneath
or in the waters under the earth
b, thou very shy; for whilst
thou canst buy blue shy thou
canst not sell, nor rent, nor
borrow a five upon the same
and as for things below the sur
face of the earth. verify one
mans look into hole in the
ground is as long as another S
Concerning wells of whizz water
under the earth. thou shalt do
wisely to avoid the very smell
of the stuff so long as John D.
his heirs and assigns are per-
mitted to live on the planet.
Otherwise thou shalt wake to
find thyself standing naked under
tie sky holding sacks for the
oil-fed Fat Boys.
When the silk-hat salesman for
stocks in Million Dollar corpo-
rations come about thee with
fairy tales Of sliced melons dipp-
ed in cream, thou shalt do well
to smile and say thou art some
what hard of hearing; for few
million-dollar corporations are
run in the interests of the primer
class. to which class thou and
thy fathers before thee belong.
When a bunch of good fellows,
thy personal friends, come to
thy desk and say :"We have here
a little corporate scheme that will
make a clean up Of 25 per cent,
semi-annually forever, to which
good thing we are letting in
only a few choice souls strictly
on the ground floor and We de-
sire thee with us for few hun
d'ed;' shut thine eyes for a
moment and remember that thy
father once discovered that the
ground floor Of such structure
had a basement beneath and in
that basement dwelt a nigger.
This vile Of the devil is but one
o. the infinite variations of the
play entitled: "Give Me Thy
Money to Hold. For why should
man with silver in the hand
swap it off for birds song
in the bush9
When thou hast paid the last in
stallment on thy modest home
and thy last debt is wiped off
the books and thou are too busy,
or know thyself to be too simple
to buck the wicked world in a
business venture Of thine own,
take thou thy little surplus and
buy with it a mortgage on a
farm which thou hast previously
walked over and dug into.
Thus shalt thou be master of
thine own wealth and thy deb
tor shall sweat to serve thee.
have been young and now
am old, yet have / not out
lived the farm mortgage. Though
war ravages the country. yet
shall not the hind shoe of the
war horse even dinge the red
wax of the mortgage seal. l
have seen the governing cyclone
blow the bark from the willows,
the feathers from the hens and
the stubble from the oat fields
Of the mOrtgaged farm, yet did
it not so much as lift the south
west corner of that abiding
document.
Corporations rise with the
mushroom and sink with the same
gold mines crawl into a hole
and pull the hole in after them !;