The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-01-24
HOW TO MAKE MONEY
BY INVESTMENTS
Floating Proverbs Of the Great and
Interesting Game Of Easy
Money"

My son. as thy start out into the
great whirlpool called life. take this
leaf from the old mans experience,
for although thou art admittedly
smarter than thy forbears. yet the
game is much the same. the water is
always fine. and the invitation to
"come In" Is very cordial.
III II be thy fortune to save a bit
and the world know thee for a nan
with a savings bank account, they
who live by their 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.
or investments I'm the heavens
above or in the earth beneath or In
the waters under the earth be thou
very shy; for whilst thou canst buy
blue sky thou canst not sell. nor rent,
o borrow a FIVE upon the same: and
as for things below the surface OF the
earth. verify one mans look into a
hole in the ground is as long as an
others. 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 permitted to live on
the planet. Otherwise thou shalt
wake to find myself standing naked
under the sky holding sacks for the
oil-fed Fat Boys.
When the silk-hat salesman for
stocks in Million Dollar corporations
core about the with fairy tales of
sli", d melons diprea in creani. thou
shalt do well 20 smile and say thou
art somewhat hard o. nearing: f,r
few million dollar corr ,rations are
r,.p in the Interests OF the primer
cpss. TO which class .hou 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 COR
porate scheme that viii 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
desire thee with us for a few hun
dred;" shut thine eyes for a moment
and remember that thy father once
discovered that the ground floor OF
such a structure had a basement be-
meath and in that basement dwelt a
niger. This vile Of the devil is but
one of the infinite variations Of the
play entitled: Give Me Thy Money
to Hold" For why should a man
with silver In the hand swap Il OF
for q birds song in the bush?
When thou hast paid the last in
stallmcnt on thy modest home and
thy last debt is wiped off the books
Gnu LHOu y lOO Ouoy. vi hho" Try
self to be too simple to Dusk the
wicked world i'm a business venture
OF thine own, take thou thy little
surplus and buy with 1t 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 debtor shall sweat
to serve thee.
/ have been young and now am
old, yet have I not out-lived the farm
mortgage. Though war skin the
Shenandoah, yet shall not the hind
shoe of the war horse even dinge the
red wax Of the mortgage seal. have
seen the governing cyclone blow the
bark from the willows, the feathers
from the hens and the stubble from
the oats fields Of the mortgaged farm,
yet did II not SO much as lift the
southwest corner of that abiding doc
| ument.
Corporations rise with the mush-
room and sink with the same; gold
| mines crawl into a hole and pull the
| hole in after them; oil wells run dry
but the farm mortgage abideth for.
ever"
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