Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1881 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of paper and, by writing a poem on it, make it worth $5,000. That’s Genius. Mr. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on a similar sheet and make it worth $50,000,000. That’s Capital And the United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an “Eaglebird” and “Twenty Dollars.” That’s Money. The mechanic can take the material worth fifty dollars and make it into a watch worth SIOO. That’s SkilL The merchant can take an article worth twentv-five cents and sell it to you for SIOO. That’s Busines. A lady can purchase a comfortable bonnet for ten dollars, but prefers to pay SIOO for one, because it is more stylish. That’s Foolishness. The- ditch-digger works ten hours a day, and’shovels out three or four tons of earth for one dollar. That’s Labor.— Richmond State.