Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — The Way to Make Money. [ARTICLE]

The Way to Make Money.

Commodore Vanderbilt was credited with saying: “There’s no secret about amassing wealth; all you have to> do is to attend to business and go ahead, except one thing, and that is never tell what you are going to do until yow have done it.” All the force that this latter bump of the old Commodore could transmit seems to have concentrated in William H. He knows how to keep a still tongue. Some of his followers know that he knows it, too. Andi he knows that they know that he knows it. This brings him once in a while to good naturedly help them out after they’ve got “scorched.” Stewart used to say, “Honesty and truth are the greatest aids in gaining wealth.” That may have done for dry goods, but we know some men who have kept mighty short of these- two stocks, and yet have gained what they call “wealth.* We cling to the oldfashioned: idea, though, that it “won’t stick.” John Jacob Astor was of the opinion that “with a start of $1,000,000 it requires but little effort to get rich.” That’s what our Baptist friend, Jay Gould, held to when he made his first deposit in the Dime Saving bank out of his little salary as President of the Erie; then he “got started,” but he didn’t “get left.” George Law said: “There’s nothing easier than making money, when you have money to make it with; the only thing is to see the crisis, and take it at the flood.” That is the creed of our friend Cyrus W. Field, only he didn’t call it a “crisis,” but an elevated railroad, and he didn’t “take it at the flood,” but he flooded it after he took it. One of the elder Harpers laid down three rules for his business guidance: First, fear God; second, pay cash; third, keep your bowels open. And so we might multiply the financial creeds of these monetary bishops. The world is full of men who get into the whirl and excitement of business, risk all they have on gigantic ventures, lift themselves and their families to a high plane of living, and when they go down suddenly, as lots of them do, there isn’t enough ready money left to keep their families in a Second avenue boarding-house for a fortnight.—New York Stockholder. Mb. Spurgeon says the Salvation army is trying to turn Christianity into a game of toy-soldiers, with jump-jack? for commanders, and he thinks it is time the riot act was read and the pretenders dispersed. Trub merit, like charity, bloweth not its own cornet.