Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — The Discomforts of Wealth. [ARTICLE]

The Discomforts of Wealth.

Money in itself is of very little account, says a leading Boston merchant I wouldn’t give 5 cents a bushel foi it; it don’t bring happiness; I am happy, but ft is npt because I have money, but in spite of it. My happiest days were when I had a small family and a salary just big enough to support that family. Then I was free from this care, this heavy responsibility, and I didn’t feel as though I had to hustle every day I lived in order to keep in the procession. Why not ease up now 9 that I am in comfortable circumstances? Ah, how little you fellows know of the shoals and quicksands of trade! If ypu let up lp this race in the least you are surely lost. It is but a single step from a thriving, successful business to the bankruptcy court. You can't let up; if you are in it, you've got to pull for all you are worth.