Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — THE IDLE RICH. [ARTICLE]

THE IDLE RICH.

By Walt Mason

I’m fond of coin, but I don't itch to be.among the idle rich, who have long green to burn; their wealth I could not well employ, for 1 could never much enjoy the bone I did not earn. Oh, every coin of mine is wet with honest, rich, transparent sweat,, until it has been dried; it represents no sire's bequest, no buried miser’s treasure chest, no “multi’s” pomp and pride. I grind my anthem mill at home, and every time I make a pome, I take in fifty cents; I get more pleasure blowing in this hard-earned, sweat stained slice of tin, than do the wealthy gents. Their coin comes easy as the rain. it represents no stress or strain, no toil in shop or den; they use their wealth to buy and sell, like taking water from a well; the hole fills up again. We do not value much the thing which, like an everlasting spring, wells up, year after year; if you’d appreciate a bone, you have to earn it with a groan, and soak it with a tear. I’d rather have the rusty dime for which I labored overtime, and sprained a wing or slat, than have the large and shining buck that Fortune handed me; or Luck: get wise, rich lad, to that.

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