Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1879 — How to Become Rich. [ARTICLE]

How to Become Rich.

You can probably be rich, my son, if you will be. If you make up your mind now that you will be a rich man, and stick to it, there is very little doubt, that you will be very wealthy, tolerably maan, loved a little, hated a great deal, have a big funeral, be blessed by the • relatives to whom you leave the most, reviled by those to y, whom 'you leave less, and vilified by those to whom you leave nothing. But you must pay for it, mv son. Wealth is an expensive thing. It costs all it is worth. If you want to be worth a million dollars, it will cost you just a million dollars to get it. Broken friendships, intellectual starvation, loss of social enjoyment, deprivation of generous impulses, the smothering of manly aspirations, a limited wardrobe and a scanty table, a lonely f home, because you fear a lovely wife and beautiful home would be expensive, a hatred of the heathen, a dread of the contribution-box, a haunting fear of the Woman’s Aid Society, a fretful dislike of poor people because they won’t keep their misery out of your sight, a little sham benevolence that is worse than none; oh, you can be rich, young man, if you are willing to pay the price. Any man can get rich who doesn’t think it is too expensive. True, you may be rich and be • a man among men, noble and. Christian and grand and true, serving God and blessing humanity, but that will be in spite ot your wealth, and not as a result of it. It will be because you always were that kind of a man. But if you want to be rich merely to be rich, if that is the breadth and height of your ambition, you can be rich, if you will pay the price. And when you are rich, son, call around at this office and pay for this advice. We will let the interest compound from this date.— Burlington Hawk-Eye.