Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — A Rich Thing About Editors. [ARTICLE]

A Rich Thing About Editors.

“Editors are usually wealthy,” tho man with the sample case remarked. “Yes,” I said, “they are familiar with all the slang and business phrases of the money market; they write about millions as ordinary men talk about dollars; they build railroads; they organize mining and magnificent transportation companies with fabnlons capital; they declare war without consulting the Rothschilds, and If all the banks in America were to fail to-morrow they wouldn’t be a cent poorer than they are to-day. Yes, they are rich. They associate with the moneyed classes, they sit down at tables with Kings, and sometimes, in happier, luckier moments, with aces; if you want to borrow money, go to the editor, he will tarn to his advertising columns and tell yon where you can borrow it. If you have money to loan, rather than see you suffer he will borrow it of you himself. RichP He knows the secrets of the moneyed rings; be divulges the plans and schemes of the heavy operators to the ale; he roars himself louder than the , and growls among the bears; his voice is in the temples of the money-changera, asking for money; he Warbles hii little roundelay out on the curbstone, in a melancholy minor key, when he doesn’t get it. Oh, yes. editors are rich. When you want to spend all the money yon have in this wiae, wide world, go to your lawyer; when you want something done for nothing, hie to your newspaper office. Then, when you want to send some man to Congrefi£ send your lawyer, because you mn get along without mm'.” I paused, and a profound, impressive silence filled the ear like a dream oi peace. I looked around upon my audience, It was aslee p. Burlington Hawkeye. .« ' A wealthy man who lived in Chesterfield, Va., had two sons, Tom and Jack, both fond of playing poker; but Jack was very sharp' at the game and Tom very flat. When the ola man died he left Tom $90,000 and Jack SI,OOO, but he explained at tbe foot oi .the will that SI,OOO Was Just stake enough for Jack to win everything that Tom had, and it was a wise provision, for so it turned out.