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Show r7ME SUFFERINGS OF THE : f RICH. i E "Your nuwspipers make a great !V aiido-ie of the wealthiest men ! . New York to a World reporter, jiboiil the eutlerinca of the poor man tJuring the hard time?, but I don t uVo t'i;tt of thein notlce piir"r i iuularly the diabolical d:strcsn ol ..,he rich man." I" The repmtf-r wasn't uwaM mat tho --SHch rnnn ciiflerf;d at all. "That," paid he of the wtalih, is iobecau.-e vm don't know atiytmng abrtut it. ' Why, sir, I undergo more " wiicuiitl. absolute torture in an hour 'b.th:m any poor wretch in this city. H usl hadn't a cent in the world, Id tave some sympathy, some rust, some distance. Aa it is, I'm hounded to ealh. l'mdtspised, beiet, annoyed, ontemned, bacbbiLtuii, waylaid. Ilia tapers write editorials about me. U 1 go church I am told that a camel nn get through the eye of a needle licker than I can get into heaven, j f I didn't drerf my family in an , ulravagant manner I hear that I am ' i lfn old skiuQiDl If I do, I am told . taichatalll think of ray money is to ha3iiako a vulgar show with it. I ;cu"upnosed I worked as hard as any ' niau for more than two thirds of my i( Ale to accumulate a fortune, but I 1 ' .jolieve most people think I ought to ",ive it away and commence over -Again. In a winter like this you ve "V idea of the hardships of the rich. caaf I help all the people who apply to ne I mii-ht as welt go to the poor Tjjiouae, and yet all of them expect it, I md ni03t of them, I dare say, are ' Arvorthy. U'b out of the question. So yx'-hey curse mo, I suppose. All the ooobetievolent societies, charities, public I Anstilutiou3, and churco organizations 'eumave their agents out. 1 nm waited , K'ipou by comm:tt3es, runners, buclergyineu, secretaries. Tney send .reshie half a bushel of letters a ach-ay- They drop upon me in the Indnost unexpecltd places. They get . doB,nto my private ofiice. They wait in I Any library before I nm up. They sit tho"n my front Bteps. They follow mo an4nto the horse-cars. What is a man ilh0:odo? If I let them have their way I Any name will ba paraded as if I p'--anted to advertise my charities, if I ayidon't tho prcis will want to know what ; So.he has ever done fur New York. The a)ther day a repoitpr came to see me ! Jiboutmy will. He eaid the public: roiiwould like to ba informed as -to the "-'proposed disposition of my property f"c,at my decease. I suppose if I were to theget a cold in mj head there'd bo a brigade of them quartered under my ."windows. I begin to fel that a rich latrctnau isadU-gr;:ce to tliu community Itha that somehow 1 have committed a crime. I don't tike to look a man doFHCjUarely in the face for ear his hatred in'of me will show itself or ne will stop wn and ask me to lend him $1,000 to ; f get his starving family some food to thceat. I tell you, sir, this winter is t'-nwful hard on tho rich man. He 'udoeBu't-'tveu eat hia dinner in peace. frdHow can he when there are 40,000 iHwho are dinuerle.-s! His money gets i Wi.to bo a renroach to him. aud he feels ' K"as if he'd like to give the whole of it I Taway in one In tup and try the luxury ipaof being poor for awhile. But you jwh needn't say anything about that or 'irI'll have afresh battalion here to-morrow, and half the idlers in town 'Bur will be writing mc letters. In fact I wouldn't say anything about it if I lovi.nere you, but it's a fact, the rich imsD sutlers in a hard winter a good jc ' deal more than the poor man. You j jctake my word for it. And the poor it, don't pity him a bit." New York .- World. |
