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Show Georoe Francis Train on Jay Gould. Editor On the whole, then, yon evidently don't consider Jay Gould a great man? Mr. Train Great men live forever; small men die. Raa he ever taken & Turkish bath? Does he live on a bowl of boiled rice and a baked apule? Had he done so he would not havia lost big eyebrowB. Would a great man pull stocks on a coin currency? Like Grant, Tweed, and a hundred head lights in the dress circle of finance, political, aud social life, Gould iB one of the accidents of the times. Great men last; small men are soon forgotten. While most of the mushroom Napoleons have already al-ready Petered out, i have only just commenced to Peter in! The great man sees the coming cyclone in the failing quicksilver and takes in sail. The Email man heeds no squalls in the sky, but, liko the Mohawk, goes down with all on board. New York paper. |