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Show MONEY AS A SERVANT. ! The productive pow-r of money whm put out nt a fair rate of interest ( at:tl tvuipi.'Undcd is wonderful. Small i bd Un ccs wl.ich livc bocn loft in s:iv- nigs Lankb have -;ruwn until the tic- j pesitor, who hail Inilf fi.rx'ittrli hvn t ; investment, fnmd thiit ho hail :it-msll ' lortune. (. In a recent lccrure U-fero norking- men in llic Coopur institute, the i speaker called aUcntiun lo the careless I inference of many that the increase i ol money at six per cent, is just twice t as rapid as at three per cent. He ( then proceeded to show thut the in- t creiise ol a dollar at six per cent, compounded, in a hundred years, is ' nenrly eighteen times as much us at three per cent. The lollowing table illustrates the increase of a dollar for a hundred years at dill'erent rates of in treat: 1 per cent $2$ 2 per cent 71 per ceut 11 j 3 per cent ld o'i per cent 3lr 4 per cent 5ui i per cent Sl 5 per cent VMk 6 per ceut 340 7 per cent S68 . 3 per cent 2,203 9 per cent ,5,543 10 per cent 13.S09 12 per cent S4.G75 15 percent 1,174,405 13 per cent 15,145,007 54 per ceut 2,501,799,401 The workincnian who puts out a small sum at interest has made money bis servant. It is working lor him day and night. If he adds interest to principal his servants multiply at a rapid rate. The small lender becomes a considerable capitalist in a few years. .Nowadays $i00,000 is reck oncd as a moderate amount of capital even for merchandising or manufacturing. manufac-turing. But itippose one at the age of twenty-five years were to set this $100,000 to work for him at 7 per I cent, interest. His capital would accumulate ac-cumulate as follows: Aeu. Capital. . 25 $10U,000 1 35 200,000 45 400,000 55 S00.OO0 - 05 1,6(0,000 75 3,200,000 1 So b,400,000 There is many a one to-day who.if he had putout as much money at corn-pound corn-pound interest as be has spent for - cigars, chewing lobaccoand occasional drinks during the past twemy-five yefirs, would have a ccmfortabla for- ' tune. He has been a reasonably temperate tem-perate man all the lime, aud has takeu no account ol the small leaks. Money is a tyrant where one has to pay a ' very large interest. But it is a faithful f servant when it is lo.tued out even at 1 a moderate rate. It power of accumulation accu-mulation of "doubling up" ought M to be understood by every laboring "man. Bankers, brokers, and all I -hrewd financier understand this re-5 re-5 productive capacity well enough. San Fraucisco HuUetin, |