| Show RUSSELL SAGE His flis JustIfication of Himself and His Habits oi of Life t York Commercial C At in this city hat during the groat bull market that carried ne lU stock I Ito to a thousand and he told the bAnker I Ito to let lc it tie in the vault drawing no interest because I want It absolutely fr free to b bo used to elp half a dozen down men that tou fough me tried l to break me but who will be ruIned It if I do not help them when whenn the madness culminates ThIS Is not the tone or the language bf reactionary a Mr Sage c that he has lived thriftily But why ho he lake aka do they Marne ame me for not living extravagantly My mo money y la is In just as truly as It if I whirled about In automo automobiles I biles antI and maintained costly e I meats ments The man who puts money In ina i a 8 savings bank circulates it for the J benefit ot of the community just as surely as the tho man who p ts it into t to a racing stable a yacht or a hunting lodge If i you ou doubt mo me ask the savings bonk bank I people what they do with the deposits i Personal is a matter of j I taste but Investment In any form cir circulates which is the chief duty I of the man who accumulates it Judge two me by this standard and If you know j my mv life you OU wm will find that aU all I have dope done has been to resist extravagance tine new w methods of circulating money b by stimulating unnecessary and often Injurious habits Not many human documents will bear clo nr r per perusal th hap the Itt Life or of Russell Sage p parchment r h is yell welt preserved and ana tIle the characters ago legi legible I ble There Is mun many iL a point for tor sub in his career greer and the exam examples plea ples are not aU all of the terrible lass class Call no man happy until ho he Is dead 5 says S the but there is no a smile that wont come coma off on the face ot of Mr SagO Sage that Is not to be found invariably on the countenance of Croesus |
