| Show A MONEY TALK although the personal esperi once of na most ost people would lead them hem to doubt the accuracy of the Lat ement statistics issued by the Oi director rector of tho the mint flint show that the alue of the gold mined in the cited states last year reached the tha sum of and of 6 this is an inease in the gold production over nat of 1895 of and in tie production of silver of 4 00 the much greater ratio of old ild increase over that of silver u proportion to the amount mined dus due to the low price of silver which rendered the working of any out the richest silver mines unprofitable utah furnished famished a fair quota of the sum total her of gold being 1 and of silver hirer if the gold and silver mined each year were coined and equally di vided aided between the inhabit inhabitants tints of f ue tie united stites states the ion long g promised ed prosperity would have arr ed but the trouble is that nearly all of it drifts into a few faw bands there can bs be no doubt hat the standard oil king gets hs share shote and that of several mil ions of his countrymen con berning rn ing his rapid accumulation of wealtia wealth the sao francisco call re 0 O antly said john D rockefeller sleeps eight iid and a half hours every light re r ing at 1030 and rising at t 7 4 r ery morning when he gets up no is richer thin than ho he was wag when he be went to bed lie sits fits clown to breakfast at 8 and leaves the table at anil and in hat chat short time his wealth has grown on sunday he goes to church and in the two hours he be is away from home his ethes heg hive have grawn his a kightly 0 amusement is playing the violin vit lin every evening when he picks up the instrument lie he is 50 00 rieber richer than when nhen he laid it lown the previous night these Y t tie le facts gi give ve so aoma me i idea d ea of the lie re lent less growth of chii mans fortune a new york correspondent of the tha st paul globe the average great millionaire is intent if his wealth is so invested oat nat it will bring in 4 per cent many are content wih 3 per cent nt mt the rockefeller riches earn nore than 7 per cent just how sir ir rockefellers Rocke fellers forne jumped in three norths is easily explained ile he ans shares of the stand ewd aid oil company or a tripe trifle more uan oan one half of the total capitali capital aaion the par value of these is ia in february last the certificates were sold at WO 20 at nia figure his holdings were worth today at ifrey aru are worth last agust standard oil certificates were ere sold at at this fissure figure nis ng holding were worth or less legs than they ire today jay gould achieved worldwide world wide ame as a woney ironey maker when tie ae died he left and the world stood aghast eghart at the wonder ul lul achievements of the man in forty years almost almont a year but here is a man whose wealth has grown at the rate of a month and the outside world arcely dreams of it a roan man who earned his firke quarter of a lollar hoeidt IOta potatoes toes on oil a tioga i bounty farm in the upper part ot this state a mail mai who 35 years old did riot not have 1000 to his hia name it a notable fact that men kien af the hock feller stamp the great coal iron sugar barons and trust magnate are the most bitter opponents rits of free coinage recently gave a striking proof of his intolerance in this thia direction lie he wits on the eve of giving frown brown university a million dollars but concluded to withhold it because the president of the university E benjamin andrews wrote i a book an honest dollar advocating the universal froe free coinage of silver under certain limitations this book boob is is a very very couser conservative one and does not noi favor free coinage in independent of other nations nor a ratio of sixteen to one but the fact that president andrews favored free coinage in any form was sufficient to stop slop the bestowal of the pro gift to the university over which he pre presided sidel the free and unlimited coinage of silver in the he ratio ralio of sixteen to one would open up so FO many avenues of employment for labor that the millionaires lion aires could not so much blood money irum from the masse and the mere mention of such euch a possible calamity produces much the he turns same effect as 28 that of waving a red ed flag in the face of an angry bull |
