"ROASTING" THE RICH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 180, 21 July 1908, Page 4

"ROASTING" THE RICH.

r The defender and apologist heretofore of wealth—at least of the rich of [the Kockfeller class—Chancellor James ;R, Day, of Syracuse University, New | York, recently said some of the worst things uttered in contempt for Amcrca's aristocracy of dollars. He was speaking 011 the assurance of indusrial prosperity returning to the country soon, and his remarks were argumentative of a declaration that the '{ear of half a dozen young men poking the country into their pocket was nonsense. He said: — ••You've heard that sublime, stupid nonsense about half a dozen men putting- the world- iu their pockets and not letting anybody else get nnv. Why, vou may be one of those half-dozen* some da'v. These men aren't going to live forever. It' they had .Methusaleh's prospects of life it might be a serious matter. .Men get rich, and then getfat, and get dyspepsia and die. Most of them are fools before they die and leave their millions to their sons and daughters, instead oi: to Syracuse Ull- - And most of the sons are fools, too.' They spend the money for autos and yac-h'ts and great establishments. and bv and bv you get it all back."

••The daughters distribute wealth, too. Tliey give some of it to those counts and no-aeeounts the papers are foil of. Most of it goes abroad, but it comes back again. Many of the daughters of the rich >ell themselves and give a bonus. We have a market here in this country for rieh girls—just as much a market as they .have in Constantinople. To this market goes all the ragged, laUercd royalty that nobody has any use, for abroad. It is a spectacle for men and angels. You can't, he personal about such things, luit you know what 1 mean, and you can put it down that most of those sales aren't turning out very well. And that's a good thing." "Yes; the material outlook is very encouraging. And we don't blame the prosperous, because we all want to be prosperous ourselves. Let lis all be without that dangerous antagonism to wealth that llows out of sources _of malignity and ignorance—out of Union Square and other places."