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Updated: June 17, 2025
There are many who have misused their opportunities, and are now longing for the time misspent and wishing to recall the earth-life. They will learn that on this side the time can be redeemed, though at much cost. The borderland has many among the restless money-getters of earth, who still haunt the places where they had their hopes and joys.
Atlanta must not lead the South to dream of material prosperity as the touchstone of all success; already the fatal might of this idea is beginning to spread; it is replacing the finer type of Southerner with vulgar money-getters; it is burying the sweeter beauties of Southern life beneath pretence and ostentation.
Cohen lay back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Do not mind him, Mr. Breen, do not mind a word he says. He mortifies me that same way. And now " here he turned his head to Peter "what does he think of my race?" "Oh! He thinks you are a lot of money-getters and pawnbrokers, gouging the poor and squeezing the rich." Jack broke out into a cold perspiration: "Really, Uncle Peter! Now, Mr.
But he was a hard man, the people said, and selfishness and a cold heart were far worse vices in the eyes of the generous-hearted, rough miners who came and went among these hills, than what the polished, cold, calculating money-getters of the far-off city counted as sin. So Andrew Malden was more of a sinner in the estimation of Gold City than Yankee Sam.
It was the custom of the States to consider the men who surrounded the Earl as needy and unprincipled renegades and adventurers. It was the policy of his advisers to represent the merchants and the States which mainly consisted of, or were controlled by merchants as a body of corrupt, selfish, greedy money-getters.
For its fulfillment, then, and its regeneration, the real democracy demands and must achieve the creation and cooperation of a real aristocracy, not an aristocracy of material force either military or civil, nor one of land owners or money-getters, nor one of artificial caste.
The little tailor threw out his hands each finger an exclamation point and laughed heartily, cutting short Peter's tirade. "No no we do none of these dreadful things to Mr. Breen; he is too good to be a saint," and he patted Jack's knees "and then again it is only the truth. Mr. Breen is quite right; we are a race of money-getters, and we are also the world's pawnbrokers and will always be.
"General Johnston was very considerate to us when we came down. I wish you would make him know how grateful we are." "Oh, he couldn't be anything else; he is the ideal of a chivalrous knight." "Yes, I believe you claim chivalry as your strong point in the South, and accuse us of being a race of sordid money-getters." "I don't, for I know better, but our people do. They will learn better in time.
It is no argument against the desire for, or the possession of, wealth, to say that there are sometimes misers who hoard money only for the sake of hoarding, and who have no higher aspiration than to grasp everything which comes within their reach. As we have sometimes hypocrites in religion, and demagogues in politics, so there are occasionally misers among money-getters.
With savage grandeur he turned on them: "What! do you hiss me me, George Frederick Cooke? You contemptible money-getters, you shall never again have the honor of hissing me. Farewell! I banish you!" He paused, and then added, with contemptuous emphasis, "There is not a brick in your dirty town but is cemented by the blood of a negro."
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