–there are thousands of such financiers who never made a dollar, and who would be in the poor-house if they had not inherited a fortune.

of the common laborers will not work as long as they have a dollar in their pockets, and many of them will not work at all until their empty stomachs warn them of approaching starvation.  As a rule, these are the men who talk about bloated bondholders, monopolists, hard times, etc.

and then have the fact published to all the world–it is the personification of meanness.

that you may have a chance to steal a hundred.