Excerpt from Life of Jay Gould; How He Made His Millions: The Marvellous Career of the Man Who, in Thirty Years, Accumulated the Colossal Fortune of $100, 000, 000
Of course, no man earns millions with the labor\ of his hands. One who gathers a vast fortune must do it by the appropriation in some form of the fruits of the productive industry of others, and yet it is a stupidity to say that large properties are criminal accretions.
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