EULOGY ON "ILE."

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 4254, 3 July 1895, Page 6

EULOGY ON "ILE."

The Taranaki 'Herald' will drive its readers distracted if it persists in quoting remarks in the following strain: — "Hundreds of fortunes have been made by ' He ' in the States. Nor did Mr Gilead P. Beck unfairly put the advantage of oil over gold, silver, and diamonds when he broke forth in his famous eulogy on petroleum : ' There's no big fortunes made out of gold, though many villa locations with a tiny garden up and down the States is built out of the gold mines. Diamonds, again — one or two men like the names of diamonds, but not many. There is the disadvantage about gold and diamonds that you have to dig tor them, and to dig darn hard, and to dig yourself mostly. Americans do not love digging. Like the young gentleman in the parable, they cannot dig, and to beg they are ashamed. Then there's iron and there's coals, but you have to dig for them. Lord ! Lord ! this great airth holds a hundred things covered up for them who knows where to look and do not mind digging. But, gentlemen, the greatest gift the airtn has bestowed she gave to me— abundant, spontaneous, etarnal, and free — and that is He ! He ! Gold you have to dig for, to pick, to wash. Gold means rheumatism and a bent back. He flows, and you become suddenly rich. You make all the loafers around fill your pails for you, and your bankers tell you how many millions of dollars you are worth.'"