The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1854-07-28
Employers ano EmploAes.

Why he has lost many bargain because
he will insist on telling every thing he knows
about what he's selling.n d
"That's .unlucky.n rtls@ ,i1e.} = 80
@YesA-now when you are putting off your
hay, you don't feel yourself bound to tell
just how it was cut and got in. whether or
not you had little sprinkle of rain upon Il.
or whether the lot viii run as well as the
sample" - aH rbF 0-,ITf
Certainly not.n fag Z ,as#2G,a
for it." ,is,E q. ~
Returning to the city in one of our Eastern
trains OF cars few mornings since, we over
heard two gentlemen on the seat behind us
delivering with great energy the dialogue
commenced above. We felt under no obi
CATION to put our fingers in our ears, and SO
we were favored with more. of the same sort.
II now" continued the first speaker, 81
tell John. when customer is looking at a
case of my boots, he isn't obliged to dig up
every pair in the box and display to him every
flaw in the leather, and every slip of the
knife, and the quality of the thread, and
all that. he wants 10 make a trade he
must put the best face on the article he can,
and may be sure the purchaser viii make
allowance enough for defects" ~ aeITa93a.
PRECISELY" hhsftGE Spssss'ts HFYeSFa
asBut 1 can't make that boy understand the
matter. It's lust so with all of that family.
Ii runs in the blood. His father before him
had the same failing, or he might have been
a rich man. John won't tell anything but
what is exactly true about the boots, and he
will tell all that is true" ~ ~ ,sy Z sstef.
tf"What do you keep him for ~ n.a
swell, I've thought a good many times
should get rid of him, but you see can trust
John myself don't have to watch him in
any thing between him and me- I always
know what to depend upon where John is
concerned. He'd cut off his right hand, L
do verify believe, before he'd cheat me out of
a'mill. But / have to take care how Iieave
customers in HE hands. When i aIn there
attend to them myself--but when / am
away they find out little more of the art
of bootmaking than care to have them
know" - fiif5 {f 49,
That's all nonsense. There's no use in
setting up for such special honesty. If every
body traded on such principles it would do.
But if one man undertakes it alone he'll soon
go to the wall. The fact is, If we tell the
worst about our goods we actually misrepre-
sent-for the purchaser will suppose all the
while we are saying the best we can, and
that the actual worst is far beyond what we
have admitted, Oh, it won't do at all. -L.ai,
Honest John! brave John! heroic John. Our
heart warmed towards the unknown incor-
ruptble one that kept his integrity through
such fiery ordeal God bless him and
shield him, and deliver him out ofthe' hands
Of Phillistines. - Ests-' @ N',.t5 sl., - ~.
And this is the way, we thought, that many
an. employer sets about corrupting the un-
training. This is the sort of nature under
which many a youthful aspirant for a busi-
ness career is indoctrinatedin in the mercantile
virtues. These are the models and exemplars
after which are exhorted to take pattern in
their practice, If they would win golden for
tunes. 80 '.f'. '.'si
Would that we could blow trumpet Of
warning for parents and guardians in the
country who seek so earnestly places for
their sons and wards in our mercantile houses
in the city. Beware what snare you spread
for their unwafy feet. Find out the charac-
ter of the men to whom you entrust the
keeping of such precious interests BE sure
that they prize truth and honesty, not only
when these traits subserve directly their own
self interest but when they sometimes inter
fere with "good bargain" Fortify, speci-
ally, the hearts of those you send forth on
such perilous venture, with an infexible and
steady attachment to uprightness and virtue
and then uphold and shield them on these
slippery heights oftemptation by intercession
with Heayen.--.dgriessseri - = = e - ~ = 3
!THINK. = Thought engenders thought