The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-29
The Verb "TO DO"

TIHC NeCD 40 NO.
A brief coniugation Of the verb "to do can
hardly ever be out of place. Ii IS one oil The most
;ronoriant items of practical lille; and although
We may have disregarded it, dramatically, since
the time when put off the discipline OF The
schools and set our faces towards the world, the
reality has pursued US with wonderful consancy
INFO The great arena Of active life, and exacted
daily service at our hands. Ia short, all the
enterprise, the genius the skill the fortune Of the
individual, the prosperity OF cities, national renown
all there is of active, vi gOrous lie-is compre-
bended in the verb ''to do" Not to do IS 10 be
"done."
But hO1c to do ?-Ihat's the question. Every
body is doing, but who are doing well AS
general thing we may answer, those who do right
nome who do wrong. Some Of those who do
right NAV be occasionally overtaken and prosGra-
ted by Observation-Disclosures. While few Of
those who do wrong, by like-miSf0rtune, seem
to do well. From these exceptions to the general
rule men have been induced very foolishy 10 say
that ''Fortune is blind.'' But we utterly reject
the provcrb. 1t originated in a narrow and partial
view Of human nature. Fortune is neither blind
nor coy; but liberal and just, 10 those who edo"
right.
Yet how many come short of ordinary success
in business. Do they do wrong Ave, in ninety
nine cases out of a hundred. Our experience
would enable us to cite innumerabe insta nces in
There are thousands OF men totally unfit for the
business in which they are engaged. There are
other thousands to whom their business is unfit
for Them. There are mUltiIudes who have no tact
for business, and who bIunder along through its
Perpiexities :or few years and finally disappear.
There others who have no knowledge of human
nature, and are forever practising small impositens
wherever thew have a chance, until bad rrpuia-
ton dfuses itself through the public mind to their
ultimate ruin. Out o. these and other infrmities
see the few succeed and the many fail. II is
ne Inability "to do"
Who has not seen a business opened in a given
neighborhnod, OF some peculiar importance to do
mcstc affairs !or example ? Housewives have
looked TO It as welcome convenience. Every
body in the vicinity was prepared TO extend the
hand Of encouragement. Yet the first orders, the
first purchases the first articles made have dis
appointed all expectations, and convinced one at
once that bugler, or at least incompetent man
had come IN and taken the place that would have
proftably occupied the active enterprise Of another.
lie could not GO what he proposed, and a
sequence, every body who confided in him was
done, until he was finally undone. There is not,
perhaps, single reader OF The Sun, in any social
position, who has not some experience OF this sort.
The 06'Itty Ito do" is not all; there must be the
S0W with It. Every man in business must have
the desire To please his customers. The editor OF
a paper whatever indie ndence he may profess,
must be anxious 10 satisfy the public. Ii may
seem an impossible task. Indeed, he OF all men
is mos; freely canvassPd, and most unSParingly
abused. Nevertheless, il he be true man; is
governed by sound principles, and can exercise
his patience with firth, he can submit cherrfully
TO errnc prejudice, assured that time will vindi.
cate the truth Who that can review the career
of The Sun fails 10 call TO mind several occasions
IN which it has labnred in public cause, ad-
verse 10 ID considerable amount of public opinion
But who is there point to the result OF such
all issue, and say that in this thing The Sun was
wrong? Is this vain boasting? Far from il. We
were no; alone ia such opinions. Multudes OF
our fellow citizens conceded with us, and the
TiPAt succeeded a, their hands. Our purpose
was, simple, to do duty, 10 do il accII, and
TO ''dO it with sciH,' confden that in The end
We should CRAFTY as well as serve the public.
la every sphere Of business life there must pre-
vail sincere desire TO pIrRse those with whom
business is transacted. If this is not part of
mans character, he is unfit for business. With
out 1t, he is machine for purposes of traffic
What he does is mechanical, and his interest in
the affair is confined To- himself Such man may
succeed but he does not deserve success.
The only sure and inlalIible rule of business life
Ia 10 uusicTtpi;e what can d0-and TO d0 what
we um,i,/tukc. To DO it lrCH and with aciH.
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