The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-07-21
Hiberality i'm Business.

the half cent and never returning cent for
the dollars he has made and is making. Such
a policy is very much like the farmers who
sows three pecks of seed when he ought TO
have sown five, and as a recompense for the
leanness of his soul only gets ten when he
might have got fifteen bushels of grain. Ev
cry body has heard of the proverb of penny
wise and pound foolish" A liberal expend
iture in the way of business is always sure
TO be capital investment. There are peo-
pie in the world who are short-sighted
enough to believe that their interest can be
best promoted by grasping and clinging to
all they can get, and never letting cent
slip through their fingers.
AS a general thing il will be found-other
things being equal--that he who is most lib
eral is most successful in business. Of course
we do not mean it to be inferred that man
should be prodigal in his expenditures but
that he should show to his customers, if he
is trader, or to those whom he may be do
ing business with, that in all his transac-
tions, as we'll as social relations, he aCknOWl-
edges the everlasting fact that there can be
no permanent prosperity or good feeling in
a community where benefits are not recip-
rocal.
We know of instances where traders have
enjoyed the profits of hundreds of dollars
worth of trade, and yet have exhibited not
the slightest disposition to recipr ocate even
to the smallest amount. Now, what must
necessarily follow from such course Why.
the loss of large profits per annum in the
loss of trade, which, under more liberal
system, might have been retained.
The practice of some men seems to be,
to make as little show in the way of bust
ness as possible. Such a one, if trader,
takes no pains with the appearance of his
store. Every thing around him is in worn
out, dilapidated, dirty condition. To have
it otherwise it would cost dollar for white
wash, and perhaps five for Pointing, and a
few dollars besides for cleaning up and put
ting things in order. And so he plods on
and loses hundreds of dollars worth of Gus
tom for the want of attention to these mat
ters, while his more sagacious neighbor,
keeping up with the times, and having an
eye to appearance, does a prosperous bust
ness.
Another will spend no money in any way
10 make business for fear he will not get is
back again. Consequently he sends out no
circulars, distributes no handblls, publishes
no advertisements but sits down croaking
about the hard times--moaning over the fu
ture prospect of notes to pay, no money and
no trade; and comes out just where he
might expect to come--short, while his
neighbour, following in different track, do
ing all that is necessary to be done to make
business, has business isn't short, but has
money to loan and it would be just like
him to get twelve per cent, perhaps more,
for the use of it; and we should not blame
him for doing so. The fact is, times have
changed. The manner of doing business is
different now, from what it used to be. 1t
would be just as foolish to insist upon do
ing business now, in the old fashioned way
asst would be to insist upon travelling with
an ox-team instead of by railroad to get
news by old-fashioned stages instead of hav-
ing it brought by the lightning telegraph.
The times demand men of enlarged liberal
energetic souls-men who will keep up with
the world as it goes men of hearts, too, who
not only desire to 60 ahead themselves, but