Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-31
MAKING HASTE TO BE RICH.

One of the predisposing causes OF the present
monetary trouble is the anxiety to get rich quickly
to find a short cut on the road to fortune, and to
leap into the enj oyment of a competence without
the necessity of struggling and toiling patiently
for it. There have been men, here and there, who
by successful speculations or by the fortuitous
happening of what we cal! 'eood luck" have
found themselves suddenly rich but who can re-
meinber a single instance in which riches thue OBJ
tanned did the possessor any good? Not one,
The man who pushes his way in a hurry to the
possession Of wealth, becomes so wiso in his own
conceit that he soon launches out in to efforts to
get Weather, and ends by failing in all Of them,
and becoming a poorer man than when he began.
The old, p~lodding way is the only sure one. The
following remarks on this subject from the Phila-
delphia Commercial List are to the point:
W must all learn something from the disas-
ters Of the present times. Is not one Of the les
sons this-tha the idea of rushing into wealth on
a credit capital is to be given up? That n mer-
chant may do something more in buying his goods
than spending the money which he has brought
in his pocket has been long admitted. Having =
real basis in his own actual property, he may add
to his stock of goods by purchasinga portion on
trust, in anticipation of his sale CT the same.
Within certain limits, this plan has been account
ed safe and wise. But the notion of doing bust
ness on q great scale, and riding into a fortune in
u few years, on a mere borrowing of money or
credit, without any actual basis of property, is
that which has becrazed the commercial cominuni.
ty and made all the classes of business men wild
and reckless. This pernicious notion we would
drive out, and return TO the old plan of cautious
and safe operations. We should make up oul
minds that to acquire wealth is a gradual work
We must learn to 90 about business steadily ana
patiently, contented if we can, by attention and
industry, make some advance, and. along with dill
gence in our business, enjoy some leisure fol
higher and better things. 1t is by no means nee
essary to be rich at all and it is certainly pre-
posterous to expect to become so in u day.
The man who has aimed ut sudden wealth, and
falls back unsuccessful and bankrupt, has terrible
trials to bear, which he would never have known
in q uniform course of cautious industry. Excep'
that such a downfall may revolutionize his whole
view of wealth as the great object of pursuit, and
so secure great moral improvement, the fall is
worse than mover to have risen. His style of living
must suffer violent change his family must be
mortified, his own mind narrowed and, perhaps
permanently soured. That progress which woulc
have fully satisfied him, had he never known {
reckless driving, now seems tame. Slow bushes;
is dull to him, and moderate life is uninteresting
Tie sudden reverse may, in some cases, be mos
happy in it Christening influence but the henef
comes through suffering. In many cases it leads tt
abandonment of all effort, and to intemperanc,
and Indebtedness. Far better to begin as on,
can hold out. We cannot borrow d~aringly anC
be reasonably safe. We cannot initiate the advan
tages of wealth by a fictitious system. We mus
''hasten slowly.