Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-02-18
A Parable for Business Men.


There was once upon time q mao who
kept q store and sold goods wholesale and
retail.
And be became melancholy, because
customers were shy aud times were hard.
And be said: Lol | am ruined, and the
sensation is disagreeabIe.
And my ruin is the more painful TO bear,
because it is slow 10 progress, even as wa.
ter doth gradually become hotter in the
pot wherein the lobster boileth, until the
crustaceous creature shrieketh out bis soul
in anguish.
Lo! it is better 10 be ruined quickly
than to endure this slow torture.
l will give my money away 10 the poor
man even to the poorest, which is he
who printeth newspapers, and | will shut
up my shop and wrap myself in tie sack
cloth Of desoiation, and pass my days iD
the purlieus Of broken banks, eursiDg the
hardness Of the times and rendiDg my gar
nents.
And the bowlings Of Rome shall be as
the dulcet sound Of dulcimers, and they
who blow the flutes and instruments Of
music, compared TO the din | will make in
the ears Of the wicked-eyen in the ears
of the bank directors.
And even as be said, so did he; for be
was not like other meu's sons who are fool
ish and know it not, aud they say they
will do so and SO, performing that which
is contrary.
For the sons Of men are tickle, and be
that is born of woman doth spite his face
by diminishing the lesgth Of the nose
thereof.
And 10! the printer-even he who did
publish newspapers-was made glad by
the bounty Of him who sold Wholesale aud
retail; and ne did sound his praises and
print them moreover, and did blow the
trumpet Of fame respecting that mans
dealings from the rising Of the sun even
to the going down Of the same.
| And he-even the printer Of papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stock
of goods which the trader had in his store,
and did publish the variety and the excel
lence, and the beauty, and the che'pnes'
thereof till the people-yea! all of them
far and near, were amazed.
And they said, 10! this man hath gath
cred from the east and the west costly mer
chandize and wares Of wondrous value
even the workmanship of cunning artif
fcers-and we knew il not.
Go to, then. We will lay out our silve
. and our gold in those things which tn
printer printed Of, and that which he dotl
publish shall be ours. For this man } mer
chaudze is better than the bank notes o
those who promise to pay, and therein lie
even banks of deposit which beguile us o
our money and swinde lis like sin.
5 But that trader was still sad, and b
. said, the money that these people brinl
me for the goods in my store will stiI
give to the printer, and thus will | rui
, myself; | will do that which no mau hat
Q yet done in my time or before me. wi
make the printer man, whom all men scor
for his poverty, rich and he shall be clad j
fine linen, and shall rejoice.
And The sons of men shall meet him j
t the market place, and the sheriff shall shu
! him, and the scotlers shall be rebuked, an
shall take off their hats to him that Wa
poor
J. And lie shall flash the dollars in the eye
of the foolish and shall eat bank note sanC
s wiches.
f Yea, even shall lie light his pipe wit
:. railroad scrip and cast his spittle on tt
boards of other men.
9 For l will ruin myself, and he who &C
vertises me shall enjoy my substance.
!. But 10! the trading man-even he WI
o sold merchandise become rich, and even
Q the unclean beast lieth in the mire, so sti
= red be not by reason of much gold.
: And the people aocked to bis store fro
the North.
s And from the South.
" And from the East.
is And from the West.
Il And the printer rejocel, and his phi
n did abound.
I But tie trader could not become pooI
"a and his melancholy ceased, and the smil
of happiness were upon his face.
And bis children did become mighty
y - the land by reason of the dollars whit
= !; many of the people who read his adye
:, :. tisemeuts had poured into the tradeI
r. money bags.