The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-10-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY,. OCT. l.

The busy season has at length fairly begun.
A few weeks more and our town will present an
appearance of life and activity to which it has
been a stranger for almost a year. Merchants
and shippers will have their hands full all kinds
of business will revive and business men, whose
chief trouble during the past summer has been
the want of something to do, will be annoyed by
this want no longer. Loaded carts Will rattle
oftener through the streets the sounds OF the
malIet and adze will be louder in the shipyard
and the occasional chink of silver and gold on the
counting room desks will strike pleasantly upon
the ear OF the passer by. The whole city will re-
sonnd with the whirr of business and the hum of
industry.
An industrious people is the characteristic of
every well ordered, progressive community. His
tory teaches US that as long as the powers OF a
people are devoted to the advancement of domestic
interests, as long as the great mass OF citizens as
sist by their own labor to develop the resources
of n country and increase its wealth, so long will
that country continue to advance in the way of
prosperity and civilization. 1t is only when the
baneful disease of idleness creeps among them,
when the possession of a perhaps well earned
wealth induces a large proportion of citizens to
forsake pursuits of labor for the pleasures OF in
glorious ease. that the seeds of national decay
bepin TO take root and shoot forth branches to
the light. What makes a State healthy and Wig
orous and able to exert a controlling influence
over other States, is the industrious disposition
and habits of the people; and while industry
continues to be esteemed necessary to the ENJOY
ment of mutual respect and confidence among its
people. the State cannot but maintain a high
rank among the governments of the world.
What is true in this respect, of States, is true,
in the same respect, of individuals. Industry IS
the great secret of success. A young man who
wishes to get along in life, to win wealth, honor
and the esteem of his fellow men, will find his eff
forts for the attainment of this object vain with
out the aid of that all powerful supporter. The
longer we live the more we are convinced that the
old merchant was right who said to his clerk,
Sc Industry, my lad, is better than ingots of gold,
and character more valuable than credit" In
dustrv secures both the credit and the ingots.
There is nothing like industry to make a good
reputation for a man and to inspire others with
confidence in his integrity and capacity. Poor
Richard said, The sound of your hammer at
FIVE in the morning or nine in the night, heard
by a creditor, makes him easy for six months
longer but if he sees you at a gambling table,
or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should
be at work, he sends for his money the next day."
All great men, whether mechanics, merchants,
LAWYERS or statesmen, have with scarcely an OK
ception won greatness at the price of industry.
When Bulwer began his career as a novelist, he
composed with great difficulty, often writing his
fctions over twice. Untiring labor, however,
placed him at the head of his profession. The
late lamented Judge Lee, one of the most esteemed
and useful men upon these islands, was at the
same time one of the most indefatigable workers.
When Stephen Girard trusted the customer with
out an endorser, who carried his goods home on
his shoulder, the shrewd old Frenchman was act
ing upon the belief that industry makes success
in every branch of business and so it has been,
the world over, frem the days of Demosthenes,
the Athenian orator, down to those of George
Stephenson, the 81 father of English railways'-
al great successes have been the result of great
labors.
How often it is the case that We heaxm men COM
planning of a want of time-they heve ~ time
to do this thing. nor time to do thaEVhe4f
the truth should be known, they hsse . gp~
DIAL more time at their disponl than other PsoP1e
who.-bv the aid Of industrious habits, acconplf4
twics he anount Of work, snd ~ nd leinrs
. ion and enjoym1pf. ACe2t'span o.