Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1870-08-19
HONESTY E.v .VEIU- E.ORM.

a young man who proposed starting in
business in Now York city, made prelm-
mary visit there, armed with letters of in
PRODUCTION to business men. These pro-
sented, and the usual compliments passed.
the New York merchant inquired of young
Boston what he intended to do. "I have
not exactly decided" replied tho young
Puritan, "but I expect TO settle into some
good business in which can get living
honestly" "a living honestly?" "An
honest living" repeated the Bostonian.
"Young man." said the New Yorker, "I
congratulate you; there is not city in the
United States in which you will meet with
so little competition in your method Of do
ing business" Cor. Boston Bulletin.
FRIEND ROBINSON Il cut the above from
your Transcript, adams, Mass.,) and the
statement 1t intends to convey is not tran
script of truth as far as New York, or any
city or town or place in our country is con-
cerned. There is not place in tho world
where honesty bears higher premium, or
where it yields larger dividends than in
New York. There is not city where the
tcgrity, gets along in business better than
here. There is nothing that comes to this
market that pays better in the course of
years than downright, unflinching honesty.
1 know that Wall street is looked. upon as
worse than Sodom, or either of "the cities
of the plain" Since l have resided here,
my business relations have brought me in
to contact with great many Of the bankers
and brokers of Wall street, and by saying
Wall street, mean the streets where bank
ers and brokers "most do congregate," and
from an acquaintance, greater or less, for
thirteen years, 1 do not hesitate to say there
is not in the world q class of men of higher
integrity than the bankers and brokers Of
this city. / do not mean the mere adven-
turers, men without means, without char
acter, without credit, without honor, who
come here, and in the whirl and eddy
"pitch in" for the purpose of swindlng,
but I mean the legitimate business men
here in money and stocks. Here and there
is one who has vontured too far out, and
the current takes him-and he is gone. But
take tho moneyed transactions here every
business day in the year, and then take the
amount of defalcations in the same year,
and they are 80 small that the least fraction
is not small enough to compute the amount
of loss. Among the men engaged in money
and stock operations hore, you will find
very many who are tho highest type of
Christian gentlemen. They are men of the
highest social and intellectual culture; 10y
al, true, patriotic as citizens and devoted In
Sunday and Mission schools, in all Chris
tian societies to the service of "The Mas
ter" Here, such Is the integrity of men
that millions change hands by mere spoken
words no memorandum-no writing
nothing but the word of honor. A mans
check here may be good at Bank for any
amount for which he may draw it; but over
and above his check above his wealth, and
higher and above all is his character. a
few years ago, was one day in banking
house here, whose reputation is world wide,
when party came in with draft of very
considerable amount, and desired to have
an account opened with himself; one of the
firm, now deceased, looked at his draft: {:
"That's all right, sir; but we want city
reference" "Here is my money, sir"
'Nc care HOlHlHB dDOul tIldt, SIR your
character is of more consequence to us than
your money" 1t is character, not money
that was in the end. If he is known to be
"slippery," tricky a man that needs
"watching," he has no passport on account
of his money to the circles in this city,
where honor is the chief ornament of the
man, and intellectual culture the "open Sc
same" to the homes where it is an honor to
be admitted.
know young man who, some six years
ago, when in an iron house in Boston, read
in New York paper, "a Clerk Wanted"
lie answered the advertisement. 1t result
ed in employment here. He came without
money, without friends to push or to aid
him. He came with integrity, with ability,
with perseverance,, with Il determination
"to win" in the battle of life-by doing al
ways what is right-and he is now the man
aging man of corporation of some S3,0OO,-
600 capital; trusted, because he is honest,
and advanced because he has ability.
would say to any young man, come from
what quarter you may, there is nothing
pays in New York like honestly without
| II, don't come here with the hope or belief
that you will succeed in life.
Yours, truly, JAMES y. BRIdGs.
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