The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-07-06
HOW 70 GET RICHl


Poverty end shame shall Be % him that Rs.ssh In.
structicn: but he that RsgaEdsth RsFpess sAsn be
Honorsd--PsesHAs.. sAAP- ~. sssss u. --------
What o pitiabls object il that man who
has not one dollar ahead in the world-nOt
eusss one dollar Gracious Heavens How
sorry feel for such man. Poor fellow,
he is miserably dependent on the passing
circumstances of the hour, and may become
a beggar at ut any moment. Think Of
that Therefore he don't know the feel
ings of true manhood at all But when q
man has saved up some money, and knows
he has enough, in case Of need or sickness,
to support him the rest of life, how like .
man he feels to be sure See how erect
he walks along the street No beggar
that, | can tell you He feels independence
thrilling IL his reis.s. He walks like a man.
He talks like man. He looks You in the
face like man. God be praised there are
some such men in the world Ind Oh.
ho,c good they do feel, to be sure!
Now / believe all men would like TO
feel 50 too but they don't seem 70 know
how 10 20 70 work Some think they
are poor, because Fortune don't favor
them. Some think it's n great secret
how to get rich, and only q few can
learn it. Al Bosh! Some think if they
were not married they could do Letter
Some think their wages are too little t.
save from. Some think 81 IS better 10
ENJOY life ,chle they oan, and 50 spend
all they get. Some think they have no
talent for making money, and tell you it
is not born in them-for none of their
family ever did get rich. And 80 there
are thousand bad reasons for neper try
ing that everybody knows and scarcely
one reason, that anybody knows, for
trying. Thus, many people remain poor
all through life, simply because they never
try to get out of poverty. Wonderful
Is it not reader But it's great folly
to be poor and can tell you reader, the
secret Of getting rich, for | learned it by
experiment. It's found in one single,
simple word, of four little letters :
SAVE.
Poh Poh you say, that's no news
to us. We all knew that before. Fool
You did not know it-becattse your poor,
What folly to say you knew it. You
could not now be poor had you really
known this truth.
Ha Ha! The best proof in the
world you did not know it. l have no
doubt you Thought you knew it. But
facts Facts only are patent in this life.
What think you of a man who tells you
black is white What think you Of
poor man who says he knoUs hoc 20 get
yet stays poory What think
we of man who lells us that he knows q
thing, which all his acts in life prove that
he does not knowl
No man has any business to be poor,
and he has less reason still to charge his
poverty all to Fortune. It's his own fault
solely and singly, nothing more or less
his own blindness, ignorance and self-sur-
render to indulgence of the hour.
If the Fairest Praise Belongs to Him
who Elevates Himself TO Usefulness and
Power to do Good how much Blame and
Shame to him that, like a Beast, grows
Nothing more than Fat, from Day to Day
TO SAVE is absolutely the only ,rdy to
make a solid fortune. There il no other
certain mode ON earth. Those who shut
their eyes and ears TO these plain facts, will
be forever poor; and for their obstinate
rejection of the truth, mayhap will die in
rags and filth. Let them 50 die, and thank
But no They take q sort
Of recompense in cursing Fortune. Great
waste of breath They might As well curse
and eternal hills. For can
tell them Fortune does not gi~ a,nay her
--~l .~sAA snhstantiel saad.- ST. -~1a- e'scru
10 the highest bidder, to the hardest, tclsest
,cOrker for the boon. Men never make 50
fatal a mistake as when they think they
are mere creatures Of a fate; tbs the sheer
est folly in the warld Each man may
u AXE or mar his life, whichever he may
choose. Fortune il for those who by DIE
gence, Honesty aud F,1gdlity, place them
selves in position to grasp hold Of For
time when it appears in view The best
evidence of Diligence il the sound of the
hammer in your shop, at five o'clock in
the morning. The best evidence of Frn-
qalitu is FIVE hundred dollars, or more,
standing in your name at the Savings
Bank The best evidences Of HoResst are
both diligence and frugality, for these
prove stealing illogical
True it is that fortune sometimes ls
acquired by sudden tide of speculation, or
NAV be by inheritance. But does not all
experience all history, and all stories show
such fortunes are not solid They fritter
fast away, or prove a curse Of life 20 the
recipient. They are but mansions built
on sand tottering, crumbllng airy moth
ings-and when they fall, great Is the
crash, and all that's left a pile of dirt and
rubbish. SAVE SAVE! SAVE! (!
These words are Fortunes firm foundation
stones. solid, lasting, sure,-deep down in
the soil. Look around the world, and
satisfy yourself, and you will find that
many wears of SdrinJ made the rich men
rich and that one year Of spending often
makes men poor.
Ask the men of fortune, and they will
tell YOU Just the same. Don't 60 to poor
men for advice and truth on this subject.
What do poor men know about land
thew never travelled inl IL you ask them,
they'll lead you backward to the depth OF
lasting error. Look around you now are
not the rich men Of to-day, the sons OF
poor men of forty years ago! What made
them sol
Now, friends, the simple truth is this
all men know provided they know any
thing) that they never can get rich while
spending all they earn. This is . self-evl,
dent fact, like twice two is four-and
needs no proof. If a man makes ten
thousand dollars year, and does not stu'
a cent. he never will be a rich man. Ii h'
makes but one thousand dollars, and savei
500 each year, he viii be rich. Me1
must be aware of this fact, and yet will
eyes wide omen. in the very noosa-dn,
food OF light, they make the choice o
pouertu, and this they do because they ar
un,cillinq to deny themselves some little pres
ent gratvication for great future gOod
In other words they show themselves to b
animals instead Of men, for this is jus
what hogs and oxen do. Filling thei
bellies no,c, they have no thought for tn
future. Is it a wonder, then, that men q
otter rot in novels afterwards Not {
With the prudent squirrel, for he lays u
winter store Of nuts. But ninety-fiv
men out Of every one hundred, born ini
this world, exhibit less SagAcity here, tbs
the little squirrel. Squirrels never be-
J or rot and die in hovels. What . Love
comment this, on God-like man. Bal
} Shame on us!
LET US SEEl
Two glasses less Of beer q day, wou
{ equal Ten Cents sared Two rides less IN
car day, equals Ten Cents Saued. Coff
: "a muddy slops which God nsreE. made I
human kidnsys e tsss y. ~ ~, tor t MOVIE n, :,
: from, at home, viii tOut, ana no n. money r'
! and longer lease Of glofisc@s.;on rs@ ~ % th.t
Indeed, . thonaand thing, ave the
know. Of himself, each passing NO. On,