The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-01
The Secret of Success.
The Kings of MISREPRESENTATION and
journalism.
New York Letter,


journalism.
New York Letter.
This is the day of regularity and re-
spectability in the trade of art. The
leaders, ieutenants and adjutants even
work hard, wear good clothes. have pol
ished manners, and observe the conven-
tionalities. Oar authors and journal
lists, of the better sort, have no utilization
with wild convivialists, but look on life
seriously and serenely, as something
they should make the most of, however
discouraging the circumstances.
Business men who arrive at attitudes
forswear dissipation. They who have
grown rich, have adopted a system. and
steadily followed it. The veteran Van
derbilt has, from youth up, been as
careful of his health as if he had been
an invalid. He owes his vigorous
eighty years to the exactest observation
of hygienic laws. No heavy dinners,
frequent drinks for him. Without ed
ucation, he has high intelligence, and
wonderful common sense-rarer per-
haps than genius.
A. T.. Stewart has been as regular as
Geneva watch for fifty years. So has
Moses Taylor 80 has George Law; so
has Royal Phelps. So have all these
who hold big purses and exercise I'M
seen power.
The Wall street spectators, reckless
as they seem, if they ride long on the
upper waves, preserve their digestion,
and keep their heads cool. Daniel
Drew would have been buried years
ago, had he not lived absteniously,
and taken innumerable bowls of sun
shine. Jay Gould may not have heart,
though he has stomach, and provides
for it wisely. His brain is worth too
much to him to have it clouded by bill
iousness, dyspepsia, repletion, or shat
tered nerves.
They who live free and fast, like
Leonard jerome, John Tobin, Henry
N. Smith, and A. B. Stockwell, went
| under in due season. Dissipation
compels its followers to pay more usuri.
GUS interest than any Shylock of Broad
street.
| GREAT JOURNALISTS.
Horace Greeley, founder of the Tri.
cesses save those of work. He never
could have accomplished half that be
did, had he not eschewed tobacco
liquor, and the common vices. For many
years he used his brain from ten tc
twelve hours day, and never needed
other stimulant than hearty appetite
for labor, which. to his dying hour
was not appeased.
James Gordon Bennett, who alone
and unaided, created the Herald (mak
ing it the best newspaper property II
the western world out of nothing bu
brains, energy, and pluck, was, in hi
private life, without stain. Constantly
as he was abused and portrayed as {
moral monster, he never owed anybody
dollar never gambled never drank
never was guilty of an intrigue. Al
his faults were professional, and thes,
consisted chiefly in editing his news
paper in the manner that seemed to hin
most effective. he might at time
have been intoxicated with the success
of the Herald, but that was the onl,
intoxication he ever knew.
Henry J. Raymond, the only stronI
man the Times has had, was temporal
in habit, not less than in disposition
Few journalists here have done SO muc
work on a paper, day after day, wee
after week. month after month, as Ray
mond did on his. Unless he had bee
attunsd to moderation, and subject
hygienic laws, he could not have pei
formed the wonderful task of writin
out, as he once did, nine columns an
half of one of Daniel Webster
speeches, at single sitting.
It is the same in journalism as in Liter
allure, art, business, everything. Tn
men who make their mark, who refus
to be borne down, and who, If born
down, come up again, and stay up, ar
the men who do not dlssipate. Their
are brilliant fellows with many vice
who flash like a rocket, but, Like il
they go out in the darkness, and ar
silent forever. Good sense and perse
vsrance out-rank brilliancy, and these
when sustained, demand freedom fror
dissipation. Ethics have a value abov
ethics they are the base and build c
right being. All experience wort
having proves that no sort of permi
nent success can be achieved withou
rigid adherence to moral law.