Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-15
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
The Kings OfTrade, Speculation and
Journalism.

The Kings OF Trade, Speculation and
journalism.
New York Correspondence Of the Chicago
Times,
This is the day Of regularity and re-
spectability in the the trade Of art. Tbs
leaders, the ieutenants and aGjutants evan
work hard, wear good clothes, have p0iisE
ed manners, and observe the convention
alities. Our authors ald journalists, Of
the better sort, have no atiiiatiOn with
wild cOn7iyialists, but look on life serious
ly and serenely, as something they should
make the most Of, however disc .Uraging
the circumstances.
Business men who arrive az attitudes
forswear dissipation. They who have
grown rich, have adopted a system, and
steadily followed il. The veteran Wander
bilt 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, no late suppers, 10 unseem-
ly hours, no frequent drinks for him.
Without education, he has high intelli-
genGe, and wonderful common sense-rarer
perhaps than genius.
A. L. Stewart has been rs regular as a
Geneva watch for fifty years. So has Moses
Taylor; so has GecTge Law; so has Roy
al Phelps. So have all these who hold big
purses and exercise unseen power.
The Wall street specul9t9rs 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 ab-
stemiOusly, and taken innumerable bowls Of
sunshine. Jay Gould may not have a
heart, though he has a stomach, and pro-
vides for il wisely. His brain is worth TO
much to him to have it clOuded by bilious
ness, dyspepsia, repletiOn, shattered nerves.
They who live free and fast, like Leon
ard Jerome, John TObin, Henry y. Smith,
and A. B. StOckwell, went under in due
season. Dissipation c0mpels its followers
10 pay more usuriOus interest than any
ShylOck Of Broad street.
GREAT JOURNALISTS.
Horace Greeley, founder Ofthe Tribune, was
always an avOider Of all excesses save those
of work. He never could have accomplish
ed half that be did, had he not eschewed
tobacco, liquor, and the common vices.
For many years he used his brain from ten
to twelve hours a day, and never needed
other stimulant than a hearty appetite for
labor, which, to his dying hour, was not
appeased.
James Gordon Bennett, who alone and
unaided, created the Herald (makiug it
the best newspaper property in the West
ern World out Of nothing but brains, en-
ergy, and pluck, was, in his private life,
without stain. Constantly as he was abused
and portrayed as a moral monster, he never
owed anybody a dollar; never qambled;
never drank; never was guilty Of IN intrigue.
All his faults were professional, and these
consisted chieIiy in editing his newspaper
in the manner that seemed to him most ef-
feCtiye. He might al times have been in
tOxicated with the success Of the Herald,
but that was the only intCxicatiOn be ever
knew.
Henry ]. Raymond, the only strong man
the Times has had, was temperate in habit.
not less than in disposition. Few journal
lists here have done so much work on pa
per, day after day, week after week, month
after month, as Raymond did on his. IN
less he had been attuued 20 moderation,
and subject TO hygienic laws, he could no,
lave performed the wonderful task Of
writing out, as he once did, nine columns
and a half of one of Daniel Websters
speeches, at a single sitting.
J. is the same in journalism as ia itera-
ture, art, business, everything. The men
who make their mark, vino refuse to be
borne down, and who, if borne down, come
up again, and stay up, are the men who do
not dissipate. There are brilliant fellows
with many vices whoafash like a rocket.
but, like it, they 60 out in the darkness,
and are silent forever. Good sense and
Out-rank bri.liGncy, and these,
when sustained, demand freedom from dis
sipatiOn. Ethics have a value above ethics; /
they are the base and build Cf right being.
All experience worth having proves that
no sort Of permanent aucless can be
achieved without rigid adherence to moral
law.