Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-10
For the Bullctin.l
Will 1t Pay.

Such is the question that is asked by
business men everywhere before they
invest in any enterprise. Can | invest
with profit, will my money bring me in
big INTEREST,"" If so, there is no longer
a hesitancy in action. Fortunes have
been made in great enterprises of spec
ulative kind, and many run wild to en-
gage in the like, only to realize in the
end a total failure. The accumulation
of dollars is no sure evidence of success.
Boss Tweed, and many a thief, who were
successful men, are proofs OF this.
Think you, that when they were paying
the penalty for the name in which they
had acquired wealth, that they did not
think their lives a failure? Men, in
their greed, often mistake what constl-
tutes success. BY overlooking certain
laws, which must govern real prosperity,
men have rushed into business in which
there was a grand show, only to find
themselves great losers.
Where is the gain, though one makes
money to the destruction of his own
character and soul, or the ruin of his
family? Will it pay? Where is the
profit? One of the laws given to govern
our being here, and which is endorsed
by civilized society, is, Thou shalt not
kill" Now, if any one engage in a kill
ing business, such as selling alcoholic
liquor, by which the peace and comfort
Of families and society, and bodies and
souls of men are destroyed, what is the
real gain, though there be money in it.,
and the dealer is enabled to live in style,
dress his family well, and drive fast
horses? Is it good pay, as he contem-
plates the ruin caused by his trafic?;
the broken constitutions, the poverty,
the half clad and mcager fed children,
men dying with the delirium tremens,
and hurried off to a pauper's grave; and
when justice demands who did all this
wrong, the run seller will be obliged to
say, Il did it For money" Will not his
bones rest hard, though laid in a stately
coffin. the price Of the ruin and blood of
his neighbors.
There is another law given to regulate
our being here, and upon the observance
of which depends our success in a great
measure. It reads: Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" and not
until we can measure arms with the AL
mighty, can individuals set at naught
this command with impunity. 1t is no
wonder that towns struggle along in
their existence, credit gone, and Stunned
by capitalists, when the Sabbath is not
kept. 1t don't pay any where to per-
form common labor on the Lords day,
in violation of all law. 1t is a question
in many minds; will the dairying bus
mess pay?' There is, undoubtedly, mon
ey in that business, and many have made
themselves rich. But, in the way it is
generally conducted, we are not prepared
to say that, in the main, it pays. When
a factory is run on the Sabbath, with all
it's necessary appendages, there are con-
sequences, that necessarily follow, that
are fearful. Statesmen and legislators
have seen it and have wisely guarded
the Sabbath with statutory enactments.
It is no argument in favor of running
the dairy business on the Sabbath, that
there is money in it. AS well claim a
right to cheat, lie or steal, or commit
any other wrong, because in such things