The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-17

| about. a man makes u IOIluue III one
business, thinks there is another Occu-
! patton more comfortable, goes into 1T
| and sinks all. Many of the commercial
establishments of our cities are giving
/ to their clerks mercantile education as
/ thorough as Yale, or Harvard or Prince
| ton, are giving scientific attainments to
| the students matriculated. The reason
there are so many men tOunderlng In
business from year TO year Is because
their mercantile education was neglect
| ed. Ask these men i'll high commercial
circles, and they will tell you they thank
God for this severe discipline of their
early clerkship. You can afford to en-
dure the wilderness march if it is going
to end in the VINEYARDS and orchards of
the promised land. But you say, "Will
the womanly clerks i'll our stores
have prOmOtiOnp Yes. Time Is
coming when women will be as well
paid for their toll i'll mercantile circles
as men are now paid for their toll. Time
is coming when a woman will be al
lowed to do any thing she can do well.
1t is only little while ago when women
knew nothing of telegraph, and they
were kept out of great many CONNER
cial circles where they are now well
come, and the time will go until the
woman who at one counter in a store
sells $4,000 worth of goods in year
who at the other cOnnter of the same
store sells 5000 worth of goods. ALI
honor to Lydia, the Christian sales
woman. And in passing, may as well
say that you merchants who have female
clerks in your stores ought to treat
them with great courtesy and Kindness.
When they are not positively engaged,
let them sit down. In England and the
United States physicians have protested
clerks in the stores to stand when 1t was
not necessary for them to stand. There
fore, add to the protest of physicians
the protest of the Christian Church, and
in the name of good health and that
God Who has made the wOmanly cOnsti-
tuition more delicate than mans, l de-
mand that you let her sit down.
The second counsel | have to give to
the clerks who are here this evening is
that you seek out what are the lawful
regulations of your establishment, and
then submit it to them. Every we'll
ordered house has its usageS. In mill
tary life, ON ships deck, in commercial
life, there must be order and discipline.
Those people who do not learn how to
obey will never know how to command,
| will tell you what young man will
make ruin, financial and moral; it is the
young man who thTusts his thumbs into
to me; | am my own master; L will not
submit to the regulations of this house."
Between an establishment i'll which all
the employees are under thorough diSci-
pline and the establishment in which
employees do about as they choose is the
difference between success and failure
between rapid accumulation and utter
bankruptcy. Do not come to the store
ten minutes after the time. Be there
within two seconds, and let it be two
seconds before instead of two seconds
after. Do not think anything too lnSlg-
nificant to do well. Do not say, Its !
only Just once" From the most impOr-
tanJ transaction in commerce down to |
the particular style in which you tie a
string around bundle, obey orders.
Do not get easily disgusted. While
others in the store may lounge, or fret
or complain, you go with ready hands
and cheerful face and cOntented spirit
to your work. When the bugle sounds
the good soldier asks no questions, but
shoulders his knapsack, fills his canteen
and listens for command to "March!" Do
not get the idea that your interests and
those of your employer are antagOnistic. ]
His success will be your honor. His
embaTrassments will be your delay. Ex-
pose none of the frailties of the firm. Tell
no store secrets. Do not blab! Rebuff
those persons who come to find out
from clerks what ought be known
outside the store. Do not be among
those young men who take on a mysteri-
Gus air when something is said against
the firm that employs them, as much as
to say; 81 could tell you some things, if
| would; but won't" Do not be among
those who imagine they can build them
selves up by pulling somebody else
down. Be not ashamed to be a subalt-
ern.
Again, counsel clerks in this house
to search out what are the unlawful and
dishonest demands of an establishment,
and resist them. In the six thousand
years that have passed there has never
been an occasion when it was ones duty
to sin against God. 1t is never right to
do wrong. If the head man of the firm
expect of you dishonesty, disappOint
them. "Oh," you say, II should lose my
place then" Better lose your place than
your soul. But you will not lose yOuI
place. Christian herOlsm is always
honOred. You go to the head man of |
your store and say: "Sir, | want to serve
you; want to Oblige you; it is from no
lack of industry on my part, but I.
this thing seems to me to be wrong, /.
and it is a sin against my conscience, it /.
is q sin against God, and | beg you, sir, /
to excuse me-" He may flush up and |
swear, but he will cool down, and he |
will have more admiration for you than |
for those who submit u his evil dicta- |
ton; and while they sink you will rise. |
Do not, because of seeming temporary |
give up your character, |
young man Under God that is the only .
thing you have to build on. Give up /
that, you give up everything. That en- /
plOyer asks a young man to hurt him /
self for time and for eternity who eX- |.
poets to make wrong entry, or change /
an invoice, or say goods cost so much /
when they cost less, or impose upon the /
yeTdancy of customer, or misrepresent |
a style of fabric. How dare he demand |.
of you any thing so insOlent? There is !
one style of temptation that comes on
great many of our clerks, and that is !
upon those who are engaged in !
what is called drumming" Now, |
that occupation is just as honor
able as any other, if it be con-
ducated in accordance with ones con-
science. In this day, when there are so
many riyalries in business, all our COM
mercial establishments ought to have |
men abroad who are seeking out for Op-
pOrtunities of merchandise. There can
be no objection to that. But there are
prOfessed Christian merchants in the
week-night prayer-meeting who have
clerks abroad in New York, conducting
merchants of Cincinnati and Chicago