Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-11-07

| loly Ol people going INTO Duslness
they know nothing about. A man makes
fortune in one business; thinks there
is another occupation more comfortable;
goes into it and risks all. Many OF the
commercial establishments OF our cities
are giving their clerks a mercantile
education as thorough as Yale,
or Harvard or Princeton are giving
scientific attainment to the students
matricuated. The reason there are so
many men laundering in business from
year to year, is because their early mer-
camille education was neglected. ASK
those men in high commercial circles
and they will tell you they
Thauk God
for this severe discipline OF their early
clerkship. You can afford to endure the
wilderness march if it is going to end in
the vineyards and orchards Of The prom
ised land.
I But you say: "Will the womanly
clerks in our stores have promotion"
Yes. The time is coming when women
will be rs well paid for their toll in mer-
camille circles as men are now paid Tor
their toll. The time is coming when a
woman will he allowed to do anything
she can 10 well. 1t is only little while
ago when women knew nothing OF tele-
graphy, and they were kept ont OF 4 great
MANY commercial circles where they are
now welcome; and the time will 90 on
| until the woman who, at one counter IN
store, sells S25 600 worth OF goods in
year, will get as high salary as the
! man who at the other counter OF the
same store sells S25, 900 worth OF goods.
| All honor to
Lydia. the Christian saleswoman,
and in passing | may as well say that
Won 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 in the Uni
ted States, physicians have protested
against the habit OF compelling the wo'
marlv clerks in the stores to stand when
| it was not necessary for them to stand.
| Therefore add 10 the protest OF physl-
clans the protest oil the Christian church,
and in the name OF good health and that
| God who has made the womaniy constl-
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 arc
the lawinl regulations OF your establish
ment, and then submit TO them. Every
well-ordtted house has its usages. In
military life, on ships deck, in CONNER
Cial lille there must be order and aiscl-
pline. Those people who do not learn
how to obey will never know how to
command. will tell you what young
man will make ruin tindnciaI and moral;
| it is the young man who thrusts his
thumbs into his vest and says: mo.
| body shall dictate to me; ! am my own
master; ! will not submit 10 the regula-
tions of this house" Between an es-
tablshment in which all the employees
are under thorough discipline 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 aiter the time. Be there
! within two seconds, and let it be two
seconds before, instead OF two seconds
after. Do not think anything too lnsig-
niiicant to DO well. Do not gay, Its
only Just CuCe." From tie most I'M
| partant transaction in commerce down
to the particular style in which you tie
a string around a bundle, obey orders.
| DO not get easily disguised. While
others in the store may lounge or iret or
| complain, you 90 with ready hands, ana
cheerful face and contented spirit to
your work. When the Dugle sounds the
| good soldier asks no questions, but
shoulders his knapsaCk fills his Canteen
| and listens tort command i"March"
| Do not get the idea that your interests
| and those of your employer are autago-
nistic. His success will be your honor.
| His embarrassment will be your delay.
| Expose none OF the frailties Ot the firm.
| Tell no store secrets.
DoNot Bub.
Rebuff those persons who come to find
! out from clerks what ought never be
| known outside the store. DO not be
| among those young men who take on a
mysterious 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 mot
| be among those who imagine they can
build themselves up by pulling some
body else down. Be not ashamed 10 be
a subaltern.
Again, | counsel clerks in this house
| to search out what are the unlawful
and dishonest demands ni an establish
| ment and resist them. In the six thou
sand wears that have passed there has
| never been an occasion when 1t was
ones duty to sin against Cod 1t is
Never Right 10 Do Wrong.
| II the head men OF the firm expect OF
YOU dishonesty, disappoint them. "Oh,'.'
YOU sav, Il should lose my place them
Better lose your place than lose your
soul. Bnt YOU will not lose "our place.
| Christian herOism IS always honored.
| You go TO the head man OF your store
and saw: "Sir, | want to serve you; l
want to oblige yOu it is from no lack oil
industry on my part, but this thing
seems to me to be wrong, and it is 4 su
against my conscience; it 10 SIN
against God, and | beg you, SIR 10
excuse me-" He may flush up and
swear, but he will cool down and he
! will have more admiration lOr you tnan
for those who submit to his evil dictati0n,
and while they sink, you will rise. 10
not, because OF seeming temporary att
vantage. give up your character, young
man. Under God that is the only thing
YOU nave to build %. Give up that and
YOU give up everything. That employ
er asks i young man to hurt himself Tor
time aud for eternity, who expects hlm
to make wrong entry, or change an
invoice, or say goods cost 80 much when
they cost less, OF impose upon the YER
dancv Of q customer, or mlsr"preSrnt
STYLE OF fabric. How dare he demand o'
YOU anything SO insotent' There Is one
style OF temptation that comes on great
many OF our clerks, and that IS upon
those who are engaged in what .S called
Drumming.
Now that occupation is just ~ honor
able as any other, ii it be conducted ia
accord with ones conscience. In thus
dav when there are So many riva!rlcs IN
business, all our commercial establish
ments ought TO have men abroad vino
are seeking out for opportunities 0! me-
chandise. There can lie no objection
10 that. Brt there are pYoiesSed Cans
tian merchants in the week k.nght pray
er meeting who have clerks abroad IN