Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1881-11-03
ArALK To YOUNG MEN.
IGIobe-Democrat.I

a TALK IO YOUNG MEN,
IGlobe-DemocraIl .:
How best can ayoung man succeed In
life? If you can find a subjectof thought
mere important, it would puzzle me to
know what it is Every young man is
inspired with hope Of success To his
young eyes the world looks like fair
city lying before him, in the dim dis
tance, whose best prizes he may win,
and whose most beautiful things he may
possess. :s''s nsh7s1at ac tsa. Ia. =
He looks forward to business and social
success to happy home, and all that
makes that home most dear and sacred
in the Saxon tongue. so
He dreams fair visions of success, nor
doubt nor fear disturb his assurance.
The experience of false and heartless
world have not yet embittered his memo
ries with the meanness and treachery of
human nature. Full of generous inn
pulses, he has not yet learned to look
with suspicion and to charge every act to
seiAsu Calcuiatdous 3 s-r.
#, With untried powers, with the dew of
youth upon his brow, he goes forth to
meet and conquer the world.
But what is success? @a'- @
One man plants his hopes of success in
public life and official position. If gov.
erned by no moral principle he will look
about him to see what party is most
likely to succeed. It is easy to make his
convictions agree with the strongest side
With masters hand he plays with the
passions, prejudices and the Ignorance of
the masses. He assumes to be the de-
fender of their rights, when he cares
nothing for their interests. He pretends
to subserve the public good, when all he
thinks of is his private gains. And thus
he wriggles himself into place and pow
er, and sometimes into the Presidency.
And when he has won his way to power,
he will cody violate most sacred COM
pacts and agreements, and to serve pur-
pose overthrow the very men who placed
him there. -,....
He wins office, but loses his honor,
manliness s.nd. integrity and also those
who might have been his friends. And in
the fierce light that plays around the
high; places Of the nation his old record
will stand revealed. How pitiable to see
how political trickster can climb the
heights where only statesmen have a
right to be. He wins only to slcse. He
gets honor only to receive the contempt
Of mankind.
Young man, beware Of making politics
6. trade. They only truly succeed in life
who cling to honor and principle and
patriotism with. a deathless grasp.
:, Another makes wealth the great object
of his life. If he do this with honor and
noble and just dealing, his wealth will be
sn evidence of success, and noble
voucher for his work. ..5er- .., -
Nothing is weaker than to hear the
preacher condemn money .making. His
very bread depends upon those who have
The thrift to make money. If one by
,meanness, cunning, extortion and exac-
tion obtain his riches, then his wealth
is only an evidence of his life failure.
He gains the wozld but loses his own
soul.
What often seems 50 is not success.
All that good which q young man may
obtain honorably and fairly, the acquisi-
ton Of which benefits himself and others,
I call success g1l.-sz i..r .af
Let no young man seek any employ
ment to which he is not willing to devote
himself wholly and yield up the fairest
years of his life. Acertain concentration
Of mind is the absolute necessity of sue
cess.
A bank clerk should study the laws,
the use and the history of money. He
should master works of finance, and
currency, and coins of all times and
nations.
A young man will never rise beyond a
salary who clings only to the mere rou.
tine of the business he has in hand.
It is better to know one thing well than
half know dozen things. The young
man must appreciate the fact that he
is in world wide awake, where little is
gained by luck, but ever so much by
pluck. You can not stand still. You
must keep STEP If you straggle you are
lost. It is world OF work. Labor is its
everlasting law. ..sYs-i- .a--,...t
If you do not become of use to the
world, the world will have no use for
you. Work il the law of man and the
law of God. Idleness removes every OBJ
stacle to a young mans ruin.
What do you think would become OF
this nation If the necessity of labor were
wholly removed for twelve month? .
Crime, dissipation and ruin, ten fold
worse than war, famine and pestilence,
would sweep over the country like 9
miasma. Labor is Gods great moral
handspring which keeps the worlds
works in order and in motion.
Work is wealth. "Six days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work." is not the
least Of the commandments. q
That young man cruelty deceives him
self who thinks good time consists in
having nothing to depending money
which he has not earned, wasting facul
ties which he ought to improve. Perhaps
he has taken for his model some fas'
young man whose example he is only tot
anxious to initiate, whose. .follies he chris
| tens smartness, whose recklessness HI
looks upon IS manly. He is not goot
| father who leaves sons and q fortune ane
never tells them the secret by which h
made that fortune. sss 81
l. There is a law, almost as sure and Ger
| tain as a mathematical axiom, that in
herited and unearned wealth will no
stay in unfr,litful hands. s .T