The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-07
Our Young People
Starting in Business.


The following advice to young
men from business college should
be treasured and practiced by every |
young man in the sonth:
You are soon to go into the busl-
ness world, and we would impress
upon your minds, thus early, this
fact: That the great difference
between men, between the feeble and
the powerful, the great and the in
significant, is energy-invincible de
termination purpose once liked,
and then victory or death! This
quality will do anything that can be
done in this world; and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities,
will make a two legged creature, a
man without it.
The business industries ofthe Uni
ted States present to you advan-
tages in which you may participate
and become active, wealthy bust
ness men. Factories and manufac
turing establishment of every de-
scription and notice are demanding
help. Capitalists are now putting
their money in enterprises under
honest and capable men.
These avenues, with thousands
of others, where millions of dollars
are being managed by honest, enter
prising, ambitious business men,
call loudly for your preparation
and participation. While these OPP
portunities are presenting them
selves to you to make a successful |
start in business and to enter i'm
mediately upon career Of useful
ness and prosperity, the question
will arise, 'am l qualified either to
manage my own business, or that of
an other on true, correct and intelli-
gent principles-so as to cope with
or Receive a favorable recognition
from my constituents" Every
young man that starts out in bust
ness is sanguine of success. The
future, though pregnant with posi-
bilities, has no discouraging effect
upon his mind; he considers him
self fully competent to paddle his
his own canoe, Notwithstanding he
lacks the experience of pilot. He
does not stop to reflect that in the
commercial race he must compete
and come in contact with men who
have grey in business, and know
how to avoid dangers; whereas he
lacks knowledge and practice.
How can a young man start right
in businessY is then the question.
In no other manner than by &C
curing a thorough business educa-
ton. If he be poor young man,
this will supply his lack of capital
and will furnish him the means to
commence business, and if he be
wealthy, it will enable him to re
tain his fortune. However great
may be the experience of others in
commercial transactions, a young
man who has been well trained in a
business college viii not be dis
mayed by it.
In a few months he has learned
what others had to gain by pain
full experience, by losses and mis-
takes of the most grievous charac-
ter. While they have grown old in
the acquisition of the art, he is
young, energetic and ambitious,
ready to cope with any business.
competitor. No young man should
start life without having acquired a
practical business education.
1t is not for the professional
clerk or book keeper alone that
commercial colleges exist. In this
commercial manufacturing nation
every man-the lawyer, physician,
farmer, northumberland even the la
dies, should make themselves ia
miliar with those branches of learn
ing which are taught only in such
Institutions.
If you are able, obtain a business
education at once. 1t is not safe to
neglect it.
An opportunity lost may never
be regained. Many are obligated
to look back on lost opportunities
with regret,
Hon. Edwin L. Freddy says,
housekeeping, business correspon-
dence and their adjuncts, are of es-
sential importance in a mercantile
education. They are now regarded
as such and no deficiency need be
noted. Books have been called the
bridesmaids repeating clock to tell
how he goes on.