The Dawson journal., 1883-08-02

Who ever thinks Of the cares that
infest the rich. that rob them of rest,
and that fill them with axniety, more
because of those dependent upon
them than because of themselvesk
And yet these men who stand at
the head of affairs, in banks, in stores,
in factories, in railroads, and in num-
berless other positions of trus', are
our epistles as much as are the men
who march in trades-unions or who
clamor against a fall in wages. This,
society forgets, and yet it deserves
to be remembered, that the helpless
may he helped, the wants of the
needy supplied, energies directed,
and efforts to better ones condition
encouraged 1t is often said that
Christianity and trade do not do well
together. It is beginning to be ap-
parent that trade can not get on
satisfacto rily without Christianity
There is moral law There is a
spiritual realm. 1t surrounds us. 1t
1t is part of us. Violate its laws
and society is dismembered. IF
employers ignore the rights of the
weak and the poor, God becomes
their champion and spoils those who
spoiled them. If the employed
trample upon the rights of employers,
burn, rend, and destroy in their mad
folly, and they are not restrained,
society is robbed of every claim to
respect. An opportunity has come
to unbend. In the past there has
been growing up caste feeling;
workingmen have divided themselves
into classes. These men have acted
as though they lived in wolrd by
themselves, and somehow could man
age and control the business which
devolved upon others.
Suppose men of wealth should
strike. Suppose the owners of rail-
roads should refuse to run them, the
men who handle grain should refuse
to buy it; suppose the men Of wealth
should initiate tho men of poverty.
What would become of us? 1t is a
| fact that man worth millions is un-
der obligations to use the means in
his possession more wisely than the
man who only has his labor to depend
upon. The man with FIVE talents
who used them did wisely, but the
man with one talent who hid it in the
earth did fooishly If men of wealth,
of position, and OF power should
refuse to put forth exertion our cities
would be filed with starving multi
tudes, our farmers would be impov-
erished because of the lack of ability
to exchange their crops for money
necessary to supply the waste ma
chinery; our miners would be out
OF employment, and death and de-
struction would come upon all classes.
The value of commercial integrity
as a source of thrift is overlooked.
There are those who trust to shrewd-
ness and sharpness, and suayity
rather than to honor, honesty, and
uprightness. 1t is a mistake. The
merchants who deal with men as if
they never expected to see them
again, cannot compare with those
who seek to do a safe business by
giving satisfaction as an inducement
to trade on the morrow.
The merchants of France and
italy are not expected to tell the
truth. The resuls is apparent in the
lack of wholesale Establishments
Paris and Rome are not commercial
centres and never can be until truth
fulness and integrity become their
characteristics. The same is true of
men who toll. The man who seeks
to do no more than he agreed 10 do.
who is ever playing sharp and shrewd
with his employer, will not be able
TO compete with the man or men
who make the interest of tLeir en-
ployer their Interests. What is the
secret of your success? asked one
man Of another. my employers
know that l attend to my own bust
ness, and that on quarter day they
get every dollar that is due them -.
Such man is success no matter
where he begins. A man who does
with perfect accurateness and thor
oughness what his hands fnd to do.
what is ordinary and established in
the routine of business, and has al
ways sure and piercing glance
ahead and around, is always sure of
success. In every walk of life there
are certain minutiae which are visible
only to the man of insight and to lie
seized only by the man of tact, but
which are yet the tender, scarce per-
ceptible fiaments leading to fortunes
mines, If you know not how to
seize them. start where you may, the
smiles of fortune may be secured -
Let love be without Discrimination.