The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-05
How Stands the Record2

Inc importance of q good record was
most wildly illustrated in talk on the
cars, between one of our w. C. T. u.
workers and prominent business man
of large Southwestern city. He said:
You ladies may find encouragement
in the fact that, contrary to the custom
In former years, one of the first ques-
tions now, when a Louisville firm
would engage young man to work. is
this: Does he drinbF Total abstain
ers are at a high premium, | can as
sure you. Another fact that helps the
Temperance cause, is the constantly
improved facilities we have for finding
out mans record in his own home.
For instance: ''0ur firm is in the shoe
business, and we have ten men on the
road as drummers. Suppose one of
them sends us the name of John Smith,
OF Smith6eld, as customer. We have
three ways of finding out how that
man stands. We have access to the
private books of BradStreet and r. G.
Dun & Co.'S business agency, where
every mans State and standing can be
ascertaned at once. We also instruct
our travelling clerk to get the facts
about him from the books of record of
the county, always open to public in
spection. If he has title deeds, thew
are recorded there; if his property is
mortgaged, that can be ascertained.
Our agent also inquiries among other
business men of the town where the
stranger lives. Suppose we learn from
these sources and from Dun's and Brad
streets books, something like this:
John Smith, aged thirty, is married,
owns his home free of mortgage, meets
his engagements, never drinks intoxi-
eating liquors" that settles the case;
we put him on our books, and send him
goods on credit. But suppose we get
this instead: John Smith. aged thirty,
rents, mortgage on goods, drinks
that settles his case. We want no fur
ther proof that he's worthless as Gus
toner"
The value of a record-how sharply
it stands out in the light of these hard
business facts! All earth as well as
Heaven conspires to help the man who
helps himself. His is the "frictionless
way" He ties the laws of nature and
the supernatural to his chariot wheels;
why shouldn't he succeed? Our recordi
1t is our foreshadowed destiny, 1.-THE
substance of things hoped for, the evil
dence of things not seen. :" Science
brings to focus its vivid light upon us
in these days by postal route and tele-
graph, and we can hardly now escape
our record more than we could if the
Judgment throne were set.
Boss Tweed hides away in Spain,
where q stray cartoon of Nast's reveals
his true inwardness, and he is remand
ed back to New York and the Toombs.
A defaulting clerk outrages the con-
tidence of those good Christian bankers,
Preston, Kean & Co., Chicago, and the
last photograph, whose negative he
could but leave behind him, establishes
his identity away down in an obscure
province Of South America. A rascal
ly young Russian steals twelve thou
sand dollars from his employer in Mos
COW, and is arrested the day after he
arrives in New York. Surely this
world at least has no place of rest for
the transgressor. Crazed by drink are
three-fourths of those who transgress.
Away, then, with drink in the interests
of all legitimate trade and successful
business. Most of all away with it in
the interest of mans record Here and
Beyond. = Union Signal.