The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-01-21
Honesty Pays.


II must be confessed that the difficulties
of doing good, square business in good,
thorough, square style are becoming great
er and harder than ever to combat Hon.
est and honorable competition has given
way largely to series Of petty shifts to
gain mean advantage, and the business
man has often to encounter bold and un-
scrupulous lying among his rivals. If
young In business and needy he must solic-
1t favors from men he despises and have
transactions with others whom otherwise
he would scorn 10 associate with that il is
a matter Of difficulty to be his plain, hon.
est self; but it seems as If he must 60 on
the Exchange or into the business world
with set of actions, prctenses, and even
expressions that does not belong TO him
but is assumed for that particular purpose,
and all too often the assumption gradually
abs6rbs other and better qualities Of mind
and heart and becomes his real character.
Is he disposed to sell pure and unadul-
terated goods, he finds his rival taking
away his trade by an inferior article, of.
cred at lower price, but affirmed 10 be
its equal in every particular; does he do
his work faithfully and Use the best ma
terial9, he finds himself underbid by
skilfull competitor who cunningly works
in inferior material with careless labor
and, worst of all, the buyers will give the
cheap bidder, even when the quality of
goods and labor aro suspected, reader
hearing.
Then what an immense advantage the
squarely dishonest man of to-day possesses; /;
he who does not mean TO pay, who buys
on credit without capital, and contents
himself with mere fractional profit, or
no profit at all, making failure, and be-
ing considered rather honest because he
pays 80 cents on the dollar 10 hiscreditors; /;
creditors who allow him TO go on with his
stock of goods in direct competition with
the honorable men on the other side of the
street, selling the selfsame goods bought
Of them at the self.same first price, which
they expect the solvent party TO pay in full
for. Does he originate popular article,
a method in business, or any invention
tha, promises profit, let him be prepared
for imitators who boldly Claim his ideas
tor their own, and others who will dub a
worthless article with the title be has orig.
mated and thereby bring the name into
disrepute.
We know that this keen race to be rich,
in the fierce struggle for the advance in
the fight for success, II will be said that
every man who enters the business field
must expect the above TO be the rule and
not the exception, and the amount OF praise
given to smart rascals, and the knowledge
that the worlds first question is not how a
man got his money, but has he got II,
would seem TO endorse this conclusion.
But in spite of all this, men have proved
that II pays TO combat all these obstacles,
which are principally efforts for a short
road to wealth, and stick TO sterling, stur.
dy, old.fashioned honesty in trade, which
tells in the long run, Notwithstanding it
may take a long run to make 1t tell But
there is large class that will pay for ii
and pay handsomely; hence, though conf.
dence may he OF small growth, the labor
of rightly acquiring il proves its value, so
that, besides the conscientious satisfaction
enjoyed in the possession, it will be ac'
knowledged, even as a business move,
that honesty is the best policy."-[ Boston
Commercial Bulletin.