The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-06
INTELLECT VS.. MONEY.
The Ieni and imaginary Sorrows Of Poor
Young Men.

Young Men.
Young men who are employed In
groat establishments, Mt moderate
salaries, often feel discouraged by the
seeming impossibility OF their ever get
ting into business. They argue thus
with themselves, and with us some-
timos In dolorous letters: ITO carry on
this business with effect requires
capital of one hundred thousand dol
lars; how is IL possible for u young fell
low, with salary ofiive or six hundred
dollars year, to save II tenth part OF
that sump" They answer that it is
impossible and hence conclude that 1t
is the unalterablo decree OF fate that
they must remain hireling drudges all
the days of their lives.
This reasoning appears to come home
with whitening power to the minds OF
| young gentlemen who have had the
luck to fall desperately in love with
pretty girls. Out Of every hundred
letters we receive, ut least ten are
| from young men OF ardent feelings and
small incomes, who are dead in love
and have no prospects of an advance,
and who would like to be informed
whether it is the part of wisdom to go
TO South America and make rapid
fortune in the coffee trade, or marry at
home and live in a garret, or lay them-
selves and their sorrows at the bottom
Of their native river. having previously
lied a brick-bat to each wrist; and If
none of these are wise, then what do
we recommends
These ardent youths overlook Il
TACT with which they are perfectly fa-
miliar, namely, that the very men
whom they serve, and whose fortune
seems so unattainable, began life just as
hey are beginning it, at the bottom OF
the ladder. With few well-known
exceptions, all the great factories, COM
mercial firms, newspapers. private
banking-houses, retail stores in the
cities of New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Chicago, Cincinnati and Balti.
more are at this moment owned and
conducted by men who began their Ca
reer in poverty, and whose prospects
during their youth and early manhood
were quite as disheartening as those OF
any of our love-lorn correspondents.
And with regard to that delusive dream
of emigrating to some other State or
country. we can assure our young
friends that the conditions of prosper
ity in every land are the same. The
one source of prosperity, at all times
and in all places, is this: Industry di-
rected By Intelligence.
The real capital of great business
is not money, but intellect. This is
the cornerstone of our political econo-
my. The degree of intelligence with
which business IS conducted is the
measure of its permanent prosperity.
Millions of capital can not save it il
there is a fool in the counting-room
who exercises control. This funda-
mental business truth is not often
acknowledged in SO many words but
it is constantly acted upon in the sure
and rapid promotion Of young men who
show that they possess decided talent
for business. The best head tends up
J ward by a law as sure as gravitation.
That best head may be, to-day, in the
basement, officiating as water-bearel
and errand boy to the packers. We
look in next year, and find him the
foreman of that department; and so he
marches upward through all the gra
dations, until he lands safe and sound
| in the counting-room as junior partner
Though appearances are sometimes
against the remark, it is nevertheless
true that man generally gets on in
life as fast as he becomes fit to be en-
that belong to a superior station. And
: nowhere is this so generally true as il
the business world.-M. Y. Ledger.