New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-13
NOT SEEING rs BELIEVIYG.

In the light OF recent disclosures IL appears II
Won want TO sell anything the way 10 accomplish
II IL TO shut IL up in q burglar-proof room, look
mvsterious and name your own price. In fact
even II you haven't anything TO sell, just lock up
the air that naturally flows into your fortified
room and 20 ahead with the sale. Mr.. heely, OF
Philadelphia was the first 10 make use OF tins
MAN; Il remained for Professor Freund' oil
Michigan 10 bying il TO It's highest perfection You
drop your money in the slot and watch the man
put ID IN his pocket
There arc thousands OF men in this country
struggling along In the old-fashioned way, show
ing what they have for sale and barely making
living who ought 10 learn valuable lesson rom
the career OF Kelly and Freund. Those humble
hut Industrious tradesmen for instance, who stand
M the corner Of Broadway and Vcsey-st ana ese-
where IN the city. selling shoestrngs ought TO
take hint, among others lhey nave grea'
deal NOR, 70 offer than has Kcely or had Freund
still the amount Of money the shoestrng swhgerS
make when placed alongside of that piled up by
tho locked room artists is so small as be in
visible TO the unaided eye. They should lock up
their strings and form stock company. There
arc great many persons who have come up and
mt their heads in the halers and asked Mr. Keely
or Professor Freund 70 lead them to the slaughter
who would be glad IL they had good cotton shoe
string with tin ends on 20 show for their money
Tho difference in the various ways which men
tal,e 20 make their living is very marked-end
seems 20 be getting more One man will set ny
an apple stand on busy corner and by buying
nppes at two cents apiece and selling them at three,
and working hard and practising close economy,
manages 20 make living; another man puts q
secret machine in O back room and sells stock TO
the acute Yankee and the cool, calm, calculating
Liverpool Englishman. This, OF course argues
nothing against honesty from moral point OF
view, but il does seem 20 throw discredit on the
old proverb about honesty being the best policy.
II YOU are intending 10 be honest simply because
you consider it the best policy, don't do 10; buy
little secondhand machinery and tell people that
after they get all their money paid in you will ex
plain 20 them what IL is.
ANY one who will look calmly at this matter o
moment will instantly that scarcely a start
has been made The possibilities for making
| money with such plans rs these seem absolutely
limitless One man has set up motor. another a
sugar refinery the field practically lies untitled
before the enterprisng young man. MIR. Kelly
must feel about these things as did Sir Isaac New
ton about sciences that he has been only like q
boy playing on the seashore while the great ocean
lies ali undiscovered before him. But others viii
arise in the land Some day man will come
who will look wise and darlSy point over his
shoulder with his thumb at q locked room and tell
no he has an improved plan for gathering grapes
| from thorns; and we shall buy his stock. And
| also there will appear man in Philadelphia with
dark room and some crazy machinery for harvest
ing FIGS from thistes; and we shall support him
fifteen or twenty years Likewise there viii
come TO us from interior Michigan man who will
rent an old warehouse in Brooklyn and put in a
plant for carrying on a secret but valuable process
for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers; and he
will fatter on us till he dies and then leave the
scheme TO his heirs and shall take care of them
for generation or two-we and our hard-headed,
practical British friends In Liverpool