Middletown transcript., 1891-07-02

of his own. IF my classical friends
insist on Latin and Greek, / will not
object. But I am not discussing a
college education. To every boy |
say get college education if you can.
The business man is all the more a
man if he has had q college training,
and the college man is all the more q
man if he has lad business training.
| We must put more business into our
education and more education into
our business. There is room for the,
educated business man. ~ s..' =
1 quote Emerson again : Things
are run on business principles. The
counting room maxims are the laws Of
the Universe. The best use of money
| is to pay debts. The right Investment
! is in tools of ones trade 1t is to
spend for power. to invest income !;
the merchant has but one rule, absorb
and invest. Nothing is lost !; the
scraps and filings must be gathered
back into the crucible;; gas and
smoke must be burned and earnings
4 must not go to increase expense, but
to capital again. He must double
and quadruple his capital" u
l. Everywhere the omnipotence OF
thinking men is recognized. Trained
minds come to the front. They COM
pose your committees, direct your
| schools, control your financial institu--
ton, fill places Of public trust. They
represent you or should represent you
| In the halls oflegislation. I am / re-
minded here of the story OF the little
1 girl girl VT who ,warrete wrrette tte3tte to her father urging
him to come out West to live, "lbe-
| cause some mighty mean men get into
Office out here" s. t6 vs5
There ia always room at the tor
and at the bottom, at the. center and
| on the circumference for trained and
cultivated minds. The mind il
everywhere the measure of the man.
| But it must be mind plus culture
Brain without culture Is simply q
motor without power.
The child reaches the age when he
must do something. What? That
! the problem. 1t is q problem that
parent and child alike should study
Parents, don't try to make Of your
children something for which nature
never designed them. Children, fol-
low your bent. Success lies in thai
path, mediocrity or failure in any
other. You will at once see the forct
Of the following quotation |" Selec
that for which you are apt; begin q
the beginning and proceed in ordel
step BY step. nothing omitted, it is d
easy to twist iron anchors and braid
cannon as to braid straw if you tax,
all the steps in order. There is al
ways the best way of doing q thing
fit is only to boil an egg But nc
haste, justice and merit will triumph
: Don't be discouraged if you have te
! work hard. There is no genius lik
| the genius Of hard work. DIR. Dur
yea says, the man of genius is tn
Imam who dips q little deeper into wha
he investigates than another" -aIs'
Industry is genius. Stevenson
worked fifteen years on his locomo.
live, and his neighbors called it i
smoky substitute for Q canal boa'
!, Watt labored thirty years on his con
densing engine. Samuel Morse atrua
gled nine years before the utility 9
the telegraph was demonstrated
J. Solomon De Coste Of Normandy, wa
imprisoned in a mad house because
be tried to convince his neighbors tbs
. ships could be navigated by steam
9 Jacob served twice seven years fe
}, Rachael and it was time we'll spen
Q We speak Of the industry Of the be
}. Did it ever occur to you how indus
trious the bee is? It is said that
; Lrequires the nectar of $4,000 Glove
blossoms and 8,75O,00O visits frol
2 the bees to produce one pound
? honey. ] do not vouch for the trut
of this statement. I have not ha
. time to verify it.
= Prejudice and ignorance have don
!. much to retard progress. Men has
D to struggle for recognition. The
g must meet obstacles. The race
!. antagonistic. Planets are held in the
: orbits by antagonisms. The more OF
position, the more strength. 1t wasn't
: philosopher, but q poor slave who sai
"the more trouble the more lion.
: Men do not convince by their arg
3 ment, but by their personality. b
u what they are. A man alread
9 strong is listened to and every, thin
e he says is applauded. Another o
u poses him with sound arguments, b'
. his arguments are secuted until BY an
n by they get into the mind of som
:, weighty person, then they begin to te
t on the commanity." A-public ofie
1t is o public trust, was uttered lon
e before Mr.. Cleveland made it famou
q Reciprocity as theory has long bee
q taught in our schools, but it require
L the personality Of Mr.. Blaine to mai
:; it popular. ~
IL We are race Of readers. The
l. is said to be 10000 newspapers an
II periodicals in the United State
y They keep US IN touch, with the new
o of the world. We are. governed
e newspapers perhaps this accoun
q for bad government at times. Nap
g leon said he feared three newspape
ot more than hundred thousand me
is We shape our opinions by them, an
(. suppose that is the reason why the
1T are so often questioned. We read Il
papers, Democrats and Republican
h Prohibitionists and Farmers Allan
e. and we get just what we wal
d. We believe just what suits our cas-
J. When ! was q politician I swallow
,- the utterances Of my party organs
1e the truth manfully spoken. Perha
m I expected too much, for when can
i to learn that Democrats are often Ell
IN ployed to write Republican articl
as and vice versa, my faith was weake
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