, 1891-10-29
EVERY ONE MAY BE RICH
ACCORDING TO HENRY cLEwS WE
CAN ALL BE MlLLloNAIRES.

Absurd Attitude of tho Newspaper
Laborers from Canada.
Heary Clews, the New York banker.
has contributed an article to The La,
dies Home journal on the subject o.
money making. AS Mr.. Clews is a many
times millionaire he is generally accept
ed as an authority on this subject. Just
to show what stuff and nonsense some
of the fellows who claim that every man
has an equal show in this country at.
tempt to palm off for wisdom upon an
unsophisticated public l make a few x
cerpts from the aforesaid article:
1t does not require n genius to make money.
The accumulation OF wealth Is, after all, an
easy matter. IL does not require education,
breeding or gentle manners, and certainly luck
has nothing to do with II. Any man or woman
may become wealthy II he or she begins Alright.
The opportunities for gathering the nlmbls
dollar are very numerous in this country.
1t is rather odd that it should be so
easy to acquire wealth while millions Of
industrious and frugal men and women
find it 81 difficult to get barely enough
to keep soul and body together. AS to
luck" no one has ever fully and salts
f~actorily defined that term; but taking
IL 70 mean WLht ID USUALLY CCtpbtu US
it's significance, / unhesitatingly declare
that of all the enormously wealthy men
in this country only some of those who
have become so through 'luck" can sue
c~essfully defend themselves against the
charge of robbery. Men who have be-
come rich through lucky strikes in
mines which they themselves have dis
covered, who have paid fair wages and
been honest, may claim that they have
obtained their wealth without directly
robbing others. Inventors may also be-
long to this class; but where riches have
been acquired through ordinary business
channels the probabilities are that the
possessor has something which others
have produced and for which they did
not receive a fair equivalent.
But let us see what the next para
graph in this very wise bankers article
says:
TIL nrst step to acquiring n fortune lies In
hard work. could give you no better advice
than that given by Poor Richard, Save some
thing each day no matter how little you earni"
Cultivate thrifty habits. Make your toll count
for all that you can. Always save some por-
ton of your wages and then DO on the alert
~ - I'1 - hAHR "AoSAN 1NNA
money will begin to accumulate. double, treble,
and In q few years, perhaps, you may be a mil
nonaire-
Without desiring to show d~isrespect
for the memory of Poor Richard" |
must say he uttered some very foolish
things. There are days in the lives Of
some poor people when, if they tried to
save something out Of their earnings, it
would mean starvation. And Mr.. Clews
could find without much difficulty thou
sands upon thousands of men who have
been doing nothing but hard work all
their lives and have eve got beyond
what he calls the first step. As to be-
coming "~millionaires in a few years"
they would be happy if they could feel
at ease concerning the future; if they
could know that those dependent upon
them would always have the ordinary
necessities of life.
1t is probably true that many Of the
great fortunes Of today have been built
up without any serious violations of the
law; the system under which we live
has not only permitted but a~pplauded
what has come to be looked upon as
''legalized robbery" But there are GER
tain laws, not man-made, which have
been ruthlessly trampled upon. Some
OF these are embodied in a paragraph of
Mr.. Clews' recipe for getting rich.
Read it:
BE brave. DO generous, be hclpfnl. be honest,
do not overwork, keep in good health, Guilt
vate your mind, be pure, and to these add
thrift, and you need not fear. You cannot fail
Start 1000 poor boys out to fully live
up to the foregoing and have them all
boycotted by 'fluck," and every one of
them will die paupers. / mean just
that, and II you will carefully consider
what 1t means for n poor man to be
brave, generous, helpful and honest"
in this world you will agree with me.
II Mr.. Clews Is a sample rich man and
his article in The Ladies' Home Journal
an average of the product of his intellect,
1t will not be hard to believe that genius
and education are not required to make
money" The children in the slums may
cheer up and look bright, for Mr.. Clews
declares that cit is not a long step from
the child's savings bank in the playroom
to the ~millionaire's bank account. 1t is
a short and easy span" OF course the
dirty little starvelings who haven't the
savings bank in the playroom are not in
it, although the big banker says "any
one may become wealthy" That is the
kind of stuff the men who are put out to
combat the statements of laboring men
generally produce.
The final action of the eight hour ques.
ton Of the Trades Union congress at
Newcastle, England, has caused consid.
cradle comment in the papers on both
sides Of the Atlantic. In the congress
last year a resolution was adopted which
resulted in the introduction of a bill in
parliament to establish the eight hour
day in all trades. The recent congress,
took a view somewhat more conserva
tive, and early in the session adopted al
amendment to the effect that the eighI
hour day ought not to be enforced in any
trade without the consent of two-thirdi
of its members. Later in the convention
this amendment was changed To one de
handing that the law be made genera
and enforced except in trcdes where
majority Of the organized members pro
test by n ballot vote against it. TIL
press pretty generally objects to the las
amendment, because it substituted trad
option to object for trade option to adoI
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