St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-29


His sphere is contracted one. The
financial world is too big majority to
overcome. and lie is simply quoted as
one of the Cheeryble Bros. who made
money, but were scandalously unbusi-
nesslike.
He is satisfied to have made his for
tupe, to have its humble and inauspi
ciouS commencement told to his credit,
and he is not disposed to Cypress any
one with it-least of all in self-glOrifica-
ton.
His antipode is The hard. successful
man OF business vino expands with i'm
portance as he dilates upon heaped-up
recital of all the low and revolving tasks
Of his early seryitude to wealth. with
the-behold-me look of an unexampled
growth out of the abundant muck at the
start.
He would have it proclaimed loudly
that his hard knocks OH the way up to
where he stands are the only salutary
things to remember, and he would make
his experience binding on every one
who presumed to business success.
This Is the type of the multtudes in
business, most 10 be dreaded and
avoided by sensitive people who have
no emulation CT that sort of business.
and who i'll their secret CONSCIOUSNESS
cherish an adherence of it chiefly be-
cause of the strident spokesman it I'M
leashes i'll full cry" OH a defenseeSs
set of mortals outside of the communion
| of wealth.
Oh, the potrifying advice this type of
the business man can give to young
fellow beginning the world, with an as
surance Of condescenSion that beggarS
description 1t is redolent of the pirate
booksellers recommendation in Hoods
"Tylney Hall" to reduced gentleman
from the university to rise from nothing
as he. the pirate, did, and go round 10
the churches and see whether there's
an opening and begin by being beadle.
In fact, nothing can be more useless
and dlspiriting than any appeal to such
person; and the menbrance of hay-
ing made it always heats the blood with
shame, not at the futility of the expecta-
ton. but the humiliation of having been
3 target for the insufferable egOtism of
Sordid success.
Even as electrocution has in measure
superseded the coarse old custom of
hanging, so is the former proceeding of
binding over youth to some trade or
business for term of years merged in
modern mysterious bondage beside
which the old serYitude was all honor
able yoke.
Modern business encourages and sus-
tains the putting of clerks under bonds
for the honest discharge of duty, and
surety companies Issue bonds of indem-
nifty, whereby, in default, business in
terests are protected, and for which the
employe signs himself and his near
relatives into the most comprehensive
surveillance ever known indefinitely.
although the assurance is emphasized
that 1.-THE Information will be treated as
strictly confidential
The clerk may be getting $50 or 500
month, but with it he is receiving the
closest consideration of company or.
ganiZed to make sure of his honesty in
cabined, criDbed and confined situd-
ton where he could not purloin post
age stamp rs beginning to gorgeous
temptation, were he as thievishly smart
as the late Henry S. Ives.
If the clerk is cynical he must be
snrnrised at the amount Of Watching
he and the like OF him seem to need
Muen they are securely vaccinated
against money, and cannot possibly take
it, while those in high positions are
never under espionage, and funds
81, hnu hn DF
Without much effort memory recalls a
few instances where the stealing of the
head men quite Scares the underings,
and then elates them if they hope for
promotions to such positions. J. C.
Duncan, bank president, San Francisco,
stole S750,000; Stephen Wardwell,
cashier of Commercial bank. Provi-
dence, r. l., $4,000; John c. Tracy,
bank president. Hartford. Conn, falsi-
fication of accounts to the extent of
100000, and D. d. Spencer. Chicago,
100000.
1t is the minnows that need watching,
the sharks are privileged. The infer
ence is a bitter one for the young man
who must sign an arbitrary document
giving information that as a free being
he should resist, yet which must be
done. or he forfeits his place.
Men have been detected in sweat
ing down sovereigns by hustling
them in a bag to get the gold dust out
of them; so is the impress of honorable
manhood often effaced by the hustling.
which is not in the least necessary to
respectable business, and which straight
forward and liberal men utterly reject
from theirs. The detective system has
its uses and its advantages. But the
surety, security or indemnity company
that anticipates and facilitates detec-
ton by requiring all the Information to
be specifically given in advance by the
victim to be watched, duly signed, or
he Loses his place, is one of those un-
warrantable innovations in the despot-
ism of business which abSorbs money
that could be much more efficaciouSly
used i'll adding to the salaries of the
willy-nilly suspects.
Here in this liberal dav IS business
mankind prone to the initiative in what
is objectionable and even oppressive in
ways that were devised by the ingen-
ious in new schemes to make the posi-
BILE delinquency Of poor clerks pros
porous business.
After all honesty is the heritage of
the majority, ana to be noble, natur a.,
in spite of poverty, not because of it.
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