Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-06-06

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peculiarly slow to detect or suspect
them. There is a good deal of what
may be called mathematical super
stition in human nature. The ordi-
nary mind is disposed to credit many
things for the mere reason that they
appear to be justified by a grave and
%bewildering array of statistics, when
in reality the evidence is without the
least value. This it well understood
by the cunning individuals who devise
profits of illegitimate speculation, and
they make it a sourc of large profit
to themselves, at the expense of those
who take stock in such enterprises.
1t should be easy for me as a rule to
satisfy themselves hat these schemes
can not possibly be valid, or the OPP
portunities of investing in them would
not be made so convenient. There is
no reason to suppose that a man hav-
ing discovered a reliable method of
making money much faster than it is
made in any branch of order financial
or commercial operation would be
anxious to let others into the secret for
the sake only of doing them a philan-
thropic sercice. Yet that is what must
be believed by those who invest in the
chances thus alluIingly put before
them. They do not stop to consider
that the profits which are promised
them include the idea that the men
giving the promises are spontaneous
public benefactor, DESTROYS to share
with their fellow citizens the proceeds
of a.plan of success which has eluded
the financial wisdom of the world
through all the ages. If their schemes
were really what they pretend to be, is
it not likely that capitalists who are
glad to get the present low average
rate of interest on thier money would
hasten to invest it in them, and quit
bothering with banks, stores, manu-
factories, railroads and other thing of
that kind ? But we know that these
men of recognized business sagacity
never risk a cent in such projects and
that is Of itself a sufficient reason for
concluding that the speculation can
not be trusted to come up to the adyer-
tisement.
There is no legitimate way in which
big profits can be made from small in
vestments under ordinary conditions.
1t is true that men sometimes acquire
wealth in a sudden or rapid way but
in every instance there is a special ex-
PLANTATION. The philosophy of the
earning of profits from the use of money
is definite and systematic, and it does
not authorize the supposition that
there may be other and quicker means
of getting rich than those which it
provides. When a man has money to
spare, be it much or little, the only
safe and sensible way to invest it is
that which comes within the known
principles and practices of every day
business. The short cuts to fortune
that are so glittering commended to
the popular imagination are all only
repetitions of the tabled bags of gold
at the ends of rainbows, when they
are not, as is to be said of most of them,
deliberate schemes of fraud and plum
der. There is but one true and relia-
bic policy of prosperity, and that is
the one of patient industry, close
enough, and steady profit. The beaten
paths are the best ones; the old rules
are superior to the new ones that tempt
the masses with promises of miracles.
Success is not to be had at q bargain.
1t must be paid for at the full price of
honest and strenuous endeavor which
is the test of manhood and the source
of progress {; and the man who thinks
to secure it in any cheaper way, by
any form of strategy or any process of
sorcery, deludes himself with a dream
that is sure to bring him failure and
mockery.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.