Milford chronicle., 1895-07-12

I about the TRIALS ana temptations OF our
/ business men and try to offer some cura-
I tive prescriptions.
Limited Capital.
In the first place, have to remark that
a great many of our business men feel
ruinous trials and temptations coming to
them from small and limited capital in
business. 1t is everywhere understood
that it takes now three or four times rs
much to do business well as once it did.
Once a few hundred dollars were turned
into goods-the merchant would be his
own store sweeper, his own salesman, his
own bookkeeper; he would manage all the
affairs himself, and everything would be
not profit Wonderful changes have come;
costly apparatus extensive advertising, ex-
orbitant store rents, heavy taxation, ex-
pensive agencies are only parts of the de-
mand made upon our commercial men,
and when they have found themselves in
such circumstances with small capital,
they have sometimes been tempted to run
against the rocks of moral and financial
destruction. This temptation Of limited
capital has ruined men in two ways.
Sometimes they have shrunk down under
the temptation. They have yielded the
battle before the first shot was fired. At
the first hard dun they surrendered. Their
knees knocked together at the fall Of the
auotioneer's hammer. They blanched at
the financial peril They did not under
stand that there is such thing as heroism
in merchandise and that there are Water
loos of the counter and that man can
fight no Drawer battle with the sword than
he can with the yardsticli Their souls
melted in them because sugars We're up
when they wanted to buy and down when
they wanted to sell and unsalable goods
were on the shelf and bad debts in their
ledger The gloom of their countenances
overshadowed even their dry goods and 4
groceries. Dependency, coming from lin :.
tied capital, blasted them. Others have
felt it in a different way They have said: :
@ Hero have been trudging along l have I
been trying to be honest all these years / [
find it is of 10 use. Now it is make or |
break" Tho small craft that could have /
stood the stream is put out beyond the /
on tho great sea of speculation.
He borrows a few thousand dollars from
friends who dare not refuse him, and he
goes bartering on a largo scale.
He reasons in this way: Perhaps may
and if 1 dom 1 will DO no worse
off than 1 am now, for 500, 900 taken
from nothing nothing remains. Stocks
are the dice with which he CANDLES. He
bought for few dollars vast tracts of
western land. Some man at the east, liv-
ing on fat homestead, meets this gam
bier of fortune and is persuaded to trade
IF his estate for lots in a western city
With large avenues, and costly palaces,
md lake steamers smoking at the wharves,
md rail trains coming down with light
ling speed from every direction. There it
s all on paper. The city has never been
luilt, nor the railroads constructed, but
points that way, and the thing
will be done rs sure as you live Well, tho
nan goes on, stopping at no fraud or out
ago. In his splendid equipage he dashes
,ast, while the honest laborer looks up
nd wipes the sweat from his brow and
avs, II wonder where that man got all c
lis money" After awhile the bubble |
ursts Creditors rush in. Tho law
lutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. q
The mon who were swindicd say, II don't Z
now how could have ever been deceived a
y that man, D." and the pictorials in hand q
ONE wood cuts set forth the hero who in 2
Oh years had genius enough to fail for !
150, 600. .
And that is the process by which many
ave been tempted through limitation Of
apltal TO rush into laDyflntns from Wnlch 4,
hey could not be cxtricated. l would not =
ant to chain honest enterprise. would ! |,
OF want to block up any Of the avenues =
II honest accumulation that open before y
Dung men. On the contrary, would like L
, cheer them on and rejoice when they Z
zach the goal, but when there are such !. y
lultitudes Of men going to ruin for this x
fe and tho life that is to como, through =
rong notions OF what are lawful spheres
enterprise, it is the duty Of the church !
God, and the ministers Of religion, and y
le friends Of all young men TO utter u
ain, emphatic, unmistakable protest.
hese are the influences that drown men y
destruction and perdition. y
Overanxiety. a,
Again, great many of our business &c
en- arc tempted to oyeranxiety and care. b.
on know that nearly all commercial bust Of
uses are oyerdone in this day. Smitten If
it'll the love of quick gain, our cities are
DIVIDED with mon resolved to be rich at w
hazards. They do not care how money II
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