Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
HOW WILL They VOYEY
Many Thousands of Young Men
Have Reached the Threshold
Of Their Career.
TWO POLITICAL PATHS OPEN.
Sound Money Stands for National
Honor-Debased Coinage Stands
for Dishonor.

There are a good many thousands Of
young men who will this year cast their
first vote for President. They stand on
the threshold of their career and are
looking forward 10 achieve success In
life In some chosen vocation. With but
few exceptions they all expect TO be
business men and by their own efforts
win n competence if not a fortune. This
ambition to obtain wealth is laudable
and should be cherished by every honest
and industrious youth.
To these young men the money ques-
ton, which is now the political question
Of the moment, is Of surprising impor-
lance, not only for the right casting of
their votes but for the right understand
ing of business principles, for IL they do
not understand the meaning of money,
what it should be. what II Is for, and
what it can do, there is but little hope
that they will be able to accumulate
much of It. or, accommodating il. know
we'll how to use it.
The common phrase in business is
making money" but money is only a
means for obtaining other things. When
a young man has saved his first hundred
dollars he doesn't put it away or hide 1t,
but invests il in other property or loans
il at interest until he can find an oppor-
tunity for other Investments. As he in
| creases his money he sets il Mt work for
him, and In this way grows rich: Money
is not the ultimate object of business,
but il is the means whereby men obtain
what they want.
1t is of the first Importance. therefore,
and each mans common sense confirms
ii, that the money we earn, THAT The
money we borrow and lend and that we
use for the purpose Of exchange should
be uniform and stable in value, that il
should mean the same thing next year
that il does today, and the world Of bust
ness has agreed that gold and silver
makes the nearest approach TO that
kind of money-gold for large transac-
tons, silver for small, That these
metals can be equally used history
shows to be impossible. so the wisest
nations have provided that gold shonld
have the principal place and silver be
treated as subsidiary.
The political question, then, for the
young man who now votes for the first
time TO decide is. whether II is wiser TO
follow the teachings of history and the
example of the most successful business
nations of the world or to start out on n
plan that has already been tried and
found disastrous. Shall we as a people
take pattern after England or after
Mexico? Shall we learn from China or
from Germany?
How does a young man act for himself
when looking around among his elders
and superiors in business life? Does he
choose the example and advice Of sue
cessfnl men-of the Armours and Fields
and Cages of commercial and financial
life-or does he start out regardless of
| their methods and attempt some short
cut TO success? How many young men
have stood at the parting of the ways
lonkino .wistfullv into the futurai How
dihg path or hard work, thrift and self.
sacrifice, but that leads to the mountain
tops, and how many the fowery road
that is so enticing in it's ease and pleas
IRE, but which ends only IN morasses
and despair?
AS it is with individuals so IL is with
nations, and no people can defy the
principles of honesty and integrity in
their national life any more thar in
personal life.
Sound and honest money, which means
money as good as gold in this campaign.
stands for national honor. A debased
coinage stands for national dishonor.
Which banner viii our young men fol-
low?-Chicago Times-Herald.