The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-07-23

| WOMEN. He
New IALhASE' text shows you a
man with head, and hand, and heart,
and foot all busy toiling on up until
he gains. a princely success. 'Seest
thou a man diligent in his business?
He shall stand before kings"
| Great encouragement in these two
passages for men and W omen who will
be busy, but no solace for those who
are waiting for good luck to show
them, at the foot of the rainbow. a
casket of buried gold. 1t is folly for
anybody in the world to wait for some
thing to turn up. 1t will turn down.
The law of thrift is as memorable as
the law of the tides. Fortune, the
magician, may wave her wand in that
direction until castles and palaces
come; but she will, after awhile. invert
the same wand. and all the splendors
will vanish into thin air.
There are certain styles of behavior
which lead to usefulness, honor and
permanent success, and there are GER
tain STYLES of behavior which lead to
dust. dishonor and moral default.
would like to fire the ambition of
young people. / have no sympathy
with those who would prepare young
folks for life by whiting down their
expectations. That man or woman
will be worth nothing to church or
state who begins life cowed down.
The business of Christianity is not to
uuench but to direct human ambition.
Therefore, it is that | utter words of
encouragement to those who are occu-
pied as clerks in the stores, and shops,
and banking houses of the country.
They are not an exceptional class.
They belong to a great company of
tens of thousands who are in this
country, amid circumstances which
will either make or break them for
time and for eternity. Many of these
people have already achieved a Chris
tan manliness and a Christian woman
illness which will be their passport to
any position. have seen their trials.
| have watched their perpleXities.
There are evils abroad which need to
be hunted down, and dragged out into
the MONDAY light.
In the first place, counsel clerks to
remember that for the most part their
clerkship is only a school from which
they are to be graduated. 1t takes
about eight years to get into one of
the learned professions. 1t takes
about eight years to get to be mer-
chant. Some of you will be clerks all
your lives, but the vast majority of
you are only in a transient position.
After awhile, some December day,
the head men of the firm will call
you into the back Office, and they will
say to you: Now, you have done well
by us; we are going to do we'll by you.
We invite you to have an interest in
our concern" You wilR bow to that
edict very gracefully. Getting into a
street car to go gone, an old comrade
will meet you and say, What makes
you look so happy tonight" "Oh, T"
you will say, nothing, nothing"
But in a few days your name will
blossom on the sign. Either in the
store or bank where you are now, or
in some other store or bank, you will
take higher position than that which
you now occupy. So feel 1 am now
addressing people who will yet have
their hand on the helm of the worlds
commerce, and you will turn it this
way or that; now clerks, but to be
bankers, importers, insurance COM
pany directors, shippers, contractors,
superintendents of railroads-your
voice mighty ION 'change"-standing
foremost in the great financial and re-
ligious enterprises of the day. For,
though we who are in the professions
may, on the platform, plead for the
philanthropies, after all, the mer-
chants must come forward with their
millions to sustain the movement.
Be therefore patient and diligent in
this transient position. You are now
where you can learn things you can
never learn in any other place. What
you consider your disadvantages are
your grand opportunity. You see an
afluent father some day come down a
prominent street with his son who
has just graduated from the univer-
sity, and establishing him in business,
putting $50, 900 of capital in the store.
Well, you are envious. You say: ''Oh,
if l only had chance like that young
man-if only had father to put $780,
900 in a business for me, then would
have some chance in the world" Be
not envious. You have advantages
over that young man which he has not
over you. As well might come down
to the docks when a vessel is about to
sail for Valparaiso, and say: Let me
pilot this ship out to sea-" Why, 1
would sink crew and cargo before /
got out of the harbor, simply because
know nothing about pilotage.
Wealthy sea captains put their
sons before the mast for the
reason that they can learn to