The Progress., 1897-07-24
THE PROGRESS.

contractors, SuI. eriHtendcn;s Of laiiroi.cs-
| your voice mighty ''on change '-starG
| ing foremost in the great financial and /,
| ligious enterprises Of the day. For, though
| we who are in the professions may on IL,
| platform plead for the ILilanthropiCs, aft
| er all, the merchants must cone forward
| with their millions to sustain the move
| ment.
| Be therefore patient md diiigent il
this transient position. You arc noyv W here
| you can learn things you can never learn
in any other place. What you consider
| your disadvantages are your grand oplCr-
| tUnity. You see an afnuent father some
| day come down a prominent street with
his son who has just graduated from the
university and establishing him in bus-
ness, putting $50, 600 Of capital IL the store.
Well, you are envious. You say, "Oh, if l
only had a chance like that young man-
If only had a father to put $50, 900 il u
business for me, then I 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 Il vessel is
about to sail for Valparaiso and say, Let
me pilot this ship out to sea-" Why, l
would sink crew and cargo before got out
Of the harbor simply because l know moth
Ing about pilotaec. Wealthy sea captains
put their sons before the mast for the rea-
son that they know it is the only place
where they can learn to be successful sail
ors 1t is only under drill that people get
to understand pilotage and navigation,
and want you to understand that it takes
DO more skill to conduct vessel out of
the harbor and across the sea than to steer
commercial establishment clear of the
rocks. You see every day the folly ef poo
pie going into a business they know moth
Ing about. A man makes fortune in one
business, thinks there is another occupa-
ton more comforta bic, goes into it and
sinks all Many of the commercial estab-
ltshments of our cities are giving their
clerks mercantile education as thorough
as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are Civ |
ing scientific attainment to the students |
The reason there are SO |
many men laundering in business from |
year to year is because their early luercan-
tile education was neglected. Ask the men |
In high commercial circles, and they viii |
tell you they thonk God for this severe dis
cipline of their early clerkship. You can
afford to endure the wilderness march If it
Is going to end in the vineyards and or
chards Of the promised land.
But you say, "Will the womauly clerks
IN our stores have promotionf'' Yes
lime is coming when women will be as
veil paid for their toll in mercantile circles
s coming when Il woman viii be allowed
O do anything she can do well. 1t is only
little while ago when women knew moth
ng of telegrnphy, and they We're kept out
4 great many commercial circles where
hey are now welcome, and the time will
o Oh until the woman who at one counter
q u store sells $4,000 worth of goods in
eur Will get as high salary as the man
mo 1T the other counter of the same store |
ellis $4,000 worth of goods. All honor to
ydia, the Christian saleswoman!
Discipline.
Ihe second counsel I have to give TO |
Jerks Is that You sock out what are the |
awful regulations of your establishment
I'd then submit to them. Every well or
cred house has its usages. In military
lie, on ships deck, in commercial life.
'ere must be order and discipline. Those {
aopje who do not learn how to obey will |
ever know how to command / will tell
,u what young man will make ruin.
nancial and moral 1t is the young man s
no thrusts his thumb into his vest and
ys: Nobody shall dictate to me. am
y own master / will not submit to the