The Progress., 1897-07-24

command of "March!'
Do not get the idea that your Interests
and those of your employer are antago
nistic His success will be your honor. His
embarra ssment will be your dismay. FIX
| pose none OF the frailties of the firm. Tel
| no store secrets. Do not b3ab. Rebun
| those persons who come to find out from
clerks what ought never to be known out
! side the store. Do not be among those
| young Inen who take on Il mysterious air
| when something is said against the firm
| that employs them, rs much as to say, II
could tell You something if would, but !
Won L" Do not be among those who
in: CINE they can tuild themselves up by
| pulling somebody else down. Be not
G>l;.iI ed 10 bc Il subaltern.
! A gain. counsel clerks to search out
what are the unlawful and dishonest de-
,rt ntls Of an establishment and resist them.
In he 5000 years that have passed there
has never lCcn an occasion when it was
oLg's duty TO sin against God. 1t is never
III 1T 10 &c w,Crg. If the head men of the
f.Ii.. oxlcCt Of you dishonesty, disappoint
ti,as. oh, you say, II should lose my
pl - then Better lose your place than
10 your soul. Lut you will not lose your
il;:e CHRISTIAN heroisnl is always hon.
ord. Ytcs 90 TO tho head man of your
store ard say: Sir, l want to serve you,
l want to Ci-liGc you. 1t is from no lack
of Industry On my Part, but this thing
SONS TO me to be wrong, and it is sin
against my conscience it is a sin against
God, and l beg you, sir, to excuse me-
Ee may. flush up and swear, but he win
cool down, and he will have more admira-
ton for you than for those who submit to
his evil dictation, and while they sink you
Will rise. Do not because of seeming tenn
rorary advantage give up your character,
young man. Under God, that is the only
thing you have to build on. Give up that,
you give up everything. That employer
asks young man to hurt himself for time
and for eternity, who expects him to make
wrong entry, or change an invoice, or
say goods cost SO much when they cost less,
or impose upon the verdancy of customer,
or n'isrepresent style of fabric. How
dare he demand of you any thing SO inso-
lent:
Again, i counsel all clerks to conquer
the trials Of their particu lar position One
great trial fer clerks is the reconsideration
of customers. There are people who are
entirely polite everywhere else, but gruff
and dictatorial and contemplate when
they come into store to buy anything
There are thousands of men and women
who go fEom store to store to price things
without IT! iaea Il purchase. They are
not satisfied until every roll of goods is |
brought down and they have pointed out |
all the real or imaginary defects. They |
try on all kinds Of kid gloves and stretch /
them out of shape, and they put on all /
styles of cloak and walk to the mirror to |
see how they look and then they sail out
If the store, saying, II will not take it to-
lay, which means, Il don't want it at
al, :" leaving tho clerk amid wreck of
'ibhons and laces and cloths to smooth out
y, 600 worth of goods, not a cent of which
lld That man or woman buy or expect to
'uy Now, call that dishonesty on the
art of the customer. If boy runs into
} store and takes roll of cloth off the
ounter and sneaks out into the street, you
~ JOIN IN the cry pellmell, "Stop theft"
When see you 60 into store not expect
ng to buy anything, but to price things,
Seallng the time Of the clerk and stealing
be time OF his employer, I-say, too, "Stop
hief!''
II were asked which class of persons
aost need the grace of God amid their an
oyances, would say, DRY goods clerks"
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