The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-28

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week. gave some advice which wa
rather more practical than many u
his expressed, views have been. Ht
said that often young men wrote tC
him asking whether there is a plac,
in this country Wher. they can live a
Christian life. and that they complai!
of their employers as being dishonest
in business methods. Ills invarablC
reply is to advise them TO remain In
their positions and live honest. up
right lives. letting results take care OF
themselves.
Tho type of inquirer mentioned by
DR.. Sheldon is not rare. A young man
who has frettcd himself almost into
an illness because he is rot rich, re-
marked thu other day within our hear
ing that there is no room in the world
for an ambitious young man who
wants to do the sq,lar" thing in bust
ness and keep his woru: that he get j
no sort of chance and is being ccntin .
ually crowded to the wall by the TN.
scrupulons and over-renching among
his fellows. He sees them growing
weather. while lie gains no step up
ward on the ladder of success. which
lie strives to ascend by straight
methods and sincere effort: and the
consequence is that he has grown dis
satisfied and is almost persuaded that
he will follow the example of shrewd,
advancing men around him who are
not troubled with fastidious notions re-
sarlins the adjustment of means to
ends
This young man. exceptionally we'll
endowed with brain capacity is in
such haste to become rich that h.
regards with impatience the small all.
NantagcS Of his every day life and be-
cause his means are small believes
them too meager to retain his self
respect and nings his money away on
wine dinners. surprisingly good dress.
theaters. ETC. not in the least restrain
ing his discomfort with his circum-
stances and the handicap under which
he struggles because OF his ideals OF
what man should hr in business.
The fact is that he has tossed away
of colossal fortune he has been un-
able to deny himself any luxury which
by any honest means could be obtained
and has held in contempt the small
beginnings of what thrift and energy
could have made a lever with which
TO move the world. His complaint
should be aimed at his own self
man of today is that his cxtravagant
tastes lead him to disdain the humber
methods which have laid the fourda-
'iors of fortunes in the past genera
tions 1t is vcritably an age of luxury
and the man who 4 quarter of CEN
salary of $1,000 a year because he would
have managed 10 live on halr of it il
not less, finds it now all too small for
his countless needs, and debt or somc-
times embezzlement is the result.
There ar" opportunities for fortune
making today for The man VINO keeps
his eyes open and who lays away
enough money every year to form Il
fund for investment even in a small
way. The complaint hat the trusts
are squeezing ont every ambition OF
the young business man is Cnly
true in part It true at all He
earns more than his father earned,
but he saves less. He cannot
deny himself the accompaniments
of wealth and prodigality. The
honest man. tn" thrifty man, the earn
est man has Just as good chance to-
day as ever he had. bnt if he is will
ing To make no sacrifice, tn submit
To no hardships. the opportunity prob
ably passes him by Nor is honesty
improbable, II never lands man in
jail o. Keeps him awake nights to m-
vent new devices of fraud.
so far ns the public interest Is con-
cerned we doubt that it would make
much difference whether the present
school board of twenty-one shall con-
ilnues in power or be superseded by
4 board of fifteen, elected at large but
no two from one ward. Outside OF the
lfeal points involved it is twcedlc dun
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