Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-09-08
"PLAiN BUSINESS MAN. "

Alexander II. Revell. In a paper on
The Plain Business NAH" which Is
published in the current issue of the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
deals with the man of affairs who has
made his own way In life and gained q
fair degree of material success with.
out having had the time or opportunity
10 gloss over his attachments with the
rubbed finish Of bookishncss and ripe
culture The words quoted are those
oi Mr.. Revell, and he further says
this may rIgh,fully he the preface TO
bis demonstratioD-ihat none of the in.
,slligent class will dispute the asser.
ton that the typical American" of the
generation now IN power Is the plain
business man."
No man in the West Is better quail.
fled 10 speak of "the plain business
man. than Mr.. Revell, who is essen.
TALLY a type of the pushing, energetic,
resourceful class OF men which has
built up the great West, and what he
says IL OF interest. This class. as he
puts IL, j, large, substantial and en-
'"Gsive. Its members having been grad.
uatcd from the common district
schools, and these are the ones who.
after acquiring wealth, have not hoard.
'"d il and then rusted and nodded with
II, hut are now building and sustaining
colleges, universities and other !nsti.
tu'.ons Of higher education.
Mr.. Rrvell holds that IN few years
the college graduate will take the
place OF The plain unculturcd but force.
iul man but does not maintain that
such change viii not be for the better.
II" says il has been matter Of regret
with him that he was declared from n
college training, and he believes "thiS
regret i almost universal among the
men who lave missed, 10y force of their
st'rn necessities, the pleasures and the
benefits Of college course
H. does not hesitate To confess his
conviction that wealth j. greater NOV.
H. power IL community than learn.
~, and that the youth who Ia. an am.
llt'u 10 become u leader IN the world
q hu,iNr,s aud affairs Will arrive AZ his
goal sooner hy entering into the bust.
a's~ most 10 hi, liking Immediately
upon leaving ID" grammar or high
roL0oi han 10y spending four years In
cu!lcg" after being graduated from the
public school. Mr.. ReycIl evidently lays
great s'rrs, upon these college years. as
Tie period embraced by Them i price
!'ss - ID" carccr-tAc iormulatlve De.
Nod il may be- callcd-of the young
business man. Ninety per cent, he says,
~ he most successful men in this coun-
iry never attended university, bur he
make, u plain that hi, fact Is not al.
E|EUrd a. an argument.
IN connection with This. Mr.. Rcvcll
.ags he would Ike to advise the aver.
u-r young man 10 stick 10 school or col,
~" until ..- twentieth or twcnty-thlrd
year, nut AI, observation and expert,
'.rc have shown him that the boy who
,.icr- business house or shop al II
w.l. hr first or second man AT 30
willie. at the same age, the college man
VII bee occupying "A minor position
Further Than this, he says, the elements
OBJ. character Of The man who builds
-p % great fortune with no aid from
utHrr.-bcglHuiu with practically
Lp'h.ng-"arc Of that sturdy sort that
are developed and fOstcrcd by hard
knock, ana grave obstacles, until 10y
ne time he has achieved wealth lac
alsO attained an intellectual masterful-