The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
1t Will Be When There Is No
Longer Poverty.
That's What Carnegie Said In
an Address On
SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.
The Poor Are the Salt of the
Earth.
Riches He Declares Are a Great
Burden.

New York, Jan 19.-Andrew Carnegie
addressed the Young Mems Bible class
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church last
night on stepping Stones to Success in
Business" He said in part:
AS young man I had the best edu-
cation in the world with which to begin
life. I was born to the blessed heritage
of poverty. I hope 1 speak to poor
young men tonight. It is my earnest
hope that none of you are burdened
with the care of riches. When this bur-
den is laid on young man and he acts
his part we'll he deserves double credit.
He is surely the salt of the earth.
In these days we hear a lot about
poverty. The cry goes up to abolish
poverty. but it will indeed be a sad day
when poverty is no longer with US.
Where will your inventor your artist,
your philanthropist your reforer-in
fact, anybody of note come from then.
They all come from the ranks of the
poor. God does not call his great men
from the ranks of the rich.
TO my mind the first thing for a
young man starting out in life is to
determine to do more than his simple
duty Don't be afraid of your employer.
When you know you are right stick to
it, and fight it out with your boss. The
boy that can beat me in argument
He is the boy that some day will get in
to the firm.
I say to fight it out with your en-
ployer when you are right. He may
want a partner some day. He will go
home and tell his wife about you. He
will talk about you, and-who knows
maybe he may have a pretty daughter
There are several qualifications that
the successful young man must have.
First, he must be honest. He must be
moral and he must be sober. tell you
that the young man who drinks can
never be successful. You can't trust a
drinking man. He must not gamble.
want to-say that had just as lief trust
the man who CANDLES at Monte Carlo
as the man who CANDLES in Wall street.
Then you must never do anything
s-Wrong in businessmen even if your en-
ployer wants you to- stand up for
your own rights and be a man.
THE successful man is not the one
who is proficient in one thing and not in
another. He must be good all round
man, capable of doing all things well.
Business is affected by the small
things in life. Events in far off climeS
affect the business status in this and
every other country. The terrible war,
the awful massacre now going on in the
TranSvaal-the efforts to Strangle a re-
public-is having it's effect upon our
business Then the man who StumbleS
along is not the man who is successful.
There has been much discussion recent
| ly as to the advantages of wealth and
what enjoyment can be obtained from
it. The pleasure enjoyed from riches
is the good we can do for our fellow
men.
"Of every thousand dollars given to
charity $50 might as well be thrown in
the sea. 1t is bad policy to aid the sub
merged man. Give your aid to the man
who is fighting with his head above the
| water.
There are three classes of young
men who start out in life. First, there is
| the one who says he aims to acquire
riches. Then there is the one whose
vain ambition is to obtain a vain glor-
| ious reputation. He is the young man
who would step in front of a cannon
| to attract attention of men. And by
the way this shooting business is bad
business. I don't believe in taking a
| shot at a man, and worse, going out
of your own country to do it. No man
would ever get me to go out of my own
country to kill a man. 1 believe that
the only time to kill is when your ma
| tive Iand-your own home-is in danger
of invasion. The third, and the man
| who will be successful is the man who
starts out in life with self-respect and
who is true to himself and his fellows.
| There is the young man who can not
| fail to win
AT the conclusion of his address Mr..
Carnegie was introduced to those pres
ent by John D. Rockefeller.