The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20
CARNEGIE TO YOUNG MEN.


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 Bus
mess" He said in part:
I'm these days we hear a lot about pow
erty. The cry goSe up to abolish poverty,
but it will indeed be sad day when pow
erty is no longer with us. Where will your
inventor, your artist, your philanthropist,
your reformer-in fact anybody of note
come from then? They come from the
ranks of the poor. God does not call his
great men from the ranks of the rich.
ITO 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 1t, and fight
1t out with your boss. The boy that can
beat me in an argument is the boy that
want in my employ. He is the boy that
some day will get into the firm. l say to
fight it out with your employer 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-may be he may have pretty
daughter.
There are several qualifications that the
successful young man must have. First.
he must be honest. ne must be moral
and he must be sober. tell you that the
young man who drinks can never be sue
cessful. You can't trust a drinking man.
He must not gamble. I want to say that
1 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 any thing wrong in business
not even If your employer wants you to
stand up for your rights and be a man.
THE successful man is not the one who
is proficient in one thing and not in 9TH
ers. He must be a good all-around man,
capable of doing all things we'll Business
is affected by the small things in life.
Events in far off climes effect 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 republic-is having its effect
upon our business. Then the man who
stumbles along is not the man who is sue
cessful. There has been much discus
wealth and what enjoyment can be OBJ
tanned from it. The pleasure enjoyed from
riches is the good We can do for our fell
low-men.
.Of every $1,000 given to charity $3.50
might as we'll be thrown in the sea. 1t
is bad policy to aid the submerged 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 vainglorious reputation. He
is the young man who would step in front
of a cannon to attract the attention of
men, And by the way, this shooting bus
mess is bad business. l don't believe in
taking a shot at a man, and worse, going
out Of your own country to do 1t. No man
could ever induce me to go out of my own
country to kill man. / believe that the
| only time to kill is when your native land
your own home-iS in danger of invasion.
| The third, and the man who will be sue
cessful, is the man who starts out in life
with self-respect and who is true to him
| self and his fellows There is the young
man who cannot fail to win