The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1902-10-16
How TO Become an Hones; Million
aire.

I 10 my tovn, there IN ~ oia hsu
shom / have kpown since boyhood. sh'
10 somsshst of ppetlesl economist snc
great srsusr, Lately be sent for me
snd telling me that be bed made me one
OF tie snseuteu Of bis will, requested MI
10 zee that his e.tste should be properly
sdniui,tersd after his death. Then be
began, ss usasl. though far from ~ell, "a
stsue; this time bis ihsms us The im
possibility Of sny mans acquiring mi
lion dollars horestly. After listening 10
tim awhile. l saw that II would be o.
no use TO argue the ms,ser on genera
principles, 80 | ssid;
Nov look here, John. 10, ne consider
this thing from . personal point OF view
| shsll ask you . lev questions, and
wsnt you to answer them honestly.
Very veil. GJ ahead
when you begsn 10 this town, s
shoemaker. you worked 1t the bench /.
hours day. didn't your
Yes. oiten longer.
Well. you will agree that. 10 those
years, you could have saved fifty dollsr'
ayesr. vont your
Yes.
When you got 40 appointment on the
police force. you soon became 8 sergeant
then q captain. then cbiei. When .
simple { tfi ser. ct twelve hundred dollars
yesr. you could have saved two hundred
dollars . year. anyway, then as sergeant
three hundred. Is 3 captain, four hnr
dred, and. sA chief, one thousand do
srss year. You could have done that,
couldut you'
Yes, l think could, Well. whst them
Now waite 9 minute. You then engae
ed 10 the lumb ber busintss. and you were
over twenty years in tns, line. Daring
those years you oould have saved st least
two Thousand dollars year, oouldn't you'
Yes, at least as much ss that.
Well, then. suppose you. ss . business
man, had begun to look out. on retiring
for q proper investment OF your money
thus honestly earned and saved. thai
you saw that the shares OF the Snsque
hsnus and Delaware Railroad Company,
that you preceived. on looking over the
road. that il is the natural outlet foi
coal TO the seabosrd. and that you knew
that the cosl in these Pen nsy ylvsnis moun
tains is unlimited. Suppose you learned
that the shares we're selling st six dollars
apiece, as they actually were at that time
and that you, ss . good business man,
inv vested your money 10 that rosdl
Well, what theni
Whst tben2 Why. msn, do you know
bov much you you'd be worth to-day,
il You had 81 invested iiP You would
be worth q million and = hslIl
You don't mesn itf
do. There's the reckoning. You can
see it Tor yourself,
/ actuslly showed him. by unsDswer
able figures, that this was the fact Then
| ssi1.
Do you nov see the iallacy OF your
ressonipe2
Perhaps you are right. he answered
tbous htiully, money we'll invested grows
like q snow ball, Bot l never thought
that any man, BY nstural and fair proti'f.
90 uld make in one short life, ten hundred
thousand dollsrs,
Well, you see that 1t is matter OF
mind, OF mental capacity, OF shrewd
calculation, observation aud foresight.
We are oil differently constituted. and 90
long % that is 90. We shall be differently
or indinerently rich or poor. You know
.hst, II the wealth Of the world we're
equslly divided to-msrrow, We should be
back where We are now 10 less than two
yeurs. II is hs Who has . sharp eye. o
clesr brsin, and = good judgment thst
becomes millionsirs. Do you not see
thstf
Y's, Bob, said be, your argument is
good. Isuppose that even could have
becomes nillionsire. il | hsd had lit
tie more guuption, bot | am satisfied
for have enough, and l only wish thst
all the world bad ss much for every indi
vidusl.
Suppose that you and /, John. we're
vsndeiioe over the Adirondack Noun
tsins, and that We should see on one oil
them, tbs, there we're evidences OF cop
per tber | Olrsuperior knovledge might
show rs that, and II We should 20 and
ask the owner what he would take for
thst uountsip, and be should 6r the
price ii Hve dollars 90 acre, and We should
boy It. and msks . million out OF 1t.
would thst b. dishonestf
By no means, 1t would be the reward
OF kpoWledge snd good judgement; Bot
| think that should Afterwards give
that man . share.
VERY we'll. Bn. suppose we should be
wrong 10 our Judgement, snd should
fod no copper at sll 10 the mountsin,
sud should lose our money, would be OF
should be be expected TO share ous lossi
TIERS The difficulty, when men talk
about cspit,lisls sharing rrtHts of bis
bosiuels With bis workman, Who 10 to
shste 10 the losse.f The cspitslist is not
sIv.,s suoces.iui 10 fact, be 10 too IRE
aups,ly ubsucotsfui. bus would yon
say ihst cply When ts vine is be to sbsfe.
spd That sttn lie Loser. DO oue IL TO share
With hinf
Ne. that woollu't be fair. Ab, ] see