Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-25
TITLE THOUGHT OF FUTURE WANT


it comes.
You have been doing this in the past and despite
occasional feeble good resolution you will continue
doing it in.the future.
Have you lesson to learn from the experience of
others?
Don't you know any poor old man who for years and
years drew good salary but saved none of it? Don't
you know that all about alike, and that if you
keep on as at present you will be in that old mans
place?
Even when you look over the past and think of the
total amount you have earned in the last five ten
fifteen years. you not that it would have been
possible without suffering for you to have saved such
a would make you feel independent now?
The difference between with $4,000 or $1,000
in cash saved and the with nothing is the difference
between independence and dependence between weak
ness and strength
We laugh at. the old story about the man who gave
up cigars or cocktails some trife, and with the
money saved established independence
But we ought not to laugh. The late George NJ Pull
man, talking night TO number of including
Marshall Field John W. Doane and others, said to a
very young man who with them
"WhemI your age, acas doing fairly ueH and
goa sleeping
mind. Iacanted to build the car, and made up
my mamd that to succeed must haze money. The
pgars that smoked cost foe cents each. gaze them
up, and gaze up other things too. The total didn't
amount to much, but the habit aCas valuable"
The determination needed to make young man give
up his pleasures and small extravagances is the kind Of
determination that gives real success.
George M. Pullman possessed determination. He
gave to this country sleeping system of inestma-
BILE value besides making himself enormously rich If
he hadn't had the courage to on salary and to
give up what most young men consider absolutely es-
sential the great Pullman sleeping car enterprise
might have up into the air in the smoke of cheap
cigars. Millions of in the United States have had
good ideas and taken them into the grave with them
because they hadn't the determination to save the
money necessary for carrying out an idea
Millions of men have the capacity go into business
on their account to have salary list of their own
instead of figuring one else's list-but they
lack the ONE quality. They not resist the tempta-
tons which make the salaried man extravagant
To the man travelling through this world of fierce
competition money is like quinne to the explorer in an
African fever swamp The man who sells his life week
by week and spends the money comes is spending
whatever chance he might have of independence.
The worst of it is that, besides making men extrava-
CANT the salary system makes great majority of them
Indifferent and careless 1t kills imagination and spe-
cia effort. 1t keeps in the and prevents his
ever doing the best that is in him.
One word of urgent advice.
If, reading this you should make up your mind to
save, save ON YOURSELF
Cut down YOUR OWN expenditures. Cut off your
useless pleasures and self ndugences Don't cut down
your family your wife or children or on others
who have right to look to you for support.
The average extravagant salaried man can easily
REFORM and make the necessary change without affect
ing any but himself He need not economic at the
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