The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-11-09
HOW | ACQUIRED VEAL TH
Sir Thomas Upton Says There
Is No Royal Road To Riches.
WORK EARLY AND LATE
Deal Honestly--Be Enterprising-Ex.
ercise Careful Judgment-Adver-
tise Freely-Success Is the Re.
ward Of Labor-Great Firms Main.
tanned on Fixed Principles.

There Is no royal road to riches,
and, in business as big as mine, no
back lane. My methods are open, anu
anybody can see them. A successful
concern is created and maintained by
the recognition of great facts and obvi-
Gus principles-the growth of popula-
tion and the increased facilities of in
accommodation among men and ma
tions. These are the great factors in
forming great businesses. To supply
the many instead of the few, to handle
large instead of small quantities, and
to be the grower, the manufacturer, as
well as the vendor and retailer-to do
all this is to adopt in short, a system
of business obvious and open to all.
Though he who drives fat oxen need
not himself be fat, a captain of indus
try must live up to his name-must
himself be Industrious. That is my be-
lief, and 1t has been my practice all my
life. Beginning work at an early age,
l left Glasgow for New York, in the
hope of finding shorter avenues to for
tune than the old country afforded. l
got experience, at any rate, in New
York city, on South Carolina planta-
ton, and elsewhere. | got little purse
together, too-enough to take me back
to Glasgow and my parents. to better
whose position was then the main
spring of my efforts and ambition.
I'm High street, Glasgow, was opened
the first Of the provisions marts which
are now numbered by hundreds
throughout England, Ireland and Scot
land.
Il was able to go to my native Ire
land as a great buyer of her produce;
by degrees l got my own tea planta-
tions in Ceylon; my own carts and
ships and ice storage vans; my own
fruit gardens in Kent; my own biscuit
factory. London by degrees became
the great center for collection, for stor-
age and for distribution; and the mon
ster warehouses in the City road are
the result
How much value l place on indus
try, and how believe in devoted hard
work at the thing once for all accept
ed as mans calling in life may be
seen from the fact that even at this
stage of my career l generally work
from in the morning to 10 at night.
1t has been said, by many who have a
right to speak. that labor is never any
thing but painful, however willingly |
undertaken and courageously done. |
But | think this was the conclusion Of |
men who had one of the two kinds of /,
labor to do-the entirely physical and |
the entirely mental. 1t is painful to |
stoop under burden all day, and the |
man with the hoe is not one of the IA
vorites of fortune.
81 do not say that hard work has not |
its own liberty, its own enlargement, |
its own relaxation. 1t has all these. !
1t has also its own romance-a ro-
nance that does not exist for the mere |
dilettante. The trifler trihes even with |
happiness. | think that the man who
makes great business must put him
self into it; but do not mean by that
he must necessarily become machine.
Against that notion | would put long
list of names, beginning with Peabody
and not ending with Carnegie. New
York Journal.