Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-04-04
HONESTY PAYS.

mentioned cases being all there dre
at present.
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HONESTY PAYS.
Dishonest People Are Victims OF Their
Own Folly.
Some day some wise, good man with
a bent for facts, figures. and statis-
tics is going to compile big. fat book
about Men Who Threw Away Their
Chances" It will be a good book, IL
It Is compiled as 1t should be. from
first hand facts, and 1t will be a Dig
book IL II Is to include stories OF half
of the many ways men throw away
their chances When 1t is printed a
whole lot Of men will see why they
failed-that 1t was only their own
faults and not the circumstances OF
life, as they thought 1t was; and 1t
will pave the way for the better book
that will inevitably follow 1t, which
will tell how not to throw away ones
chances. For sometime some man
will be wise enough to tell just how
this Is to be done.
One of the stories that will surely
go into the Men Who Threw Away
Their Chances" book was recently told
by a group Of four men. and the wri-
ter was the attentive audience. 1t was
the story Of how one man came 80
near to being successful that 1t was
only a few dirty tricks" that kept him
from the top. He was dishonest.
There was no earthly reason why
Blank shouldn't have made big hit,'
said the man who started the conver-
sation, and who was head Of the firm
that had but recently repudiated
Blank. HE had everything that ought
to make a good business man. He
was young, healthy, brainy. hard
worker, shrewd and he knew his busi-
ness to the last dot.
HE came to us from another house.
and we never knew till couple OF
weeks ago that he was anything but
model young business man. But ne
wasn't. He was crooked. dishonest.
1T took us some time to find this
out-years, in fact. He did his WORK
satisfactorily, conscientiously strove to
do his best by the firm, and rose rap
idly all the while. There was nothing
to keep him from going right to the
top, and his name was often mention
ed as the future president Of the COM
pany.
Then, one fine day, came the dis
covery that Blank was crooked. New
er mind how the discovery came
about. We aren't giving away any
business secrets. But we discovered
that in one big deal he had been figur-
ing with competing house.
Blanks name isn't mentioned as
POSSIBLE future head Of our house any
more. He isn't mentioned much al
all any more. o, we didn't lose over
a couple of thousand dollars, because
we managed to buy off the deal, but
now we. and the competing house, and
every house in our line know that
Blank is crooked. He was too high
to be thrown out suddenly without
question being asked, so every one
interested had to know what was the
matter OF course, the competing
house didn't dare to take him on for
fear that he'd double cross them, as
he tried to do us, and no one else will
"And let me tell you that despite al
this talk about honesty being a dead
letter In business today, IL dishones'
trick happens to be linked with your
name you are dead one, so far as
success in your line is concerned
There Is no quicker or surer way fol
a young man with good prospects be-
fore him to cut his throat than to dc
a dirty trick / know this, for I've
seen 1t happen too often to leave any
doubt about It,"
The man who made the foregoing
statement is a first-class type of the
business man as he is today. He Is
not given to moralizing, and some OF
his enemies declare that he Is devoid
of morals in his business life. He Is
practical, considering all that the word
means in commercial life today, and
he is not entirely ignorant Of what II
is to be called a monopolist and g
grabber.
But this successful man Is honest
No one ever said that he was not
Even his enemies, ones who are will
ing to swear that he has caused them
to lose thousands through harsh meas
ures, admit that he Is honest. That is
one reason why he is successful. Vi
course, there are other reasons-many
of them-for dumb honesty will never
win success for anyone. But without
the honesty success is only vague
chance.
The man quoted worked up from g
place on the shipping dock Of the firm
he now heads, and when he says that
II he had not been entirely honest he
would never have climbed to the top
his word should be listened to.
IT couldn't be anything else and
win," Is the way he puts it. "Withou,
going into the ethics of the thing,
will say that no young man can be
anything than honest and ever amount
to anything. Especially the young
man who, through hard work and ef-
fort, has mounted to position where
a big success looms up before him
He, Of all men, must be scrupulously
honest, for a dirty trick then means
instant and complete failure. Nothing
but honesty pays, even in the business
world"
Therefore, one type Of the stories
that will have to go into the book OF
Men Who Threw Away Their
Chances" will be the story Of the man
who failed because he was dishonest
There will be many other kinds Of sto-
ries, but this will be one Of the
most prominent, for 1t will tell Of the
ruin of men who surely would have
succeeded otherwise. 1t will tell OF
the ruin Of men who were just on the
verge of becoming eminently success
full who fell because Of one act to the
level Of the common criminal; Of men