Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-01-12

I'm sorry you ask SO many questions
that you haven't right to ask, be-
cause YOU put yourself IN the position
of the inqutsitlve bull pup who started
out to smell the third rail on the troll
ley right OF way. You're going to be
full Of information III minute.
In the first place, it looks as liz busi-
ness might be pretty good this fall,
law1 I'm afraid you'H have your hands
so full In your place as assistant man
ager OF the lard department that you
won't have time to run my Job too.
Then don't propose to break any
quick promotion records with you Just
because you happened to be born into
Job with the house. a fond father
and fool son hitch up into bad
team, and good business makes
poor family carryall. Out Of business
hours like you better than any one
at the Office but In them there are
about twenty men ahead of you in my
affections. The way for you to get
first place is by racing fair and square
and not by using your old daddy as a
springboard from which to Jump over
their heads. A mans son Is entitled to
chance in his business, but not to
cinch.
It's been my experience that when
an Office begins to look like family
tree you'll find worms tucked away
snug and cheerful In most OF the APP
pies. A fellow with an Office full OF
relatives Is like a SOW with litter OF
pigsapt to get little thin and peak
ed as the others fat up. A receiver
Is next Of kin to business mans rela-
tiyes, and after they are all nicely set
tied in the Office they're not long in
finding a job for him there too. I
want you to get this firmly fixed in
your mind, because, while you haven't
many relatives to hire, IL you ever get
to be the head OF the house you'll no
doubt marry few with your wife.
After you have found ninety nine
sound reasons for hiring man it's
all right TO let his relationship to you
be the hundredth. It'll be the only
bad reason in the bunch.
Some men are like oak leaves--they
don't know when they're dead, but still
hang right on, and there are others who
let go before anything has really touch
ed them. or course may be In the
first class, but you can be dead sure
that I don't propose to get into the
second, even though / know lot OF
people say I'm an old hog to keep
right along working after I'VE made
more money than know how to spend
and more than could spend IL knew
how. They believe that money ought
to loaf; believe 1t ought to work.
They believe that money ought to 90 to
the races and drink champagne; I be-
lieve that # ought to go to the office
and keep sober.
don't mind owning up to you,
though, that / don't hang on because
I'm Indispensable to the business, but
because business is Indispensable to
me. don't take much stock in this
Indispensable man idea anyway. I've
never had one working for me, and ii
had Ia IRE him, because the fellow
who's as smart as that ought to be lii
business Tor himself, and IL lie doesn't
get a chance to start new one he's
naturally going to eat ND yours. Any
man can feel reasonably well satiEs
fed II he's sure that there's going to
be hole t5 look at when he's pulled
up by the roots.
+ started business ID sIlanty, and
I've expanded it into half mile Of
factories. ! began with ten men work
ing for me, and I'll quit with 10000.
found the American hog Id d mud
puddle. without beauty SPOT a him