Evening journal., 1905-04-18


lacy and foster it in them.
"And what do his millions, once ac-
quired, bring him? Troubles, troubles
and always troubles. AS he gets rich
er he has more TO look after. His
cares keep pace with his ever piling
boards. His life and his vision narrow
so that his vast interests weigh ever
heavier, and he has no resource save /
only this habit of getting rich.
Even the joys that his poorer breth- |
ren nearly always have In their poster
ity are nearly always lacking for him. (
His childen are generally spendthrifts, !
Fquandering heedlessly that for which T
he surrendered all that is best In life
to accumulate. If they do not break |
him they often break his heart
And always there is the ever pres
ent worry over that very money which
he has spent his life in getting. 1t is I
the evil genii conjured from the bottle,
to be ever afterward a tribulation and
menace 10 him. He worries over
speculation as to what will become Of
all this vast hoard when he dies. He
has all sorts Of appeals for help from
all sorts Of persons and institutions
without the heart TO respond.
"And the end Of him is that he dies
in harness. a harness that is an igno-
BILE bondage And he doesn't die in
the fullness of years and honors either,
for he has been so confined to his desk
through the years that his health has
become shattered but still his thral-
ing habit Of getting riches makes him
cling to the desk and the Office.
Most of those in middle class, his
employees. enjoy life far more than
the rich captain Of industry. His very
superior capital becomes his undoing.
And that's a fact There isn't one Of
those employees who, although not
rich. is vet moderately we'll off, hasn't
less care. less responsibility, less work
/ and more leisure, certainly more pleas
ure and more heart to do his allotted
tasks.
And when such a captain Of indus
| try. steeped in his habit Of getting rich
even to the day Of his death, Is gath
/ cred to his fathers what better epitaph
could he have than Sidney Lanier's
| lines:
when all is done
What hast thou won
OF the only sweet that Is under the
SUM-"
Having disposed OF the unworthy
millionaire, Mr.. Nelson was asked what
he considered real success in life and
how best to achieve It,
rThe real success in life is to make
useful man And the best way to at
tain it is always TO do the work in
hand the very best one knows how. 1t
matters not what the work, how hum
bic, how insignificant, how seemingly
unimpcrtant, IL 1t be done with this
thought ever uppermost It will bring
success to any man. And it VIII be the
kind worth having. All large employ
ers of men and women are all the time
in need of just such men, and promo
ton to them Is easy. That's fact. 1
have seen that proved many times in
this very hsuse in the twenty-five years
that / have been at It's head.
"The worker who is content with
mere mediocrity or doing his work just
we'll enough to bold his job has not the
elements Of success in his makeup. He
is not useful man and never will be
D. while he holds to such an ideal. l am a
4, believer In common things. II a man
J does things well he is capable Of doing
! equally we'll things that are not so
= common. That man or woman who
works only under the spur of necessity
] works from an unworthy motive. lie
b or she should work because work is
good, because it viii make him useful
, to himself and useful to society. be
cause it is the law of his being and
2 may not rightfully be evaded.
e "And that's a fact and the end Of my
little sermon" continued Mr.. Nelson
e with a genial smile, as he pointed to g
e heap of correspondence just received
: that day.
7 Mr.. Nelson is an exponent Of the co
operative or profit sharing system il
l business. For nineteen years he ha.
] put his theories into practice In his
own business. his employees receiving
dividends on the earnings Of the com
! pany in addition TO their wages. Abou
l twelve years ago he built the town oi
S I Leclaire. in Illinois, some twenty
r miles northeast of st. Louis. All tn,
S factories there are conducted on tn,
profit sharing system, and the villag,
5 itself is cooperative institution
without a charter or municipal laws
r in which many of the cherished idea,
r of advanced sociologists have beer
worked out and are fiourishing. Their,
{ are 1000 employees engaged in the lie
claire factories. and nearly all Of then
. own their own homes or are engaged
e in paying for them on easy paymen
+ plans.
p, On the first of the present year Mr.
; Nelson further elaborated his prof
J, sharing ideas to include the customer
b Of bis house and by withdrawing from
: any share in the dividends himself
. He has made a reservation In the an
: nual earnings. however, for the prose
: cution Of schemes Of practical philan
e thropy.
a Land Of Promise In East Africa.
!. A wonderful land Of promise, tn,
s land where one cannot be I'll, has beer
, discovered bv Major A ST John 9Th