The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-06-02


than to the more unreasoning accumu-
lation of fortune.
Men go on piIing up wealth and
struggling for riches more through
the force OF a habit acquired early IN a
business career. and they think it the
prime thing to do. and all their asso-
Citations and their training and the
very atmosphere in which they live
and work throb with this old, old fall
lacy and foster IL in Them
"And what do his millions, once ac-
CURED. bring him2 Troubles. troubles
and always troubles. AS he gets rich
sr 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.
rem nearly always have IN their poster
ity are nearly always lacking for him.
His childen are generally spendthrifts.
squandering heedlessly that for which
he surrendered all that is best in life
to accumulate. II 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
the evil genii conjured from the bottle
to be ever afterward a trlbuiation and
a menace to 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, harness that Is an igno.
bic bondage And he doesn't die in
the fullness of years and honors either.
for be has been SO confined to his desk
through the years that his health has
become shattered, but still bis thrai
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 yet moderately well off. hasn't
less care, less responsibility, less work
and more leisure, certainly more pleas
ure and more heart to do bis allotted
tasks.
'And when such captain Of indus
try, stepped 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 Laniers
lines.
''yvhen 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.
1.-THE real success iii life Is To make a
useful man. And the best way to at
tain 1t is always TO do the work in
hand the very best one knows how II
matters not what the work. how hum
Bile. how insignificant, how seemingly
unimportant, II it be done with this
thought ever uppermost it VIII bring
success to any man. And it will 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. !
have seen that proved many times in
this very house in the twenty-five years
that | have been at its head
1.-THE worker who IS content with
mere medlocrity OF doing his work just
well enough to hold his job has not the
elements of success In his makeup. He
IS not a useful man and never will be
while he holds to such an ideal, | am a
believer in common things. II man
does things well he is capable Of doing
equally well things that are not SO
common That man or woman who
works only under the spur of necessity
works from an unworthy motive, He
or she should work because work Is
Suots aDttttuct II VIII HIM MN uctIdi
to himself and useful to society, be-
cause it Is the law Of his being and
may not rightfully be evaded
.And that's fact and the end Of my
little sermon. continued Mr. Nelson,
with a genial smile. as he pointed to q
heap Of correspondence Just received
that day.
Mr.. Nelson Is an exponent of the CO.
operative or profit sharing system in
business. For nineteen years he has
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, About
twelve years ago he built the town Of
Leelaire, in Illinois, some twenty
miles northeast of st. Louis. All the
factories there are conducted on the
profit sharing system. and the village
itself Ii a cooperative institution.