Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-17
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was very short but wish to call at,
tention to the epigrams that were used
therein. An epigram, as under
stand the definition is a thought ex-
pressed in few words. That at least
| is one Of the definitions. He has
given us the cream of his life's ex-
perience in this, and I think that some
of those epigrams ought to be printed
by this association and placarded in
its meetings, hereafter / will leave
that to the resolutions committee.
There were some splendid things said.
There was one little thought
amongst them all that occurs to me,
and have seen the truth of it SO
often, and that is hand things, don't
| throw them Many times have been
offended by the clerk throwing the
package at me, throwing the change
!, at me, and tell you the customers
notice that. That thought struck me
as particularly apt. IN.
Mr.. Full: 81 think too, this is a
very Important paper and I admired
very much the language in which it
was written. 1t was very short but
right to the point. If there is anyone
else that has anything to say on the
paints raised we shall be glad to
hear them. We shall now call upon
Mr.. Geo. w. Wolbert for his paper on
Legitimate Trade.''
Webster defines Legitimate as au-
j thorized;; real; genuine not false, coun-
iterfeit or spurious. an
Conforming to known principles or acc
cepted rules i.
Following by logical sequence; reason
able.
He defines trade as the act or bust
ness OF changing commodities BY bar
ter, or by buying and selling for money;
commerce; traffic.
The business which a person has
learned and which he engages in for pro-
curing subsistence, or for profit; occu-
/ patton
/ The real business which person has
learned and which he engages in for
profit /"
For the purpose of this paper we will
TRY to treat the subject as: The real
business which a person has learned and
which he engages in for profit, conform
ling to known principles or accepted
ruless
When we say that person has
, learned a business we mean that he
knows the business in its details. Some
few men in this world have the faculty
OF grasping thoroughly a great many
details on various subjects. But the
ma OF us have all we can do to
/ learn thoroughly one or two lines OF
business, and that keeps us busy.
! We believe that more failures occur
/ on account Of lack of knowledge than
| from all other causes. If we will 90
! back to the early settlement of our ow1,
/ state we can recall that the majority of
1 the farmers who failed and left us were
men from the east who came here ex-
/ pecting because Uncle Sam gave them
/ one hundred and sixty acres of land that
God would provide the trade and crops.
Some of them never got their living
I long enough to get their patent from the
United States for the land. Why? Be
4 cause they. had never really learned their
trade as farmers. .3
A successful farmer would usually
make a good merchant. But we must
4 make start some place. and when a
man is a successful farmer he usually
/ will tell you that he was raised on a
| farm and that he has studied his trade
all his life. Therefore the many small
i details of his trade have been learned
il the best school of all experience.
Most OF us pay dearly for experience
| many times in our life. What right has
any of us TO go into farming as a bust
ness and then complain if we make a
i failure Of it? We have never learned
| the occupation and quit TOO soon when
diversity comes Our way
i We should first decide what we want
! . tto make our life business, and then com
nlcnce at the beginning of the trade
Z Some expect that their money purchases
4 this learning, but usually it purchases ex-
i perience and not learning.
I. 81 We should learn all the smallest de
Il tails of our business.
4 It has been said 4 little learning is
4 a dangerous thing. " Therefore let US give
4, our entire time to our business and al
A ways look after the many small things
1 which, added, make the large item, 81
1 profit
II Il is very seldom that you find a mar
fail III any business who started as a boy
SiEstd learn it and has always applied him
self with the end iii view that he mus
know it thoroughly to succeed. This in,