The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-12
EASY TO MAKE MONEY.
Wealthy Chicago Man Says the Woods
 Are Full of Chances for YOung Men.

Wealthy Chicago Man Says the Woods
 Are Full of Chances
 for Young Men.
 One of tho most fallacious ideas in the world is contained in the complaint so often made to me. There isn't room for anything in our town; every things filled up." Perhaps five out of six hoys who leave their own home field there is exhausted and that busi- ness lines are impossible. Yet boy from a strange town jumps right in, finds place where he not only has paper would call "a long felt want.
 I often have wondered why it Is that the big, opportunities in cities. as well by outsiders. The home people go along in the old rutland if they are looking for business openings, or their t'e eye fl fixed on some town other business hypermetropy. The things close at hand are entirely overlooked. Se WSeEe h they can can %iocateS and com plaining bitterly that they have no chance" and that "a boy hasn't the I might stand for that except that I have heard their fathers and their grandfathers say the same thing. every eS town, Village. and hamlet in this country-even in the backwoods and along the back roads," chances simply waiting tS be grabbed SI whe Whey aTs are seeking opportunities gaze away toward the horizon and old Opportunity almost breaks panel knocking on the
 Only last week I met a young friend who had zone to the Klondike. then hurried to the Philippines, and pursued eRgor'rR1S tins Tieh in sreh his home town in the huckster business. Experience in the far West called his attention to poul- try, He : o that tn there hsrS,s Was non,srg 9rg In his own town. so he hurried back
 It has been my good fortune to combina ion gives an opportunity for Ses1fSlHk Ses1 a Kind UPr of fad with mewsince I hove how to o'1nsi make it. John w. Gates re- could ceSi d'G make Ike a million That is true Since got o6aor~s money enough Sshs to oean have e thousand chances to make a fortune Sometimes have been tempted to stop and add to my fortune-and once have yielded and made some more
 Perhaps it is harder. for the man see the chances than it Is for one who, like myself, has enough for himself and desires no great wealth, How ever I have seen scores of chances to make a competence from nothing and with practically no original in vestment I made my money in the first two ventures I entered. I worked hard, made the ventures go-and then retired.
 That explains why now I sometimes am pained to hear young men complain that they have no chance.
 Do not misunderstood me. I am not a ~ambler, nor do I even countenance | "get rich quick" schemes. In these statements I mean only legitimate busi- ness ventures. l am getting to be an old man. I am worth a quarter ! of a million of dollars, honestly made ] in honest business deals. spend 1 the interest-and then some. I never | gamble.
 wise boys and young men who come to me for advice Most of them have | come with a sort of idea that I would | back them financially. This I never | do. I simply tell them what I would | do. Sometimes I promise to .look around and see If can find an opening | for them Half of the time they | Iaueh at me for "an old crank" and 1 refuse the advice.