Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-06
AS TO BENG ONES OWN BOSS.
No Man, No Matter How High UP
Really Free To Do as He Pieases.

No Man, No Matter How High UP
Really Free To Do as He Pleases..
New York Sun.-"My impatient
nephew" sa d Uncle Bill, says that
what he wants is to be his own boss;
he's tired of working for other peo-
pie. He's tired Of hearing the boss
where he works say to him: Here,
Jim, do this or Do that or Hurry
UP now or Get a move on, or
What's the matter with YOU? Don't
go to sleep!' 1t makes him tired,
jim says, to be bossed around, anu
he wants to be his own boss.
Poor jim! He doesn't know that
nobody ever is his own boss in the
sense that he means, so that ne
can't be ordered around. Never was
a greater delus on. Lots OF people
think that if they can get one step
up. or get business of their own,
why. then they'd be free, be their
own boss; but goodness gracious,
no man in the world ever gets so
high up but what he still has boss
somebody or something over him.
Why. the earth itself that we live
on, | tell Jim, has a boss in the rest
of the universe Suppose the earth
should some day get tired OF being
bossed around, the way Jim does,
and say to itself
" I'm sick of this turning around
every day, just so, every "a hours
and following the same great circle
besides year after year. I'm sick OF
having to do this same old grind
day after day, and year after year,
being bossed around like this, and
I'm going to be my own boss
Suppose some day the impatient
earth should try this, should try
setting up on it's own account; why.
in about one minute and three-quar-
tiers the whole business would be
going to gol-dinged everlasting eter.
nal smash. and US along with it.
The fact is that there isn't anything
or anybody but what has something
or somebody over it or him. We
in the sense that Jim is thinking
OF, free to do what we like.
You take, for instance, Jim's
boss. Jim seems to have an idea
that his boss can do what he's a
mind to-: that he's the head of the
whole outfit and free to do as he
pleases; but heavens and earth! if
Jim's boss has got the gumption |
give him credit for he's got a hun
dred bosses, a boss in every Gus
toner that comes in.o the store. II
inns boss has the brains and com
mon sense that he appears to have
he treats every one Of these Gus
toners politely and squarely, puts up
with the peculiarities of every one
of them, whether he likes him or
not, serves every one of these hun
dred bosses to the very best of his
ability, just as Jim ought to serve
his one boss
But his customers are not the
only bosses Jim's boss has by a long
shot. Suppose Jim's boss. like many
another man. is doing business on
insufficient capital. Then he has to
borrow money to carry on his bust
ness: and every man that lends him
is sure enough his boss, and he may
be a hard boss
Suppose trade is dull and Jim's
boss has to get out and hustle for
business. Why, every man he meets
is his boss, after fashion, and many
of these bosses turn Jim's boss down
in a way that wouldn't please Jim
a bit.
"Jim's boss may even find it hard
sometimes to get together the money
to pay his help, Jim included on
Saturday night Humph, Jim wants
to be his own boss, He thinks if
he was he'd find life pleasanter. He
doesn't know.
''The fact is that no man in the