Year: 1875

The president of great company
whose work required the employment 0
sixteen hundred horses. said that tht
saving in a particular way of shoein!
their horses, made the whole profits o
I the concern. a young firm started il
the goldsmith S business The partners
were skillful in their business, ecomom
ical in their conduct, and had a good run
| of custom; yet,at the end of the year, the
have made nothing 1t was a puzzle
where the profits had gone. A skilled
workman employed by them had lons
| hair In chasing and otherwise cuttin g
| gold, he wiped his tool upon his we'll
oiled hair, and at night, when at home
he washed out the gold dust, and thus
was carrying Oft all the profits of the con-
| c1rn


| In the Government mint and in the
| assay office, the floor is covered by open
lattice frames, through the interstices of
which the dust and gold waste falls, and
| the sweepings afterward yield gold like a
gold mine.


These small wastes or savings must
always. determine the condition of the
great mass of men. By close economy {;
by frugal living; by patient and we'll
ordered industry and by the application
not only of intelligence (skill), but of the





dealing), men can rise slowly to compe-
tence, and even to affiuence Haste to be
rich, is an immortality of the most dan
gerous kind. 1t is an attempt to get
property without having given fair
equivalent for it. But earning property
is divine economic school,


The best uses of wealth are in the earn
ing of it. ii one earns rightly. To earn is
to plan, to labor. to combine, to foresee,
to be patient, to be selfdenying, to make
every element available. If man makes
money rightly then he makes a man of
himself in doing it.


One reason why the boys brought up on
New England farms are apt to turn out
well Is, they are brought up to work-to
hard work-under circumstances which
require them to take care Of every parti-
Gle of value They spend nothing, waste
nothing, turn to. use things which care
less folks would throw away, and so are
from early life disciplined to rigorous
economy, industry, and patience Along
this path men can still succeed.


The importation from the unnatural
conditions of the corrupt capitals of the
old world of reformers, who fill workmen
with discomfort, inspire them to do, not
as much but as little as they can, stuff
them with crude theories, teach them to
i've On Il SENSE VI Inc WRONGS WHICH So
ciety does to them, is doing a mischief to
workingmen beyond calculation. More
work, better work, more frugality and
economy, and patience to build up slowly
a sure competence, is the real wisdom.


Meanwhile, men waste little things
enough to make good profits. The TO-
bacco smoked away, the beer and whisky
drank, the bad cooking by which guam
titles of food are wasted or made indi-
gestible, the lettering and expensive side
pleasures of lile-these consume the
profits, and leave tens of thousands of
men at the end OF the year just where
they were at the beginning. More work,
and fewer wastes Better work. and less
cheating Longer patience, and less
grumbling A manly reliance on a mans
own self, and less whining about society
And above ALL liberty for every man to
do what he can do best, and to3 sell his
labor or product where he can sell to best
advantage.