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bitter herbs of the democratic field ,
which has been summer fallowed for
lo , these many years.
Conservative.
But J. Sterling Morton is too bright
and keen to have his light hid under a
bushel. In The Conservative , week
after week , he cuts to the quick these
fnsiou-free-silver delnsionists , and his
keen pen is opening the eyes of all con
servative men. He hates deraagoguery
and he despises political trimmers. We
doubt much whether there is a more
self-contented individual , or one who
gleans more genuine satisfaction from
his writings , in the state of Nebraska ,
than the genial and able editor of The
Conservative , which is read by from
12,000 to 15,000 thinking men in the
United States every week. Crete Vi-
s dette , Sept. oth , 1901.
BISHOP POTTER ON THE INDUSTRIAL
PROBLEM.
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i Bishop Potter , interviewed at Lake
Placid , made these among many re
marks upon the subject of the industrial
problem :
"Unionism which would beat down
all workers to a dead level of skill and
effort would be as harmful as the cor
porate management that would beat
down all workers to the level of un
skilled laborers.
iu "To maintain industrial ascendency a
It constant upward growth of master
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workmen from the ranks of the toilers
is necessary. "
It is all but certain that under modern
industrial conditions of world compe
tition no corporate power could possibly
beat down workers or prevent merit
from rising. There might be success in
this direction for a time or in some
particular industry. But industrial
capital is so helpless without brains that
the attempt to crush skill could succeed
generally only through a previous gen
eral decay of the civilization of the
whole world.
In the same paper with the Potter interview -
\ \ terview was this extract from the of
ficial report of Dr. von Halle , the special
commissioner of the Imperial German
Admiralty :
"America's strongest advantage over
England ( in ship-building ) is her free
dom from the tyranny of the British
workingman , whose mistaken hostility
to modern practices may eventually
crowd John Bull out of the struggle. "
Here is a hint of a danger against
which our workingman must guard. In
planning against perils from without ,
real or fancied , or part real and part
fancied , he ought not to neglect the
perils from within that are very real in
deed. Industrial asceudeuoy depends
upon this watchfulness , as Dr. Potter
well says. But that is not all , or even
most important. Above and beyond in-
dnstrial ascendency is the cause of it ,
individual liberty the prize for which
the common man has been striving so
desperately through the ages. New
York World.
WHAT MAKES SUCCESS ?
At the hottest hour of one of the
very hottest July days a man who some
times writes for this column , was walk
ing about John Wanamaker's big New
York store.
In spite of the heat the store was
filled with men and women ; the inac
tivity and dullness associated with mid
summer were not visible.
It appeared that in that busy spot
there might be found some answer to
the question :
"What makes success ? "
Thousands of volumes have been de
voted to analyses of success , to abstract
speculation on the qualities that make
men win in the race in which so many
are defeated.
Talk of success is perhaps useful ; the
actual study of success is more useful
ten thousand times over.
Ho who reads a dissertation on how
to paint or how to be a sculptor may
learn something , but he will never be a
painter or a sculptor until he
has actually studied the work of a great
artist. Get out your encyclopaedia and
read a few chapters about Claude Lor
raine , who expected to devote all his life
to the pastry cook business , but acci
dentally got a chance by working in an
artist's studio to make of himself the
greatest painter of landscapes that has
ever lived.
Instead of discussing success as us
ual , we shall try to give you here a
chance actually TO LOOK at success
for yourself.
"Was Mr. Ogden , " head of the New
York Wanamaker store , "in his office ? "
"No , he was not. But Mr. Wana
maker was there , if he would do as
well. "
Mr. Wanama'ker , more than sixty
years old , and possessed of a very large
fortune , was working in a thin alpaca
coat , in the imitation breeze of an
electric fan.
A stenographer was taking his or
ders , heads of departments were coming
in and out with reports or asking for
instruction and ideas.
From the hot bricks and paving stones
outside , the air rose in curling waves as
from a hot stove.
At that hour many thousand old and
young men who wonder why they do
riot succeed were busy seeking the cool
est corners at seaside resorts , or the cool
est drinks in drinking establishments.
Mr. Wanamaker did not care to talk
about how to succeed , but he did a good
deal better he showed how to succeed.
"I am here , " said he , "because we are
preparing for our usual great sale of
furniture , and the best man that we can
got must work at it.
"I am here because I want the very
best man , Mr. Ogden , to stay away. He
is on his vacation. If I were not at the.
store he could not possibly be persuaded
to go even for a short time. I am hop
ing by staying here and working every
day to make him feel comfortable and
make him willing to stay in the country
at least a week or two more. "
The secret of success is told by Mr.
Wanamaker in extremely few words
and without any theorizing. The se
cret , as he exemplified it on that hot day
the perspiration rolling off his forehead ,
is the secret not only for the young and
unsuccessful , but for th'e old who won
der that their success does not stick to
them.
The greatest thing in the world the
one great thing is energy. Energy
moves the biggest sun on its journey ,
and it moves the tiny ant that you see
tugging desperately backward , drag
ging his dead caterpillar.
Work is the great secret of success.
John Wanamaker , the essentially suc
cessful man , was working , working
harder than anyone else in the store.
The second great essential to success
of the higher kind is appreciation of
the efforts of others.
Man in gregarious , and in his efforts
he depends on the co-operation of his
fellow beings.
That man is apt to get furthest on the
path of success who appreciates and
proves his appreciation of other men
and women who help him.
Many men who succeed forget this
rule and , blinded by their own conceit ,
lose interest in their helpers and become
ungrateful directly in proportion to
their own prosperity.
John Wanamaker was working very
hard and sitting all day long in the hot
test weather at another man's desk be
cause he knew that that other man had
done a great deal to help him , and , be
cause he knew the only way to persuade
the other man to take the rest that he
needed was to put that man at ease by.
working in his stead.
If you will imagine in your mind's
eye John Wanamaker working hi New
York City in mid-summer , that his
ablest assistant might rest ; while all the
members of his family and all of his
friends were away enjoying life and
cool breezes , you will have in your own
mind a picture of "How to Succeed. "
It would add nothing to this to talk
to you about getting up early , picking
pins off the floor in your boyhood , or
any of the usual commonplaces about
succeeding.
Chicago American , Sept. 10 , 1901.
There isn't a northern state where
Demooratio success is expected this fall ,
yet the elections may throw some light
upon the question which Senator For-
aker raises , whether the Democratic
party has been born again. Springfield
( Mass. ) Republican.