YOUNG MEN AND SUCCESS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

YOUNG MEN AND SUCCESS

BY A MAN OF THE WOELD. Whenever akich man dies, a man who has risen from obscure poverty to great wealth, it is a common thing for young tpere were lots of chances, But ;l a mail men to say, “Oh, yes, he started when can’t do that sort of thing now.” Blit the truth is “the times that are are like the times that “have been. VVhen a young man sits down and be, littles the times in which he lives, and wails about “the good old times when men had a chance," it is a pretty geod indication, not 'that the times are wrong, but that the young man is either .incompetent or indolept.

The fact that a young man'is poor is ppt a hindrance, and never was. On the contrary, “povertv is the finest inheritance U ypung man can have. No combination can be better than poverty and good health to a young man who wants to carve his way in the world, The young man to be pitied is he of means who knows no stimulus “to the best endeavour. But the ypupg fellow who inherits poverty is to be congratulated. ' He has what all men who have risen in the world “had to push them op, to make them mighty. The finest process of character-building through which a man can “pees is that of poverty. It is a priceless stimulus. There i§ po condition of mind’so fatal to a young man as that which puts him out of sorts with the times fin which he lives. The most useless men* in the world to-day are the unsuccessful loafers who regard the riches of others as an insult to themselves. The young fellow who has anything in him never stops tp regard other people except as he 'can learn from them. He has np time tp abuse the methods pf others,

A yeung man is “pot kept dowp because he is poop. The demand for brains to-dav is' too great. A young man of capacity, industry “and integrity has a field for indh vidual effort such as has never before existed. And success is neither harder no? easier than it ever was. Success never yet came to the laggard, and it never krill. Let a young man be eSßahle: have pm terptise. be willing to »work, and carry himself like a man, and ha goes where he wil}. His success depends upon himself,

The real trouble is that the average yoiing man won't work. Ha has got the insane potion ipto -his head that success comes by luck t that men are made by opportunities which either qome to them or are thrust upon them. And he waits for luck or ’a’ chance to come along and find him. Or he dissipates Jus energies in profitless channels. Instead cl using every moment p| his time he wastes hours in sensual pleasures tor wb‘ c b a ypupg fellow with the right stuff in him has so time, Instead pf defying and dismissing temptation he courts it. winks at |t. plays with it. Instead of placing dress apd ai»u§em e ftt in their pro per relative position be takes them opt 01 their places and lets them bold a wrong value ip his life, Instead of psing'his time in learning from other men he wastes his breath ip idle lamentations. Instead of taking a sane view of conditions, and seeing with a dear mind that as trade widens opportunities increase, he takes the mistaken view that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, These are the conditions of mind and life which are keeping thousands pf young men down,, and will ‘keep them down. The times are all right. It is the young men whp finds fault with ’then* who is not- " Scotsman.”