Modern Eloquence: Vol Iii, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
Modern Eloquence: Vol Iii, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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We cannot too highly honor the temper of that generation of business menwho half a century ago sternly refused to compromise with any form ofdeceit in the details of traffic, visiting with the severest penaltiesthose who at all impinged upon the well-accepted morals of trade. Thestory is told of a young merchant who, beginning business some fiftyyears ago, overheard one day a clerk misrepresenting the quality of somemerchandise. He was instantly reprimanded and the article was unsold. The clerk... resigned his position at once, and told his employer that theman who did business that way could not last long. But the merchant didlast, and but lately died the possessor of the largest wealth evergathered in a single lifetime. Permit me another incident and this not from New York, but Philadelphia. One of the Copes had but just written his check for $50 for some localcharity, when a messenger announced the wreck of an East Indiamanbelonging to the firm, and that the ship and cargo were a total loss.
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