Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Tooth and Responsibility, [ARTICLE]

Tooth and Responsibility,

By way of illustrating the opportunities, enterprise and rapid advancement of Industrious young men of America a city merchant tells the story of the ylait of an Englishman to a large wholesale house In Philadelphia. The English firm had been buy. Ing goods of the American house for years, and the traveling partner called to pay his respects. He went into the office, asked for the manager, and when he was presented, said hesitatingly and apologetically: “I—ah—beg your pardon, but I should like to see your father, the manager of the concern.” When the young man smilingly assured him that he was the manager of the house, the Englishman was amazed. Such a thing could be hardly possible In his own country, and be could not understand how so young a man could be entrusted with a position of such importance. ' Similar surprise and gratiflcatlon. were expressed by the correspondent of the London Clmes, who sent beck from America a series of brilliant papers on local economic conditions. He contrasted, favorably to the republic, the opportunities afforded to young men in America with the limitations and handicaps of youth in Europe, and paid the highest compliment to the business energy and sagacity of young American manhood.