PUSH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1044, 21 April 1882, Page 4

PUSH.

'Som(THING moie than the “material” rami the ability is needed in the present, age of the world ; someth! g ’-more than stocking your office, putting up presses and laying in a supply o! ink ■.cardboard and paper.; something more than swinging out your sign to let tpassers hy know that “printing is done here,” something more than putting your imprint upon only artistic •work, and that is Push ! Two men of equal ability may start an the race and one far outstrip the -other. Success does not depend so ■much upon what one can do as showing it. It does not answer to throw out a line even with an attractive bait The public bitri cauti- • ous’y, especially when anything beyond the known and old-fashioned is ■offered, and they will not come to you except a hen driven by necessity. Push accomplishes wonders; when the want of it is productive of failure. “ Taking things 'easy” never yet amounted to •much. The hook that hangs dead or rests upon the bottom catches only suckers. It is the quick-moving, the alive, that attracts valuable fish. “ Waiting for something to turn up” (is a Micawbarism that does not answer in an age rushed along by steam ■and talking by lightning. You have cot to keep up with, keep at the head ■of the crowd, or you will be jostled aside, or mercilessly trampled under • foot. Human life now is something ■ofa stampede, and the weak and faltering are ground to nothingness. Push triumphs where sloth is beaten. It is the driving-wheel of the mighty engine of business thundering down the “incline” and lifting over the “ divide.” Push stands not hesitatingly on the brink waiting for the freshet to subside, but plunges in and grapples bravely for the prize. Pu hj -accomplishes while the lack of it is thinking how something can best be clone. Push is the lever that raises the load while hesitation is looking about for something that will answer for a fulcrum Push overleaps the chasm without waiting for the build ing of a bridge, and is us water to the wheel and electricity to the telegraph The man who would succeed must push his way along, not be content to be crowded by others. Business life is a race wheriu the majority desire to anive first at the goal; where there is little regard for the feelings of others ■where evu-y one is bent on doing the best possible for himself, and to his Satanic majesty is consigned the hindermost. Nowadays the fable of the thare and the tortoise is reversed. Rlovv plodding endeavour (as a rule) is •completely distanced, barriers are over leapt at a bound, and the slow process •of tunnelling is left to the blind mole, while the keen eyed eagle skims above the loftiest peas. Waiting is often failure. While we are idly thinking and dreaming another snatches the prize Little time is given for consideration. Decision lias to be promptly made. It will not answer to put it off until to-morrow; a thousand -chances and changes may occur before then. The action upon which the wot Id used to slowly and steadily re volve in the olden time appears to have been well lubricated; to have been supplied with a driving power and fiy-wlieel of matchless strength and size. Man pushes his way even from the cradle. The boy leaps into the place of the man and puts . n the harness of business before anything like the old believecl-in “ discretion” has come to his years. Business is one continual push, and each one engaged in it forces his way to the front rank, in a greater or less degree; like the regiment ot Adenitis Ward, all are captains or hold high offices, and there are no such things known as privates. The active, stirring, pushing business man soon becomes known, makes his mark, and prospers accordingly. He does not hesitate to grapple the grey-beard of Time by the foxvloek or give him a tumble after the most approved wrestler fashion. What if a touch of “cheek” is necessary? There is plenty of authority for its use. The master poet has wiitten : “In peace there Jnothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of war is heard, then summon up the tiger action,” and so it is in business. Very much of of modesty has to he ignored The lamp kept under a bushel shines not ■far and few see it. One needs the headlight of a locomotive to success fully combat opposition and keep business before the public. It does not do to cast aside even “cheek”—to •be remarkably modest. The times arc out o joint, so tar as that is concerned Man has to blow his own trumpet if he would he heard; has to literally fight his way to place and power ; and granting that he has the ability, the means and the will, lie must very soon learn he is driving a losing race, if he ■does not remember and act upon the words of the old saying, and “ push along, keep moving.”—Exchange