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Editorial
November 9, 1858
Mineral Point Tribune
Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin
What is this article about?
An editorial advises business men and mechanics to assertively demand payments owed, emphasizing independence and the right to one's hire despite potential rudeness from customers. It critiques those who resent being dunned as insignificant.
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To Business Men.
Every business man and mechanic, who has a proper appreciation of the true mode of doing business, ought to have impressed upon his memory the fact that no man should be delicate about asking for what is properly his due. If he neglects doing so, he is deficient in the spirit of independence which he should observe in all his actions. Rights are rights, and if not granted, should be demanded. The selfish world is little inclined to give him his own unless he have the manliness to claim it. The lack of proper fulfilment of this principle has lost to many, fortune, fame, and reputation.
Occasionally a customer, who is less a gentleman than an upstart, puts on haughty airs, and affects to be insulted at being dunned for money that he ought to have paid long before. No matter. The laborer is worthy of his hire. We know it is unpleasant to be dunned, and equally unpleasant to dun other people; nevertheless, circumstances sometimes require that we submit to both; but we would be sorry to get wrathy at a man because he asked us for his own, and a man is "very small potatoes" who will fly in a passion when we demand a small bill.
Every business man and mechanic, who has a proper appreciation of the true mode of doing business, ought to have impressed upon his memory the fact that no man should be delicate about asking for what is properly his due. If he neglects doing so, he is deficient in the spirit of independence which he should observe in all his actions. Rights are rights, and if not granted, should be demanded. The selfish world is little inclined to give him his own unless he have the manliness to claim it. The lack of proper fulfilment of this principle has lost to many, fortune, fame, and reputation.
Occasionally a customer, who is less a gentleman than an upstart, puts on haughty airs, and affects to be insulted at being dunned for money that he ought to have paid long before. No matter. The laborer is worthy of his hire. We know it is unpleasant to be dunned, and equally unpleasant to dun other people; nevertheless, circumstances sometimes require that we submit to both; but we would be sorry to get wrathy at a man because he asked us for his own, and a man is "very small potatoes" who will fly in a passion when we demand a small bill.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Reform
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Debt Collection
Business Independence
Demanding Rights
Laborer Hire
Dunning Customers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Encouraging Assertiveness In Demanding Payments Owed
Stance / Tone
Advocacy For Independence And Manliness In Business Dealings
Key Arguments
Business Men Should Not Be Delicate About Asking For What Is Due
Neglecting To Demand Rights Shows Deficiency In Independence
The World Is Selfish And Won't Give Unless Claimed
Lack Of This Principle Has Cost Many Fortune And Reputation
Customers May Act Haughty, But The Laborer Is Worthy Of His Hire
Dunning Is Unpleasant But Necessary
No One Should Get Angry At Being Asked For Their Own