The Art of Money Getting Or Golden Rules For Making Money

In the United States where we have more land than people it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open so many vocations which are not crowded that any person of either sex who is willing at least for the time being to engage in any respectable occupation that offers may find lucrative employment. Those who really desire to attain an independence have only to set their minds upon it and adopt the proper means as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is as Dr. Franklin truly says as plain as the road to the mill. It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Micawber one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have annual income of twenty pounds per annum and spend twenty pounds and sixpence is to be the most miserable of men; whereas to have an income of only twenty pounds and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals.