Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10
THE FRICTION IN PHILANTHROPIC
ENDEAVeR.

Referring to the binding over of Mr..
Stead, the Grass Valley Tidings remarks
that there have been many good people
Directing in England to Stead's work
They hold that it would have been far bet
ter to have left the evil he assailed unmo-
Tested better to have suffered it, than to
have printed the disclosures he made. 1t
adds "There never yet was an evil of
gigantic prevalence but that some good
people said the same thing when somebody
tried to uncoverthe iniquity" Very true
But that should discourage none who en-
gage in any work that is clearly for the
good of men. II is also true, and german
to this subject, that no good work was ever
yet engaged into this there is not a soi-
tary exception-no matter how unselfishly,
that there did not arise fair proportion of
good people-otherwise questioned
the motives and belittled the purposes Of
the workers. No endeavor was ever vet
made by men that their aims were not the
subjects of suspicion and antagonism by
some who should have been co-workers
with them. If men and women take keen
intellectual pleasure in public educational
works or reforms; if they have broad
philanthropic sympathy with plans to adj
vance material prosperity; if they engage
in confessedly beneficial schemes to pro-
mote knowledge and diffuse information
If they labor to enhance social compensa-
lions for the wear and tear of business life:
if their endeavor is to contribute to the
intellectual qualifications and the culture
OF the communities where they live; if
they seek to clear from the path of youth
the obstacles they have themselves en-
countered-no matter how lofty their plans
of action, however disinterested their mo-
tives, and however unselfish their labors
they will be by some people misunderstood.
suspected and misrepresented, whose respect
and aid they especially desire. These things
are expected by all those who are not con-
tent to be mere mutes and to occupy mega
tive positions in life. There can be no
activity without some friction, no progress
without some opposition, no advancement
unless some obstacles are overcome. no I'M
selfish eudeavor without some misinterpre-
tation of it. 1t is best that it should be
50. 1t proves the metal of real workers.
and develops truth, the economies of life
and the abilities of men sooner and to
better purpose than if all were of one mind
and one purpose. Envy, suspicion and
Jealousy are not without their values
They are the contrasts by which eeuer-
osity, philanthropy and love for mankind
are made the more prominent Mr.. Stead
has done a great, good work, whatever his
motives, the results have been beneficial
to his race. BE can afford to suffer under
Misrepresentation, abuse and the assaults
of calumny. The truth viii justify him.
and the final judgment of the world viii
write him down reformer worthy the
thank-oaerings of men. Ifhe cannot wait
for posterity to do him Justice he lacks the
spirit Of. which true reformers are possessed.
The men and women who take up good
work are unfit for its honors if they Law it
down because some good people object.
There are always such obstructionists. as
Stead has found, and there always viii be-