The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-10-10
THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS.
Don't Be MeddIesome or Argumentativ,
with Other Peoples Affairs.

1 Don't Be DIeddIesOme or Argumentative
With Other Peoples Affairs.
The person of even average moral
sense has a general understanding of
the fact that his neighbours house,
trees and material goods are objects
| toward which he should show respect
/ by the simple process of letting alone.
/ The right to alter the color of his
/ hOuse, to order the pruning of his
trees, etc, are recognized to be mat
tiers solely under control of their
/ owner.
But in matters less material, vet
more personal, there is a great lack Of
| respect shown il our dealings with
one another.
Persons who would resent being
called discourtcOus, persons who in the
main are kind of heart, and even gen.
/ erOus with their money, are often sad
/ ly wanting in charitable Judgment of
their neighbours opinions and a proper
sense Of their peculiarities.
Too commonly the fact is ignored
that a mans opinions and convictions
are his private personal matter, with
/ which no one else has a right to med
| die.
A man may hold with all the fervor
of heart and strength of mind of
which he is capable the principles Of
Professionalism, but that is no reason why
! he should assail the belief of his Cath
Ole neighbOr Indeed, it is an excel
ent reason why he should not do so,
! but, instead, should extend the tOlera-
ton supposed to be a part of his re-
| igion.
A man may believe in homeopathy
to the highest dilutiOn, but that belief
! does not entitle him to the privilege
of calling his neighbOr to account be-
cause he chooses to seek relief by
means of mercury and quinine in as
heroic doses as he may fancy.
So in politics, the spending Of money
in social life, in dress and education,
each one should scrupulously avoid
acting as the censor of others who May
| differ from himself
! Least of all is one privileged while
n guest to attack the opinions of the
family whose hospitality he enjoys.
| When, for any reason, he can not ac-
| quiesce in the family regulations let
him depart, and not try to reform the
family to his standard of propricty.
By calm personal arguments, or by
the force of example, one may try to
/ convince opotl,,y. +I,,+ hi rr,y- =, - n.
| better, but a true courtesy requires
| that he shall not, Unasked, present his
/ opinions, when to 90 so will wound
and not alter in the slightest degree
the course of his opponent.
Nor let any one flatter himself that
because a man is loud of voice and
blunt in speech, ever ready with cruel
| judgment of others and free with ad-
| vice on all matters, that he will pleas
antly accept such treatment from 9TH
ers, for he is quite as likely to reseE:
| interference with his affairs as the
man of gentler speech and greater
charity.
1t is so easy to form the habit Of
meddlesomeness and to persuade ones
self into the belief that ones mission
is to be a private investigator and
public advisor" that one is apt to for
| get that in the regulation of ones own
conduct life presents enough perplex-
ing problems without trcspassing upon
the rights OF others in a mistaken zeal
| to convert them to a better use.
In short, let no one be so intent upon
the mote in the eye OF his neighbOr
that he will forget the beam in his own.
| - DrlLcLIol Of Inn ...tnr