Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-09-27

world values, and attain it by other
than openly nefarious means; on these
conditions he is sure Of the worlds en-
dorsement. Nothing which is directly
and absolutely injurious to society,
whether in the end or the means, will
be tolerated; but the easy-going public
will wink at great deal of selfshness
in regard to the end obtained, and
great deal of unscrupulousness regard
ing the means used, and bestow its ap-
proving smile on the ability which
knows how to carry its point against
opposing odds. 1t says virtually: " Be
honest. if you can just as well as not,
but at any rate be smart" The es-
sence, therefore, of outward success
does not lie in the mere gaining of
your object, though this is also neces-
sary, but rather in the public recogni-
ton, admiration and endorsement that
follow it, or, in other words, the APP
proving suffrage Of mankind.
But the inward success to which
reference was made is absolutely indie
pendent of the worlds suffrage, and
yet he wins it who secures his own
suffrage. His one vote outweighs the
vote Of millions. If the end he aims
at are high and unselfish, and if the
means he uses are noble and pure,
and if he devotes himself to the ac-
complishment of such ends by such
means with his whole heart, he in
wardly succeeds. He secures the ap.
proval of an Incorruptible Judge and
wins the suffrage of his own soul. He
attains the end he really proposes to
accomplish, the appreciation of his
own conscience. Nor is any degree of
outward success at all essential to this
inward success. He may even draw
down storm of derision on his own
head, and the world may hiss and
shout, "a failure! A failure" as it has
greeted the most inwardly successful
men in past ages, but if the inward
oracle of the breast casts its one
vote approvingly, it stands true as the
eternal truth itself, that, though the
mans attempt may be failure, the
man himself is success.
> 1t is thus two kinds of success offer
themselves to human ambition. The
one is outward, depends on the act
ual accomplishment of the outer ends,
consists in the admiring approval or
suffrage of mankind. But the ends
may be low and the suffrage of man
kind may be lie. The other kind of
success is inward, depends on earnest
effort to realize worthy and noble ends,
and consists in the approving suffrage
of the individual soul. 1t matters alb
solutely nothing whether mankind en-
dorse it or not. 1t is indeed a delight
to receive the appreciation of others in
the pursuit OF wise and noble objects
the sympathy OF the good and upright
is encouragement of the most desira-
bic character. But even this can be
dispensed with, if necessary. Hated
by the bad, misunderstood and con-
demned by the good, there are still
left to him a pure and noble purpose
and conscious rectitude, infinite depths
of joy and satisfaction. His life may
be a succession of outward defeats, but
he himself knows it to be inwardly a
victory and success. Which of these
two kinds of success q man prefers
reveals of what stuff he is made. 1t
is not always necessary to sacrifice
either. No doubt there have been
many signally successful in the eyes
of the world, yet equally SO in the eye
of the judge within him, but nine
times out of ten the man who is enam-
orcd of outward success will find him
self driven to customary violation of
his ideal, until at last he is scarcely
conscious Of his own frequent lapses
from manly, noble principles. That is
. crucial test of character which brings
man suddenly to himself and COM
pels him to choose deliberately be-
tween the outward prize he covets
and the inward law of rectitude he in
wardly discerns. If he decides it to be
impractical and visionary to govern
the transactions of common life by the
highest standard of morality and then
proceeds to act accordingly, he will no
doubt find himself one of the great
army of millions, all of the same mind
and all practising the same morals;
but he as surely writes himself one Of
those who Lctray their own souls.
How much greater, nobler and more
manly TO be like Socrates, who cheer
fully preferred death rather than sully
his respect with conformity with evil,
and stand self-condemned.
A man may prefer whichever he
pleases, the outward or the inward
success, but in 80 doing he selects his
companions, who will make him in
creasingly like themselves. The choice
will speedily rank him with the moral
ly great or the morally small, assimi-
late him with them and write itself
out in every trait of his character.
We classify ourselves by the ideal we
adopt.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
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After the succession of disastrous
fires that swept over the coast the past
season, public attention was drawn to
the necessity of providing adequate
means for the protection of property
from this destroyer as it never had
been before. 1t was an object-lesson
fiat III o1,,1I