The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-14
gravest responsibilities Of your kind.
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gravest responsibilities Of your kind.
Sef-culture is another and equally
important element to success Educa-
ton commences at the cradle and
ends at the grave. The accumulated
labor of the world. its capital and
those who hold it called capitalists are
trustees for those who labor to day.
The laborer, the merchant, the manu-
facturer draw upon them for what they
require and pay them for its use.
without it the commerce and industry
OF the world cannot be conducted. and
therefore the workers and capitalists
meet on common ground. and, with
united effort, each contributing &C
cording to his station, carrying the
tide of business along. The worlds
accumulation of learning, the great
fields of knowledge are the common
heritage of all It is free to everyone.
There is no money tax upon the use of
it. Read books written by and about
great men. Study them well and di-
gest what you read. Read history, be-
cause it tells You of the struggles of
some of your race from barbaris,n to
civilization, from slavery to liberty,
from ignorance to knowledge. and
from cruel superstition to an enlight-
ened and broadening Christianity.
Read the lives of the workers of the
world, read the lives of the inventors,
read the biographies of the worlds re-
formers and do homage to their mem
cries by applying to your daily life the
great principles they advocated; let
their lofty character purify yours,
their courage move you, their selfish
ness strengthen you and their high as
pirations lead you.
The words success and failure are in
such constant use and have such a va
riety of application that the average
man or woman usually accords to them
narrow meaning and significance.
We say a merchant has failed when'hi
liabilities exceed his assets and his
business is terminated; that a banker
has failed when he has not sufficient
money at hand to meet the lawful de-
mands upon him; that lawyer has
failed when his clientage is too small
to support him; that a statesman has
failed when his government Or his con-
stituency withdraws support; that
nation has failed when ambition has
overstepped the limits of prudence and
disaster has followed.
We characterize the merchant as
successful when he has built up large
and profitable business; substantial
surplus and can promptly meet all law
full demands; the lawyer when he has a
large and profitable clientage, a brill
liant reputation and powerful personal
influence; the statesman when he is a
recognized leader of men, Trainer
of national politics and perhaps a
molder of nations. We characterize
powerful and prosperous. In brief, we
accord success to whatsoever measur-
ably reaches the goal Of ambition, and
we designate as failures, no matter
how exalted their aspirations, those
who do not produce material or tan
gible results. But this is not the kind
or success nor of failure that we are to
consider. The success we will conteIn-
plate in reviewing the elements that
are conducive to it has far deeper
significance and greater bearing on
the welfare of the human family than
any to which / have incidentally re-
ferred. We are the constituent part of
a community, persons with all the
hopes, ambitions and aspirations COM
mon to humanity.
There are those of us who have ac-
CURED wealth; others who have ac-
CURED learning; others again who have
made regulations; others who have
built up characters; few who have
these combined. Some have welded
influences for good, others for evil; but
for each and all of us the true measure
Of success is the influence each has ex-
ercised for good or evil upon the com
Is the general average high
er or lower because you have lived?
Has your influence as constituent
part of the community raised or low
cred the general standard? Would it
have been higher had you never been
born? Is it lowered because you have
failed to use or have misused the tai
ents with which by nature You were
endowed? Is it higher because you
have put these talents to good use?
Again there are 1.5O0. 000. 900 of us on
this great round earth-some naked
and some clothed. some savage and
some civilized, some ignorant and some
educated: few rich and many poor,
some selfish and some generous, some
yrasping and some charitable. some
powerful and many weak. This vast
luman cencourse has a general aver
lge in civilization, education, hopes
md aspirations. Is this general aver
lge raised or lowered by yonr individ
1al measure? CURTIS j. MAR
TnadInissible.
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