The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-17
A LETTER FROM HIGGINS.
How I Stand-- Where l Stand


Enemies QUICK to find fault
friends slow to praise"
A man may do a thousand good
deeds for his town, but let him ONLY
ONE TIME even apparently do wrong
and the one wrong hides the thou.
sand good deeds. When hardly
young man ! swung a cradle all
day long in the harvest field. The
parties who sat in the shade (the
company people, usually ate at the
first table. Tired and hungry |
patiently waited. l then SAID, what
find true. today: at is not the
fellow who labors by my side |
have to fear, but the fellow who
sits all day long in the shade who
takes his seat at the first table
while l wait" This is one of the
"Problems of Life" "Some men
labor, others enter into the re.
wards" was spoken over 1880 wears
ago
This is no complaint This may
be q hard old world, yet in its
final verdict it is just and correct.
l have great confidence in the right.
fulness of the conclusions of the
people. l am with the people. 1t
is the fellow who sits in the shade |
am against. When a mere boy |
heard lecture from a brilliant man
by the name of Whittier. His sub.
ect was "Daniel." He made these
points, fresh in my mind today
/. For the right, dare to stand
alone.
2. Against the wrong, dare to
stand alone.
3. Right protected Daniel, it will
you.
4. Never hear policy when princi
pie is involved.
; You may seem alone at first
and condemned, but a majority of
the world believes in right. "Dare
to be q Daniel; dare to stand alone. :"
This lecture made an impression
on my mind which has given com.
plexion to my whole life. l am
mean enough at best, but | have
never failed to do for the pu bic or
in any business affair what | be
lieved was right, if stood alone.
The great majority of the world be.
lieves in right, and finally will
"judge, not according to the ap.
pearance, but Judge righteous judg-
ment." After a two hours talk
with leading banker of Waco a
few days ago, in my own office, he
said, "You are an enigma to me.
hear you talk and am with you
in every conclusion, yet"-and
while the speaker did not make
himself clear to me, | took it that
his 'yet' meant, "when | am away
from you and hear men criticsing
you l am at sea-"
When Mary Queen of Scots was
being tried she exclaimed, Oh,
that l may look my accusers in the
face" l replied to this banker:
"You don't know me- eyes,"
said Mr.. Grady to lady once, 81
have warm heart, but very mean
rind around it,"
l have written advertisements
often, and men have put on feel
ing of revenge and resentment and
read them, supposing their feeling
represented me.
| HAVE NEVER TAKEN ADVANTAGE
OF MY PAID ADVERTISEMENTS TO
CRAFTY revenge or personal re-
sentiment TO ANYONE. If you have
imagined have then you are the
GUILTY party, not myself. My ad-
vertisements are written:
LIST. AS business gatherer and
builder.
End. As an evil corrector.
3rd. AS a q promoter of public
good.
4th. As a desire to do all the
good l can for my fellow men.
If my business ls not made better,
my FIRST and prime object is lost. Il
here say that no business could
have grown as has mine without
advertising.) If | have failed to
holm correot evils in our city govern