The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN.
THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE
POSSIBILITIES BEFORE YOUNG
MAN OF TODAY,
And Yals's Venerable Ex President Has
Started Many Young Man on
the Right Track.

In Inc DAYS oil the empire IN FraOce
it was the proud boast of the nation
that marshaps baton was in the
knapseck of every soldier. In this
country and liz these days we have q
grander and a prouder boast. No
OF our possibilities and no imperial
within marks the boundaries beyond
which we may not aim. In our high
civilization and more perfect govern.
men we are the creators OF our posi-.
tions. No accidental circumstances
OF birth or condition bar
our ambitions. We are equal in
citizenship and in the relations OF
lile's rewards one man is successful
beyond lhe other only in so much
as no makes himself. All fields are
open and the harvest is to the Que
who works most diligently and in.
dustriously. In the country where
our lot is cast, we enjoy advantag es
that to others are lost, out these very
advantages are but the fruits of the
brain ANA Drawn OF our fathers and
ourselves, who in a truly kepu bllcan
form of government aud an euligDt-
ened administration OF the laws, ha Va
crystaliZed their wisdom and their
experiences.
We enjoy rare privileges that Others
do not. Ours is the heritage of a giO.
ri0us past, and present that is ever
up and ready for the future. We are
something more than mere workers
We toll through the early years that
our ambition may bear its tru and
bring US honor aud competence
when the shadows will have begun to
grow heightened, There is All Indi.
vidual ambition in US that makes us
the peer OF any people on the globe.
We are not content to sit our lives out
working at the iOOtstOOls OF others
The mechanic aims to be master,
the painter an artist, the clerk mer-
chant, the labOrer that he may gam
recognition, and as ii is physically,
so it is Intellectually. In the march
toward progress we must keep pace
with the leaders or fall back into u
mediocrity that is entirely inconsis.
tent with the spirit of Americauism.
The drones, however, are few in-
deed. In the high positions of honor
aud trust filed with men not yet in
the zenith of their lives, In The well
filled classes in which young men and
young women spend tho evening
hours in study, in the libraries that
are patrOuzed to their full capacity,
aye, and in even the humbIest Ameri-
can home, there is evidence that the
parents and their sons aud daughters
realize that mind is the ruling power
in this newer and greater world. We
have passed the ruder stages of civil.
cation, aud wbat best fits man TO
grapple with living issues, what best
enables him to discern improvement,
to suggest inventions, to cope with
others whose only capital is brains
that is what tells in lite, and the more
varied the accomplishments, the
greater the possibilities. In this
connection we suggest to young men
aud strongly recommend the EucyclO.
p1dia Britannica which is now offered
at such extraordinary terms by THE
STATESMAN. There is no field in he
world OF either mental or physical ac-
tivity which it does not cover 1t ia
the result of the critical labor of the
best scholars, a compilation of history,
the story OF the achievements of years,
a panorama in which scenes are
called up, filled with information that
40 college course can give. 1t is an
in itself No mau needs
any other library, no man could have
q batter Oue.