The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-12-01
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE r. TINAN.
The Official Pauer Of BruIe County.
APopularrnllncy,

tli6 UlliGidI TdUtI VI 0Iul6 UUuillvl
APopularEnlIncy.
Every man finds his level. Modest
worth is always acknowledged, and the
man OF ability eventually comes to the
'front.'"
This is popular fallacy. Not only
that but, the GRAPHIC regrets to say it,,
it is lie and bald headed lie at that.
Some man has told us if we modestly
take back seat the master of the feast
will come, shake us by the hands, pin u
floor managers badge on our breast and
bring us up to seat near the orchestra;
but il we take reserved seat in front,
an usher will come and lead us by the
ear to a rear bench down by the door
where the draft will blow OH us and
give us a crick in the neck. We quote
the foregoing from memory. so those
may not be the exact words of the wise
man, but they express his idea sufficient
ly we'll for our purpose. In his day and
generation lie may have been right. but
he did not live in the United States OF
North America in the nineteenth CEN
tury.
Long ago, in the deceased past, when
modesty and humility were virtues and
when success and victory fought for a
perching place on the banners Of the
weak and lowly, then the office used 10
| seek the man, was wont to pursue him
in the obscarity of his retirement and
set him up in high places. But it is not
so now; alas! i; is not SO.
| The man who deceives himself by be-
lief in the popular fallacy, that II he
waits, is worth will eventually be recog.
nizad. will get left, and it will be cold
day for him right along through all sea,
sons. The attention of the world is
engaged by the man of cheek and push
ing charlatan. The worlds attention is
attracted by the noise made by the man
of brass, and it has no time to search
around for the obscure and modest
genius.
To be successful in these times IL man
must own horn and toot it, and toot il
continually. To get a front seat we
must walk in. push our way past slower
men, and take the seat, and we must
look as if we not only owned it but had
a mortgage on all the private boxes, aud
could occupy any OF them if we so de.
sired.
The man who wants to succeed must
struggle for a front seat whether lie has
a right to 1t or not, and even il he has to
joslle the real owner and put his umbrella
down on his soft corn. Once in while
he may get set back where he belongs
but he will get in front oftener than ii
he should wait to be invited forward. He
does not wait for someone to find out his
| merits and blazon them forth to an al.
mirlng world. He blazons them himself
He writes letter to local newspaper
and signes it MANY Voters" and in the
letter he speaks of himself as "Oul
esteemed fellow citizen" tile coming
man, zone who would reflect honor on
any position within the gift OF the people
etc, etc.
The modest man blooms unseen and
lets concealment of his worth, like a
worm. feed on the place where his Da.
mascus steel cheek should be. Among a
small circle Of aquaintances lie is appre.
ciated. and he is sometimes made Il
school director or a second vice president
of society for the Prevention of Some
thing or Other. On the whole, however
he is NEGLECTED. and left sitting on bacl;
seat near the window with broken
pane.
| The world has not time to analyze
character, weigh merit, and to decide as
to the relative ability OF men. This is a
fast, hurrying, rushing world Of ours and
is very much influenced by the value a
man sets on himself. Ii he says: Il am
a great orator, or a learned politician y
the world is apt TO take it for granted
that he is rather than go to the trouble
of holding civil service examination
on his merits. II he says: 81 am a poor
weak worm Of the dust" the world will
say: you look like one; get out Of the
way"
| And that is why we say that the come.
up-higher-th0u-art-man-o of-mcritidea is
Il popular fallacy. If you wish to reach
eminence quickly in any walk Of life
you must assume virtues you have moi
and claim tlatyo merits and abilities
are the only genuine non-corroslve in
the market. warranted strictly pure ant
free from ammonia and other deliterions
drugs.
i 1t is rather worldly view Of the mat
ter, the GRAPHIC takes, and not over.
loaded with moral ethics, but there ii
truth enough in it to make it bulge Out
at the edges and splitup the seams.