San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-28

the work out OF the hands Of an
other? Verify not. 1t was the
man who improved his talents
whol was given the one talent,
taken away from the lazy man
who would not use it. 1t would
have been a nice thing, would it
not, to take the five talents from
the man who improved upon them
and give them to the one lazy fell
low who kept his tied up in nap
kin?
Descending from generals to par
ticulars, what license have you to
mind the business of another? By
whom were you commissioned to
act as inquisitor general OF the so.
ciety in which you move? What
license have you from either God
Man or the Devil to poke your nose
in the. affairs of other people?. 1t is
true that there is no law against a
man making an idiot Of himself,
but there is a law against nuisan-
ces, and that law applies to every
man who does not know enough to
know that he has no business to
poke his little inquisitiveness into
the affairs of others. Such men
should be compelled to carry a sign
warning the general public that
they are nuisances. Every one Of
these fellows live in Commit o
Nuisance" street and should be
avoided as nuisance.
The man who does not mind his
own business, simply advertises
his own vacuity of mind. Every
prying questionithat he.asks is on
ly a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his
own emptiness. Children and fools
were made toSask Questions. Men
were made:to answer them. What
concern lsft of yours what the pri-
vateliISof your neighbor is? So
long fs:they pass muster on the
Outside, so long they have all the
credentials that society" can issue,
ySnd that.is all that you have any
'rightito:know. Your intimate &C.
gu aintances with them is your own
affair, andlyou seek it or not as you
desire, but you are not authorized
to 60 behind the returns and ask
i'm neutrality-suspicious..
Everyi: mans mind is his own
peculiar possession. Every mans
home is his castle. Every mans
ms ide Is that one side that the out
side has no business with. Only
80 far as.the outward.acts Of others
help or hurt or hinder you have
you any concern with them, and
not always then. 1t is not because
the lives of others are evil, or de-
signing, or immoral that you are
to hold your inquisitiveness aloof
from them, but on the broad
groundlthat it is none of your bust
ness. It is not because there is a
skeleton in the closet OF your
neighbor.that you are to keep your
eye away from the keyhole, but
because it is the closet OF your
neighbor and your eye has no bust
ess either at the keyhole or at the
crack in the door.
You are to refrain from minding
the business Of your neighbor, not
because you will get your head
cracked il you do not, but because
you will get your manhood low
cred, your dignity Of character
upset into the mud, your own self
IoSPoS0 DAOhoh upOh Oho "AOOi vi
an Observation-Disclosures. You
are not to mind the business oil
others, because you have no right
to, becauselby doing so you fail to
attend to your own business and
prevent him from minding his
because it is too mean business
for a man to be engaged in, be
cause it advertises you as an in
quisitive nuisance, whom all de
cent people avoid as they woulC
the plague orr the smallpox or thu
leprosy.
You are to mind your business
because there is no one else to d.
it, and it is worth minding or i
would not be given you. You ar
to mind your own business, be