The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-14

the man who was TO deliver the lecture had
been drunk two davs before at neighboring
town. and when sized up the Whole situa-
tion came to the conclusion that a man
who would dare get up in front of that class
of men and speak TO them about the evil
of intemperance was man possessed OF
great backbone. And Benson was that man
When the time came he walked out to a
small gathering and did not request that
they listen to him. but commanded hear
ing without any introduction he admitted
that he had been drunk, as the poster
stated. and then he gave TO that body of
mel, the strongest temperance lecture that
vas ever heard by man. He pictured TO
them where he had fought a hard battle
with WhiskS, and he had been fighting II for
years. as L was his worst enemy. Those
distillers stood there and listened intently
for three hours while Benson poured into
their ears the curses of the awful whisky
traffic. They crowded so close to him bent
did not have room TO move his arms Such
a man SIS that takes a stand and with such
a stand he will succeed
A STORY OF GARRETT.
There is an interesting story told about
John W. Garrett, the great railroad man,
visiting the scene of the wreck. He got
in the way of a workman who threatened
to throw him out OF the way Garrett told
the man who he was and that he was his
superior, but that did not change the atti-
tude of the workman. His duty was there
to perform and he did it. Garrett did not
discharge the man, as he threatened to do,
but instead promoted him. He was pro-
NOTED again and again until now he is presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company. That man possessed the courage
of his own conviction and he allowed moth
ing to stand in the way of his duty. The
man without the courage of his convictions
will never succeed. But with the courage
of conviction a man should also have COM
Il, e II,
acter is the strength of his weakest hour,
as the strength of a big chain is just the
strength of its weakest link Success and
failure depend upon that weakest hour with
all men.
THE world is full of people who know
more than you do. But if man knows
a thing and knows that he is right he
| should stick by it. Many men claim that
| conditions are against their success, but If
they have the man in them, I will they
| formed the world and no one knows of the
wonderful things that Will occur in the
next century by the hand of that same
man There has been greater development
| in the world in the past fifty years than in
| the preceding two thousand years. A pretty
example of the man who says Il will is
| told in the story of the engineer on a train
| running over a road in the Allegheny noun
| tains some time ago who saved his train
| load of human freight by wonderful eX-
| ample of herosm He noticed in the far
| distance a broken freight train coming
| around the mountain at a terrific speed
| anu lie cdlieu LOT he Train COtnlnS
| 70 n standstill. he told the fireman to jump
and the engine was cut off from the train.
| He then pushed the lever and ran his en-
| CINE to meet the freight train They came
| together with terrible crash and the cars
| rolled down the mountain side. But a dis
| astrous wreck that would have cost many
| lives was averted. When the engineer died
| his funeral was attended by many Of the
| persons who were on his train that event
| full day. handsome monument was also
| erected on the side of the mountain to the
| man who said 4 viii and had the back
| bone to carry II out"