The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-29


 thinker has the lions share of the pro-
 duct, and why not?
 The great difference between men q had almost said the only difference) is
 in what they think; in the way they
 look at things. The difference in men
 is as much In what they think of them-
 selves, of their surroundings and their 1 opportunities as it is difference in
 ability or of opportunity. l have come
 to believe that thought carries one up 1 or down, as we elect; that As a man
 thinketh, so is he;" that what a man | thinks, he becomes. His belief in his
 ability to surmount obstacles is half the
 battle. The man who thinks he can
 change his environments probably can
 and will If he thinks he cannot, he | cannot The man who thinks he is of
 no account, that he is injured by the ta-
 riff and by Ricardes, law of rent, and
 is held down by his boss who believes there is not money enough in circula- ton to go around, and that he Is being
 crowded and trodden upon, will shortly reflect this in his life.
 | would open up opportunities, of course, but beside this, and above this,
 1 would teach people that they have within them the power to control their own environment; that instead of being | miserable worms of the dust, they are made a Little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor"
 that they have the power to do and to
 be all that any one can do or be.
 Teach them to control their environ
 ments instead of letting their environ
 ments control them. Teach them how
 to think and by thinking make the best
 of their many opportunities. Drive
 away fear-fear of their weakness; fear
 of poverty; fear of failure. Ignorance
 and fear are the only two devils there
 are left; all the rest are dead, Fear is
 the offspring of ignorance Kill the pa-
 rent and the offspring will die. All the
 horde of devils which have haunted
 man since, half clothed and half starved, he crouched in caves, fright
 ened by the thunder and torn by his own fears-all these are gone. Igno- rance and fear are alone left I would teach man that he is his own master;
 that ignorance is his only enemy; that no one can injure him but himself. would teach him, and myself, that the kingdom of heaven is within; that he is the king within that kingdom. I would teach man self-reliance; teach him that there comes to each one that which he causes to come either consciously or unconsciously With knowledge and confidence in himself, he may deter mine what comes
 We all know happiness is from with in; that it Is not dependent upon wealth or position or any outward con dition. Bunyan turned his prison cell into paradise and peopled it with the characters of Pilgrims Progress"
 Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage" I know a little wo- man in this city who has had enough trouble to kill some people, but she is always smiling and happy She says it is easy enough to be happy when you know how. We all know people who find It easy to be healthy, and also some | who find it is easy to be wealthy. "Ev- 1 erythlng turns to money in their i hands" We say. There Is a reason for | this. It is all in accordance with a | fixed law. I believe there is a law of | a law of health and law of | success, just as there is a law of gray | itation When we learn the law, or to 1t either consciously or un- the result will follow. There is a law governing electricity | An infant creeping along the floor may touch button which sets the law in l motion. An unconscious touch may start a ponderous machine or explode a charge of dynamite. The child knew nothing of the law, but the result was IS certain as though Edison had put his finger on the button. I would teach others, and in so doing I would teach myself, that these, not labor, are forces; hat the only difference in people is what they think. That what man hlnks will sooner or later be objectifled n his life
 "The belief in poverty not only op- presses Us until it makes us mentally poor but it allies us with poverty stricken conditions" Opportunities? Abraham Lincoln had fewer than most nen, but what he thought made him he great emancipator. Edison had no uperior opportunities, but his thoughts nade him the greatest inventor of the lmes. Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie md Phil Armour's thoughts have put hem where they are, and hundreds of thers with equal opportunities and qual mental equipments are toiling un- Ter them, because they do not or dare ! lot think. These so-called great men , hink, and the others labor, and you say he division of the product of thought nd labor is not fair. Why not? If by linking one hour you can make my manual labor produce a ,illion dollars are you not entitled to a arge share of the surplus produced be- ause of your thought? Am I any the , yorse off? | If l could be granted one wish it 'ould be not that all men could be S iven more opportunities for labor. but l hat all men, including myself, could be { lade to see and put to the best use . heir present opportunities. This great ointment lay here under the feet of the 5 ed man for centuries as fertile and roductive as it is to-day. All our resent opportunities were his; yet the ed man made but a bare and scanty wing because he did not think. The hange was brought about not by labor labor without thought cannot create nything. It was brought about by c fought. Thought first and always, len labor, but always directed by fought