Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-01-31
Success.


and adds by way Of comment:
All this has set me thinking that
what really constitutes success is the
accomplishment of the acquirement of
what satisfies each individual want
and need. Unless this is done no one
can be said to be truly successful. To
explain my meaning: Amy man may
say, and perhaps honestly, that he has
all lie wants, when we know by his
appearance and his daily self denials
that he has not all he needs Another
may declare, as his surroundings
would indicate, that he has all the
needs, when it is quite clear, as shown
by his continued rapacity, that he has
not yet all he wants.
Now if you can show me this rare
bird, possessed o fall thaht westna I?
bird, possessed of all that he wants
and all that he needs, | will for one
be willing to acknowledge him and on
ly him, as the successful man. Wheth-
er we ever had, or ever shall have
such mortal on this mundane sphere,
l leave to the Times to submit to its
Wooden Indian for solution.
have certainly never seen a man
who had all he needed and ali he
wanted. l have heard Of such, but am
led to doubt the accuracy Of the report.
There may be occasions in mems lives
when some of their accomplishments
or triumphs may so exhilarate and so
fill them with satisfaction that it
seems fer the moment that every wish
| has been satisfied, and they feel indif-
ferent to all needs and wants, but
when the exhilaration passes away the
needs and wants present themselves
again, and new aspirations, new de-
sires and new ambitions fill their
minds and stimulate their ambition
There are doubtless plenty of men
who art conten'ted with the amount of
money they have, but in spite of that
they want and feel that they need
many things that money cannot buy.
They have political or social or intel
lectual ambitions which they strive to
realize, they labor hard for new
sources of pleasure, or they exploit
their money for the purpose of gaining
Industrial or business triumphs The
man who only cares for money for the
help it may give him in the intellec-
tual ambition is always feeling the
need of greater knowledge and mental
capacity, and always wanting some
thing that may help him in attaining
scholarship and the mastery of the Sc
crets of nature or of the human mind.
William Mckinley has reached the
highest place on earth. He is the GUS
todian of great powers, and is on
pinnacle of honor that. attracts to him
the attention of the whole world, but
he feels that he needs popular support,
and he is not content only to be Pres
ident of the Republic but wants to be
an eminent and successful one. He
wants to shine among Presidents and
statesmen and to have the country re-
fleet the wisdom of his administration.
Kaiser Wilhelm is the occupant of
one of the greatest thrones on earth,
but he is not content to be merely
that. He wants to be one of the great
rulers of the world. He wants to be
marked and conspicuous king among
the race of kings. He wants to be the
means of placing the German people |
on higher plane than they ever were
before Both the President and the
Kaiser have needs and wants, and they
will never succeed in accomplishing
all that they desire, no matter how ia
vorably their plans may seem to come
out, from the viewpoint of the specta-
tor. Both the President and the Kais-
er, however, have achieved success,
both as rulers and as men. The Kais-
er, born to the throne, has made him
self a success as an energetic ruler,
and as a great factor in the affairs of
his nation and the world. The Presi-
dent, after his great success in raising
himself from obscurity to the grasp
of the highest human honors, has be-
come a success in the class to which
he has attained.
Ranging downward from these, the
world Is full of men who are counted
and who count themselves successful.
Success is not measured at all in the
way suggested by my spondent. No
doubt there are occasions in every |
mans life when for time he con-
slders himself a failure, and compar-
ing his own success with that of 9TH
ers estimates it as very trivial and not |
worth counting But in the main the |
vast majority of us regard ourselves |
as successes to a greater or less de-
gree. If we did not it would be a sad |
and melancholy and miserable world, |
indeed We may need things and want |
things without number but we have |
supplied some of our needs, and some |
of our wants are satisfied. and they |
bring us some measure of eontentment |
and self-approyal which prevents us
from counting ourselves failures. A
man may feel that he has not made |
good use of his time or his talents,
and he may often reproach himself
but he does not indulge continually in
for what might have been
but rather feels his self esteem on the
of what is, however in
it may seem TO those who |
view 1t from greater heights.