Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-06-05
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is usually to be found out in the yard
saving wood for the man who does
make mistakes and gain by them. We've
made so many mistakes that it
always clates lis TO receive the encour-
agcment Of others who have made mis-
takes and been successful, too.
Most men, it seems to us are too
much afraid of making mistakes We like
men who make mistakes, who have the
dash, the energy, the warm blood in
their veins 10 make mistakes. Every
thing IN life is more or less Of 4 game.
Timidity never accomplished anything
in this world. Faith is the handspring of
enterprise. Mistakes make the game in
teresting They lift it above the dead
level, stimulate imagination and keep
hope young.
More good thoughts have persisted
than have ever seen the light OF day. 1t
is the easiest thing in the world to reason
the merit all ont of new idea. The man
who gets there is the man who has the
courage to make the plunge when the
thought is fresh in his mind to strike
while the iron is hot. Ideas, like time
and tide wait for nobody. They must be
taken at the flood The man who at
tempts to argue all the way is lost. Dit
iculties are at their worst in The pros
pective. The plunge is the vital thing
the beginning, the life. Faith and OK
perience will take care of the rest. The
worlds real benefactors are its brave
men, who have the soul to do and to dare
to risk every thing, fortune, reputation
and life.
Don't believe at all in the theory of
getting something for nothing. The man
who seeks big rewards must take big
chances; he should give up an ample
equivalent in brain force thought, energy
money, for everything he gets. The
man who rises above the surface makes
no end of mistakes the drene, alone
makes no mistakes.
One of worst mistakes the world makes
is its horror of making mistakes. This
very thing is one Of the greatest possible
menaccs to intelligent, conscientious leg
slation. The legislator is so trammeled
by feeling that he must not make mis-
take, that he must always be consistent,
that large percentage of his value to
the state is lost. The straight jacket
Of public opinion, narrow, unwise, intoler-
ant public opinion, that does not allow
its representatives the freedom of the
man of affairs, block the wheels of pro-
gressive, business like legislation. The
lawyer and the doctor and the business
man make mistakes. Why, then, should
not the legislator make mistakes? Why
shouldn't he vote tomorrow to repeal the
act for which he votes today, if tomorrow
brings him additional light upon the sub
ject, if tomonow's experience demon
strates to him that his reasoning Of Joda>
was wrong? Imagination doe not cary
with it unerring accuracy. Experience
alone determines whether thing is right
| or not
There are certain eternal principles
that enter into the wise conduct of bust
ness-certain lines that must win out
Get your business on these lines and hold
strictly to them, regardless Of what thi.
one or that one may say, regardless OF
what is or what has been, and hold to il
with the faith and the grasp that know
no weakening, and you'll win out--ir
short, if at first you don't succeed. try
again.