The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02
A GREAT QUALITY.
Roosevelt Quick to Think and Net,
but Always Wisely.

President Roosevelt is being attacked
as a possible danger to the country be-
cause of his alert, quick mind and prompt
action. The scare-cat variety Of politi-
clans are crying him down on this is
sue.
1t is a common error, the belief that
because a man thinks quickly, and acts
promptly in an emergency, he is a rash
or dangerous individual. To the slow
man. one whose mental processes are nat
urally labored, it is incredible that an
other mind, differently constituted from
his own, may arrive almost instantly
at the solution of a question which would
occupy tire attention OF the heavier NOV"
ing brain for a long time.
Celebrity OF judgment and action are
characteristics OF some very great men,
though not by any means is this an at
tribute of them all. Whenever this quail
ity is conspicuous in a man, his critics,
friendly and adverse alike, accuse him
of rashness. After a long trial such a
man often convinces his friends that his
instant Judgment was well founded, his
prompt action well taken. But his enc
mics never VIII allow this.
A practical illustration taken from the
most commonplace fields of life shows
how unfoundsd is the idea that quick
thought and action are dangerous. A
horseman, a football player, a locomotive
engineer, a wpodsman telling a tree, all
these at times must instantly grasp a sit
nation, Judge accurately .: &c distances,
chances and certainties, and act, with
the rapidity 81 light, upon the minds di-
~rection. Dispatch is the soul Of bust
ness" Thu is the motto OF every
great manipui3tor in the field of business
and finance. The money-makers decide
instantaneou&'f, in a crisis, and he who
most quickly thinks, and thinks right,
acting boldly spon his w Judgment, is
the winner. There was never any such
thing rs a dsccessful fighter who was
slow of brain languid in motion.
1t is a gTsat quality, that of being
able to thinf quickly, and think right
at the SANE Time. 1t is said Of some
horses that fsiey "look over the whole
ground" Ttere are men who do the
same thing, Hsking in the entire situa-
tion in one Comprehensive glance. The
born soldier ;s,es this. So does the born
statesman.
When the chip of state is headed to-
ward the rocfs the executive officer must
be quick to sSe and prompt TO steer away
from the danfer. To wait would be ia
tai. When advantage to the State Is
waiting, the executive head should be
instantly ale~t to the potentialities of the
moment, ans competent to act upon the
case at once for opportunity waits for
no a
Because rae mass of men are slow in
thought, suffered as to attention, late
in actor. they should not suspect the
quick, alert, concentrated minds of men
more gifted than themselves. As a mat
ter of fact, the public admires, trusts
and believes in the man of quick thought
and action. II has more faith in the
RAN who knows his own mind than it
can have in the man who waits for help
from within or without to make it up.
Events have shown that President
Roosevelt thinks quickly and thinks
right; that he acts promptly, and wisely.
What moro could be asked, brethren OF
the slow-going order3