The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-19

pure-bred Anglo-S1xons of the South.
A people is merely a collection of in
individuals. What truth-loV1ng
right thinking, impulsive individual
would do is what a people may be
relied upon to do under the same con-
ditionS The typical Southerner of
birth and breeding when he comes TO
understand the 'ins and outs of any
question-when he is put in a posi-
ton to realize what he ought to do
can always be relied upon to do the
right thing. Being emotional, he may
for time be responsive to evil influ-
ence, but in the end he does the right
thing and the square thing.
$50 much for the Southerner. Now
q word about the men who keep the,
machinery of the world in notion
After my long and more or less friend
ly talk with Henry Flagler l came
away with these thoughts and queries
running in my mind. Did you ever
think about what a price successful
men pay for their success? Take
every field of human effort and ambi-
ton, and the price paid for success in
business or the achievement of fame
is high one. Think of what LiVings-
ton paid for the successful exploration
of darkest Africa-priVation suffering,
the constant jeopardy of life and risk
of the men who have paid the price
of broken-down health for working
out ueSful scientific problems, the in
Ventor, the artist, the musician, the
author, the journalist-eVery who
succeeds pays the price OF self-sacri-
flee. He doesn't DO what he would do
if prompted by self-indulgent motives.
He has a single aim, and for the at
tainment of that one aim the Straining
nf no q side
of every natural pleasure is the price
he gladly pays. This is the type of
man and woman who has uplifted the
world from its medieval darkness. who
has brought peace, plenty and hope to
the descendants of the doWntrodden
masses who had to struggle deSpairlng-
~ for the mere privilege of existence
& few hundred years ago. Mankind is
better off. and is constantly growing
in moral strength through the self-sac
rficing leadership of our indomitable
energetic. successful men, Think of
the personal priVationS of the men
on whose shoulders rests the respon-
sibility for our great undertakings
many of them never have an hour
real repoSe from year end to year
end: few of them have time to get
acquainted with their loved ones. 1t
is grind, grind: think, think, think;
work. work, work all the time. Money
comes to most men who succeed in our
larger industrial, commercial and
financial enterprises, but that very
money is used, in turn, for the bet
terment of the condition of mankind
under more wholesome conditions,
more rest, better pay, larger oppoftu-
mites for self-improvement. The man
who makes it gets the least of its
benefits. But for an unacceptable
sense of duty those who are called
captains of industry would rest
from their labOrs; but in attaining sue
cess seldom Shirk responsibilities. 1t
was never for one moment expected
by Mr.. Flagler that what he put me
to thinking about would be printed.
But it is all so true that no harm can
come of printing it. 1t is worth print
ing because so few people have ever
stopped to think of the price of sue
cess or of the sense of responsibility
which actuates SO many of our great
men of affairs. which keeps them
from ever selfiShly enjoying the one
material reward of success-the
money they becomes trustees for.
1t is work, work, work to the end
of the chapter. That is the price Of
success. 1 feel however, that / may