Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28

H' sO"us AAieHus' "hdt are you going Z
Dr. do about this fact? Are you going Il
Y let your brains lie dormant? Because
Il some have been cObblers for twenty
Ie years, are you still to be a cobbler
re Cow? Are you mentally going to try
)t TO do the work Of the present century
Y IN the way our fOrefathers did things
Il and not by the present up to date
e. methodist Are you going to resist the
p advancements of the times IN the way
l. some nearsighted Pennsylvania farm
t ers did many years ago? | may not
4 be giving these facts exactly right,
r but the story l am telling is substan
2 TALLY true. One of the prominent rail
roads of the east was extending its
lines toward Pittsburg. The railroad
r officials wanted to run their iron rails
through a certain township. The
farmers rose up in protest They said.
IF we allow this railroad to be built
1t viii do all the hauling. Our farms |
VIII be broken up. and our horses will /
be useless, because then there will be |
nothing left for them to carry TO mar
/ ket' These farmers not only protest
| ed thus, but in the state legislative
halls at Harrisburg, through their rep
resentative, they defeated that railroad
from running through their township.
The result was that that railroad
going into Pittsburg took another
course. The old farmers township is
now sldetracked 1t is nothing but a
simple country town. On the other
hand, the valley through which that
railroad now runs is prosperous and !
wealthy. Land has doubled and 5
trebled in value. There is an inevita- q
bic law Of the survival Of the fittest !
in brains. How are you grasping your h
opportunities? Are you trying to make +
the world travel in stagecoaches and n
canal boats when the shrieking II
whistle Of the Overland Limited is >,
calling its passengers to get aboard? h
II you do not develop your brains a,
then, by the law of man and the law :,
Of God, to the wall you must 20. The "a
survival of the fttest" is the mental -
Of life. Never let that -,
)ne truth out of your mind until YOU ~.
nave developed your intellect to its y,
highest possibilities. 90
But the fttest survive in the moral ~
world as well as in the physical and ~,
he mental. The man who is honest -
nd true and noble will always. in the -,
)ng run, win over the man who is de- ~,
eitful and dishonest There is abso-
ltely no doubt about it. All other
iings being equal, there is a survival
the fittest in the moral realm. Yet M
hear some people talk you would lil''
oppose that it never pays to be hon VI
It or truthful in business life. UNI
Sell where you can sell the dearest oI
ny where you can buy the cheapest. 'He
ct all Of the money out Of the people eel'
u can without landing in JAIL is y
cir motto. Look at p. T. BarnunCs ihlL
ccess,' they say. In one of his sun
oks the great Snowman says, The aga
nerican people love to be hum Dea'
gged.'" Then he had the unlimited -u'
pudence to write a book entitled nap
he Humbugs Of the World In that pii"
Dix he showed how be had humbugged thfo
American neonIo .OI, 10, :, 49, 80 is a
, "it nevar nav 70 no ho,,cst nv! nv. be i
n who can cheat and deceive and l'rou
and steal the most in business is ieeD
man who makes the greatest sue 'uIe'
5 in mercantile life" Is that vOur WIZ
lion Of mercantile life? Well nv coui'
nd, want to tell you that you are Deco
ng, and wrong in toto. There is a .iieIi
Fival of the fttest in the moral ana
Id. All other things being equal. peoi'
man who is true and honest and anu
gbt and inst Is Tho n,or, ~ IN along
in business life, and not the scuun- you
an -