The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-11-04

BOURKE COCHRAN ON
HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
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ouic ia reason from effect to cause and if they see
men in the heart of our citizenship living lives that
ara nncnl;arlv religious and faithful, and at the
como time sineularly successful in production. III
literature in commerce and lii the professions the5
viii he mick to reach the conclusion that the faith
which nroduces such results must be one of value.
IF Won will be faithful to the teachings of the
BROTHERS if YOU will give heed to what these good
PRIESTS say. if you will live in harmony with the
universal law which governs the Church-then you
will he effective members of that apostoate of the
la;tv And what will the reward be! | am not here
n tell Won what your rewards will be in the life
which IS to ccme There are good men specially
devoted to that function | rather call your atten-
lion to the fact drawn from a long experience in
life and from pretty close observation OF It, that
the true method, the short road to material pros
neri+v is strict observance of the moral law, of
which the Church is the custodian. | suppose every
hodv here believes that the object of life is the pur
cnit of bappiness WE'LL / think that Is right [
think its object is the pursuit of happiness. 1t is
well for you to realize IN what happiness consists
I suppose that people generally think that happi-
ness consists in possessiong what haven't got So
far as I have been able to observe, every man be-
Heves that if he had something else besides what
he actually has in his possession he would be happy
7 have never known man, however large his pos
session who would sit down and declare that he
was actually happy, because he would still want
some material thing which he did not possess If
| were asked which were the most reliable sources
of happiness. wants or possessions [ would be more
inclined to congratulate men their wants and
to sympathize with them upon their possessions.
Get us analyze this and see what is the foun-
tain of happiness. Is it power! Well, | never
knew any man yet who had power and who was
able TO exercise il for his own satisfaction He must
exercise it in order to preserve it. and that is true,
whether he is political leader in America, or q
car in Russia The moment he exercises his power
for his own caprice he is certain to lose it. Sup
pose the car should undertake to appoint his chief
police officer merely from personal favortlsm. The
first thing he knew he would probably be killed. He
must appoint as his chief police officer his chief
general the person whssa;4sahis Judgment, is best
qualified to I'LL tie position. He does not appoint
his chief of police at all The man appoints him
self by showing that he is specially skilled in that
capacity. So it is with every other department OF
his government. Whatever he may want to do he
will find himself compelled to select the instrument
best fitted to carry out the desired purpose There
fore, power is really service.
Men are lifted to power to serve those who lift
them That is true whether they receive their power
by birth or whether it is given to them at the ballot
box. Power is really service. The moment any man
in power ceases to serve and attempts to exercise
his power arbitrarily for the qualification of his
passions for the fulflment of his lust or DESIRE
he is undermining the foundations of his own
power and with absolute certainty bringing about
its removal Moreover, no man ever yet exercised
power who really enjoyed it. know of nothing so
Elusive as power. As i have sale to YOU it really
does not exist in the person who seems to possess
it, If it ever comes to be your fortune to sit be-
hind the chair of power you will see that though
such a man has bold front, his back is very apt
to be hollow.
"Does fame bring happiness Well don't
know that / could say much to you about fame. |
do not think ever1 person is careful to distinguish
between fame and notoriety My idea is that noto
riety is thing of the moment but fame has to do
with the next generation Fame is not thing that
comes to person while he is living What is going
to be said about you generation after your death
is of questionable value to you in bringing happiness
at this time.
Man Who Has No Chance of Happiness.
They may tell you that wealth is the fountain
of happiness. That is what we are all striving for
because the possession of wealth is supposed to be
the source of happiness ! know some of the rich
est men III the country terms of more OF less
intimacy, and 1t is my experience that the one man
who has no chance OF happiness at all is the mil
honaire. | do not think [ have visited any place
but one where there was absolutely no happiness
and no possibility of it. That place was not jail
though have spoken to men in the shadow of the
gallows. 1t was not a hospital where people are
brought to suffer the most excruciatino pain. 1t
was not any of the places usuay associated in the
mind with misery But the place refer to is a safe
deposit vault, one of those mysterious cataconlbs
of the modern business world where millionaires
hoard the evidences OF their wealth. have myself
been in of these subterranean rooms and met
IN the passage man WHO on the surface Of the
earth would greet me with a warm shake of the
hand; but when we meet down there each with tin
box under MS arm, we pass each other with q nod
very much as if were caught in some place where
we mad right TO be, each of us Fastening off to
little room in order to get out of sight and cut off
our coupons or change the nature of our securities
That is place in the world where a man is never
known to smile 1t is one place where it is i'm
possible The man in gray who is stationed at the
gate, watching every person going in or out with
an expression of disgust III his eye-he would know
what to do Immediately if he heard a pistol shot
or if there explosion of dynamite. He would
turn in an alarm to the police station. But there
is one thing we would not be prepared for. If he
heard somebody whistle tune or sing a comic song.
he would not know how to deal with that. That
would be one of the things he never heard and had
never known.
''You may say: II there is no happiness in fame
or in wealth; if there is no happiness in power. is
happiness to be found, is it attainable b. any one
this earth! Ny friends, | do not believe ii is
to be found in any possession and all my philosophy