Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-05-15
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bright little magazine published In Al.
buquerque, furnishes a suggestion for
an excellent talk to Las Vegans. The
Albuquerque editor, however, In the
article referred to, takes occasion TO
lecture the ladies' OF that city on the
folly Of their five-year-long fight on
the public library question. OF course.
our Las Vegas ladies never quarrel
and II they did we would lack the
courage OF the editor OF Sunshine to
accuse them Of II.
But u%nhappily there has been a
feud In Las Vegas as old as the city.
1t shows Indications of being buried
and perhaps forgotten. 1t should be.
Neither the individual nor the commu.
nifty can grow IL It swathes itself In
p%rcjudices and memories OF past
wrongs and petty enmities. We can.
not build for the future. II we live In
the past and are %eternally cramped and
hamDercd and disgruntled by differ
ences and disunion that should long
ago have been forgotten.
DO W realize that In this world OF
error, measured by strict ethical stand
ards, no man eve attains absolute rec.
titude. that all our motives are In a way,
selfish, that no man has a monopoly
ON right and justice. 1t is a logical
fact that to every question there are
always two sides and that neither side
Is wholly right. The more we think
OF our own side, the stronger our belief
In our rectitudc is likely to be--the
stronger will be our prejudices. II
we Will spend a fraction of the same
time In doing some honest doubling
as to whether all wisdom remains with
us on the question at issue, 1t may do
much for our inward illumination.
No man can grow IL he is eternally
sure he is right and that everybody
who differs Is a natural born fool. No
n can grow who " gets beyond
the differences and quarrels OF the
past. No n car grow who doesn't
sometimes doubt his own righteous
ness. The man who Gays there Ia no
wrong In him Is as narrow as the edge
Of a meat axe.
And with individuals. so with a com
mnnity, II Las Vegas wishes to attain
the complete stature Of her growth,
she must forget her past quarrels and
differences. admit that there has been
fault on both sides and unite all her
forces In the promise OF a future that
now smiles gloriously. The tide In
the affairs Of communities that, taken
at Its flood leads on to fortune, Is
swelling to It's highest mark. If Las
Vegas does not take the current when
It serves, she will lose the ventures
that now appear SO promising,
There has been every tendency of
late. to bury pa differences and go
Of to greater things. This must he
done. We have a government reser-
voir to secure. n big government post
to bring to this vicinity, a railroad or
two to build, another big hotel to put
up--a score Of other enterprises to fol.
low out In order to make this city the
greatest In the southwest. and we have
to spread the fame Of this city as a
health resort to every quarter OF the
civilized earth.
As the eloquent Edmund Burke once
said. Applaud US when we run. con-
sole us when we fall, cheer us when
We rec0ver( but let us pass on, broth
ers.--for Gods sake. let us pass on"
The editor to whom we referred at
the beginning OF this article has beau.
tifully impressed the meaning Of these
eloquent words as follows.
Here Is a psychologist truth SO pro-
found that n hardly knows at what
point TO apply It. Granted that we
have done a work for humanity so