The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-09-28

Success Is . Failure When Achieved
at the Sacrifice OF Others Inter-
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Success Magazine.
When you have lost on your way
| up to your fortune. your self-respect,
your courage, your self-control, or
any other quality of manhood
When it has made conscience an
accuser and shut the sunlight out
OF your life.
When the attainments of your
ambition have blighted the aspira-
tions, and crushed the hopes of
others.
When your highest brain cells have
been crowded out of business by
greed.
When ali sympathy has been crush
ed out OF your nature by your selfish
devotion to your vocation.
When they plead that you never
had time to cultivate your friend
ships, politeness or good manners.
When you have lived a double life
and practiced double dealing.
When it brings you no message of
culture, education, travel or of OPP
pOrtunities to help others.
When it dwarfs, cramps or inter
feres with anothers rights, when it
blinds you to the interest of the man
at the end of the bargain.
When there is Il dishonest or de-
ceitful dollarin your Professionalism
your fortune spells the ruin ofwidows
and orphans, or the crushing of the
opportunities of others.
When the hunger for more money,
more land, more houses and bonds
has grown to be your dominant pas
| sion
When it has dwarfed you mentally
and morally, and robbed you ofyour
spOntaneity and enthusiasm of youth
When it has made you a physical
wreck-a victim of ''nerves" and
| moods.
When it has lowered your stand
ards and made you a traitor to all
your highest and noblest impulses.
When it hardened you to the needs
and sufferings of others, and made
you a scorner of the poor and unfort-
innate.
When you rob those who work for
you of what is justly their due, and
then pose as aphilanthropist by con-
tributing IA small fraction ofyouru un-
Just gains to some charity or to the
endowment of some public institu-
ton.
When the world is not the better
and richer for your life. when you
have boarded every dollar you have
made, and have refused to help your
less fortunate fellowmeD.
When you have used others as step
ping-stones to fortune, and ignored
their existence when your selfish ends
were attained.
When in your climb to power you
have trampled on duty, friendship,
love, honor, patriotism, and all the
most sacred feelings of humanity.
When your example has dragged
Others down, when your iniustices
and tyranny have driven men and
women to desperation, and destroyed
their faith iii God and man.
When your absorption in your work
has made you practically stranger
to your family.
When your children do not look
upon you as their friend next to their
mother
When the nervous irritability en-
gendered by constant work, without
any relaxation, has made you a
brute in your home and nuisance
to those who work for you.
When your greed for money has
darkened and cramped your wife's
life, and deprived her Of needed rest,
recreation, or amusement OF any
kind.
When your narrow spirit makes
you cry out, what was good enough
for me is good enough for my chill
dren, and you refuse to give them
the education that they crave, and
which you can amply afford.
When you have met your children's
caresses with repulses, and have de-
MED them the help of your compan-
iOnship and loving encouragement
and guidance during their formative
years
When the dissOlute lives Of your
sons cry out against you as the one
who, either by direct example or by
complete neglect ofthem. has pointed
their downward path.
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