Arizona republican., 1905-04-26

game? It is superiority over misfor
 tune, the triumph over difficulties. tha
 marks the successful man or woman
 l am not talking simply platitudes
 History if full of examples of grea
 and successful lives won against il
 health, bodily deformity, and every conceivable misfortune
 So true is this that we must se
 him down coward, who, even in tho face of misfortune confesses failure. do not believe that there are as many failures from laziness and indolence a. there are from cowardice.
 It Is common excuse of men that | they have not succeeded because they lacked advantages-thatt their environ ment was adverse to their success | that they had not had opportunity Let me say to you this is the complaint and excuse of the cowardly
 l Be courageous. That distinction is of slow growth. that success seems i distant should not discourage. They are sure if you honestly and courage ously persist in doing your duty. and they can not be attained without per i sistent effort.
 But what do people mean by hay ing advantages? Wealth, position. in 1 you have not earned? The only advan- | tages that you need are health and 1 courage-giVen those things and ad- Vantages of wealth and influence will | be yours because you will have earned them
 l Lincoln had not the advantages of position and influence until he had earned them. Garfield trod the canal banks barefoot, with no advantages but the sturdy courage to do his duty. IT you fail 1t certainly will not be be- cause you are less endowed with wealth or influence than Were young Lincoln and young Garfield-you have not less wealth, less position. less op- portunity, nor less advantage than 1 they had If you fail, then why Don't attribute it to lack of advantage.
 l have spoken of courage and have said that you should possess it-that the possession of courage is an es- sential element of success. l do not mean mere physical courage, but I mean that you should also possess the courage that enables a man or boy or woman or girl to do the right thing always. A coward shirks-the cour- ageous man or woman never-and to shirk is what? The liar shirks the consequences of the truth and he is the meanest of all towards. Why should a man lie? Is it not always to avoid the just consequences of his con duct, or to gain some unfair advan- tage? Are not those the character istics of a cOward-and are they not contemptible?
 The truly courageous man or woman will always be the truthful one.
 
 make his or her life a success To do so requires constant and earnest effort Have the courage to make that effort. The coward will say that his failure was not due to lack of honest effort on his part but because he had not wealth, had not position, or had not influence. He had not the courage to make the effort and coward-Iike he falsely ascribes his failure to anything else but his own fault. The courage ous man too, is just. Be just Be just, of course. to your fellow man but be just with yourselves as well. Deal fairly with yourselves. Look every matter cOurageously in the face, and be as careful not to deceive yourselves Es you would scorn to deceive others.
 Some fear that it is drudgery, irk- some and intolerable to make the sus- tained effort necessary to success. This is wrong. The man who really desires to accomplish something does not ac- count that drudgery which is necessary to accomplish it. We, of course, be- come tired and eXhausted-that is nat ural, but with the natural rest we ap- proach our work with renewed energy and enthusiasm. Let me say this. that if you find that you are not imbued with enthusiasm in your work, some thing is wrong, and l may add the fault is yours. Be steady and be cour- ageous.
 The attainment of success in life is a slow progress, but you can make it certain. It may look a long way off, but you know that you can not ac- complish the distance unless you start, and having started, keep going. There is one way, a too common way, to make this tedious and that is to spend your time mainly in wishing for the end and relaxing the ef- fort to gain it. But, my young friends, the process is simple do what you have to do earnestly, fearlessly. and honestly, and success is bound to crown the end.
 It has often been said that we are
  Some of us have gone further than you on the journey. and have learned or ought to have learned, the way. As we seek the advice of those who have gone over the road over which we have never ourselves gone, to learn if we can. of it's dangers, so too may you wisely ask and follow the advice of those who have preceded you on the journey of life
 May I be permitted to point out to you some of the things that I have ob- served, and which may guide you?
 I have noticed that every boy and girl, every man and woman, is watched as he or she travels along this high way. He or she may not be conscious of 1t, and often the watcher is not conscious of it, but it is true.
 Let me illustrate. and tell you how I know this. I shall tell you what have observed repeatedly.
 A position in an office is vacant a good and profitable position for a young man and a selection has to be made to fill 1t. The man who has to ,1,,