The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-07-28
No Good End Served By
Discouraging the Efforts Of Others

A rich American who died not long ago used to tell how, as a youth, he was
discourage d at every step by older len.
Did he plan any business move along other than commonplace lines he vas
informed by his elders that he was o. the road to financial ruiz. On every hand
heard preached "the gospel of encouragement. +" Concerning that futile doctrine
the Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
No good eve come from the people who are always dicouagng effort and
trying to repress hope and enthusiasm
The people who give encouragement to worthy endeavor and aspirations are
safe, comfortable and useful people to be thrown into contact with.
One famists sometime ago wrote that it was quite idle to tell people to be
hl.ful or enthusiastic or sanguine or energetic or Industrious Different zen, he
said. have different temperament, minds, and quantities of energy; they are
thus born.
Naturally men are born will varying equipment, but if the doctrine of fla
talsm is to be accepted all effort might as well be relaxed at one all overt the
world, and all efforts to educate and train be reinqushed.
1t is also within our common knowledge and experience that the spoken
WORD, the appeal to emotion and intelligence, the appeal to passion an prejudice
nil exert controlling influence on the lives of men.
A multitude goes into a hall, and, when the impassoned orator has finished
a movemem has been set on foot
An ordinary man walking along the street and thinking of nothing but the
freshness of the May morning will, at the mere recital # a wrong or injury done
to his city or his friend or his family, be seen to clench his fists, walk forward
with grat rapidty; and he will arouse his slumberng energies and york them
with great effect from that time forward until he has expended all his powers in
the direction of his desires
This tremendous influence is exertedi in single instances; it is also exerted all
our lives long by he mental and spiritual forces with which we cam into con-
tact. The youth who associates with people who have no hope, who see o good
in anything, who have n o encouragement to offer, who look constantly upon the
black side Of the world, will, by imperceptibls degrees, com to have but a sorry
visw Of the world and . most dseouragng outlook upon life.
"Hope is my strength says a old coat of arms, and hope is the greatest
power in the world.
Wise me who wish to make a real success of their lives will choose MOI ony
hopeful companions in men,, but in books. 1t would b, interesting if anybody
in the world were to attempt to tell us just what good influence has been or even
cal De exTted Oh humankind by TN pe1hmstlc writings of, say, a Schopenhauer
The pessimishc philosophers are undenaby clever and intellectually strong
but What avail is it to prove to the world that mankind is destined to misery
and what do thinkers and writer's of this school accomplish beyond creating
additional wretchednesss
Young men should select heal.hful books, written by the men of healthy
minds h are devoted to some mission other than that of tearing down faith
in human nature
They should eonors with people of healthy minds; cultivate hope in the
blssedness IF human destiny, and hold fast to the truth that ven though they
may eventually fail in accomplishing what they set tut to do, yet if they lead
a hopeful enthusiastic life they, Closing, win' For those who are pessimisdc
lead al entire life of unreieved wrtechedne~, and add 10 the unhappiness of
others, while they who are cheerful and optimistic enjoy their existence and ac
complsh something, if only in adding to thu happiness OF those around them.
There vas INTELLIGENT eIfshneSs in the thOuph of the we'll a actor who
said, half humorously, that it was his policy to live with prosperous people.