Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-06-27

bowling success that the next
one will be nipped in the bud by
the police.
To the credit of these human
rats, however, there was no
abuse of the men who own and
keep the corn cribs filled. They
were proud of their utter worth
lessness, but disposed to ridicule
rather than damn those who
knew no better than to rustic.
Ordinarily the so called unfortu-
mates of life find solace and ex-
cuse for their shortcomings in
the energy and ability and OPP
portunities of others. The So
man envies and denounces the
500 man, who in turn believes
that 5000 a day is rank robbery
and all unite in lambasting the
corporations and trusts as alone
to blame for their condition.
Modern business methods have
established scale of worth and
recompense-and an ever in
creasing one, by the way-which
is inviolable. The 5000 man
may, and often does, go on the
pay roll at So, but he won't lin
ger there for long. Eventually
every employee gets just what he
is worth-not in his own estima-
ton always, but what he is ac-
tually worth to others-and
which equation holds, dyemoind,
with those who work for them
selves. And not only were these
drones proud of their ability to
live without effort, but they
made it plain that they neither
deserved nor wanted sympathy
the which disregard for so
cheap a comomdity, which is so
often misplaced and i'll advised,
doutless gave the welfare breth-
rem something of a shock.
In this year of our Lord the
criminal and the tramp are just
that because they won't work.
And this is always true as per-
tains to this class-whose dead
ened and besotted bodies and
minds poisoned with contempt of
labor and drowned in drink
couldn't be worked over into a
semblance of human kind with
club-and who wouldn't be
cured of their ills under any con-
dition other than gratis grub and
unlimited license. 1t is likewise
true in great measure of that
mighty army of men who, under
less prosperous condition, are
, more or less unemployed-men
, who are either lazy, careless OF
responsibility or inattentive to
duty, envious, arrogant or griev-
ously incompetent not for
getting the careful cuss who
watches the clock. Intelligence
is germane, of course, ano
largely determines-but an idiot
can live and live we'll if he be
. honest and will work. Vice anC
crime is chargeable largely tt
{ laziness. Prostitution's mighty
J armies are recruited mainly
, from that class of women who
) refuse to soil their hands with
3 dishwater, and penitentiaries are
4 full of men who uldn like the
: idea of shoveling dirt out of {
$ ditch. Other causes contribute
l to these totals; but everybody
D knows that downright lazines'
: comprises the three best bets.
t Success in life bears a wide
i Interpretation, ranging from thu
: fire booze of the bar fly to enor
f nous but Outlines questionable
! wealth. To the wise man, sue
: cess is the golden mead of happi
: ness and content-conscious in
s tegrity-decency-toil withou
t misery abasement, and life o.
: something more than board an(
!. clothes. The gentlemen out OF
h job who wer invited guests a
e the hobo banquet-where crim'
a and filth were in aphelion ant
e honesty and industry in eclips
v all know well enough how t.
: spell success, only that thew
/, don't want to gain it that way
: and won't. And dearie, those O
/ us who perhaps haven't gottel
# as high up the ladder in a ma
/ terial sense as we would like
n if attainable without sacrifice o