Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-11

HAL|-' any man that ever lived This opin-
ion is ased on the present civilized ability Of pen to
Judge
Shakespeare was an Intellectual ocean whose waves
touched all the remote shores Of human passions and
rocked into being higher nober and greater and better
standard b, which the possibilities Of human nature
taken from the ideal inertia and put into the realistic realm
Of the possibilities Of the human mind to sweep with the
eye Of morning over the whole drama Of life.
Ii has ever been the weakness Of man not to admit the
intellectual strength Of his opponent 1t has been and is
still the egotsm Of propag amidst that hinders his cause.
A bigot associated with any whether religious or
civil assumes the air Of hypocrite in the OF the
Masses for as matter Of fact where the mental power of
discriminating is absent the mind rebels against what is
dsasteul to it. and thereby it is the and not the
individual that suffers most
Confidence lays at the bottom Of 90 per cent Of the
economic activities Of life minister Of the Gospel
that does not command the confidence Of the community
had better move Confidence is tender plant in the
garden Of hope and may bud and blossom and ripen
into love hate.
This truth is without exception in all the activities Of
fe Yet confidence is tender plant and easily broken
much as wild rumor the street creates panic and
destroys it. A wild rumor and cheeks that blush in
praise of oveness, suddenly pale and wther under
the cruel blast from the open mouth Of
The trouble about this something called confidence, it
seems to me- is that very few people exercise sound
judgment in their intercourse with each other and instead
Of reasoning to conclusion they simply jump
clusion and usually in the latter they have another
jump coming. man goes to bank hands his
money to man he never heard Of before, takes
slip Of paper and walks off with confidence.
wild rumor and the depositor calls for his money
and learns that confidence" has departed Banker gone
wrong,-money gone with the wrong fellow, everything
wrong, and whyp Simply confidence was wrong as
principle on which to conduct banking business that's
all
Did the government let the banker have the money
on conGdenceY No. made him put up the full amount in
bonds Did the banker let the have his
on the bonds on conGdence got the face value Of
the bond in national bank notes to do business WITH
he government safe? Yes. was the banker safe? Yes
was the fellows called depositors the banker was to do
business with safe? Oh that is the fellow called con
6dence" The government and banker did business on
business principles, and left the people hollow mocker
called confidence" on which to do their business.
Well am not disposed at this time to discuss our
en- banking system believing as do that Just as long as
the average man will let some other party leader carry
what brains he has there not much use trying
vert 'mulet head"
Well what about "con6dence?" says one, My answer
is as commonly understood refers placid state Of
mind at rest and in this condition. it is the basis Of
matrimonial happiness, but always keep in mind this truth,
that doubt has place in the makeup, and the moment
doubt enters confidence is gone destroyed.
have heard Of implicit confidence, but did you ever
notice the parents anxious lest the child might 60
wrong thus do you that age experience being with it.
the knowledge Of human weakness and thus does nature
teach us to watch as we'll as pray The reader should
always bear in mind that confidence never stands alone
there is always something that goes with il The
whole truth is our minds rest doubt and fear
love and hate peace and war. like the pillows the
deep rock Us in the trough Of mental agitation IN sun
shine and clouds from the cradle the grave Mature is
never at rest Why should the man on the street. when
Re heard the wild rmor rush % the bank for his money,
Il he had implicit con6dencsa Alas his confidence would