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

Nothing hidden or unrevealed
obscure or hard to learn
about success in life. No man
reaches his majority possessed
of normal brain and observant
eye without full knowledge of
the real requisites. Though of
limited personal experience and
with scant opportunity as yet to
profit by that of others, he al
ready sees and knows well
enough. Deny it though he
may and neglect or refuse to
comply, yet he must admit that
all education and example since
Adam points the one way as af-
fording certain solution of the
problem. And when the whole
is told it resolves itself into just
two words-honesty and indus
try. About each of these plain
essentials is grouped mighty
host of synonyms-eac hhas
many defnitions-but from the
standpoint of mankind in the
making and such reasonable
prosperity and achievement as
ought to be a common heritage,
these satellites when blended to-
gether into the kindly and bene-
ficent sum of success, will be
found to COMPRISE only these two
words after all.
man was honest
theft and deception are bastards
SIRED oy clvillzation. Absolute
honesty inviolable was the rule
of the frontier. Men neither
packed a jimmy nor wore mask
there was no need of bolts and
bars, and the word was better
than a bond. Men were consci-
entious from this broad stand
point of morality-honorable,
upright and always sincere. I'm
questioned probity and exact
justice were accepted standards,
firmly established. Even the In
dian was honest once, in all the
term implies. Early traders and
trappers all agree that these lazy
lousy thieves and loafers who are
today the personifcation of ply
steal degeneracy and rotten guile
could be trusted absolutely in
everything when white man first
set foot in then uncivilized terri
tory. And industry is not only
a wise provision of nature as
against deterioration and decay
but out of it grows self-respect
responsibility, pride of accom-
plishment and the recompenst
and joys of possession. Laziness
is the worlds most besetting sir
neglect of duty is damnable-
habitual incidence indecent.
l have been wondering wha+
gentlemen really had in minC
when they gave that hobo ban
quet in Chicago the other night
1t was catalogued of course as ;
benevolent experiment under tn,
auspices of an alleged brother
hood welfare association, O.
which one L. R. Reitman pose
as the side whiskered head. Owe
a hundred Migrants, criminal
and barrel house buns wer
present and participating in {
siX-course dinner and unnum
bered bottles of beer. Toast
had been assigned certain
rogues and tertiary tramps, VIII
were presumed to tell their trou
bles whereby their hosts Nigh
be able to determine why an,
how-what causes had contri
buted to the present condition o
these human castaways, an
what methods were best calculat
ed in their own judgment to re
claim and reform them. In thi
it wa sa miserable failure in tina
the only speeches made were rot
ten and maudlin boasts of crime
idleness and indecency whic
sent the ladies in attendant
away from the table in hellof
hurry. AS a matter of fact tn
entire affair was cheap, dirt
and repulsive-a disgusting OIL
gy from which propriety fleC
sickened, and left vice to gol
mandize and revel in drunken
ness and sheer braggadocia {
debauchery. Honesty was deric
ed, labor ridiculed, and not eve