The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1907-01-19
THE MASTER VICE.
ALL EVILS HAVE THEIR ROOT ~
REORGANIZATION.
Slave to the Habit Moralizss and An
nouness His coneiusione-Can
Never Rise Above the Rank
Of Piodder.

Never Rise Above the Rank
Of Pioddsr.
1.-THE bane Of my existence" said the
procrastinating man, has been my
habit OF putting things OF. never do
to-day what ! can put OF till to-mor-
row
THE result is that am always put
ting on and never doing any more
than Ia necessary for my current daily
hand to mouth support: and 30. As the
saying is. l never have anything.
am not independent. but always de-
pendent upon somebody else for the
work that will enable me to live, and
80 l can never say my soul IL my own.
l must do the work am set to do by
some stronger man. whether l like 1t
or not. and 30 I plod along, Just ge.-
ting through, while the man who col
lars things gets on.
of late years as l have come to
realize Its evil effects and the enor-
nous difficulty Of overcoming 1t have
come to think that the master vice Of
all Is representation. And coming to
think thus has disturbed me little.
because have to give up an originally
preconceived and long cherished mo-
tion.
Il had long held that the most near
ly ineradicable of personal vices was
gambling. but now thought the most
dificut of all vices to cure oneself Of
was that of procrastination. Was l
wrong then? And could it be that l
was wrong now?
This, l say. disturbed me little:
but now on this point l rest quite easy.
For have discovered. contradictory as
this. at first thought, might seem. ]
have discovered that / was right then
and that I am right now.
For now discover that the vice OF
gambling is but another phase Of. or
at least the outcrop Of, that of pro-
crastination. The great majority Of
those given over to gambling hope to
get something for nothing; they hope
to get money without effort. They put
of from day to day the hard. unfiinch.
ing work that would give them sure
thing. without chances. on the race
OF life. and make Just enough to In
dulge their vice and their vain hopes.
so gambling is really but form. or
outcome. OF the vice of procrastina-
ton. And by the same line of reason
ing l suppose we might say the same
of drunkenness. which is essentially
procrastinating vice; we put things
OF to-day. to-day we will drink: we
will work tomorrow.
And I don't know but what we
should find that every Ill proceeds
from the vice of procrastination; and
30 this. which might seem but form
of laziness. is really the master vice:
and am one of its most closely bound
victims. don't drink. and don't
gamble: but have got the fatal habit
of putting things of.
Inertia. dullness lack of power
from want OF exercise, come from it
the procrastinating man Is always
at the same dead low level. He is al
ways going to do something. never do.
ing it: just pulling through with the
work he has to do, and gaining CORE,
spondingly small rewards. He never
knows the Joy of doing things nor
gathers in its profits. but habit bound
he settles down In lifelong slavery.
And I am one Of those victims! DC.
casionally I do rouse up and do some
thing out of my set routine, and in tha
accomplishment Of some rugged task
that thus take up hnd great new
joy and pride: and am going to keep
this up; but next day sink to the old
level again. and stay there; it is so
much easier to put things off than to
do things. and this, the trunk bad
habit of which all others are but
branches. is SO deep rooted.
But am not without hope. have
Topped of those branches OF which
spoke, and am prying. pryiaE around
the roots of the trunk"