The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-07-24

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and the speaker concluded with the
remark that, without the railroad,
this country would still have been
what it was formerly-a vast waste
without purpose and apparently with
out future
Mr.. Kaufman Speaks.
In few well chosen words. Mr.
Doherty then introduced Mr.. Kauf-
man. Prefacing his address with a
few. remarks on the Lower Rio Gram
de Valley and the great future in
store for it, Mr. kaufman spoke in
part as follows:
when you lose faith in yourself
your handspring has run dOwn-the
rest of your works are useless. You
are letting time pass without MAX
ing a record You're all wrong IN
side. and q glance at your face shows
everybody that You are out of order.
You're merely occupying the space
of a man, fitted only to be directed
and fitted merely for the little posts
in life where hands and feet are
paid for by the dime ger hour. You
have judged yourself and passed adj
verse sentence world viii not
reverse the decision. You can no
longer direct yourself, SO you must
be driven. The rest Of US are not
cheating ourselves cut of our hour of
opportunity, end since you don't
care we haven't the time to take care
OF you. You can come wherever we
go, but we can't carry you. The
roads to everywhere are open. 3u
have the same right of way, bC tot
the right 70 weigh upon oar b-3ks
The one ag-the only thing-that
can save you is a rewinding Of the
handspring - determination Wish
ing for things is like fishing for
things wanted. In every desert
there are wells-in every stretch of
sun-baked bad land are pools. The
weaklings VINO wander out into the
sands and the wastes do not find
them They are there for the fight
ing few. The great things of the
earth are not for the dOubters-this
universe belongs to the sons of
strength. No field of endeavor is so
barren, but what they find its oasis
Opportunity changes her pass
word every day. The world is spin
ming four times as fast as it used to.
A few misguided astronomers may
try to dispute the fact, but they are
living among the stars. The man
who hasn't progressed is like the
householder who expects the key of
his old fat to fit his new home-he
can't get in. Information soon be-
comes obsolete in an age when i'm
provement dismantles more machin-
cry than wear and tear, which incu-
bates sky-scrapers over night, which
sets up a creed one week and upsets
it the next, which created hero
yesterday and changes his laurel
wreath to a fools cap tomorrow.
No man is secure who feels a
sense Of security. Self-complacency
is frost-it kills growth. Self
satisfaction is a rust. 1t dulls bril-
lance. The universe wants new ways
of doing old things and the new ways
become old over night. The 10th
century was born without memory.
1t is so busy with today's achieve
ments and tomorrow's projects, that
no one has time to remember yes
terday's exploits.
Thinking and doing are not the
same thing. Good ideas are only
seeds. They must be planted and
titled before they can produce A
thousand men thought that the air
ship was possible, but possibility
couldn't become probability without
hard labor. Instead of building cas-
ties in the air, the Wrights and Yep
pelins and Dunns built something to
carry them to the castles.
Easy problems are never worth
solution great rewards are always
won by terrific effort
Thousands of men had that in
them with could have made them
a Napoleon or Caesar, a Carnegie or
a Field, but they remained nonent1-
ties simply because they had a fool
idea that fortune keeps a visiting list.
She doesn't. She hasn't stirred from
home since she went into business. !
Her abode is way up among the crags. |
There are no beaten paths to her
front door. No man ever entered in
and managed to leave foot prints to
guide another over exactly the same
route. She gives nothing. She
trades and drives her bargains Just
as hard as a Monday shopper. The
price of her goods must be paid for
III - III anu dUlilIy- DClHS d MOL1du,
she despises coward-her smiles |
are only for those who flatter her
vanity by striving for her favor
One after another equally brilliant |
and forceful epigrams fell from the
lips of the speaker in rapid success
sion, the burden of his message to
his hearers being one of hope for
him VINO strives, who cherishes faith |
in himself and ambition to attain his
highest ideal, who looks to the fu-
ture in stead of gloating> over his yes
terdays."
Hearty and prolonged applause fol-
lowed the conclusion of Mr.. Kauf-
mans address, after which the meet
ing adjourned. An informal social |
followed, during which the
visitors met and mingled with the cit
liens who were present. Lemonade !