Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-26
HONESTY AND INTEGRITY ARE APPRECIATED

HONESTY AND INTEGRITY ARE APPRECIATED
N these days when men are charged with adopting
every means to bring about their personal success;
when to be the fashion say that every man
who has made a success is dishonest; when the man
who able to pay his bills and does is accused by the
undertaking element of doing it with some personal
gain in view it is worth the time of any community to
pause in it's daily grind to honor man who was sue
cessful in business and in politics, but who never
found necessary order to succeed to bea party to
any scheme ruse, that would IN the slghtest way
tarnish his or his neighbours name.
1t is the tendency Of the times to complain and rail
at every who has carried his point if it was for
building up of competency and good reputation 1t
does that this when the pessmist gets
willing audience of listeners than the optimist
Judged by the thousands Of columns OF depraved ramb
ngs and improved charges made in the magazines dur
ing the last three years would that the collective
mind of the people demands and feeds itself voracousy
upon charges Of viany and grating and dishonesty
and nsncerity. We say that judged by the amount Of
printed matter along the above lines, that condition
would to be the case yet may be that such decl
sion about the people is not altogether just one.
This community has just lost whose record
shows that spite of the great OF criticism that
has temporarily been sweeping reason and logic before
it, honesty and manly integrity ARE still appreciated
and recognized. '*-" +.
In the death of Captain S. H. Harper there passed
out of the active circles Of this city of firm in
tegrity and sterling character. -.
While Captain Harper himself cannot be personally
part of this city, there is power that can take away
from this community the example he set the lessons
that his daily life taught He gave actual demonstra-
ton that graft is not necessary to in business
and that dishonesty does not form part of
political circles. ~.
The young men of this city, with their lives yet to
ve have the same opportunity to succeed along the
road Of honesty integrity and morality that open
to Captain Harper when he was their age They should
endeavor profit by the circumstances which calls this
to their attention at this time r. - . 3.a.% s, q
Captain Harper came to this city when it
village In the swing Of time that has elapsed since he
came to Ottumwa on steam boat in 1853, you young
men must realize that during the great changes that
have taken place he had to face just many tempta
ons and difficulties as will fall to your lot 1t
lust as easy for you to keep the right road
for him to do so. ....
The point we want to make is that he chose the
route of honesty and reliability. He was man who
stood for law and order and good government. His
every day life clean and clear as it is possible
for any man to live He carried his personal convic
lions into his business Honesty was the very fiber of
the man, and all men were good to him until they
proved themselves otherwise He recognized all en-
blowers should that there must be among men different
Municipalities, and therefore he attempted to
make any mans code to order This community is all
the better for his life here and it i'll afford to spare
him at this time And that this community appreciated
hin, because of his high standard Of citizenship
shown last Tuesday when, the day of his BURIAL hun
dreds gathered within the sanctuary where ne wor-
shpped while living and paid to his memory the tribute
Of reverence that is the last SERVICE and joined in fare
we'll to the man whose life lesson in upright hon
est manhood. t$...%: "@
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