Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-02
ARE you IA MAN OR "A WEAKLING?

ARE YOU IA MAN OR "a WEAKLING?
Have you the moral courage to do what you know
you ought to do, or you human Weakling who is
always doing what you know you ought NOT do?
Do you decide things for yourself or do you just
blindly do anything that stronger than you
suggests?
If you are one Of the so-called men who takes
drink for other than just because some fel-
low happened along with bottle and offered it to you
then you are not strong enough to be left alone
Are you one Of those spineless creatures who buy
every gold brick that is offered to you?
you take the money that you are working for.
and do not figure how you get the most Of what you
need for it, then you would make failure of the best
business in the city if it were given to you.
You rob yourself more often than you robbed
by anyone else.
You don't need money-you need guardian
your weeks wages does not do you any good-the
you get the bigger sucker you are. The wolves
all see you coming.
It's your fault too There are others working with
you every day who some money, dress heater,
look better and better worken and better citizens
than you are.
Why is it?
Just simply because they try and you don't. You
tell yourself that you trying and you know you are
not You not only rob yourself but you'll lie to yourself
You haven't any enemies but yourself. The only time
anyone thinks about you when they feel sorry for you
because you won't help yourself You sit around and tell
yourself that everything is going wrong with you and
try to make yourself believe that you getting the
worst Of it. The only who giving you the worst
of youand you giving the men who work with
you the worst of it, continuously yawpng about your
self. You take up their time which is worth something
because they make it so.
! You pick out some successful who is twice as
old you and who has always saved his money and
had saved enough to start himself in business before
you born, and make yourself dissatisfied by rant
ing about how much he has than you have He has
it because he saved long before you started to- work.
and he is still saving while you are spending .s
sas You need to be jolted, Jared, awakened and
started in the other direction You lot better fell
low than you think you What you have got to do
first Of all is to be MAN, instead of just Pathfinder
and scold.
You can't find the bright side Of life if you
tinuousy looking for the dark side. You can't
money if you always figuring how you spend it.
Try figuring how you can save dollar or so week,
and you'll feel better Everything in this life requires an
eort-it is work to walbut you can do it. It is hard
couraged if you have tried once and failed When you
were baby you tried hundreds and thousands of times
before you could walk even turn yourself over You
haven't nehousandth part the courage you had when
you were a year old
Brace up-give yourself chance. Be just little
better and stronger than the fellow who tries to
get you to do something you know you ought not do
Remember you'll have to help yourself and then
others will help you.
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