Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-05-15

the iron horse flying like the wind
over the Great American Desert In
many directions. and literally made
'tte desert 70 Llossom as The rose,
has done more for this people and
for the world than Ell TIE mai-con-
terts aud calpine critics Il the rail-
roads and railroad magnates would
do In a thousand years. II Is not in
5, ch a man nor In such a career that
the danger les. IL Is rather In the
communis,ic spirit OF the nultitudes
who, declining the labor and exes-
ton involved In such a course, sit
down in idleness TO grumble a. their
fate and murmur because they are
not Permitted 10 feed sumptuously ar
other mems tables We are In dan
ger from the dwarfinc OF the Ego ana
not from its robust development. Tho
lesson that We should teach orr chill
dren and our you'll is that OF ind
vidUal possibilities are obligations.
The Young man and the Young WON
an should learn again and again and
vet again that in this land OF oppor-
tunities. every one is in very truth
the architect OF his own fortune, thar
every man, by developing the effici-
ency Of his own personality, can con
uuer success and happiness from his
environments but that neither sue
cess nor happiness can come 70 him
who feeds upon anothers bounty.
plead for strength. ioi manliness,
for sef-respect. for self.reliance, for
self-initiatiye. for q stalwart and ef-
ficient self This is basic and funda-
mental We must have men who are
able first Of all 10 take care Of them
selves After they have dom0nstrat-
ed their capacity % provide for self
and wife ald child they may take on
the care Of others But the curb
stone ph!losopi or, Of whom We have
an abundance aud to spare, who de-
serts his wife and children or keeps
them at home 10 scrape together 4
miserable subsistence for themselves
while he sits on the sunny side u tie
street. discourses 10 a handful OF
loaiers upon tho hardsfirg pf the
competitive system, and projects the
reconstruction Of the world and is
industries. upon plan by which men
shall be fed and clothed like the lily,
so that they toll not. neither spin.
Is a wicked and loathsome parasite
Better far Is the man who provides
for himself and is family the COM
forts and pleasures OF a home OF
plenty though he die In ignorance
OF the bcneiicent principles OF the
shiftless and thriftlcss communist,
dreamer and pauper Give me the
man who las bread al home. even
before be sends the gospel 10 the
hoathen.
believe that the soundest phil.
osophy of life teaches tat when 4
Young man with no capital but his
brain and Drawn sets forth on Hfe's
activities, It should be his first con
Germ 10 do something and make some
thing for himself and of himself
Wien he has established himself IN
business, banished want from his own
lireside, earned a competency for his
own family, when he has become a
man of substance and repute in his
community he may begin to lay out
schemes OF benevolence and larger
usefulness, but If he starts out with
TIE double burden OF making his own
career and carrying on his back the
wants and woes OF his neighbors
Tar and near. h. will find himself
always crippled and hating, always
bending under a load be cannot carr,
and viii iotter az last 10 ignoble fail.
ure. II rs vastly better as d. seems
10 me, 20 devote % earlier years oil
toll and struggle &c the self and lcr
the fuller development of the altru.
istic virtues come rs the flower and
fru.tase of later years.
Let the self assert itself in youth.
not meanly and narrowly. but frank
ly and broadly justly. uprightly and
righteously, with tead erect. fac.
forward and uphtted So let il move.
strons, clean-limbed. clcar-hrained
sure of itself, firm. rock-ribbed. four
square TO all the world. and rradv 20
say with Roderick Dhu
Come one. come all
This rock shall fly
From It's firm base
As soon as
As the years roll by and life deel-
ems and broadens. let the self take
on a fuller richness co-ordinatinr H.
self with other selves. entering into
the touch OF kinship with its fellows.
ready ever TO lend the helping hand
bending low TO lift up the weak and
the fallen. Towering in love and sym
pathy and fruiting in large bene,o-
lence and helpfulness Thus shall
We come at last TO the fnll-Orbed
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