The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-12-19
DOING GOOD

/ am about to make a statement which will
AXE the lovely characters scream. Either what
/ say is true ] crazy; and If / am crazy
send me to the /. asylum. This is the statement:
Since the beginning of time, young men have
been advised to be industrious, frugal and honest
and, in doing something for themselves, incident
ally do something for others, and for the commu-
tiles in which they live This advice is given to
sons by all parents and there is no more doubt
that the advice is good than that the will
come up tomorrow morning in the east No one
absolutely no one-doubts that the advice is the
best that be given young men; every thief and
oafer begs his sons to live honorable useful and
industrious lives. This advice universally
given that good many millions have accepted it
probably eight men out Of ten. AS re-
suit, seventy or eighty per cent of our men work
hard fairly honest, and try to something
for rainy day. In this has been built
up the greatest and most prosperous country
the face of the earth. AS result of industry and
saving, and acquiring experience, the men have
been able to engage in big enterprises, and thus
provide employment for others. If is able
to only few thousand dollars he at least
builds a home and workmen employed it
ceive from three to six dollars a day for their
labor. Most of the workmen young men, and
will themselves something of their wages,
and build homes, or becoming experts in their
trades, will build factories and shops, and employ
hundreds instead of dozens of workmen. Thus the
endless chain is enlarged, and thus comes about
the greatness of the country. Without particle
of question, the seventy or eighty per cent refer
red to the best of population; all that our
country is, they have accomplished by worthy en-
deavor. Ten or twenty per cent of our young
refuse to accept the advice of their parents They
refuse to work steadily; and they refuse to
cept the advice that thrift honesty, temperance
hest me in thp
ten twenty per cent class, in many cases,
supported by the men in the eighty or ninety per
cent class, in almshouses insane asylums, jails,
soup houses.
Now here is the surprising part of the state.
ment The useful and worthy men in the eighty
ninety per cent class are almost universally
abused by those individuals who consider it their
duty to do something for humanity. | have never
read an article written by of these individuals
which did not contain a palpable insult for the
honest worthy man who has accomplished results.
All the work" done by the Truly Good is done
for those who have done nothing for themselves.
The men who not only take care of themselves,
but of others are abused in every convention; and
in almost every magazine or newspaper article you
some reference to that old story about pros
porous man being unable to pass through the eye
of needle. Men who never gave away anything
themselves are forever telling of the brotherhood
OF man. now the INDUSTRIOUS man VINO Keeps the
wheels going round should let the wheels stop, and
put his arms around his brother who is playing
cards in beer or billiard hail. and talk things
owe" again.
Watch the truly good and you will find them
always yelling for more money from the worthy
seventy or eighty per cent, in order that the I'M
worthy ten or twenty per cent may be helped.
And this is not all: The truly good instead of
encouraging the cheerful givers, meanly and
truthfully abuse them, and say with burst of vr.
tuous Indignation, that camel did, and new
will be able to pass through the eye of a needle
a proposition have heard disputed and
therefore wonder why it is much insisted upon
Among the ten or twenty per cent in the shift.
less class many old and unfortunate. These
should be taken of, certainly, and as a rule
they are but the truly good never accomplish one
thousandth part Of the good accomplished by those
quiet, modest persons who help others every day,
People never hear of case of distress that they
are not quick to relieve it; this is a common and
creditable human attribute One OF the suppressed
scandals Of the times concerns a truly good WON.
an who was given large amounts of money for char
ty, by gentlemen who could not pass through the
eye OF a needle, and this woman permitted lot OF
favorite leeches wantonly to squander most of It.
Finally, the givers were compelled to quietly re-
move the woman from her high position and man
age the fund themselves. 1t wasn't Jane ADAM.
hut truly good stn more noted
BY the way, do not admire Jane Adams;
let me confess my shame, and away and hide.
Why do not admire this worthy woman who is
the Idol of Chicago, Evanston, Aurora, and other
towns in the vcInlty7 Because of that extra I'd"
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