El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-08
Presidency Bound To Win
II Your NeiEhbOr Is More Prosperous
Than You, Do Not Conclude
That He Is a Rascal.
Ella Wheeler WILCOX.

/ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
TINE sooner you put aside the idea
/ that your failures are the result
of trusts and mOnopolies, and
that a cruel fate has prevented you
from achieving anything, the better for
you.
/ There is a man who was deprived
/ of both arms when a small boy. He has
| become an expert with his toes, and
makes an excellent living and has be-
! come independent
A man thrown suddenly out Of work
by a trust, set forth after a week of
rest and relaxation TO find a new OccU-
patton. He was so years old and had
worked in one firm for % years. 4
too good heart, an eXtraVaganL wife
ing a competence. So he was literally
starting life anew
He had been told that the world
wanted only young meRt that ne would
find nothing to do; and that his fate
was that OF thousands Of others in
these times.
But the man said to himself: Il viii
be different from the thousands. / will
find work. 1 will succeed"
And he did. Not at once; he tried
several months to obtain what he
wanted, with poor success. But after
each failure he said, I I'm simply being
saved for something better. 1 am in
this world for some purpose, and am
not going to be a beggar, or a failure.
Success and independence belong to me.
Of course, with that spirit, they had
to come
And today the man is far better
placed than he was before the trust
came and threw him out of his posi-
ton. Because he has developed new
powers mentally by this experience.
There is no excuse for idleness, de-
spondency and despair in this world.
You Can Win If You Persist.
However hopeless the outlook may
seem to you, however difficult the path
before you. you can find the way TO
independence and success If you never
let go
It may require a long time. But if
you had your choice today to start
in a dark, foggy valley and slowly
starVe to death, or TO climb a steep,
long mountain road which required
years Of endeaVOr and fatigue, yet led
to comfort and beauty at The top, you
would, am sure, start at once up the
mountain.
No matter what boulders lay ahead,
you would try to climb over. No mat
ter what wild animals rOamed over the
mountain, you would face all the trials
and dangers sooner than stay in the
valley and die a slow death
That is precisely what you want to
do now.
cause there are trusts and monopolies
in the land is to stay in the valley and
Gle of inactiOn.
If you chance to see some other pill
grim on the road, riding in an auto
mobile while you walk, do not at once
jump to the conclusion tEat he is your
enemy and that he has robbed and
cheated his fellow men to procure his
method Of easy lOcOmOtiOn.
Such thoughts viii take your force
and vitality away from the object you
have in view, and will harm you, while
they may wrong your ncighbOr. It
would be well for you to find out how
he came to own an automobile before
you condemn him as greedy monOpO-
list Perhaps he built IL with his own
skill and labor paying honest dollars
for the materials.
There are capitalists who grind the
poor and wrong their fellow men. But
it is well to remember that there are
also honest, noble, unselfish people |
with fortunes, and capitalists who are
a blessing to the world. 10 the laDorlng I
classes and to humanity.
No more unjust and absurd idea ever /
existed than that mistaken impression
Of the poor that all rich or even COM |
Portable people are their enemies and /
heir despOilers.
Equally erroneous is the idea that !
0nly the poor have troubles, cares and !
lardships.
There are wealthy people who work |
IA hours day with their brains and
hands, trying to do good to humanity.
Try to Be Just and Fair.
To be the pOssessOr Of a comfortable 1
sum of money does not mean to be dis i
honest or unl1ind. any more than pow /
srty means honesty and unselfishness- |
There are all kinds Of people in both 4,
.lasses.
However poor you are, try at least /
% be just and fair in your estimate
# others.
Justice is one Of the pillars Of char
lcter building.
Make yourself everything that is
honest, noble, lust and deserving. as
-Ou climb the mountain Of life, and be 1
,areful before you condemn your fellow /
dishonesty and idlenesS IS honesty and 4
1913, by Star Co.