Evening journal., 1916-12-21

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and others like him and who closes his every
opportunity for self-improvemen and social advance
ment that presents itself He is human menace VINO
reviles the rich and who preys upon the poor. He
does much less harm TO the former than he does to
the latter because in the hearts minds Of those
who ia ge not but who are longing for it,
he iljects the virus OF envy and hatred when the
things really needed the Of amoition and
emulation and the strengthening OF tho eye and the
hand so that the opportunity which presents itself TO
all may be and grasped it sweeps along in the
tide which makes for success
Economically, human beings divided into two
great classes.
One is composed OF who keep diligen watch for
opportunities which make for success. who seize them
when they within reach, who meet them half
way and utilize them for purposes of advancement
The other is composed those who view the stream
OF life so carelessy so casually that they cannot
see opportunities until they have passed beyond reach
have been grasped and utilized by those who are
more watchfu and energetic
II is the men and the women who quick Of Vi
sion and strong Of grasp who snatch success in
the stream Of opportunity and who carried by it
into the realm Of comfort ahiuence
UT is the and the women who do not see and
recognize opportunities until they have passed and
have seized By others who the failures in life.
II those who belong to this second class were left
to themselves in the chamber Of reflection and SELF
contemplation they finally would place where it prop
be impeed by sefrespect do for themselves those
things which make for moral and material sef-m-
provement Unfortunately for them, and for society as
whole they not left themselves They are not per-
mtted to weigh and effects in the scales Of hui
man wisdom and TO reach a reasonable and righteous
decision in this trial Of SELF The demagogue with
violent gesture and blatant tongue rushes among them
preaching the gospel their failure in life has not
been due their lack of energy and sagacty but
to social and conditions in the creation
OF which the rich and the wellto-do have played sim
lister and selfish part and for which they should be
pnloried and otherwise punished. And thus many OF
those who only have opportunities when they
were going and when they were coming, and
who are pleased be supplied with avenue OF es-
cane from self-condemnaton and self-reproach, are
arrayed against those who have wrung success from
opportunity The result is that far as the dema-
gogue may be able to bring about many failures in
life who vet have time in which TO redeem themselves,
are impelled to spend their time nursing envy and
hatred OF those who have been in life in
stead OF receiving from those inspiration to
make better and more practical and productive use OF
llfes opportunities.
No community ever lived and thrived without the
aid OF the wealthy and the weo-do and with the aid
Of the demagogue Wilmington is exception to that
rule Wealth. which paid for labor. has made II what
II There is nothing in Il OF value that has been
built by the inspired by the demagogue
Much would have been accomplished here had il
been for the demagogue and his pernicous preach
ents The invariable tendency Of his utterances has
been TO disregard the inevtabity OF inequality the
inevitabty poverty and riches and the interdepen
dence OF capital and labor. The acceptance Of such
preachments by and women who, out OF regard
for their own commonsense should have rejected them
with soom constituted his greatest encouragement
in this and other places.