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The
The
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CO.
GEORGE
H.
KNOX.
READY MONEY
BY
GEORGE
H.
KNOX
IOWA
Copyright,
By
GEORGE
H.
905
KNOX.
colonies, and,
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CONTENTS.
PART
I.
14
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
IS
PAGE
The
Vision of War.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Pericles to Aspasia.
Pericles
223
.227
.
241
-247
Andreas Hofer
Anon.
......
.....
261
Reminiscence of Lexington.
Washington.
269
271
.275
Anon.
-283
Daniel Webster
Webster's Reply to Hayne.
285
Charles Dudley
The Death of Nathan Hale.
Warner
289
The Revolutionary Alarm. George Bancroft
293
.297
The New South. Henry W.Grady
Washington.
.......
.
PART
(17)
BiMWi^&^..
GETTING STARTED.
When one thinks of the thousands who
have succeeded without even a ghost of a
chance,
we
in
this
glorious age
of
progress
lot is
hard?
that
me
Let
own
your
all
the
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20
swimmer
going
had become a
skilful
It's
waiting to do something
or waiting to
great,
before
and
and nearly
toUs,
all
The
the
preparation
come
supreme
moment the supreme test of strength. 'Thousands are standing on the bank shivering instead of jumping in and becoming warm by
their own activity in the water.
Thousands
after
the
start.
start
is
the
make
it
go.
they can-
start
One
reason
is
as bad as another.
What
man whether
he was killed intentionally or by accident?
What difference does it make why one doesn't
difference does
it
make
to the
dead
start if he doesn't?
Are you disheartened?
Are you afraid to make a start for fear you will
fail, and your last condition be worse than your
GETTING STARTED
You
first?
men,
for they
But
times.
man
Every
have
all
your
had
21
all
successful
their misgivings at
suppositions
are
wrong.
possibilities within
and the
prise,
The important
genius
is
well done.
it
now.
and
thing
the
great
stroke
of
Endeavor
It gives
strength.
Why
to
man
do something and do
will-power, decision,
No
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one in
by
all
own
Everything
ruin.
for growth.
confidence,
skill.
momentum,
will see
one
In a year he has
first.
in ten years
accomplished
the impossible.
Are you
all
You have
in
You
monuments
The
left their
see their
you
You
of achievement reaching
Christendom.
way
to live.
To
To
succeed
fail
is
is
contrary to nature.
GETTING STARTED
supremest
made.
effort,
Do
estimated,
You
and you
23
you think your services are underand you are waiting for your price?
own
head.
You
are
a mile high.
you can
get,
yourself.
It
employer
will
The
if
salary
you
you
What you
it.
Most
of our successful
on a small
salary.
It
men
of to-day started
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made them
great.
It
no position at
heard from.
all,
always comes.
The
is
the only
salary always,
He
first
says he
made
it
his
six months, to do
power to further the
interests of his employer, and in after life he
always endeavored to do more than he got paid
for.
He didn't think he was underestimated or
imposed upon during that trial period; he
thought he was most fortunate to have a position and a chance to learn the business without
having to pay for the privilege.
He was in
everything
within
his
little
He
He
expected
months, but
was given an ofi&ce. He
six
GETTING STARTED
received a dozen promotions
never
stopped
He
learning.
all
25
He
in one.
never
stopped
the
He
men
now one
is
was just
from the time he commenced to
work without a salary until he was elected
president of the Western Union.
If he had
fifty
in the country.
years
It
different.
If
he had been
sat-
different,
all
less complete.
learning,
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26
He
was
defeated,
but
he
says
the
experience
later.
He was
time,
to
another man,
who wanted
work
for
it.
or, rather,
a boy at that
He
says:
"The
idea that I
was
men who
They commenced
and the
fact
GETTING STARTED
position at
any price
27
much an indication of
The
be the little men of the
as
is
to
work
future refuse to go to
worth.
men
of the future go to
get,
and
for
work
Getting started
is
man
any
may
salary.
business
small.
even
an inspiration
if
salary
his
If the salary
he was in business
to
is
fit
himself for
man
to be in
unreasonably
for,
he might as well
quit,
twice as
much
as
is
expected.
Rejoice that
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Out
of over a
men
thousand
to
whom
have
something
exception to
men from
They
say
like
boy who
right for a
make
of time to
it
up
in,
"but
am
It doesn't
rience."
seem
man
to say
to
How
is
not sup-
who has
plenty
a man;
I
it's
cannot
in getting expe-
me
that anything
five years
him
his price.
The chances
half
If
when he
he
is
He
right.
Suppose a
GETTING STARTED
man
29
it
at eighteen dollars a
month,
who wUl
give
them twenty
dollars.
It's
ten
This' I
know from
expe-
and 1894, in
rience.
the drought-stricken districts of Nebraska and
South Dakota, the best of farm laborers were
only able to get work about half the time, and
at fifty cents a day at that. There were a good
many men in those States who knew what it
of 1893
was
to
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so
Those
kind, at
any
price,
was a source
One
couldn't
make
it
at
anything
else.
hundred.
My
money
your advantage.
paid for
it.
I spent
and I ought to be
you unless I get a
He didn't work.
The year has gone. The first man has earned
his forty dollars a month, and more. He has a
hundred dollars a month."
GETTING STARTED
now that is a credit
The man who refused
any
31
man
position
to
age.
the forty a
of his
month
He
would have
to begin
all.
He
And
of such illustrations.
couldn't
Every employer
men
of
man may
much
when he
is
time either.
at the
same
age.
Some
He may
of our successful
men
know
themselves
of
unknown,
science unguessed.
He
never wrote
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an
he was forty; he
was
never
made a
five.
forty-
skilful orator;
Sam
Jones
mayor
critic,
inventor, successful
business man,
philanthropist."
come when
make
INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION.
I
WISH
woman
and
invincible determination to do
to be.
Why
No
shouldn't
people
to be a failure.
discover
might be cultivated
blossom
like
until
great
their
bilities,
it
Why
possi-
personality which
a beautiful flower?
Why shouldn't
make good
will, progress,
is
big
to succeed in,
and
it
is
a perfect paradise.
we may
cultivate,
would be ours
if
Think
of 'the desire
we would but
appropriate the
men
(33)
of every age
have
left
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mankind. Think of
and soul, and inspiration and zeal into your work, and making it
the pride of your life and the admiration of the
as a blessed heritage to
world.
It's
the only
get all
and a heritage
to leave to the
world which
will
What
rise.
I tell you,
we all need
INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION
35
Why
man
shouldn't every
cuUivate
the grit
Garrison?
positions
if
difficulty
ciple
and
and
heard."
Isn't more
what we need?
I will be
forced
of
own
defence.
"My
lords,
it
mind by humiliation
of the scaffold
to the
but worse
may be
to bow
a part of
a man's
proposed ignominy
to
me
terrors,
would be
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the
shame
of such foul
me
in this Court.
am
the supposed
You,
my
culprit; I
a judge; I
lord, are
am
revolution of
man
also.
By a
places,
If I stand
my
bar of
this
character,
policy inflicts on
my
body, also
my
condemn my
reputation
to
re-
proach?
the
voir,
business?
kind of courage
it."
we need
in
the giant of
INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION
37
grit that
of
has inspired
civilization.
us,
given
Whether
it
But the
those heroic
it is
now lauded
men
is to
to the skies.
manhood
of
grand.
Listen
to
slavery?
the
Henry:
be purchased
"Is
life
at
Forbid
the expense
it,
me, give
me
of
chains and
Almighty God.
liberty or give
care
as for
It
was
mination.
siasm
is
what we need
to
awaken
in us the
Think
of
the
determination
of
General
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"Swamp Fox
Marion, the
when he
of the Carolinas,"
"I
and
am in
I am
love,
me
soil
birth
may
generations
gladdens
my
The
children of future
never hear
heart
to
my
name, but
think that I
all its
it
am now
countless
blessings."
How we
leon
when
in the
own
Napo-
He
Egyptian campaign.
banished for-
by walking
into
their
saying, "Soldiers,
you
are
too
"We
to intimidate
many to
assassinate
me."
INVINCIBLE DETERMINATION
to
army headed by
man who
fleet
lacked
it
39
as for an
to capture
a single firearm.
To
is to
to
be enthusiastic
is
to
be keenly
alive.
It
before."
It's to
difference
work and
between
snap
putting
it
is
into
your
precisely the
of the world
is
says Emerson.
It pays to wake up and stop idle dreaming
and wishing, and do something. The thing can
be done.
seems.
It's
It's
tions or professions.
needs
is
to
Success
be started and
impossibilities.
it
is
will
there.
All
it
go around the
There are no
stars.
There are no things that "can't
it
40
'
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throat
COURAGE.
All
symbol
its
It is the
and renown.
strong arm against tyranny, and with
of honor, glory,
serf into
It raises
its magic
the freeholder
enriches mankind.
It
peaks
weak and
to
fire-fighters
We
of
the
delight
age
(41)
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cross, that
and the
and have it more
the stake,
gallows,
the
cell,
we might have
life
abundantly.
and
The
superstition.
cities,
and the
civilization
paradise would
beautiful
farms,
the
towering
still
that
make
this
world a
We
only music.
giants
who have
who
dared to do.
day who,
in every land
alone to those
ciple
might
live,
The courage
up
music of war;
who gave
and
right
belongs not
a prin-
of the business
it
man who
mankind
man whose
is
has built
often as
inventions have
COURAGE
43
own
is
and
as brave
who has
home
to
contend with, who, both by precept and example, raises a family of children in purity and
made
is
too
light of
refuse a cigar or a
chew
of tobacco
Men
by a companion.
systems that which deadens
bilities, lowers their
will
when
offered
their
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44
them
women
of
society
the parlor or
for
and unfortunate
make them men.
that
belief
No
But
stuff
would
stained spittoon.
the
is
And
out of that
to sicken
its
humanity.
The unpleasantness
as
creates
is
It gives
bad, and
it
one a breath
so foul as to detract
is
lost.
expend
their
tobacco habit
formed.
should
The
be
is
before
The
the
cured,
whether
it
be
tobacco,
COURAGE
45
bling,
or theft,
As
formed.
is
before the
young eagle
the
among
is fitted
by nature
boys and
tations
girls of
of
gam-
fit
the
to-morrow.
who
greater
What
is
of the whiskey
habit.
is
also true
life
was wasted
bad
was all
onward
it
amounted
to.
That
of Christianity
many
Ingersoll said
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46
stition
good
in people
are.
"I
any
coiled
until
I believe that
it
despairing
talented
of the
little
wives,
asking
of genius
it
the
of
of
weeping and
bread;
of
the
men
for
of
children tugging at
men
suicides,
of the ignorance,
of the poverty,
insanity,
by
of the
COURAGE
prisons, of the scaffolds
wonder
on
47
either bank, I
man
is
do not
preju-
And
yet there
are
manliness to refuse
those
it.
who
haven't the
when
habit
it
women from
Give
men and
which leads
of
to ruin.
Why
the
by studying the
may
employe
ness
if
It is its
lives
and deeds
firmament?
is
of
he
when one
mighty deeds
to
how an
it is its
busi-
business
if
gambling device
loses his
head
first,
then his
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manhood,
self-respect, his
To
soul.
his
for anything
worth while
it
is
fatal
blow.
hard to
else to do.
He
made
it
is
he has nothing
No
He draws
his salary in
advance
to
he has
The
next
move
is
down and
forever.
He becomes
all is
himself, for a
COURAGE
puts in their place a
nor
All
soul.
who
those
preventive
is
49
demon with
humanity
is
neither heart
playing
cards
for
money
We
to
self-respect.
The
ordinary
He
to say no.
The
story
is
gives
in,
written in
rest.
dis-
man" who
able
The
"respect-
blame; he
Go
the
is
to
wrong example.
the liquor traffic and you have
sets the
back to
same thing
able
man who
with
to
friend"
drunkard
city,
contend with.
"takes
does
in the gutter.
glass
The
respect-
occasionally
the
He
but
takes but
little,
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so
He
he
we know
The
it.
it
man who
never leaves
to
it
it
or leave
it
No
alone.
become a drunkard,
it,
but
or leave
he decides to
alone"
refuse
to
let
who seems
a drunkard's grave,
in
little
all
because he lacked
Courage
to
is what is needed.
Every young man knows all about the evU
effects of drink, but thinks he will quit by and
begin with
by.
If
is
clean,
upright,
say no.
"Men who
not steal;
men who
everlasting
life
runs
still
strong."
life
lack of
COURAGE
SI
who
wrong
and, besides,
it
is
It is
know,
is
That
to be.
is
make
fatal.
to withhold
engage in a
it
fist
fight;
it
is
bad
cover it up
It isn't so
to
is
the
Anyone can
a mere animalism;
man
to
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an unworthy antagonist.
fearless,
honest,
and
true.
mil
and bring
It
man
cause he
first
boy who
did something
nothing to do,
when he grows
only a
little
boy,
the boy
who
will
is
is
up.
long preparation
We
when he was a
be-
boy.
is
believe that he
ity.
it is
it
To
and given
do nothing
be successful requires
The
city
boy
is
He
usually misses
he
spends
while.
The
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know how
He
he
is
six or
he can.
that,
that he
is useful.
aren't.
If
55
if
close
He
it.
and
to the field,
calls
him
he takes
to dinner;
and
it
is
the farm
is ten,
when he
been a slave
He
splendid development.
all
milk when he
plow a
is
to either
sixteen,
work
can
and run
little later,
He
or idleness.
has
tried;
transforming
him
into a magnificent
it is
to
work from
hungry that
limit.
at ten
to school
and
to get so
fire,
it
do
to get
is
the chores,
up in the
and hustle
He knows how
situation.
If
He
is
an all-round boy.
He knows how
poll-evils,
how
how
to
the
if
mend
it.
and
how
to
does).
he has
He knows what
man.
He knows what
it is all
any "critter"
He knows what
(or
he thinks he
calf
on
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the place
of
is
worth; he knows
wheat are
in a bushel,
to
sow
acre,
that grows.
What chance
it
is
It
is
not the
know what
a
mighty
whether he
me
a fellow
it
is
to
disadvantage.
is
He
doesn't
know
since he
it
He
how
to
was three
and how
that
has learned
adapt himself
57
Human
nature
a boy nor a
is
man
common
floor,
mowing
windows, turning the washing machine, running the furnace and carrying out the ashes,
etc., there would be
more town boys in the United States Senate
and in every successful enterprise. Let him
There is no reason why the poor
sell papers.
boy should have that great advantage all to
himself. Teach him to make bargains, buy the
groceries, and pay bills, and he will become
self-reliant and learn how to deal with men.
Teach him to buy his own clothes. It is worth
something
to
a boy
to
know
the price of
com-
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modities
him
to
know what
it
a chance.
He
ought not
Teach
costs to live.
to
of
made
to suffer
and go through
life
father.
him something
give
to endure,
something to
something to
prize,
will
successful
men.
have.
If
man you
We
all
know
King Saul
who
did battle
said to him:
"David,
He
S9
his
hardly
of
my
lift."
David
replied:
my
came a
know
bear,
that with
and
my
sling I
can
kill
and
and I
sling;
Goliath."
Abraham
poverty
in
Illinois.
obstacles.
Lincoln
the
fought
wilderness
the
of
pangs
Indiana
of
and
even,
it
yield,
States
The
greatest
preparation
that
James A.
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6o
Garfield ever
had
Hiram
and swept
while he was a boy;
bell
him
to
men and
things,
and
office in the
how
to
fit
a boy for
faithfully,
The boy
6i
Mr. Girard he
When
was
the
for.
it
was the
spirit
that
made him
willing to
useful.
up within
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It's a
things,
and
it's
how to do
him that
and save.
"Hats off to the boy. He is the future leader
His life is big with possibilities.
of mankind.
He may make or uncrown kings, change boundary lines between States, write books that
will mould characters. Or invent machines that
will revolutionize the world."
will
listless
whiling
happen
away
of time
when one
doesn't
plish wonders.
of time.
That
is,
keep going.
(63)
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64
Most
of a
when time
at his dis-
is
may
all.
little
their spare
of doing a
Jie
If
He
thinks he
is
working
There's the
for the
boss
make
is
to
deceive
is simply working
someone else for so much a day. Every
employe, whether a ten-thousand-doUar-a-year
man or a dollar-a-day man, is first of all working for himself, and when he concludes that
he is working for the boss and lets the boss do
his planning, he is giving himself a life sentence
disagreeable
small pay.
adding to your
skill.
a personal
Be a
part of
65
or
thing."
I didn't
own
now
just
like
my
employer's,
him
boss give
men
it
always.
the benefit of
can; he needs
it.
only
better."
all
If
you have a
some day
for others
who
forget to plan
for themselves.
ally,
s
and get
themselves
it,
and, incident-
away ahead.
Others
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66
plan to get a
doesn't
get promotion
is
promotion, but
black eye."
day,
and
if
make
to
it,
best
but
way
it
to
plans his
interests
selfish
The
to anything.
raise,
amount
will
it
Isn't
it
some day
give
him "a
hundred dollar
get a five
raise because
you
selfish
interests
and
get a five
dollar raise?
Thinking
moments
out
things
gives one
which
during
one's
spare
to
to that eight
of
of head-work,
have
ten.
value of time.
when
you
I tell
you that
in after-life
thrift of
me
67
intellectual and
beyond your darkest reckonings."
Napoleon once planned a whole campaign,
between the acts, while at the theatre. He
didn't need to take a day off to do a thing. He
worked as long hours as the sun would let him,
and planned his great campaigns while his
soldiers slept. Napoleon conquered all Europe
it
will
moral
stature,
rest of the
it
A man
can write
bye
is
said
it
To me
There is
working on the train is a delight.
something about the lightning-like speed of a
fast train, the elegance and comfort of a parlor
car, and the energy and enthusiasm it seems
to generate that inspires
one
to
do
his best.
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68
Think,
an
in
too, of the
office
by getting
rid of
men who
To
blame.
and
sit
up and go when
haven't
is
not to
more
We
let
thought out
it
"One
goes along.
of the
learned by every
calling
is
pays to use
It
to be
get on in his
was wont
69
when
then
life is fast
harvest in
life's
autumn.
It is
a truism which
may
be replaced by
by study,
cine,
but
lost health
lost
time
is
industry, lost
lost
wealth
knowledge
BOOKS.
Books: The
spiration
of
pillars of progress
How
mankind.
and the
mighty
is
in-
thy
the thoughts
experience,
the inspiration,
deeds of
all
and
to read.
Refusing to buy
new
new books
is like
until the
refusing to asso-
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72
the
old
friends.
coming
It's
little
in
book
isn't
something a
away
the time.
It's
men's
success.
It's
man
reads to pass
an assimilation
the
association
of other
of
the
Through books he
is
is
born.
half-doing things
multitudes.
The world
who
all
is
don't do
is
the ruination of
is
they can.
Half-hearted success
whole-hearted failure.
Half-hearted work
gives us half-hearted
half a
life
neither live
man.
into half a
work
finds that
it
is
the
worth while
only half
when
is in
comes
may
if
he
no matter what he
The
is
tries will
not enough.
tries gets
tries,
it is
The
business
man who
only half
to him.
even
is
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74
blame
their business
man
is
when he
isn't
who
trying
half
isn't
if
hesitates
attempting
and a man
because
he
There's
man: "Do
the thing
only one
way
for such a
that ought to be
Make
or not."
yourself like
Make
grow.
mastered
The
yourself like
it,
great bulk of
that
which
you have
until
it
will like
it
naturally.
all
they can.
They
and do
and if they meet an obstacle
work around it, and failure is the
the line of least resistance
is
they try to
it.
move along
like to do it
That is the
upon which men
easy,
inevitable result.
"The
person
who
is
content
thirds, to
to
is
self into
a pen or a pick,
add to the general bulk of unrighteousAre you one of the persons who is not
ness."
doing
all
he can?
health good?
Examine
If not, the
yourself.
Is your
morning and
all
you can.
Do you
fill
75
air;
right.
know
it,
that ought to be
to discover
till
it.
If you
to-morrow things
the one
It
severe discipline,
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76
Idaho
Ike,
prize-fighters,
some
mine
Who
to be like?
are the
men
Wild
Bill,
tight-rope walkers,
of the leading
be
like
your JjmL
and willing
done,
is
to
and ready
to be
BEING BUSINESSLIKE.
There
is
yet not
trust him.
be limited, or you
judgment.
You
may
him
be-
him would be
est
unbusinesslike.
One
man
of the great-
can make
is
it
perform.
that a
No man
agreement not
contract.
it
in
man
should make a
harmony with his
can't
verbal
written
ment, or
memory
of the other.
(77)
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78
itself is
concerned, but
man
financially responsible.
is
it
It doesn't say
that a business house would be justified in trusting him with goods and money and know that
they could make him pay, whether he wanted
to or not.
tion to integrity,
means
financial responsibility.
man
It
means
that that
of property, so that
nesslike to
He
it.
There might
BEING BUSINESSLIKE
be some misunderstanding.
If
79
any
up with
that
man who
these
of
is
tied
he does,
if
contract.
If
he gets
sick,
for this
it
is
why
man's mis-
if
him
financial embarrass-
performance
him
that
to return
man
free to act;
READY MONEY
8o
men whose
word
is
whom
it
has
business.
If sickness
overtakes them,
we
are
it
ness proposition.
trust
a friend
money when
if
never unbusinesslike to
it's
when he
if
you had
to
it
would be
It is
unbusinesslike to
man
is
it
can't be
done
safely.
The
fact that a
is
is
not
also
BEING BUSINESSLIKE
financially responsible.
great deal.
Being a Christian
is
mean
I don't
8i
to
isn't
Christianity
is
Because of
kind.
of character
sume
to
which
its
it
may
derive
some
benefit
in
from
great
reputation
man
tract,
man
effect,
unless
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82
to
make such a
your part.
man
good business
is
often
ing to
him
he
is
to
to
as will enable
do what
him
to do.
the
average
man
can
make a
success, but
make a
He
self.
He
success.
know
doesn't
it
much
aroused, and he
The
energy to be indifferent
as to be positive.
is
price of success
satisfied
is
with indifference.
can pay.
I
know
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84
comes, and
when
They
say:
represented to
it's
"This
be; I'm
go through
another.
life
They
it
to
enough
to
They
it.
know what
is
in
it,
haven't
or their
to such
come
The
road
you put your personality, your vim, and your whole life into
every step of that road. If you go through the
to success is not very long
come
obstacles as you
if
them, whether
to
it
is
agreeable or disagreeable, you will find the distance only about a mile, but try to dodge them
ment make
talent.
the
genius.
at success headquarters.
the price
the price
is
is
small
try to
so high that
it
puts a mortgage on
85
cessful,
failure.
but
is
it
seldom necessary
is
make
to
no crime,
the same
mistake twice.
If
it is
you want
don't listen to
any
done"
croakers.
The
You
it
if
rests
of success;
First, is the
and
what you want to
If
it
is,
READY MONEY
86
as
seems.
it
increases,
you
will
As your knowledge
and if
more
more head-work, a little more
add
energy, a
of the business
to
little
your past
efforts
little
He
I
can
but
will
he?
is
rise.
not complimentary.
that
when
wUl be able to say: "It seems imposif anyone can do it, he is the man.
I have never known him to fail yet, and I believe he can do anything he undertakes."
I
knew of a young man once who undertook
friends
sible,
but
His
know
friend
of only
said,
in
speaking of him,
is
"I
likely to
he
will succeed,
in
anything in
Every young
if
man
is
building
a gold mine.
Why
not get
it?
reputation;
it is
worth
is
It is
The
opposed
Success
is
to weakness, indecision
Success
Success
is
Too many
is
make
the thing go. They see obstacles and come in
contact with disagreeable features. They look
on the dark side of their own business and on
are afraid they are not going to
ing
more
difficulties
it is
for a
man
to see success.
ceed.
than others.
The
easier
It is easier to drift
(87)
it is
than to suc-
to
READY MONEY
88
row up.
pays
We
to
know;
have seen
it
pays to study;
It
pays to do.
men
travel
"blue sky."
and the
They have
and
ministry,
all
tried law,
medicine,
Why?
man
without avail.
himself. Right
when, or how.
that he can
him
gets
Let a
do a
man become
thing,
confidence,
convinced
Confidence be-
success.
Take a mental
How
opportunity?
Have you
ity?
It
What
inventory of yourself.
are
your
your
possibilities?
it.
One
think.
every other
if
he
lets his
has
it
little,
to,
things, life
is
short-sighted people
"chew
man who
the rag"
expects to
all
man
they want
one
energy
do
think right
to spite or hate, or
that weaken.
if
To
to spite thoughts, or
run
to
even
it.
it's
run
isn't
his
capital
bank account.
and
his actions,
89
If there's
It's too
a person
it
him and
Wipe him off
down and think mean
is,
quit
him
dealing with
cease thinking of
entirely.
cause a
an hour
man
sit
would be
Besides,
READY MONEY
90
what
is
It is said that
energy,
directed in
if
happen
let
them hap-
pen.
we
are?
It doesn't
knew
up.
it,
but
it
man who
if
keeps
It's
thing go down.
to take a
in the
It
pays to think
right.
It
pays
form
of bright,
cheerful,
enthusiastic,
Think
about being broad-minded and generous and
Have in mind the kind of person
successful.
you want to be and keep those thoughts constantly before your mind, and you will get to be
confident,
business-getting
thoughts.
It
pays
91
to think right;
it
He
doesn't
it
necessarily
a point to look
need
to
wear
won't
feel right,
little
deals; tries
to
to
pennies, he
is
going
cheap.
pay two
prices,
There are
and
when
they
people who do
deal with you, you had better give them two
They will think
cents where they want one.
you are generous if you do; they will think you
Such
are as small as they are if you don't.
practice of "jewing" people down.
that sort of thing,
if
you
try
READY MONEY
92
them they think you are unreasonable, and go off and talk about you.
Better
give such a man his price, add a little to it and
pile him on the first train that comes along.
to reason with
I believe that
every
if
man
he would
treat
everyone with
of
money
It's
whom
he dealt
would
get rich.
estate, or in
life
mean a
little
one.
of courage, positiveness,
cess.
"As
he."
But
man,
so
if
man
evil
suc-
is
WHY PEOPLE
People who
FAIL AT FIRST.
who have all those qualities, with honadded, who aren't making the success they
of people
esty
deserve.
it's
it
ality.
It's the
forceful way,
gets
him
it's
liked
and
business.
A man
Co-operation
makes a person
successful;
it's
lack of person-
draws people
of his personality.
to
the voluntary,
A man
him by
uncon-
the strength
94
READY MONEY
development of
their
own
per-
sonality.
of people
is full
it
Most people
isn't.
like to
Per-
Some
men who
happen
own
to discover their
strength.
if
they
It is
makes a man
and being well pleased
with one's
a
man
self
it
When
has a tendency
at his best;
when he
to
doesn't
is
doing
it,
hard work
WHY PEOPLE
meagre
results.
FAIL AT FIRST
95
means he should
he
doing.
is
the natural
It's
man
is
tude
when he goes
into a
He
cess.
it
he
until
business
that
it
is
atti-
He
business.
has
it
and he goes at
vim and fire and makes a
that
enthusiastic,
full of
isn't
fails
new
to live.
liant success of
He
way
it
bril-
for a
what he thought
it
was, and
fails.
When
he commences he
is
is
worn
out.
stimulated with
His
and he does.
work
He
isn't
able to build
up
it is
He
being used, so he becomes exhausted.
doesn't realize it at first, but it tells on his busiThings don't go quite so
doesn't know what is the matter.
ness.
well,
He
and he
begins to
READY MONEY
96
fear the
it
business isn't
all,
pated and
;
many un-
because of his
overworked condition,
He makes
because he doesn't
What he needs
and a
little
more
know what
is
the matter.
is
sleep.
It doesn't
all
take a
man
back upon.
In the canvassing business (and that
is really
is
a salesman more or
good thing
to
first
more business
He
the
does business
week, and
do business on.
less),
No
it's
a pretty
salesman can
enthusiastic he
the
is
if
more
he is to wear
he doesn't know his business
likely
WHY PEOPLE
FAIL AT FIRST
97
Even
his hours a
his energies
tion,
in better condi-
is
true of others.
What
is
men
never did
"To
ing.
someone
The
it."
latter is the
does
else
it,
is
all
Putting
it.
nient time
more humiliat-
is
makes
thing makes
thing
it
off until
dangerous.
"I thought of
is what too
it,"
a more conve-
"Putting
off
an easy
it
it
impossible."
without waiting to
Make
know whether or
the
move
not some-
one
do,
will do
its
it.
hat to the
man who
The world
Stand alone.
man who
takes off
The
READY MONEY
loo
is
quers.
the one
"No
who
con-
great deed
for cer-
quickly.
a good thing
when you
see
it,
is
a valuable
perhaps
it
might be made
better.
young man in the employ of a certain company was called in to renew his contract for a
He
He
business
if
He
loi
didn't act
know
little
in
a day or
more.
and he
He
so.
would
let
them
what he was
off,
first
offered.
Be
it is
man
of power.
Decide
it
saves time.
It takes
Two-thirds
of
pass.
He
he has no
way.
going
difficulties
stepping stones."
big enough to do a
is
is
big enough
men
Some
the
life
risk.
a fortune, he makes
time.
The
other
it
man
If
such a
man makes
by saving a penny
at a
develops a fortune in
all,
if
he can
few years.
left if
READY MONEY
I04
He
busi-
little
him an experience
worth anything.
His
that's
A man
Successful
men
it
ity.
and char-
gentleness, kindness,
is
sonably
It is
selfish.
a misfortune to be unrea-
When
the theatre
on
is
fire,
collected,
sharp,
shrewd
men
to
take
and by means
of technicalities beat
he
to their
gets all he
them out
own
of
ill-gotten
"how,"
will never
*ios
it
The
He
usually near-sighted.
selfish
man
holds a nickel so
He
isn't
content to do
He
much
he loses him.
He
It
pays to be generous;
grinds so
many
is
it
pays to be
fair; it
up
who
don't
NERVE.
What
is
is
nerve?
It is
impossible.
It is setting
it
of nerve
have given up
in despair.
(107)
NERVE
io8
test
of nerve.
It
is
It is
nerve that
and enables
up enterprises that astonish the
world.
Nerve is that which enables one to
calmly and unflinchingly face an unpleasant
belts our continents with railroads
men
to build
task
or
when duty
it.
IT.
"He
when
I told
return; not at
royal
man and
all.
He
did
it
something
because he
is
in
it
takes
all
own
lives.
READY MONEY
no
making our
it's
and
ter
less satisfactory
be suspicious that a
anyone
you
to go
To
for
but
life
not a
is
be constantly accusing
to
bring reproach
is it
a good practice
is
Neither
ourselves.
it;
down.
people of irregularities,
upon
Bet-
be
selfish,
we imply a
lack of gen-
erosity in ourselves.
Don't jump
you must
nesslike.
in
be.
It is all
It is all right to
It is all
wrong
wrong
to tie
be business-
to be unbusi-
your business up
promises.
thing.
or the
judgment
of
someone
The
very
first
is
an
entirely
symptom
different
of dishonesty
someone
advantage of you.
a mistake.
wise to
make
the best of
it,
It is
The
always
MAKE THE MOST OF
make a mistake if he
expect him to do. There
did
IT
iii
doesn't do
what you
in a while
be suspicious of everyone.
ness with a
man by
you do busiand he
If
what you
order,
you presume
shipping
his
than
if
clerk
there
tell
him
is
that
overlooked
but
else's order,
It
may
is
cleared up,
if
there
is
and you
man was
person
don't
who
know whether he
tries to
deserves censure.
about
it,
assume
why
that a
We
guilty.
will nearly
perfectly honest.
A disinterested
all
says,
"I
right or not,"
If
man
call
is
innocent until he
man
is
proven
a hypocrite because
we
when
man
if
is striving to live
his life
us.
READY MONEY
112
Suspicion
is
suspicion that
to
that has
Our
to
Love
more deadly.
is
confined
is
sometimes a domestic
what we make
just
life is
way
only
to
The way
self
to
When
rebel
is
people begin to
when
is
to forget
demand
would devote
less
all of
things
life of
us
if
light
more time
them
"Let your
The
it.
to give
shine."
only way
and
The
it.
not to have
Man
away.
is
cheap.
is
and
we
get-
devote
lives in
this."
If
you want
heart, tell
we
is
him
it is
to accuse
them
of disliking
gone. I
am
satisfied that
if
MAKE THE MOST OF
much
relief.
die?
You
Would you go
113
main entrance
tiful life in
life
IT
is
here.
to
To have
a happy, beau-
and
have trouble
unselfish
One way
One way
to
you have.
to
make things unendurable is to think them
is
to think
unendurable.
It is a great
fate.
self-pity,
sufficient to enable
and
There
them
to rise
above
'
the slings
no use
telling
is
no use
telling
them not
use
there
is
fortunate
'
READY MONEY
114
his
own
the uttermost
fly to
"Look
And lend
We
forget
the
a hand.
thorn
'
when we behold
the
Then
radiate love.
on finding
fault
Don't demand
and asking
for explanations.
but radiate
love,
off
it.
Love and
You
know
can't
compel them.
is
growing
the idea
cold, etc.,
is
and
made
yet that
is
What
the frost
do
would do
for love.
frost or
for the
A woman
accused or assailed;
is
IT
"5
when
thing in
The
it.
there
seems
suspicions
come
up
to
be some-
true, there is
gets a corner
common
divorce,
and
one
at least
life
of remorse.
If
is
it
Keep out
suspicion
sunshine.
"We
live
absorption."
Let a person
and
selfish
purposes,
insist
upon
insist
everything he
life
may
He
a living death.
man
do,
credit for
demon
forget
Let a person
developed.
Try
to
life
READY MONEY
ii6
many days."
Have faith
let
us
it
cheerfully.
make
the most of
go pleasantly enough.
makes
it
If
unendurable.
It is
A
lets
a thing must
it,
and
dreading
it
it
will
that
good housekeeper
in
the sunshine;
that house.
sickness
Open
the medicine.
To
the
Why
should
it
Rebellion
is
He may
the penitentiary.
If
117
idea
life
IT
make
reality.
Put a
man
in
be innocent or guilty.
it
gets
most of
him
But
in again.
let
him make
the
it,
finds them,
It is not
is
Make
It
our ability
to
appreciate what
the most of
we
it
have.
is
a glorious principle.
The
fully
it,
sting of poverty
is
bettered.
all
it
do
to rebel?
and vituperation? If
a good man does something we don't like, emulate the good; and let the evil wither and die.
What good will it do us to constantly hold his
mistakes up to our own gaze? If an author
dissatisfaction, suspicion,
READY MONEY
ii8
some things
writes
that
seem
we
to us foolish,
why
should
we
cast
all
that
is
like.
in
Let
to take
out of our
others.
full of
of
Mrs. Wiggs
of the
Cabbage Patch.
There
is
It
and
will
have more
more
more
love.
faith,
joy,
more
sunshine,
CONFIDENCE.
A MAN
doesn't
fail
because he wants
fails
He
to.
he
to;
doesn't
none
He
in himself,
lost
con-
found, and
Nothing
is
is
is
to
confidence
Think
unadulterated confidence.
fect satisfaction that
comes
to
absolute,
of the per-
men when
they
generals
captains
of industry,
They
are
whether on a
READY MONEY
I20
to
walk without
to
it;
without
it
it
in
our individual
lives.
world to come
is
won by
confidence.
Paul
Ninety-five
per
is
cent,
of
the
all
done on confidence.
in
dence.
it
is
it
in
The name
CONFIDENCE
pion than their nerve
left
them.
121
lack of
in
it
many
and the
"Once upon
to
in
who had
Vienna
prize at
first
perfectly developed
men
one
in the
of the
world
had not
trained.
dissipating badly,
On
the contrary, he
and
it
him
most
might
if
he had
Sullivan
had been
difficulty
the ring.
van's
man
life
living,
Through
and supremely
to
meet any
confident of victory.
man opposed
that
fight out of
him,
READY MONEY
122
"The
by temporary
Sometimes a man
in beyond his depth.
loses confidence
It doesn't
do
by getting
for a
by trying
by
to
Simply
more or a
little
little
do a
to
man
little
by
you will eventually do what
would have been impossible. Don't
and
little,
little
little
your confidence
at
first
possibilities.
if
man
ize the
is
In business
patient
whole thing
otherwise
it
will
all
and doesn't
in a day.
try to revolution-
Have a high
ideal;
discouraged at times.
Keep
before.
in close
Read
touch with
select
some
CONFIDENCE
man
123
The
cess
and supremacy
be happy.
is
that
it's
the only
way
to
prize
itself,
all it costs.
after-life to
realize that
how much
is
grows out of the struggle to overcome difficulties;" if there were no obstacles there would be
no
success.
Difficulty
is
urges
the
something in
come
it is
this world.
difficulties
very making of
if
man
is
because he was
A man who
and mastered
anyfirst
has over-
himself,
has
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124
ment a thousand
fold,
Lack
only to those
who
are successful
more
or less,
and
it is
man who
All people
to successful
common
success-
is
succumb for lack of confidence. The man who has honestly and sincerely
worked every inch of the way, and is there bethe one most likely to
isn't
very easily
and
gets
tries to
jolt.
is
the
man who
is likely to
supreme moment.
FAILURE.
Why
do some people
fail?
Because they
Lack
sands
of confidence
fail
fidence
who do
people
not
who
means
failure,
but thou-
con-
along to
people
in their old
hour.
edge
is
book
is
not a lack of
knowledge of what
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126
Occasionally
his
we hear
man's
of a
rising out of
It isn't
an accident.
that
with his
about
own
eyes,
by being
told, or
by reading
it.
is
what
uplifts
man
him
to dis-
there
is
trash.
bad
It
may
at all in
lifting
in
it.
it
is
doesn't build a
him
is
may
only
not be
nothing up-
man
up;
it
alive; that's
It doesn't inspire
FAILURE
The minds
for the
of
want
many
127
people are
literally starved
would be as wise
is
to expect to
not enough.
To
It
A man
about
it.
If
he makes a
thinking of failure
thinking of success.
failure,
he has been
is
It is
hard
to define,
whom
conscious of the
Tact
is
fact.
It is
an indispensable quality in
To
human
(129)
is tact.
To
be
silent
READY MONEY
I30
is tact.
It is just
good as to make
as easy to make a person
him feel bad. It pays big in happiness, influence
feel
it is
The
waitmg
man
many
business
for him, or
He must
who
up
vi^ork
of tact,
made
are led to
do
and
Discourteous people,
business.
when handled by a
feel
his trade,
made
to
restitution.
enought of
it
used,
it
It
when
we
are
all
we
little
How are we
to develop this
By
and appreciated?
which
It is too
bad that we
so
when
it is
just as easy.
But
this
who
overdoes
can be overdone.
it
131
it
and he
flatterer,
on him.
However, it is pretty hard for a wellmeaning, honest person to say too many good
things.
It
is,
is
in people.
Saying things
one
is
if
Why
It is the little
we
132
READY MONEY
for.
as possible
you are
it is
things as agreeable
if
right.
don't go together.
expecting too
Make
We
much
can develop
tact
from
tact
by not
others.
How
"get even"
it
This
retorting
is
intended,
way
to live.
it's
a pleasant
GET RESULTS.
"By
know them"
is
good motto
as
it
man
tory
who
is
results.
Unless
counted.
isn't
His-
made and
get results
nor hardships.
the
men who
get results.
A man
might as
by the business he
If
he
any good.
if
him
gets.
man
is
getting busi-
they won't do
sufficient
READY MONEY
134
same.
spite of everything.
In war, as in everything
else,
men
are judged
by
just
one thing
difference
may
It
matters not
be eloquent, he
may
be a
The
tireless
if
he has to go.
nature's law,
I'll tell
and from
who
it
there
results.
never doubt,
who
It
no appeal.
is
big men,
who have
high
afraid.
SELF-MASTERY.
Success
ally
is
Self-mastery
have a temper
if
he
is
A man
must
It is
his thoughts
understood that
is
and actions so
concerned, but
when one
like to do, or
is
the
real test.
READY MONEY
136
down he
A man
down.
lies
sometimes a
is
When
he
he
is
make a
man
"what
"what
success
am
are
effects
for a
his
its
going to
make
my
upon
man
to
moods and
influence his
or
how
it?"
future pros-
down
screw
life,
other people
place,
it
upon
them to
his will-power
difficult
of
pects?"
is
to do,
feel.
will
how he feels,
When
simply
mean
he finds a
to
him a
little
harder work, a
all.
The
results
little
may
not
SELF-MASTERY
137
To
you
must say "I can," "I will," and "I must," and,
above them all, place the motto: "Do it now,"
and keep right on doing it.
Thousands fail in life because they lack the
grit to get right up and do the thing.
It isn't
men
side,
who make
the greatest successes.
It's men who buckle
down and do things; men who have will-power
and initiative; men who are not afraid; men
who know, and know they know; men who will
make themselves do the thing that needs to be
done, regardless of how they feel about it; the
men who make themselves do the thing, whether
they like it or not, are the men who have discovered the great secret. How many people give
always the brainiest
in the
world
called lazy.
They are not exactly lazy; they
work hard, but not quite hard enough. They
get up only about half enough steam, and then
if
men
give
up
Too many
READY MONEY
138
it
strong young
man
swimmer go down
Isn't
fail,
too
it
bad
won
trial,
to see a
more
just
effort
all
when one
would have
all?
Self-mastery
means keeping at
it
with renewed
when you
are whipped.
is
One
of the
not knowing
PAST RECORDS.
Many
upon
man
he depends
That
ration
and put
into
would be much
experience.
it
the
same
little
success
is
added
often a danger-
of.
of
them
for
as
READY MONEY
140
"What man
has
is
not so
much
in surpassing
Forget the
A man
He
need preparation.
conflict.
hard
to get
that
it
at
seems
philosopher.
life,
all victories
all
obstacles vanish.
"We
life
we
rise to
that rises in
its
rise."
only as
we
we can
is
see
ideal
reached
PAST RECORDS
141
aspirations,
Look
and
future.
Look
out for
mind by what
is
in his
man who
isn't;
between the
other
difference between
is
man who
man who
man who
is
is
doing only
fairly
is
pect as
much
A man
not sure.
is.
He
more
is
doesn't ex-
He
of himself as he should.
is
too
instead
of
be developed
little to-day,
it
is
He
wonderful.
is
can do but a
little
and doing
a stronger
man
is
ning to think.
Thinking
those
alone,
thoughts
(143)
He
is
begin-
is
into
action.
The
READY MONEY
144
finding one's
is
all it
light
needs
A man
fly
very
that
it
clouds.
is
possibility
is
there;
to
finds
The
first
far,
but
can
fly,
The
time a bird
it
and
discovers
it
flies it
itself;
it
doesn't
learns
Young men
when
it
gets
are discovered by
jump
to
cultivated.
better or
before.
The
rapidity.
and
much
first,
amazing
It isn't
self.
There's not so
It is better to
"The
glory
is
145
not in never
fall."
EMERGENCY.
It has been said, but can't too often be
repeated, that "being ready"
The
cess.
is
in itself suc-
What
if
one
isn't fitted
Opportunity
is
Century Limited."
and going
all
like
"The Twentieth
the time.
who
is
ready
is
come on
who
finds
Opportunities
They
READY MONEY
148
They grow
in the
mind,
more than
who
person
fish
is
grow
in a stagnant pool.
indifferent to his
own
welfare
him out
if
he
is
his capabilities
true greatness,
and
in
Find the
man who
is
EMERGENCY
149
tion that
open
to
as
difficult
it doesn't
or the
it
seems.
magnetism
of a
Henry
Clay.
It is just
It is
doing head-work.
per-
you do.
tell all
It
is
putting your
sonality
It isn't
into everything
he knows, or do
all
he can;
it
is
only
make a man
If there's
without
pendent
living,
how
to
READY MONEY
ISO
become
and
times
years
thirty
and
sensible
That
old,
successful
teacher, although at
know
Judge Parker
lived on the Hudson, or even that he was the
nominee of the Democratic party for President of the United States, although two months
had elapsed since his nomination and every
every
year, didn't
that
was
Was
emergency?
ready
she
would she do
for
an
full of politics.
What
this
if
country,
caterpillar!
because she
know
order
to
didn't
know anything
what one
to
get
is
anyone.
certificate
obliged to
to
perhaps,
know
in
but she
Knowing simply
know isn't much credit
else.
EMERGENCY
151
that
half
beautiful
a century
Concord
This young
for months,
my
did
it
well,
but in
my
dictation.
He
him
stenographer for
public,
WUl
that stenographer
senger agent?
True,
this
ever be general
pas-
Hardly.
is
an age
of
specialists.
This
other things?
Why
wouldn't
it
READY MONEY
52
to
know something
of the
which he
is
a part?
Why
ofi&cials,
and
fly
of a tornado?
sales-
common
It
know how
promotion.
EMERGENCY
more and
It
is
to
153
to do.
men
into a rut
is
satisfied to drift
same old
In order to
ideas.
man must
he happens to be doing.
man
get a
him
in.
puts
satisfied
The
student
who
away
lays
It
is
eighteen or
man
possible.
It
made
makes constant
success
who
The man
many
of
them)
is
in
READY MONEY
IS6
political rut.
certain church,
know
man who
and he says
belongs to a
and what
is good enough for his mother is good enough
for him.
That man is in a religious rut, and
if there were enough people who were as easily
satisfied as he is we would have a revival of the
is
What he needs
dark ages.
is
it,
new
line of
goods.
It
home.
It
home
the best
lived.
many
Abraham
Lin-
enough
many
to
neglect.
things;
it is
It
is
easy to
know
too few.
157
and
and
take
Hire young
Keep out
of a rut;
it's
dangerous.
INITIATIVE.
There
which
human mind
is
is
one's
Some people
call initiative.
means
it
life
to
the
failure.
which we
What
and how is
a thing to be developed.
this highly to
to
be desired quality,
be acquired?
man who
is
is
it
writer says:
"The world
for but
initiative
result of
reserves
its
big prizes
that is initiative."
Is
immediately?
will?
feels his
Is
it
a something which
is
the
Hardly.
Initiative
(iS9)
is
result.
The
READY MONEY
i6o
result
constructive
of
action;
is
it
and
thinking
decisive
man
be.
The
who
lazy
the
viction,
initiative.
may
The man
man who
lacks con-
how hard
has no
man who
time developing
and progressive
aggressive
purpose and
lacks
that task
is
this
The big
men who
but for men
quality.
who
don't
to try;
Constructive
initiative,
thoughts which,
to-day in
fessional
quality.
thiaks
when put
results.
it
all
into action,
bring
life
fail
simply because
The
average
isn't
just
they lack
this
proper or in accordance
to
a miserable
exist-
INITIATIVE
ence in small country towns
i6i
simply because
They
out
big prizes,
them."
the
ability to get
man
Every young
work
for him,
able.
It is his
is
is
is
work.
We
it is if
in
initiative are in
work without
a boss;
in the
office,
hesitate.
visit
field
Employes
five
or in the
sometimes
or ten minutes in
READY MONEY
1 62
the
to business;
things;
to
If
you have
to
be told to do
if
someone
to hire
to
You
overseer.
get your
will
Why
too.
his,
think
A man who
he
when he knows
is
told
a coward, and he
one
to tell
out
all
him
to
it.
way you
do
is
it
ought to be done
it
if it
If
do
Initiative will
doesn't turn
and
to
chances.
is
salary
is
ought
it
own
for yourself
Every
initiative. If
it.
develop
initiative,
for yourself.
forgets to
tell
If
you never
will
be working
you what
to do,
to be
off
and
go ahead and do
done and do
That
is
it
as
developing
INITIATIVE
initiative
163
A man
not.
can't develop
first.
a matter of days;
the
The
from
first
the
Webster's
it
is
Perfection
work
is
not
of a lifetime.
magnificent
locomotive.
is
different
a great purpose, an
and a willingness to undertake and carry out their plans. Every business
house has rules as a guide to its employes.
These rules are strictly followed by a large per
cent, of the employes, and they should be. But
the men who become partners in the business
must do more than live up to the rules.' A man
who does no more than he is told is little better
than a machine.
The man who becomes a
partner or owner has to make decisions himHe is likely to meet situations daily which
self.
require him to think and act independently.
Decisions must be made, and made on the spot.
intense earnestness,
READY MONEY
1 64
is
is
swamped and
simply
The way
study
business
the
transaction,
judgment
thoroughly,
scrutinize
make an
to act at
fail
to avoid mistakes of
the
left in
It is
is
study
every detail.
is
all.
to
every
In
this
eliminated.
world's great
With them
minutest detail.
thing as luck.
Their
lives
there
was no such
were mathematical
were mathe-
Everything was
They never
effect.
oughly prepared.
Then when
they struck
it
HARD
What makes hard
TIMES.
times?
Mental
Hard
fact.
Hard
attitude.
more an
imaginary disease of the mind than an actual
and always
people to
is
live
It's
on the dark
side,
borrow
trouble,
cultivate disgruntle.
rich or poor,
it
brings
dition.
it
on?
Talk.
year.
An abnormal
What
mental con-
ruptcy at
least.
the politicians and editors get up a great bugaboo that does have a tremendous effect.
Not
because there's any less corn or wheat or oats
or money, or any reason for a scare, but because
people think there's reason and it is what peo(165)
READY MONEY
i66
pie think,
As
makes
that
the difference.
it
deter-
it
tremendous disadvantage.
whom
those
until
he doesn't
people
who
feel right
it
toward himself.
it is
an
to
It's
keep
it
entirely unnec-
essary excuse.
It isn't
It's
when a man
the system.
A man
is
offers
Talking poverty
it
is
poisons
HARD TIMES
he
is
is
is
the world
is
talking
Let a
man
When
make
against
is
being wronged.
everything
167
man
gets to
to
everything that
is
He
worth while.
doesn't
He
doesn't keep
up with
avoid.
tives.
The
very
a good
many
rela-
life
out of a person.
When
once the
tion,
check
circulation,
ruin
hinder
assimilation,
the personality,
kill
Why
way
It
will
a person
make
feels.
READY MONEY
i68
Why
going
year
be
to
we
ever had
better.
man on
way
"We
next year
We
keep on
will
great the
It's
one.
exchange
wouldn't
earth.
up
against
like this
much
longer.
is
make
we
if
it
my
my
increase
machine
old one
that's better
and
I find a
new
great country,
it.
When
prosperity.
in the
new.
This
is
a
in
Read what
men
say about
their enterprises.
book
is
man
it.
made him
immortal.
Don't be
overcautious.
have anything.
give satisfaction.
number
one,
may win
all
and make
little
You
You may get
sharp deals.
is
hard
to
them
overcome.
technicalities; there
Men make
and
(169)
170
READY MONEY
your pound of
flesh,
safety to your
own
may pay
it
and
it
feel
The
it
with
other
man
you.
They
No man
is
big
company than he
I get
my
regular work,
me?"
is
is
reasonably entitled
this
week
how much
is
there in
it
he thinks that
"If
to.
in addition to
is
the
may
is
for
man
be,
if
foolish
if
Look after
the firm's
will
business to
it
for
171
yourself.
slower in coming,
be something
will
of a hundred.
Men
men
are very
have seen
There
Yes.
Exceptions?
but
to
be generous and
whole
tion
he
is
had
is
thing.
Stay
down on
usually fatal.
When
man
told that
sometimes unwise
the subject.
to
is
if it is
put
the
contemplated
As a
rule,
it
might get
it
make
on
good.
he won't need
raise
indefinitely.
off
it
One
might turn
READY MONEY
172
way
it
live,
is
not an
and no one
employe
to
live
enjoyment out of
forces the
the one
who
is
respon-
wake.
greatest blessing of
life;
it
is
nature's perfect
left.
It
makes a man
great.
173
He
is
and
He
and struggled
the average man never dreamed
early
late, toiled
not very
much
man who
isn't there,
difference between
has worked
way
in a
that
There's
of.
him and
the
work.
If
discover what
it.
BEING SATISFIED.
Be
satisfied,
and don't be
There's
satisfied.
man back
so
much
as
and
much
as being a
efforts.
little dissatisfied
man
go at
that.
is satisfied
Cyrus
with his
so
own
man ahead
W.
He's
man
satisfied.
is
content to
As soon
as a
Field wasn't
satisfied until
he had
James
J.
built
READY MONEY
174
had made
for a
it
thousand miles.
with his
fied
make
all
it's
No
who
hasn't
first
little
things.
An
one
accumulation
of
do anything great
doesn't often
in
many
it
successes.
little
successes
little
enables
A man doesn't
A man who
do
naturally and
is
a great crime.
many
accomplished a great
great success
mind,
little
by
little,
Just as surely as
ocean,
fitting
so
the
little
little
until
he
is
overpowered.
drops of water
successes
his
of
make
the
to-dav are
Any
number
of
little
mountain range
of matter,
is
bodies.
made
Even
the
mighty
man
to
result of the
accumulation of
some
so small,
175
successes,
Yet,
if
they were
APPRECIATION.
There's nothing more helpful to a man, either
is
feels that
worth, but
effort to deserve
it
he
it,
getting
more than
make a
desperate
will
is
going to
is
all
the time.
The
when an employer
employes,
ciate
is
it's
office-boy,
manager
the head of
Whether one
be modest and
If
an
a department, or the
of a great enterprise,
appreciated.
is
it
pays him to
READY MONEY
176
likely to find
of
person
promoted quite
ally feels
abused
quently,
all
if
isn't
growth.
fre-
is
it is in
slights.
in
Usually a man
of ten, but
there
is
when a person
no one
else to
is
promoted because
do the work,
it
may
environment,
sable.
measure up
concludes that he
is
to his
new
indispen-
should be,"
is
"I'm not
appreciated as
177
down on
the ground.
TRIFLES.
Haven't a good
many men
confused
the
little
is
good doctrine.
isn't
can't
it
overdone?
make much
It is true that
may
lifetime
man
man
true that he
advice,
it
also
is
The more
attention
and
reference
now
to those
others.
have
the
READY MONEY
178
him; then
let
him devote
They
memory.
try to
thing instead of
many
They
little
If
SAY JUST
you don't
telling
him
so?
like
It
WHAT
a
man
there-
THINK.
man who
179
man
doesn't
truthful.
but
true,
it
think
if
Better not
himself.
What you
be
wrong
what you
the
It isn't
may
say, that
Blunt, harsh
vidual he
is
When
others.
If
go.
first to
he
is
long as he
He
will stay as
him they
If
let
him
go.
if
it
reason
We
why you
all
the
it.
more
READY MONEY
i8o
made
Radical
less different
Our
may
be satisfactory to
us.
politics
any
We may
dif-
by blunt
be
or
subject
satisfied
is
to
or sarcastic statements.
The "I
success.
His presence
is
man
meaner things
not a
He
says
to a
is
as unpleasant and
He
He is a teacher
an honest man who isn't
who
doesn't teach,
where
it
does not
exist,
You can
but even
often see
if it
already
We
i8i
it?
TAKING ADVICE.
man
It's
taking medicine; a
is like
thing to
Taking
little is
some-
Pay no
them and succeed, and they wUl
your footsteps. A man must either
follow in
and nothing
is
accomplished.
it
as you do
and
it is
who
Take
much
person
just as bad.
It is
to
it.
Sacrifice
little
atten-
READY MONEY
i82
you
will
be the leader.
It
dosen't pay to be a
him
tell
is
believe everything he
who
own.
A man
can't
upon
is told,
and
act
and
stUl
have a mind
cold.
talks to them.
last
all
man
advice of
if it can be followed
While a man must have
some advice, and must have friends, and
co-operation and intercourse with his fellows,
without exertion.
yet
if
do
his
he
is
deciding; use
for which it
was given him; not by being stubborn, but by
being positive and courageous.
One can cultivate decision by thinking decision and actually
his
Do things that require immediate deand decide promptly, and in that way
decision and positiveness are developed.
The
ability to decide promptly and to discriminate
between this and that, is a trait of character
deciding.
cision,
which means
success.
He
it.
183
Unless a
tries to
it
"What wUl
ought not to be much
they
nature.
about
think
of a consideration;
it?"
if
the
is
enough.
thing
The
own.
give
people he
is
those
who
are a
little
who
give the
Go
to those
and
farm.
Go
to a successful
man and
he will
tell
The
people
line.
who
READY MONEY
i84
initiative
without
mere incident
it
man
of decision
doesn't count;
it
and
is
bumblebee
Decide;
possibilities in
it
haven't thought of
it
at
all;
therefore,
who
why
"openings;" he
is
on,
is
forgetting
that
is
a poor town;
etc.,
and he moves
told that
own
hat.
Many
straw.
splendid
things
much
to
are
written
but
make a
185
since
little
it
book
spoils the
make
it
valuable.
The
it
stimulates, are
value of a book
is
what
deter-
READY MONEY
i86
in
whom
there
Mix
who
In the midst
it.
amount
man
to very
little.
another
man
stand over
all
man
him and
It is
should have to do
work he
man
will
tell
him how.
refuses to
mix
have to have a
enough money
to
pay that
man
his
salary.
We
ers
187
A man who
men and
and help is not fit to
be a boss. Mix brains with work and you
make it a pleasure and add to its value a hundred fold. Fail to mix brains with it, and it
makes a man a slave. Make work drudgery
under a hard master and you make the worker
a slave. Make work natural and you make it
a blessing to humanity. This is a country in
which we have intelligent labor. The American
laborer is the most intelligent workman in the
world. lie does more reading and more thinking than all the rest of the working men in the
world combined. Yet more thought is what
we want. More head-work, more inspiration,
stands over a crowd of
more
ideas.
made
men
Even
States
fail.
mean
that they
this
if
to say that 95
of the United
true,
make a
If not,
else
then that
perhaps not
man
doesn't
means
it
now
something
it
absolutely, but
fail
were
FOR?
to carry
it
trying
through.
opportunity or
for a
man
full of
life
to
make
one.
It's
natural
to
95 per cent, of
that about 85
knowledge
lack of knowledge of
because a
man
self.
of the business,
and
Some people
it is
wrong
say
place, he
READY MONEY
go
doesn't
work
know
for
for
what he
which he
is
and
fitted,
In other
not adapted.
is
gets
ness.
a cowardly
makeshift of an excuse.
that
to
It
man
is
nothing
less
he
to believe that
He
thinks he
is
the job he
was
becomes so confirmed
in
him
Sometimes a person
his belief that he finds
if
it
doesn't
make
good.
man
to do,
and
if
there
it
it is
is
hid-
of
it.
man
isn't
under the
is
for,
why
191
is
cut
That is
which a man's will-power was
given him.
How
foolish
to
waste your
life
because you
It
would
won't eat."
me
so I
man who
spends
of the
much
"cutting out."
for,
hasn't
The
chances
are,
the
man
is
above
the
READY MONEY
192
will-power to adapt
himself to circumstances,
One
thorough preparation.
and back to
and dug up every foot of it
the circumference,
A man who
for points.
He
a success of
made a
He
it
great
thinks he
and
that,
success.
capable
made
is
success of the
business.
therefore,
he
The chances
often
same
else has
make
will
are that he
as great a
is
just as
but he has
times more so
not
man
did
If
why
193
be a hardware merchant,
to
work
work
until
he under-
Then, if he has
and a sufficient amount of
executive ability
capital,
many men
to
make.
jump
that the
patience
all
the
swim
at
way
is
the
too
much
start,
for them.
and
The
through.
it
It takes
takes patience
"get-rich-quick"
jump
plod along
He
should
it
a point to
Men work
work
make
advantage
taken
of
the
hidden
possibilities
which could be discovered in their own business, if they would get right down to bed-rock
and work the thing out. To know your business
thoroughly,
13
means
it
READY MONEY
194
intelligently
to
whom
you
to
it
many good
when
points about
is
necessary.
If
is
right.
all.
is
not
it
were there
all
A man
failures.
it
man becomes
the
can't
if
to
know human
handle men.
he doesn't learn
the
This
is
art of
an age
He
this,
all,
nature,
isn't
doing
and he
isn't
else justice.
seeing possibilities in
in
which a man
can't
succeed alone.
He must be associated with
men, and must know how to judge men and
195
of at the top.
man
and he ought
have
to
will never
put a
it.
man
outside of college,
States Senate,
men
in college,
will.
is
The
how
to deal
great need of
a better knowledge
buy what
he has
he can get
duce
it
elsewhere.
to others,
if
He
he doesn't
is
like you.
The
men who are back of that busiYou may go into business with plenty of
portant as the
ness.
READY MONEY
196
Of
course,
if
way
it
If
likes.
you have
that
Be
Be
yourself.
if
be yourself; forget
tivate
warmth and
all
sunshine, and a
sition.
happy
side of
life
cul-
dispo-
where
but
it is
the kind of
of profit
tivate
If
you don't
to weeds.
If
cul-
you
ness
is
limited.
you can
You
interest others in
197
can't
learning how.
Get yourself
in
for
line
is.
Your
It's
cast
not so hard.
aside the
They have
is.
theory.
quit going to
it"
They
the clouds
the clouds
picion.
of
Get up above
doubt, fear, and sus-
They
suspicious.
Big
entitled to.
how
and
It's
to "ginger
can who
are not
best there
men
that's
They need
They call
for the
something everyone
is
up and
thinks he can.
get in the
game."
He
PART
BITS OF
II.
ELOQUENCE.
(199)
INTRODUCTION TO "BITS OF
ELOQUENCE."
If the following famous orations were not
called
"Bits
Eloquence,"
of
"Inspiration"
One
ideas.
gets an inspiration
profitable
life,
but a greater
The
life.
of
mind
of
the reader,
activity every
made
It
to
atom
reading
inspires the
The
of the body.
blood
its
is
course.
experiences
broad
this
expanse
sensation
of
the
on beholding the
ocean,
when
towering
the
the
to
sky,
or
all
the world
Everyone
is
have been
G.
H. K.
WENDELL
PHILLIPS.
TOUSSAINT L'oUVERTIIRE.
If I were to
should take
it
Were
I to
take
name
to tell
But
am
who has
glean
it
enemies,
men who
Cromwell
of his
manufactured
in battle.
his
own
army.
was
placed at the head of the best troops Europe
Cromwell never saw an army till
ever saw.
he was forty; this man never saw a soldier till
Cromwell manufactured his
he was fifty.
own army out of what? Englishmen the
Napoleon,
at
the
age of twenty-seven,
This
(203)
man manufactured
READY MONEY
204
army out
his
of
Out
what?
of
what you
call the
at
it
what?
them under
Now,
Jamaica.
man was
at least this
I
would
made
his
if
call
way
to
Cromwell was a
general,
a soldier.
This
man
never broke
his word.
would
call
This
man
the great
risked his
in
You
think
me
WENDELL
PHILLIPS
205
But
fifty
ing, the
years hence,
muse
when Truth
gets a hear-
Phocion
for
Roman, Hampden
for England, Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright consummate flower of our
the Greek, Brutus for the
sunlight,
them
all
will
the
the martyr,
write in
name
the
clear
pen
in the
blue above
Toussaint L'Ouvertxire.
DEMOSTHENES.
A SPEECH AGAINST BRIBERY.
[Taken from the "Third Phillipic," delivered
at
What
is
Philip complete?
Thessalians,
Athenians,
Dorians,
the
first
aside
this.
Under
these
we
are
all
the
common enemy.
was
Men
of Athens, there
READY MONEY
2o8
thing which
now
is
all,
money from
political
to
be convicted
on the
guilty,
was
of
inflicted
intercession or
pardon.
The
moments
favorable
them
that will
do nothing
all their
the vigilant, to
against
But now
barbarians.
all
eji,change
diseased.
by which Greece
What
are they?
the crime;
all
if
is
ruined and
Envy where
he confesses
it;
man
mercy
upon
cor-
DEMOSTHENES
'
209
ruption.
and
such advantages
by the agency
14
of these traffickers.
The
Roman
citizen.
and he had
The
fire,
following
is
62 B.C.J
Shall
I not
admire him?
my
love
this
man?
Shall I not
him
to the
utmost of
power?
recommend them
gifts
to us.
my
lords,
(211)
who
are so great
READY MONEY
212
Rocks and
deserts
by music, and
we, with
all
charms; and
listen to its
shall
The
celebrated
the
for
wonders
performed
at
and
their
commanders
slain;
trophies,
tri-
umphs.
Those,
whose genius
de-
likewise
the
these
scribes
exploits,
praises of the
We
therefore,
celebrate
Roman name.
my
lords, since in
the
man who
virtues,
always
is
necessary, that
celebrated
tories of the
he
has
inter-
Roman
and mine
for our
your
vic-
conduct in our
late domestic
complain of your
rigor.
JOHN
WHAT
What
is
this earth
not a
B.
IS
A MINORITY?
a minority?
have been
GOUGH.
The chosen
heroes of
There
in a minority.
social, poUtical, or
is
have vindiIt
is
the
moral
conflict,
and achieved
all
that
is
noble in
You wUl
them
in the golden
of your fingers.
READY MONEY
214
If
man
eat,
crust;
in the by-
it
him remember
that
dim
God
tall
angels" gath-
future
God and
I
is
SHALL not
extinguished.
now
his light
If the
from
its
and make
He
it
burst forth
leave neglected
If
He
in
stoops to
upon the
He
imperial spirit of
it
man
this
visit, like
a royal guest, to
tenement of clay?
Rather
let
who
in
His
'
READY MONEY
2i6
the
zephyr, but
eternal
makes them
all to
plans,
to
the
our friend.
Instead
address
'
'
mourning,
of
him
in the
let
us look up and
but begun.
O, noble soul
farewell.
'
O, gentle heart
Hail,
and
DEATH OF LINCOLN.
prayed, and
many
The
first
feeling
was the
strength to
to get
Men
all.
chief,
The
sensibility.
Other
griefs
belong
Never did
roar.
stunned
least,
feel.
it
so
many
The
city forgot to
hearts in so brief a
It
was
the
uttermost
noon
sorrow
sudden.
When
one
suddenness of death
are taken
is
is
prepared to
a blessing.
die,
the
They
that
the bride-
2i8
READY MONEY
groom dressed
for the
enemy
in the
hour of
victory,
and
in a
men
it
was
common
whom
to
This
blow
Epitomized in
we
It is
fit
that
and
fire
We
with murder,
He was
man
hovered
to destroy his
life.
Nation
lasts
it
will
President
never,
by
slavery
and groans,
its
will
it
219
be forgotten that
its
whole
and
nature
tendency.
the
without
without
reason,
palliation,
without
but
provocation,
temptation
sprung
whole
trust that is
imposed
true to the
in him, vigilant of
liberty; in that
known what
slavery,
and
it
to
experience of his
prize liberty
own
life.
from the
Even he
bitter
that sleeps
has by this event been clothed with new inHis simple and weighty words will
fluence.
READY MONEY
220
be gathered
like
those
Washington,
of
and
Men
refuse to listen.
to patriotism.
memory
new
access
more
to be
will receive a
which he perished.
We
we
as
will,
follow his
hearse,
quishing
and which
in van-
conquerer.
memory
of this
and
pursue
to
firmness of this
conscience
for
moderation of
man
the
spirit,
it.
We
will
in justice,
right,
his inflexible
gentleness
his
which not
all
and
the hate of
And
you
admire the
swear
moderation, his
them
them out
to lead
O, Thou Shepherd of
comfort
Thy
commit
these helpless
Israel,
people of old,
grieved.
And now
the martyr
is
moving
in triumphal
up
at
221
The Nation
alive.
his pall-bearers,
cities
dead?
Is
Four years
ago,
Is
Illinois,
Washington
David?
Is
Hampden dead?
we took from
the
people.
Nation's
him
not
place,
ours,
but
the
world's.
Give
myriads who
shall
and patriotism. Ye
anew
winds that move over mighty spaces of the
kindle
their
zeal
Ye
fidelity, for
people, behold
many
articulate
ROBERT
INGERSOLL.
G.
War was
home
in Arlington Cemetery,
The
past
Again we are
We
life.
rises
where we copied
me
before
see
a dream.
We
bugles.
We
the
like
it.
the
see
the
thousands of as-
appeals of
pale cheeks of
the
silvery voices
orators.
women and
the
we
with flowers.
We
are with
army
of
freedom.
We
Some
see
We
READY MONEY
224
part forever.
kissing
babes
are
that
asleep.
who
Some
Some
are
are
them
from
We
them
see
We
part.
standing
the sunlight
in
sobbing.
At the
He
is
We
them
all
as they
flags,
We
their side
on
all
pitals of pain,
all.
We
are by
on
all
We
stars.
We
are with
them
in the
ROBERT
old fields.
We
INGERSOLL
G.
are with
We
leaves.
see
225
among
thirst,
the
the withered
them pierced by
balls
and torn
iron,
steel.
We
are at
shadow
head
The
of her
We
first
of the old
the
see
We
sorrow.
man bowed
see
human
with the
lions of
We
tell
home when
we
last grief.
foot.
We
We
hear
hounds
tracking women through tangled swamps. We
see babes sold from the breasts of mothers.
Outrage infinite!
Cruelty unspeakable!
Four
souls in
four
fetters.
mother,
wife,
father,
IS
million
sacred relations of
and
child
feet of might.
see the
trampled
And
all this
beautiful banner of
READY MONEY
226
The
We
The broken
and shriek
of slaves
The wand
fetters fall.
we
see
pines,
wars
rest.
they are
Earth
may run
at peace.
In the midst of
battle,
of death.
I
and dead
dead.
cheers
soldiers, living
ROBERT EMMET.
plobert Emmet, the Irish patriot, was executed in
1803,
when but
made
just before
This remark-
sentence.]
My
lords,
what have
ing to law.
will become
any view to the mitigation of
that sentence which you are here to pronounce,
and I must abide by. But I have that to say,
which interests me more than life, and which
you have labored (as was necessarily your
me
to say, with
office
in
the
present
circumstances
why my
of
have
this
much
READY MONEY
228
I
can anchor
my
character
melled as this
utmost
suffer
to float
it
is.
your
that
expect,
may
lordships
untainted
it finds
by
some more hospitable harbor to shelter it from
the storm by which it is at present buffeted.
Were
after
being
bow
me
in silence,
the law
which delivers
labor in
my body
to the execu-
tioner, will,
own
its
vindication
to
consign
my
somewhere,
court
or
the
in
catastrophe,
A man
determine.
in
my
posterity
must
my
lords,
situation,
which
it
force
of
difficulties
of
difficulties
dies,
the
of
but his
memory lives.
it may live
that
my countrymenI
not perish
man
That mine may
seize
in the respect of
upon
this opportunity
ROBERT EMMET
to vindicate myself
from some
When my
wafted
shade
to
more
friendly
229
of the charges
spirit shall
be
when
my
port
on the
their country
I
look
the destruction of
its
of
God
its
believes or doubts a
ernment standard
little
who
government
steeled
to
siasts
who
felt
accomplishment of
I appeal to the
by the throne
of
Heaven
READY MONEY
230
and
my
emancipation of
the'
it
may
appear,
strength in Ireland
there
is
stUl
union and
accomplish
to
this
most
noble enterprise.
Of
this I
Think
not,
my
man who
lie will
not
my
lords, a
man who
this.
Yes,
weapon
nor a pretence
to
ROBERT EMMET
he means
to
231
situation
my
my
Irishman present
hour of
in the
countrymen;
let
my
last
if
is
an
affliction.
sit
when a
Lord Nor-
expres-
there
it
to
be the duty
it
their
to
speak
and
to offer
opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime of which he was adjudged
guilty.
so to
is
Where
is
your institutions?
and mildness
clemency
unfortunate prisoner,
whom
if
an
READY MONEY
232
is
is
not suffered to
his
to vindicate
the principles
by which he was
actuated?
My
angry
lords,
it
justice to
tion to the
but worse
me
such foul
been laid
am
am
of
If I
my character,
may
my
existence,
my
ROBERT EMMET
and as a man,
sions;
than
to
make
hfe, I will
whom
233
fame
is
dearer
life
in
am
proud to
perish.
As men, my
great day at
all
hearts to
show a
in the
by
purest motives
or
to
My
lords, will a
d5Tng
man
be denied the
of his country.
me?
of
or, rather,
me why
pronounced?
why
insult justice in
demanding
know,
my
lord,
that
form
READY MONEY
234
This, no doubt,
may be
am
An
France.
emissary
Was
this the
this the
object of
my
mode by which a
and
France!
of
of
for
for
what end?
ambition? and
is
tribunal of justice
reconciles contradictions?
and
sary;
among
my
the deliverers of
power, not in
profit,
my
not
country
in
my country's independence!
and for what? Was it for a change of masters?
No, but for ambition! Oh, my country! was
achievement.
it
Sell
Had
by
it
my
consideration of
self
my
among
the
my
family
proudest of
my
oppressors?
ROBERT EMMET
My
country was
every
for
it
now
offer
lord; I acted as
delivering
idol;
to
it
sacrificed
selfish,
my
235
his
its
is
yoke of a
joint
partner
my
heart to extricate
my
wished to place
doubly-riveted despotism.
the
reach of any
on
wished
exalt
her to that
power
earth I
to
proud station in the world.
Connections with France were indeed intended but only as far as mutual interest
Were they to
would sanction or require.
assume any authority inconsistent with the
purest independence, it would be the signal
for its destruction; we sought aid, and we
sought
as
it
it
as
auxiliaries in war,
Were
the
French
to
and
allies in
come
obtain
peace.
as invaders or
READY MONEY
236
them on
sword
in
soil of
superior
discipline,
and the
should be
self,
if
charge
my
grave.
should
to
last
my
feel
is
dispute
do my-
I could not
to
last
accomplish,
conscious that
unprofitable
of
liberty
should leave as a
countrymen
because I should
would
What
If
forced to retire
if
country.
entrenchment of
fall,
my
my
life
when a
any
foreign
country in subjection.
To
its
example would
ROBERT EMMET
be as important as
lant,
its
valor
237
discipline,
gal-
who would
receive
These
new
were
my
objects
but
taskmasters,
to
not
expel
to
old
country.
in the efforts to
emancipate
my
country as to
of Irishmen, or, as
it,
men engaged
mation of yourself,
of
in the conspiracy
my lord
virtues I should
bow with
READY MONEY
238
deference,
Let no
me
man
dare,
with dishonor;
when
let
no
am
man
dead, to charge
attaint
my mem-
ory,
in
independence,
eries
of
my
that
or
minion of power
became
the
pliant
countrymen.
of the Provisional
The proclamation
Government speaks
for our
to
at
ROBERT EMMET
foreign
would
239
reason that I
resist
on the threshold
of
my
country, and
its
enemy
my lifeless
for my coun-
And am
I,
who
lived but
independence
am
God
I to
to resent or repel
No,
it?
forbid!
dead
partici-
who
ever
are dear to
dear
them
in this transitory
father, look
down with
of
scrutiny
life,
my
departed
upon
the con-
moment
ciples of morality
your care to
instill
have
into
my
it
was
youthful mind,
and
if
for
by the
artificial
terrors
that
surround your
READY MONEY
240
victim;
warmly
circulates
it
and
God
unrufHed
created for
Be
Heaven.
words
to
say.
silent grave;
guished;
my
receive me,
am
going to
my lamp
race
and
is
of
it
is
have
departure from
its silence!
epitaph; for as no
Let
man who
vindicate them,
let
me
and
my tomb
character.
among
men can do
When my
the nations
until
justice
to
my
of
the
thenlet my
Have Done.
not
I
nearly extin-
bosom!
my
the charity of
my
no man write
is
cold and
life
my
earththen, and
epitaph be written.
PATRICK HENRY.
AN APPEAL TO ARMS.
Henry
[Address of Patrick
gates,
at convention of dele-
Delivered in
28, 1775.
men
are
Mr. President,
apt
truth
of wise
listen to the
men, engaged
song of that
number
nearly
their
and
of spirit
know
of
is
to provide for
the
lamp
it
may
of
to
it.
my
feet are
experience.
by the past.
16
be of
whole truth;
to
temporal salvation?
and arduous
ears,
concern
For
know
till
in a great
who, having
of those
and having
We
siren,
Are we disposed
so
natural to
is
shut
to
and
the
it
And
241
wish
READY MONEY
242
to
know what
been pleased
to
House?
Is
it
solace
it
themselves
lately received?
and the
Trust
how
it
Ask
our
rations
Are
Have we shown
of love
fleets
and
and recon-
ourselves so unwill-
ourselves,
means
sir.
if its
purpose be not
Can gentlemen
us to submission?
motives for it? Has
assign any other possible
this quarter of
Great Britian any enemy, in
of
accumulation
call for all this
to
force
the world, to
They
no
are
other.
meant
No,
sir,
can be meant
for
PATRICK HENRY
They
243
and
rivet
upon
us
Nothing.
subject?
up
in every light of
has been
We
offer
on the
which
all in vain.
Shall
it is
we
capable; but
it
resort to entreaty
not,
beseech you,
sir,
deceive our-
selves longer.
that could be
violence
and
insult;
our
supplications
have
may we
indulge the
There
READY MONEY
244
is
to
for hope.
we mean
if
we wish
If
to preserve inviolate
we have
we mean not
been
contending
long
so
if
we must
obtained,
must
fight
An
of
object
glorious
the
I repeat
fight!
appeal to
arms and
it,
we
God
sir,
to the
They
to
tell us,
sir,
we
that
when
shall
we be
stronger?
WUl
it
But
be the next
Will it be when we
and when a Britsh guard
Shall
we
we
ance,
acquire the
means
of effectual resist-
enemies
Sir,
we
of the
shall
means which
armed
if
we make a proper
the
God
use
of nature hath
PATRICK HENRY
245
against us.
Besides,
battles alone.
up
raise
The
sir,
we
our
is
Besides,
to desire
There
contest.
and
slavery:
clanking
may
The war
is
it, sir,
is
no
Our
peace.
Their
and
let it
come
I repeat
come
It is in vain, sir, to
tlemen
but in submission
inevitable
let it
retreat,
Gen-
Our
Why
stand
it
field!
PERICLES.
429 B.C.
When
we
agreed,
in Athens,
little
ren-
it
necessary of
late.
it,
247
READY MONEY
248
on
Aristides
way
his
and
to exile;
my
father
me
"Walk
along
and
whispering
in
my
In
arms,
is
it
ear:
is
there Mil-
in prison."
my
when he brought
to
me up
my
in his
my
grand-
of hospitality to
after-
man worthy
to throw open
and to celebrate the exAnd from Thucydides, who
how
recently did
my
PERICLES
Aspasia hear with
249
me the energetic
praises of his
just supremacy.
As
wanted
one
great
ornament
Homer
And now
at the close of
my
day,
when every
as I
ido in
the pride
and fulness
Do
my
heart,
and Aspasia
guardian?
of
READY MONEY
2SO
of
and
Welcome
then, welcome,
my
last
number
what
been the
hand
lot
of
life,
any
to the urn,
other,
unimpaired?
hour!
I believe
After
of years, in
now
my
has never
extend
my
is
the lot of
all.
WENDELL
PHILLIPS.
DO
said
never
made a man
he did O'Connell.
to
my
dolph,
He made
God, since
that
so
fit
You may
think I
work as
am
partial
much as he did
London and heard
almost as
got to
if
Demosthenes,
a Yankee, when he
O'Connell, the old
slave-holder
held
up
"This
man;
is
the
his
hands
my
and
day."
said:
And
was right.
Webster could address a bench of judges;
Everett could charm a college; Choate could
I think he
Tom
READY MONEY
252
self
far behind
magnetizing a Senate.
in
all
the grand
all
and no one
Irishman.
is
them ever
In the
the
half
of
first
place,
God
majestic presence.
what
orator
he had
body as royal.
He had in early youth the brow of Jove or
Jupiter, and the stature of Apollo; a little
O'Connell would have been no O'Connell
at all.
Sidney Smith said of Lord John Russell's five feet, when he went down to Yorkshire after the Reform Bill had been carried,
into a
that the
"That
little
shrimp!
What! he carry
the Re-
form BiU?"
tells,
when
we,
WENDELL
Whig
253
party?
Hall to
to
PHILLIPS
He
meet him.
lifted
up
human
faces, his
"I
brow
am
Whig
say:
"Americans,
send
my
READY MONEY
254
voice careering,
the Atlantic, to
like
tell
that the
ing."
re-echoing back to
Mountains.
And
London from
the
Rocky
sible flavor of
story that
And
like
the next
moment
be in
tears.
tears
five
were
in his voice,
thousand
men would
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE GETTYSBTmG SPEECH.
Cemby Abra-
ham
November
19, 1863,
Lincoln, President of
The
in
Now we
this continent
liberty,
proposition that
all
new
and dedicated
men
nation,
to
the
testing
We
We
are
field as
gave their
It
is
altogether
should do
But
lives
who
here
might live.
and proper that we
this.
we cannot dedicate,
we cannot hallow this
in a larger sense
we cannot consecrate,
The brave men,
ground.
(255)
living
and dead,
READY MONEY
256
who
struggled
here,
have consecrated
here; but
here.
It
far
it
The
world
is
did
who
advanced.
us to be here dedi-
last
full
measure
of
devotion; that
we
here
shall
ment
of the people,
people, shall
the
WOULD
myself
to
against
whom
when
righteous cause,
....
of error
We
is
an atom; he
is
The
individual
down
is
but
over a principle
the
store is as
much
chant of
17
New
merchant
at
a business
the
man
cross-roads
as the mer-
READY MONEY
258
as
much
a business
price of grain;
feet
thousand
feet
from
to
as the
man who
of trade
the
miners
precious metals
much
business
men
goes
man
the
world.
We
come
to
mag-
money
Ah,
those
my
who
friends,
live
there
the dangers
all
the desert
who
rear their
where they
out
there
where
they
have
erected
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
259
we
we
speak.
We
we have
entreated,
and our
entreaties
We
petition
no more.
We
defy them.
ANDREAS HOFER.
DEFENSE OF HOFER, THE TYROLESE PATRIOT.
[Speech delivered
just
You
who
you,
name
glory in the
of
my
home
the
who
exalt
you
arm myself
native rocks?
to yourselves?
actions
among
defense
and
to enrich
could dare to
my
of France,
demand how
yourselves?
on your
breasts,
You
beggar!
he
That patched
is
jacket,
shall barbarians
ruffian,
that
ragged
such as he
these
groveling
(261)
mountaineers,
who
READY MONEY
262
know
creep-
life,
com?
we never envied our
we
Yet, poor as
neighbors
palaces;
are,
smiling
their
we never
sun,
their
The
delight
we
Too happy
for
who
who had
visited our
to
wel-
blazed; with
for ambition,
of his wealth;
of
traveller
come him;
gilded
it.
When
tell
them,
we have
cottage to level
to the
it
we have
pierced
ground; we found no
ANDREAS HOFER
263
Clasp
this old
firelock in
Happy
my
fate.
who has
too,
shared
my
all
my
such pleasures as
yield pleasures that
pleasures
little
father's
know,
doom.
too,
God and
at the
that the
man who
country with
musket
death to me?
live to
bask in
the sunshine of
all
his heart
levelled to pierce
I
it.
can smile
What
is
or want;
rough and
My death
is
nothing.
that
my
country could
READY MONEY
264
live!
make
her immortal!
Do
I despair,
to the sacrifice,
then?
and the
die!
in vain.
because he enslaved
man who
all
who
abjure
and shoots you if you have the courDo you think that, when I am
buried, there shall breathe no other Hofers?
Dream you that, if to-day you prostrate Hofer
in the dust, to-morrow Hofer is no more?
In the distance I see the liberty which I shall
not taste; behind, I look on my slaughtered
countrymen, on my orphans, on my desolate
his yoke,
age to disobey.
fields;
but a star
which points
rises before
my
aching
sight,
may
to
justice,
never reach.
THEODORE PARKER.
A REMINISCENCE OF LEXINGTON.
[Extract from Theodore Parker's Speech deHvered
own
in his
Thomas Simms.J
One raw
morning
in spring
it
will
"obstructed
brave
British
words.
strong,
came
dom
be eighty
month
Moses and Aaron
Hanof that
Lexington;
at
an officer" with
soldiers,
thousand
seize
to
trial,
The town
militia
came
great, tall
man, with
one
them
who had
into line,
bade "every
and
ball.
seen service
marshalled
man
(26s)
man
shot that
READY MONEY
266
runs
it
Freedom
also their
lives.
IMankind."
Since
then
have
studied
Rome
the
memorial
in
many an
me to
men
God and
who
fell
their
Country."
Gentlemen, the
spurit of
of
THEODORE PARKER
of Justice,
boyish
was
heart.
bones of
my
earlji
267
my
father.
"Rebellion
to
tyrants
is
obedience
to
WASHINGTON.
[This beautiful tribute to Washington was written by
Washington mansion
No
matter what
such a
claim,
boon
fame
at
man
may be
the birthplace of
of
is
Mount Vernon.]
as
Providence to the
his
human
race
eternity
Though
it
we almost
bless the
if
the
it
cleared
how bright
in the
brow
revealed
it
to us!
appear as
if
it
does
all
the virtues
many
studies
As a general he marshalled
READY MONEY
270
As a statesman he enlarged
experience.
of
prehensive
vsras
of
general
of
wisdom
the
of his views,
councils,
his
advantage;
that
to
the
liberty
victory
returned
him; whether
last
If
stayed
history
soldiers
it.
command
necessity
her
glorious
at
But the
career, and
crowned
his
banished hesitation.
Who,
like
its
left
retri-
JOHN BRIGHT.
THE
I
TRXJE
GREATNESS OF ENGLAND.
BELIEVE there
to a nation except
I
do not care
renown.
is
it
no permanent greatness
be based upon morality.
among whom
I live.
The
nation.
do not make a
in the cottage;
constitution
people
can shine
of your legislation
light
of your
beauty
of your
rely
feel-
upon
it
The most
told
Mars.
To
costly
sacrifices
gods.
I often
advanced
in
than to
all
more
READY MONEY
272
What
our
are
contributions
to
charity,
and
to civil
we expend
the wealth
to
justice,
with
scimiter?
We
Rome
pur-
and that
she remained great.
eight centuries,
turies
The
now?
described
great city
"the
as
it
is
But what
dead.
lone
is
is
Rome
poet has
mother
empires."
of
of
dead
dead.
Her
illustrious
Scipios'
I
am
are
"The
dispersed.
asked, I
who am one
Yet
of the legislators of a
my
policy by the
policy of ancient
men
that
for nations,
If
law there
low.
It
we
and
are
for
citi-
may
not
come
at once,
it
may
fol-
not
JOHN BRIGHT
come
Italian
is
"The sword
to smite,
nor doth
it,
the great
it
of heaven
linger."
is
We
when
not in haste
have expe-
we have landmarks
we have not, as an ancient
urim and thummim, those oracular
we have
enough.
upon
he says:
rience,
273
beacons,
It is true
people had,
gems on Aaron's
council; but
breast,
we have
and only
so far as
we walk by
that guidance
18
and
orators of our
sion that
we
own
is
day.
It is
At the conclusion of
Gordon said " Nothing
this address
his friend.
John
B.
that
General
Henry W. Grady
his life."]
among
Grady, and
his
thousands
the
I
who
am
loved
only one
Henry W.
who lament
I loved
death.
glowing youth,
of his
vision
effort
to success.
wore.
In
this
and kindly
all
the rare
the
'
READY MONEY
276
seem
have come
to
to
lay
but rich as
the cadences of
".
And
And
is
all
'
is still.
ness of words, I
know
that
when
the finger of
weave the
sufficient
of his
sunlit
life.
most
or mete
brilliant
he was the
No
elo-
Horace Greeley
rested.
fields
No age
277
life,
it
is
in his
now
the
pathway
of
in Georgia.
It
humanity
on
his fields
and
the glow
is
the Lord.
Its brave point
until the
workman
came
the blessing
of
at his
sombre
Adam,
of his days.
it
dashed
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278
and entrancing
company
of youth,
Long
after his
all
In a single night he
warm
It
is,
at last, the
crowning
most orator of
If I
all
the world.
would lay
my hand upon
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
his heart.
fused his
sages to
human
279
all
and true.
Through him and
through his manly eloquence the sections were
learning to see each other more clearly and to
love each other better. He was melting bitterthings
great
warmth
ness in the
of his patriotic
fervors,
liberality,
literally
Fit
to a glorious mission
message
ture,
and
come home
served!
to die
among
the people he
streets
had
walked
in final
of
beloved
his
brow
that
jewels than
richer
wears
plucked by the
of Georgia
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28o
down
lie
dreams."
to pleasant
God, as
I thank
the shining
I stand
buried
memory
one ignoble
pathway
my
above
In
of his fame.
in all
all
the
him,
unworthy cause.
about him
He
better.
lived to
With
make
the world
splendid might
all his
who
who
fleshed
new
commandment and
spent his
life
in glorious
that bore
against
and cherished
all
beneath the
thee, but
we
fling
soil
back
less
and
God
reigns
this inspired
sprinkle
through the
patriots
years to
281
living in a
day,
we would speak
let
fills
this
monument
tall
as the place he
No
filled.
fire
that can be
blaze born in
all
After aU
than such
gleamed
is
ness, heedless of
light
light
that
and
life.
living.
at
No
I thought
it
come over
was grand.
till
leaf
and
tUl
282
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WASHINGTON.
The brave
WASHINGTON
Supreme in war,
and
in council,
in peace.
WASHINGTON
Discreet, without fear; valiant, without ambition;
WASHINGTON
In disaster calm
in success
moderate
in all himself.
WASHINGTON
The
the father of
mankind
who,
bosom
all,
renounced
of his family
all
and of nature,
retirement
and
in the
hope of
immortality.
(283)
and sought,
religion
DANIEL WEBSTER.
[Extracts from "Webster's Reply to
Hayne,"
deliv-
enter
upon
she
needs
The bones
forever.
great
struggle
for
England
to
Independence,
soil of
now
lie
New
lie
forever.
.
the
Mr. President,
reasons of
my
dissent
the doctrines
READY MONEY
286
my
which
heart
is
full,
and
neous sentiments.
myself
to
once more
I cannot,
relinquish
my
deep conviction
it is
of
it,
most
that,
since
it
vital
and
my
expressing
sir,
in
It is to that
necessities
commerce,
of
disordered
and
benign influence
diately awoke, as
finance,
prostrate
Under its
these great interests immefrom the dead, and sprang
ruined
credit.
Every year of
its
its
utility
ritory
and
life.
and although our terhas stretched out wider and wider, and
its
blessings;
DANIEL WEBSTER
our
population
spread
fits.
and
farther
protection or
farther,
its
bene-
a copious fountain
all
of national, social,
I
its
has been to us
287
asunder.
hang over
the precipice
whether, with
my
of
disunion,
short sight,
to
see
can fathom
him
condition
of
the
how
tolerable
people
when
might be the
it
should
be
Beyond
God
may
never
my
grant that in
not
rise!
may
my day
God
grant that on
be opened what
lies
my
behind!
vision
When
READY MONEY
288
rent with
civil
feuds, or drenched,
in fraternal blood!
glance
lingering
Let their
throughout
advanced,
its
the
for its
last feeble
arms and
still
trophies
polluted,
may
be,
and
rather
ored
it
full
honhigh
streaming
a stripe erased or
ample
folds,
light,
blazing on
now and
forever,
the
Nathan Hale
the deed
is
descending
it
in
that
gray
morning,
there
the
unconquerable;
men
crowned already
289
READY MONEY
290
Dawn.
would grow
in
the
death
estimation of man-
was on a
tember
2 2d,
lovely
Sunday morning,
was marched
ageous young
He
While
his tent.
Sep-
officer
a cour-
permitted him to
sit
in
was
refused.
He
asked
for
the
it
291
should never
know
that they
on the
spectators,
said
in
my
country."
life
to lose for
GEORGE BANCROFT.
THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM.
[Taken from Chapter XL, Volume
History of the American Revolution,"
I.,
"Bancroft's
published
first
in 1852.]
Darkness
upon
closed
it
lage repeated
it
to hand,
till
vil-
it was
had been borne
North and South, and East and West, through-
it
It
till
broke the
its
loud
New
to
till
from the
at Quebec.
peak
swept
the
like
onward
cliffs
Hudson
told to
The
hills
293
along
tale.
As
READY MONEY
294
the
day
summons
at
New
York,
it
in
one more
it
was one
at Philadel-
it
for Brunswick.
Carolina caught up
dispatched
it
to
its
Patriots in South
Charleston,
and,
through
the
New
Savannah.
and made
of
England
till
it
resounded among
settlements
beyond
the
the voice
The
Alleghanies,
they listened,
the
Ever renewing
its
GEORGE BANCROFT
strength,
commonwealth,
it
breathed
1775,
its
inspiring
word
ters
April,
295
the
igth
day
of
by
"Lexington."
spirit
they pledged
extreme event."
cried,
"Liberty or death!"
the continent
'
HENRY
W. GRADY.
New England
22, 1886,
'
'
'
that
freedom
thank God,
South,
is
Hving,
These words,
delivered from the immortal lips of Benjamin
breathing, growing every hour."
Let
the
me
express to you
kindness by which I
address you.
make
(
my appreciation
am permitted
this
297)
of
to
abrupt acknowl-
READY MONEY
298
edgment advisedly,
raise
my
if,
when
me
my
second wind,
let
being the
first
Southerner to speak at
if
it
New
this
sur-
Eng-
plain.
I
to-night.
whom
wife sent
milk,
am
come.
him
You remember
to a
the
man whose
step,
fell,
himself
HENRY
"No,
if
GRADY
I don't!"
inspire
age, I ask
"but
299
I
be dinged
(Laughter.)
may
W.
me
who
me from
call to
with energy
if
behind
to judgment upon
There was an old preacher
some boys of the Bible lesson
what
I shall say.
once
who
told
he was going
to read in the
morniag.
The
(Laughter.)
The
next morn-
"When
the
page "one
then
wood
of gopher
pitch inside
you
READY MONEY
300
cheerfully
to
the
task I
otherwise approach
the
was on the
and that he was
"up and
its
early days,
able to be about."
(Laughter.)
mention of that
fact,
which seems
to
me an
equilibrium
me remind you
if
for
nothing
his-
Let
else.
first
without
men
her
parents'
the
to
HENRY
GRADY
W.
fact in
the CavaUer as a
own
salvation,
as he has
done
always
we
his
301
will hold
Why
The
still
virtues
and
tradi-
ment and
(Applause.)
friend, Dr.
the t)^ical
me
govern-
My
men
tell
plause.)
(Ap-
fruit.
READY MONEY
302
a century, came he
typical
American, the
within himself
all
who
first
stands as the
first
who comprehended
the strength
and
gentleness,
the majesty
Abraham
Let
us,
Lincoln.
each cherishing
the
traditions
and
which
mon
all
life,
in
HENRY
GRADY
W.
303
New
"The
Dear to me, sir, is the home of my childhood and the traditions of my people. I would
not if I could dim the glory they won in peace
and war, or by word or deed take aught from
the splendor and grace of their civilization
Old.
never
equalled
and,
equalled in
its
There
New
is
perhaps,
adjustments, and,
and
aspirations.
and
to
to
be
new
myself,
never
chivalric
if
you
new
please,
conditions,
new
It is to this that I
ideas
address
hasten
get to
lest it
it.
be despised.
over his
in 1760,"
Jones.
Established 1886.
No
rival
"Bill
in this shop."
READY MONEY
304
me
tell
home
you
of
at the close
not in splendor,
yours,
while I
its
and
to hearts as loving
Let
me
as ever wel-
picture to you
up in
which was
hands
of his
his tear-stained
does he find
homes eager
let
me
ask you,
to find in the
What
HENRY
justly
earned,
sacrifice
full
what
GRADY
W.
payment
he
does
305
four
for
find
when,
years'
having
much
left
so
his
He
money
his
bams empty,
worthless; his
away;
finds
farm devastated,
so
half
home he
law or
swept
legal status,
credit,
besides
all
this,
intelligence
What
does he do
this
READY MONEY
3o6
human
fields that
their
heroism that
fit
women
patience and
always as a garment,
There was
little
ness prevailed.
note
"You may
if
you want
Sandersville, kiss
and
if
the
my
Yankees
to,
but I
wife,
and
fool with
am
leave
going to
raise a crop,
me any more
will
that
somehow
or other
we have caught
the
HENRY
GRADY
W.
307
summary
made
it
and your
We
planted
your
spinners
makers
iron
We
have
and
have
of theories
We
have
Massachusetts
in
We
in Pennsylvania.
We
have
rate of interest
reduced
from 24
the
to 6 per cent.,
and
We have learned
commercial
is
worth
fifty
and Dixon's
line
to
Mason
latchstring out to
cheers.)
marks
We
perfect
harmony
in
every household,
READY MONEY
3o8
when
the
as brightly
"before
established
have
the
thrift
softly as
in
city
and country.
We
We
have
stored comfort to
did
have
with work.
fallen in love
it
We
(Laughter.)
war."
We
re-
culture
have
let
economy take
root
oil
out of his
fuller
(Loud applause.)
a rare privilege,
however humble,
in
sir,
this
to
have had
work.
part,
Never was
HENRY
W.
GRADY
309
human hands
and upbuilding
than
of the prostrate
we await with
confidence
the
He
class.
people.
Our
of our
demand
human
liberty, against
of
man
READY MONEY
3IO
who
statesmen
corner-stone
of
trasted
the
to
make
maintain
in
the
Confederacy doomed us
sword
slavery
the
sight
committing us
defend or the
of
advancing
sold
their slaves to
not
our fathers
saw
it.
The
when
to be
they
(Laughter.)
relations of the Southern people with
with what
and
cordial.
We
remember
women and children, whose husbands and fathers were fighting against his
defenceless
HENRY
GRADY
W.
311
off,
and worthy
every
to
man who
Ruffians
(Applause.)
rascals
bank
lished a
To
The
rest
is
and enfran-
liberty
must be
left to
sense.
It
should be
his lot
is
cast,
conscience and
left to
with
those
whom
he
common
among whom
is
indissolubly
confidence.
spite of
sympathy and
if
to
speak for us or by
when Johnston
I understand he
still
surrendered, because
last
as the time
when
when
READY MONEY
312
and Johnston
say,
quit, the
South became
Union. We
and has since been
fought hard enough to know that we were
whipped, and in perfect frankness accepted as
final the arbitrament of the sword to which
we had appealed. The South found her jewel
loyal to this
the toad's
in
head of
that
when
forever
were
in
The
defeat.
shackles
narrow limitations
fell
broken.
(Applause.)
Under
the
old
was a
plantation, with
feudal habit,
its
under slavery.
of a splendid
The
Thus we gathered
and
artificial
filling
the
hands
conditions,
is
among
under certain
body
chill
and
possible
in the
old
colorless.
(Applause.)
rested everything
on slavery
neither
give
nor
maintain
healthy
growth.
HENRY
The New South
oligarchs
the
ment
GRADY
W.
313
leading
in
the
popular move-
social
closely
work.
new
Her
The
life.
on her
fair
soul
is
light of
face.
She
a grander day
is
is
falling
horizon,
tion
of
came because
in the inscrutable
This
wisdom
God
is
apology.
said in
no
spirit of
(Applause.)
time-serving or
for
which
I should
READY MONEY
314
my own
and
to
this
plain
convictions
In
Athens
is
if
presence.
this
in
monument
names
who
all
of
is
my
native town of
Deep
name dear
to
its
the
New
of
glories
all
left
England
way
the
me
would
man
Not
from
for
Ply-
I exchange
name with
its
above the
the heritage he
their
central
cut into
me
mouth Rock
To
that crowns
South
spirit of the
his heroic
my
chil-
But,
sir,
memory,
speaking from the shadow
which I honor as I do nothing else on earth,
I say that the cause in which he suffered and
for which he gave his life was adjudged by
higher and fuller wisdom than his or mine,
and I am glad that the omniscient God held
the balance of battle in His Almighty hand,
and that human slavery was swept forever
from American soil the American Union saved
from the wreck of war. (Loud applause.)
of that
HENRY
W.
GRADY
315
Every
live is sacred as
battle-ground
of
that invests
is
it
the
Every
Republic.
who
who
soil
hill
of your brothers,
those
foot of
by the blood
of
defeat
sacred
ories
that
with
better, silent
mem-
stronger and
its
red
speaking
American arms
an eloquent witness
in
its
white
American
States
and
the
imperishable
(Re-
peated cheers.)
New
England
to this
which never
felt
that in
their
hearts,
READY MONEY
3i6
it
may
perpetuate
she withhold,
("No! No!")
itself?
Will
the
dying
filling
heart
his
of your
with grace,
which the
make
this vision
on
(Tu-
for comradeship,
refusal; but
if
if
its
she accepts in
and
friendship, then
of
amid tremendous applause, be verified in its fullest and final sense, when he said
"Standing hand to hand and clasping hands,
years ago
we should remain
united as
bers of the
now and
same government,
united forever."
we have been
for
HENRY
difficulties,
tell
W.
GRADY
317
contentions,
you that
in
my
'
'
Which
like the
Those opposed
eyes,
Did
lately
Shall
March
all
one way."
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