Success

The little politicians, and the cheap politicians, and the interest-paid politicians, and the plain ignorants who did no thinking of their own, all joined in one mighty chorus for the purpose of destroying the one and only man in the history of the world who offered a plan for abolishing war. The slanderers killed both Harding and Wilson - murdered them with vicious lies. They did the same to Lincoln, only in a somewhat more spectacular manner, by inciting a fanatic to hasten his death with a bullet.

Statesmanship and politics are not the only fields in which the accurate thinker must be on guard against the they say chorus. The moment a man begins to make himself felt in the field of industry or business, this chorus becomes active.

If a man makes a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to his door; no doubt about that; and in the gang that will trail along will be those who come, not to commend, but to condemn and to destroy his reputation.

The late John H. Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Company, is a notable example of what may happen to a man who builds a better cash register than that of his neighbor; yet, in the mind of the accurate thinker, there is not one scintilla of evidence to support the vicious reports that Mr. Pattersons competitors circulated about him.

As for Wilson and Harding, we may only judge how posterity will view them by observing how it has immortalized the names of Lincoln and Washington.

Truth, alone, endures. All else must pass on with Time. The object of these references is not to eulogize those who stand in no particular need of eulogy; but, it is to direct your attention to the fact that they say evidence is always subject to the closest scrutiny; and all the more so when it is of a negative or destructive nature. No harm can come from accepting, as fact, hearsay evidence that is constructive: but its opposite, if accepted at all, should be subjected to the closest inspection possible under the available means of applying the law of evidence.

YOU are well on the road toward success if you have such a keen conception of life that you never build a plan which contemplates your requesting another person to do that which does not bring that person some corresponding advantage in return for compliance with your request.