Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — Don’t Whine. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Whine.

Don’t be whining about not having a fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of the window and he’ll fall on his feet and ask the nearest way to . his work. The more you have to begin with the less you will have in the end. Money you earn yourself is much brighter than any you get out of dead men’s bags. A scant breakfast in the morning of life whets the appetite for a feast later in the day. He who has tasted a sour apple will have the more relish for a sweet one. Your present want will make future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen pence has set up many a peddler in business, and he has turned it over until he has kept his carriage. As for the place you are cast in, don’t find fault with that; you need not be a horse because you were born in a stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky high,, he would drop down into a good place. A hard working young man with his wits about him will make money while others will do nothing but lose it.