Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1890 — PEOPLE WITH PREJUDICES. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE WITH PREJUDICES.

They Have More Character and Are More Useful than Those with None. Persons without prejudices are generally insipid. They are very nice people morally, but usually lack force of character. We like men who have decided opinions of their own on all important subjects, and who make a stout fight for them even when in the wrong, for in the sharp attrition between minds of opposite professions many a brilliant spark of truth is struck out Every human being is, or ought to be, prejudiced in favor of his native land, according to the New York Ledger. We have no sympathy for the cosmopolitan who says that all countries are alike to him. It is not necessary that the Englishman who loves England should hate the Frenoh, or that an American who insists that the United States is “the most enlightened under the sun” should depreciate the “mother country.” To believe there is no place like home is wholesome, Christian partiality; but to laugh another man’s home to scorn because it is not a sac simile of one’s own is illiberal and ungentlemanly. There is no harm in being prejudiced in favor of one’s country, one’s family, or one’s friends; but your people who will quarrel on the ninth part of a hair, out of sheer obstinacy and litigiousness of spirit, we most cordially despise.