Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1911 — When the Donkey Brays We’ll Have Rain—Allegorical. [ARTICLE]

When the Donkey Brays We’ll Have Rain—Allegorical.

Andrew Carnegie thinks the fear of war is more destructive than war itself, and, no doubt, the distrust of people causes more harm than is done by all the real criminals. Optimism is the oil on the machinery of progress and is as necessary to human development as sunshine to plant growth. The wails of the pessimist, should they be valued according to the motive of mind from which they eminate, should not paralize the energies of the optimist, for the pessimist, like the donkey, had much rather bray than work; while the optimist, like the bee, works with the knowledge that success is accumulative and the outcome of labor is happiness and plenty. HELEN MAR.