Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — OPTIMIST ALWAYS A WINNER [ARTICLE]

OPTIMIST ALWAYS A WINNER

History of the World Proves That Faith Is the Stepping Stone to All Kinds of Success. John D. Rockefeller forty years ago believed in the future of this country, bought oil on a big scale and became the world’s richest man. Andrew Carnegie says he borrowed every cent he could get to invest In his steel mill and later sold out for something like three hundred millions. J. P. Morgan himself avowed thatlhe was always a “bull 'on the country,” and he died leaving a great name in the financial world and a monumental fortune. Washington was an optimist, even at Velley Forge, and he created the world’s greatest republic. Grant annoyed his enemies constantly because he refused to he anything but an optimist, and his armies saved that same republic from disunion. Bismarck was the prince of optimists, and the German empire is the sequel. In his own day William Pitt outshone every other Englishman in the belief in his country’s coming greatness, and to him more than any other one man can be given credit for an empire on dominions the sun never sets. Every pioneer who braved an Indian and starvation on the American frontier was a supreme optimist. The greatest books have been penned by those who had a firm faith in the future. The Christian religion itself 1b founded upon optimism, as is every other great religion. Omit faith from any one of them and the cornerstone 1b gone. A stock market axiom is that the surest way to go broke is to become a “bear on America.” Just imagine what would have happened to a man who had “sold America short” in the sixties. For every day of hunger In the United States there is a full week of feast. —Philadelphia Ledger.