Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — Confidence. [ARTICLE]

Confidence.

Why does this country tend always to belittle its wealth, its works, its men and its power to meet calamity? It does, and yet we are thpught to be a people unembarrassed by modesty. Yankee boastfulness is a proverb in the world, bnt no Yankee ever told quite all the truth. He never dared, and, besides, he could not make himself believe the whole length and depth and breadth of It. Distrusting their own Judgment, the American people lack confidence in their great estate. Their temperament is rich in daring, faith and optimism, but poor in confidence, which is a quality that comes with time. A young people perhaps should not have it. It is not good tct have everythlngA-New York Times.