People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Positive People. [ARTICLE]

Positive People.

Some there are who have a balm for every wound, a remedy for every ill. They have no doubts of the virtues of their remedies, no fears of the successful workings of their plans. A thousand times their prescriptions may have killed, a thousand times their theories may 7 have failed yet they know they are right, and all contrary to them are wrong. These people, wise in their own conceit, we meet every day; they, and they alone, know how 7 to run this world, and they, and they alone, know 7 the road to heaven. These positive people make no mistakes, are never deceived, are never at a loss to know 7 how to act on great questions; all that really puzzles them is to understand how it is that other people know so little. Nowhere do we meet more of these know’ing, positive ones than in the political and religious world. To-day on the street we see and hear the gold standard man that says the only sure foundation our monetary house can stand upon is yellow dust, another knows that bi-metalism is the rock of our financial salvation, w’hile a third puts not his trust in silver

' and gold, but says for all oHf financial ills paper Is the pan- ? Somebody mfcst be a little wrong, Somebody does not know as much as they should and could know. There are too many people among us that only look at and read one side. We know men that will not allow a , in their houses that differs from them in politics or religion, they positively know that their j side is right and the other side iis wrong. The man that wants to vote for the bwt Interests of ; the whole Country should carefully and impartially study all ■ the great, new questions of the day. None of us knaw it all • Wise men change, but fools never do.”