People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — Don’t Trust One Man. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Trust One Man.

Do not chance the cause of reform on the honesty, backbone and sound judgment of any man. You may be fooled in him. You have been fooled and are liable to be again. Consider your own judgment as good as anybody’s as to the best principles and the best policies. Don’t hesitate to disagree with the man at the top—he is there merely because some one must be there. Of course, we all feel like expressing our approval of any one who has shown staying qualities in times of trial, but don’t worship such —they have at most but done their duty, as thousands and thousands of the rank and file have done. Under other circumstances those we would worship now might go back on us. pj n your faith to principles, they’ll never go back on you. Man may err, his temper may throw him off the right track, his personal ambition may cloud his judgment; even his very eagerness for the success of right may induce him to try to cut across the swamps to victory.—Missouri World. Gold is not our only enemy nor silver our only friend.