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No matter what boulders lay ahead, you would try and climb over. No matter what wild animals
roamed over the mountain, you would face all the
trials and dangers sooner than stay in the valley and
die a slow death.
That is precisely what you want to do now.
To give up all individual effort because there are
trusts and monopolies in the land is to stay in the
valley and die of inaction. To push on in a determined and never-give-up state of mind, is to succeed in spite of everything.
If you chance to see some other pilgrim on the
road, riding in an automobile while you walk, do not
at once jump to the conclusion that he is your enemy
and that he has robbed and cheated his fellow men
to procure his method of easy locomotion.
Such thoughts will take your force and vitality
away from the object you have in view, and will harm
you, while they may wrong your neighbor. It would
be well for you to find out how he came to own an
automobile before you condemn him as a greedy
monopolist. Perhaps he built it with his own skill
and labor, paying honest dollars for the materials.
I have known a fisherman to get along a lifetime
with a leaky boat and one oar, and to go about "sculling," thinking it was the only way he could do; while
another fisherman, with no greater advantages, used his
spare hours in studying machinery, and built himself a
small launch, with which he explored deeper waters
and caught larger fish. This man was not a monopolist and owed no poorer neighbors an apology for
having better means of locomotion than they.
It has grown to be the habit of the unsuccessful
to class all people who possess comforts and conveniences
