Show CHANGED HIS THEORY MEEK MAN GOT TIRED OF BEING IMPOSED UPON finally decided there was nothing i in the idea and went W ent strongly Y on the other tack waxed rich and fat once upon a time there was a man who had a wonderful disposition nothing ruffled him mild mannered and gentle he went about his business regularly on weekdays week days and attended church regularly on sundays Ws ills favorite beatitude was blessed are the meek tor for they shall inherit the earth lie was constantly hoping that someone would strike him on the cheek check so that lie he could turn the tha other one and he be always kept handy bandy a cloak which in obedience to the biblical injunction he could give also to it was his policy in political and economic matters invariably to be agreeable generous and self effacing when the politicians broke their promises he always supposed they mur must t have had bad a good reason for so doing lie he believed that the trust magnates were more interested in the welfare of the country than in their own profits and whenever the trusts raised prices he assumed that the poor owners have done it unless it was absolutely necessary thus until lie was past middle age was his serenity undisturbed and he kept getting poorer all the time finally he was down and out altogether whereupon he went to the banker with whom he had deposited all his life and who happened to be also the chief owner of the local street railway company which was famous throughout the country for high rates and poor service when the man asked the banker for a temporary loan the banker was very very kind to the man and with tears in his eyes explained that there was no one in all the world to whom he would rather lend money than to the man but the fact was that business was business and finance was finance and he did not consider the man a good risk because he be was too easygoing easy going the man went away and began to brood over his situation for the first time in his life he found himself fearing lest his temper get the better of him ile he kept on brooding and then he discovered that he was actually getting gelting mad and the more he brooded blooded the madder he got he muttered blessed ni essed are the meek bah accursed are the meek tor for they shall be imposed upon ile he began to judge everybody on the theory that they would judge him whether he judged them or not ile he declared that any man who struck him on the cheek had better get out of the way it if he did not want to get a fusillade of blobs in return and it if a fellow took his coat he would make him give back a whole hoie suit his fortunes immediately changed tor for the better and in a short time he became so influential that nothing was waa done in the community without first brat securing his approval moral whom the gods would preserve they first make mad GUIs ellis 0 jones in life |