| Show dim on pessimism EDITOR JOURNAL the problem of the professional politician united to the queen of philana Philan rophy trophy serin seems to be inexpressible to alie varnished surface mind that two anti would generate gener ate a universal good g M 0 od yet this is the very course that nature seems to follow for the whole of this sublunary system evolves on the wheel of opposition to preserve c the equilibrium of this creation the seeming opposition of nature is just arid and scientific but if the politician brings his appos opposition to bear on human burnan personality it generates strife turmoil and pandemonium n I 1 feel feelings i n we ave believe there is nothing created in vain each thing has its use the pessimist is the lemon of society oci ety As a flavor lie is often delicious but as a separate dish his acci acerbity baity pleases only congenial palates palate being too pungent pung ent fur for cultivated taste the pessimist Pesi mist is a party whip often fills a wife pur lie ile is I 1 nothing to thing if not critical and seldom beldo in is contented conten ted to quietly put his tongue in his heart arid and ellide chide with liis his own reflections ho is as candid as the alie face of a clock and often as good an indicator of political time the optimist looks for good that lie may support it the pessimist Pea barches ear ches relies for evil that lie he may crush it each has the same end in view for the good of this life it frequently happens that beneath the bitterness of the pessimist there still lurks the blade of personal pain giving a keen edge to every poisonous feeling when tho the young C man starts in life with the ta ie expectation that this world will love ind and respect him he is is very apt a little later to view this ibis world as an unutterable mystery if the voting 1 I politician believes believer that his party are all paragons of purity the chances are ten to one that after a few severe seven rebuffs his bis idol will be shattered it is from this material the ts are aremady made they are seldom born for nature owes herself no such spite their sharp words of attics attic salt alt are each the record of some gome bitter incisive circumstance from which unlike the optimist they could not sip pip tho the honey of adversity and to which their stubborn nature could not bend the optimist bome swings as tile the whip but kind heaven will not allow tile the to always act the hypercritical flagel later these two antipodal natures frequently interplay find and the gentlest optimist finds it necessary tossing to swing the pitiless criticism on the crown of in an empty cran cranium iuni it is to be ho hoped ped that the time will soon eoon come when goodness truth and beauty perceived will themselves work out tile the divine plan without the intervention of c costic urgency when this occurs man will be well on howardi his ultimate standard and the like pes pessimist of tho past will be recast into a washington optimist for tile alic frue tidying lifo life will bring in a new and higher dispensation Woollam aloo august 2 ISO 1894 1 |
