Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-22
UnSucCeSS.


 perhaps good national trait. Our ener- gy, our adaptability to circumstances, our social and political freedom. all make sue cess easier here than elsewhere. Indeed, it is generally supposed that integrity. good habits, economy and fair abilities will nearly always command success among us. In some occupations, no doubt, such is the case, but not in all Especially is it untrue is kinds of busi- ness where though the few may be sue cessful, the many usually fail In every hive there is room for innumerable work CTS but only for one queen bee. Yet we have no doubt that in every American hive good little bees are told that if they are industrious and keep the command ments they can all become queens and middle aged laborers, who can only gather pollen and honey and work in wax. are considered failures by the rising and am- bilious of the little community. True, the distinction between queen bee and "OAhOA Ao OuCOA AAHu, HUI OA OOSAOc1 e~-A0 there are no such distinctions in repub- lie of men yet do we not see many a worthy citizen struggling vainly for sue cess in the law, the ministry. or in some other business in which nature has made success impossible to him To others nature has granted abundant ability but no opportunity. They are born soldiers but their times are times of peace. Or. the very chances over which they have no control are the chances which have deci- ded most magnifcently yet unsuccess- fully played game against them. Their Waterloos have been their first instead of their last battles.
 One of the most signal triumphs of un- success is to be found in the defeat of the Yale crew at the late Saratoga race. The papers say it was their captain that beat them. Yet there had never been such careful study of the best methods, such shrewd perseverance in their adaptation, such patient waiting through accidental hindrances for fair trial, as Cook had shown-and then with the trial came fail ure! Yale could not trust it's own eyes. Their Wolfe had climbed the heights of Abraham-had forced Montcalm to fight on equal terms-how could he be beaten
 If their unsuccess as boatmen teaches young Yale that charity for unsuccess which America needs most of all nations. Cook will not have lived and labored in vain. Many and many of her best grad uates will follow his example-will study, and wait, and fail, as her champion oars man has done. Yet their failures are not useless. Others profit by their loss, and, avoiding their errors, achieve success; or, better yet, learn to live quiet, useful lives unrewarded by success, yet unsour- ed by defeat.
 Who has not been struck by the ineon- sistency between the American Gospel of success and the Christian Gospel of un- success9 Reading of the Dives and Lag arus of eighteen centuries since, we read fly assent to the acceptance of the man of unsuccess and the rejection of the man of success but do we so judge of the same types in our own time? What Christian church really believes that her own Dives, who passes her plate and heads her sub scriptions, and whose yiEtpss eel sheafleR9Fahtfss R9Fahts the unconsidered ''tramp," sssent up" for vagrant, and dying in a work-house. IS received into Abraham's bosom? Is it the worship of God or the worship of mammon that attracts the best blood of the country to the city, that withdraws the sons of farmers and mechanics from the steady, evenly rewarded manual labor of their fathers to the lottery of professional and business life, with its many blanks, its few magnificent prizes. and its feverish pressure of intellectual work? Are not our cities full of Christian men striving for the earthly rewards of Dives, yet some how expecting also the heavenly rewards of Lazarus? There may not be so many of these just now, perhaps, as there were few years since. For, in such miserablv hard times as these it is natural that peo- pie should seriously incline to the Gospel of unsuccess. Its comforts and it's prom ises sooth the anguish of failure. and times of financial depression are notorious ly times of religious exaltation. Thou sands turn in despair from a vain imita- tion of the example of Dives to an imita- tion of the example of Lazarus, perhaps equally vain. It is pretty certain that with better times the example of Dives will again resume its wonted ascendency. but it is to be hoped that the useful les. sons of our days of university will not be entirely forgotten in the days of our pros- perity.
 The specific charges made by Professor Marsh of Yale College of fraud in the management of Indian affairs present a very serious issue. It is one, too, there ought not to be any delay in trying. The charges are such as an investigation by any fairly appointed commission will either prove or disprove very conclusively They are made under such circumstances as show good faith, and they are very spe- cific. It appears that when Prof. Marsh was West on his last scientific expedition he promised Red Cloud to lay the griev- ances of his tribe before the President. On his return he did this. Secretary De- lano and Commissioner Smith had inter- views with him, also, regarding these ! charges, but he never laid them formally before these officials, not having conf. dence in their willingness to make any thorough investigation or reform. Final ly, on the 10th inst:, he embodied full