Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-23
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

seems 10 De merely passive lnStruinenI
in accepting the gifts of fortune.
This happy minority tolls not and
neither does it spin, and yet the best
things in the giving of fate come to it
like natural endowment. 1t surprises
these exceptional and favored recipients
oftentimes as much as it does the observ-
ers of their bright destiny.
Again many of them have blind and
irreversible belief in their luck, as Jose
phine Beauharnais had that she would
one day be Empress of France.
The consciousness of power which
must be ultimately commanding is fire.
quently self asserting in the most I'M
promising and even adverse situations.
When Sheridan's first appearance in
parliament was failure, he declared
that superiority was in him and should
come out. Similarly, too, Disraeli in the
midst Of the hooting derision at his first
attempt, announced with prophetic GER
tainty that the time would come when
they should hear him.
This is no haphazard counting on pos
sibilities like Micawber waiting for some
thing to turn up, but calm certainty OF
the croe of success, which can wait for
leaf and blossom, and gathers the full
harvest of perfect effort.
Specifically the lucky ones would
seem to have the best of it.
Honors, riches and substantial benefits
are put upon them without any of the
wear and tear of their lives in the pur-
suit, or working out of schemes of acqui-
sition.
The immortality of fame may not
always be given with the rest
but that is too remote reward, too alb
stract comfort, to be very eagerly re-
garded by the merely lucky ones--and
moreover that stamp is not lavishly nor
blindly given.
Only dispassionate and impartial ex-
animation of dues brings it down, and
all too often on the grave, whose occu-
pant dreamed of Invoked for it-and
mayhap died for it.
Look at U. S. Grant, while he is
stolidly smoking his cigar the partial
dame fortune, comes to him with all the
favors his sordid heart can crave, with
scarcely any effort on his part more than
reaching out for them.
Put Disraeli and eheu Window side
bv side. Contrast England's anomalous
Jew struggling for recognition through
those long, bitter early years, and then
look at the smooth track over
which A1innesota's lucky son has
got back to the Senate-with just
that parenthesis of a cabinet experience
as break, and with no obstacle in the
late home stretch to the old place save
a Hopping jelly fish, which he made &C
backward like the crab-to Dodge county
"a most appropriate locality for A. J.
Edgerton.
Where's the slow, WORKOUT Hebrew
beside such dazzling, easy clearance and
possession as those of our political pres
tidigitateur, William the Conquerer?
| Nowhere.
The record, place in history, and all
that sort of thing?
Well, tits sorry and dilatory recon-
pense, generally of no more use to one
than the hair which is said to grow ex
| travagantly long in the coffin. They are
charnel house vanities.
| Legal knowledge, and judicial qualii-
cation are weary, protracted and un-
profitable expenditure Of effort
and time when eighteen votes
will bring about the pro.
fessional plum in a jiffy at convention
We dream and we scheme-we study
and we hope, only to see the prizes we
held so unreachably high and dear coolly
grasped by inept hands through methods
we never supposed available. For instance
who'd have thought that eighteen votes
would qualify a supreme court judgeG
But they do-as If he were as eruditt
as Caleb Cushing, and as capable as Jere
Black
'sTo be sure'' says Mrs. Harris, and
| uOpc III Will UC WuOiCSOu1C ICSSOu u
starveling students seeking promotion by
the old methods. What is the use OF
studying the subtleties of contingent re-
mainder when eighteen certain votes are
handy? and where's the sense of any ex-
animation of legal achievement when a
convention buys you and sets you up at
the figure eighteen.
Why, this is business, luck Or sue
cess, call it what you will, that buffers
the bread, puts the joint in the larder,
makes the pot boil.
| "What are we here for'' shouts Elan
nagan, of Texas, in the Chicago conven-
ton, ''if not to get Office" The shrill lit
| tie bawler was correct.
Office means human looking to flesh
pots, and if eighteen votes lands you
there, just sink the old routine, for ten
to one that it can bring you there half as
potently as convention.
You are healthy oracle for the aver
age mortal--that he should go hungry
while taking an astronomical observation
for fame, celebrity, and what not in the
future --neglecting perhaps the influences
which GROW eiuhtepD votes and trans