Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-02-07
AWAY FROM POLITICS.
Connecticut Boys No Longer After
 Puplic Preferment.
Hallway and AIanufaeturIn= Ave- nues tO Wealth Sought by the Great MaIOrIiy-BusIness
 Instead or Politics.
IHartford Cor. New York Sun.l

The brightest and ablest of the young
 men born and brought up in Connecticut
 do not go into politics. "was the complaint
 recently made by a veteran politician If
 this city. These most promising fellows
 either go into business or go west Many
 0I them go no further west than New
 York city A generation or two ago all
 the boys were taught before they got out
 oi bib and tucker that they might become
 president some day. CT at least 90 Co con
 gross, and 1t used 10 be duly inStilled into
 the minds of the young girls that they
 ought 10 improve every advantage against
 the coming time when they would
 De the wives of presidents or
 senators CT governors. So the brightest
 and ablest of the lads became early fired
 with home and school ins;illed ambition.
 went 10 college. studied Law, and began
 their careers with their eyes ever fixed on
 the White House. To be sure. none of
 them ever got there. though one was
 once within a single life of it But Voli- ucs got the services of the most intellectual
 men. There were the SeymOurs. Thomas
 II. and Origen; the Baldwins. the Sher.
 mans. and EllswOrths; Iafaveitc S.
 Foster, who was the model presiding officer of the senate, according Co thc hts Senator Anthony; the profound Ferry. Ralph l. lngcTsOll. Charles Chapman, Isaac TOusey, Gideon Melles, and many others whose carCers were most honorable 10
 themselves and the state.
 But to-day mothers and school visitors and the ministers do not stimulate amhi- tion by telling the boys that they may 20 to the White House. The bright boys no longer look tO the law as the stepping stone to political preference The power oi wealth and the fascination Co be found in getting it honOrably are the lessons now taught, and the brilliant young fellows are studying railway problems. the law of trade. mechanics, and the arts At Yale college a seri s of lectures has just lccn begun in the problems of railway manage | ment. the laws natural and political that the development Of the railway systems of ! the country have created and it is au- nOunced that nearly all the students are eager to attend these lecturcS. Into the ! banks. the manufactCries. and the railway ! offices the young men are EOw going who | formerly would have looked for go career . only at the bar and in politics.
 Il suppose 1 am worth half a million. ! said a man still young, who a few years | ago began political career which was ts- ! pecially promising. and who abruptly . quilted 1t for the fascination of money . making in connection win the develop ! ment of the telephone. Il have money enough now. he added. but the delight . of making it by c0nqucring difficulties. the pleasure of winning is worth more than any political pEef,rmeut. Som,. day when l get old and tired l may try Go % 10 the United States senate. Co take it easy, have good time and round oil Ay ca Teer.
 Two of tkc ahlcSt lawyers the stat, has produced, bu,E successful politicians and one once a member of congress. praCti- ! cally abandoned nw and politics Go be- come president of the great railroad coz pOratiOn of the state. The son of a sue | cessful politician. a young man of grllt promise. threw down his law books. packed his college degree away, put on overalls and entered a wooden mill as an apprentice some year ago. He learned every detail of thc mechanics of a wooden mill. as well as of the manu- facture of wool into cloth Today he is at the head of the largest wO0lcn mills in the country One of the ablcst lads that Yale has matriculated for years closed his law office, sold his library. and applied his brains to a certain line of iron manufactur- ing, and today thanks his stars that he forsook politics. 4 bright though poor youth, who had saved enough from his wages as a soldier in the army to pay his way through Yale. and who had brilliant visions of congress or some other political honors. cast them aside after graduation. studied practical mechanics and chemistry, and is now the machinist of one of the largest railway corporations in the coun- try, with great responsibilities and a cor