Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-02-07
AWAY FROM POLITICS.
Connecticut Eoys No Longer After Puplic Preferment.
Railway and Manufacturing Ave- nues tO Wealth Sought by the Great majoriIy-Business
 Instead Of Politics.
[HartforI Cor. New York snn.1

l1dIIoTu NDT. New 1OTk Nuu-
 @The brightest and ableSt of the young
 men born and brought up in Connection
 do not go into politics, was the complain
 recently made by a veteran politician Ol
 this city. These most promising fellow!
 either go into business or go west Many
 of them go no further west than New
 York city" A generation or two ago all
 the boys were taught before they got out | of bib and tucker that they might become | president some day, or al least go tO con | gress. and it used to be duly instilled into the minds of the young girls that they ought 10 improve every advantage against | the coming time when they would | be the wives of presidents oI senators or governors. So the brightest and ableSt of the lads became early fired with home and school instilled 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 poll tics got the services of the most intellectual men. There were the SeymOurs, Thomas II. and Origen: the Baldwins. the Sher- mans. and EllswOrths; Lafayette S Foster, who was the model presiding officer of the senate, according to the late Senator Anthony; the profound Ferry. Ralph l. lngersOll. Charles Chapman, Isaac TouSey. Gideon Welles, and many others whose caTCers were most honorable to themselves and the state
 But to-day mothers and school visitors and the ministers do not stimulate ambi- ton by telling the boys that they may go to the White House. The bright boys no longer look 10 the law as the stepping stone to political preference The power of wealth and the fascination 10 be found in getting it honOrably are the lessons now taught, and the brilliant young fellows are studying railway problems. the laws of .trade, mechanics, and the arts At Yale college a Seri $ of lectures has just been 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 an- nounced that nearly all the students are eager Co attend these lectures. Into the banks, the manufactures. and the railway offices the young men are now going who formerly would have looked for career only at tLe bar and in politics
 suppose l am worth half a million, said a man still young. who a few years ago began political career which was es- pecially promising, and who abruptly quilted it for the fascination of money making in connection with the develop ment of the telephone. Il have money enough now. he added, but the delight of making il by conquering difficulties. the pleasure of winning k worth more than any political preferment Some day when l get old and tired may try Co go to the niied States senate, tO take 1t easy. have a good time and round of my ca reer
 Two of the ablest lawyers the state has produced, both successful politicians. and one once a menher of congress, practi- cally abandoned law and politics to be- come president of the great railroad cor pOratiOn of the state. The son of sue cessful politician, young man of great promise, threw down his law books, packed his college degree away, put on overalls and entered wooden mill as an apprentice some year ago. He learned thoroughly every detail of the mechanics of a wooden mill. as we'll as of the manu- facture of wool into cloth Today he is at the head of the largest woolen mills in the country. One of the ablest 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 to-day thanks his stars that he fOrsOOk politics. A bright though poor youth, who had saved enough from his wages as a soldier in the army to pay his way through Tale. 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 ia the coun- try. with great responsibilities and Q cor responding salary.