New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-03


without which the most deserving. an
terprise can not hope to stand. who
believes that Albert Edward, prince Of
Wales, could by any inherent virtue,
talent, or whatnot, have placed him
self upon the broad pinnacle ne oecu-
pies, unaided, to-day? Who. believes
that James Gordon Bennett, with all
his native shrewdness, with his mar
velously quick perceptions of right
and wrong, with his sound Judgment
as to men, with his as yet unequaled
spirit of enterprise, could, unalded by
the circumstances which surrounded
him from his very birth, have placed
himself at his present age in,the very
van OF the round worlds journalism?
A very clever, bright, quick-witted,
Well-meaning young man is George
Gould, eldest son of Jay Gould. /
Anow him we'll. l like him. much. 1
see before him a field of enterprise,
benevolence, accumulation, humanity,
beneticence, unequaled, by that which
untolds itself to the upstepping of any
young man in the United. States. He
is vice president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, itself a position
of which many a man old enough to
be his grandfather, and ten times
brighter than he, might we'll be proud.
He holds responsible position in a
score of great corporations, any one
of which might we'll round the ambi-
ton of much older and ADLER men,
but there he stands. Circumstances
have put him there. 1t isn't ques-
ton whether he can: by George, he
has. 1t is't question of what he may
possibly get, there is no denying it; he
has it. His feet are on the step and
his hands upon the knob. He has but
to turn the handle and the door wide
open springs, with a prospect before
him so bright, so glittering, so brill
liant in its temptation and its POSSIBLE
tiles that he must be an archangel, in
deed, who can repress feeling of en-
Wy that he too. was not accorded such
circumstances as these. There is one
good thing about this living of ours.
No possibility exists that can make
two and two anything but four, 1t
makes no difference who my father is,
who my children are, my writing goes
for what tits worth Little Tommy
Jones may say it is the best that is
printed, and poor old William Shocks
may say it is the veriest rot that was
ever published. Facts cannot be alter
ed. My two and two make four every
time. Overpraise does me no good.
Detraction does me no harm, and as it
is with me, SO with the humblest and
the most expert in our profession. We
stand or fall by what we do. Circum-
stances have nothing absolutely to do
with the success of writer. Circum-
stances may gain lawyers clients, may
place clergymen in pulpits, may find
eligible partnerships for doctors, so
that they get patients prematurely,
but the writer never yet lived who
found access to the columns OF we'll
conducted paper because he had
friends in the editorial-rooms, and no
writer was ever kept out of news
paper, properly conducted, because he
had people in the editorial-room who
didn' like him. Circumstances might
come to me, with money galore, and
offer me opportunities for the starting
OF newspaper let me remark,
en- PEASANT, that nothing is easier than
the starting of a newspaper, the diff
Guilty being to keep it agoing. Cir
cumstances might Gordon NC with
wealthy friends and rich hackers, but
they couldn't teach me to write any
better than l do, and they couldn' t
pardon the coinage, unteach me what
little know.
Writers, as rule, have but little to
be thankful for, but this can not be
taken from us. We stand each on his
own feet.