St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-12
THE YOUNG MEMS FRIEND.
Noble Characteristic of the LatO
Vice President

THE YOUNG MEMS FRIEND.
Noble Characteristic of the LatO
Vice PRESIDENT.
To the Editor of the Globe
What to the old can greater pleasure be
Than hopeful and ingenious youth to see?
-Denman.
What ever else may be said in truth or
falsehood, passion or prejudice, love or
hatred of the lamented Thomas A Hendricks.
it may well be said of him that he was the
young mans friend. He seemed to ever have
a passionate fondness for a young man
with
''Head full of genius and heart full of truth"
an arm full of strength and a will full of de-
termination. All young men ever had an en-
try to his solitude and place in his affec-
lions. No worthy young man ever sought his
counsel or his direction or his assistance in
the great battle of life and was turned empty
handed from his door; and more than one
young man in various parts of the country,
who has won q competence and the comforts
OF home, If not attained to a brilliant career
ana a widespread reputation, owes his start
in life to the kindly assistance and fathery
advice of Thomas A. Hendricks.
Mr.. Hendricks was man with q large
heart, generous disposition and a noble
nature. He doubtless had his faults as other
men have, and made mistakeS-most persons,
and particularly those who spend their lives
in looking after and conducting the affairs of
men and nations, do make mistakes-but they
were honest mistakes; mistakes of the head
true that he was permeated with at least a
modicum of ambition and
LOVE OF FAME,
yet it is nevertheless also true that he had no
incentive but right and no motive but duty,
as he saw duty and knew right; and for this,
above all things else, we honor him. Of his
political principles and public career have
no concern farther than to know that he was
ever man of earnest thought and decided
principles; slow possibly to form Judgment
but thorough in his understanding and stead
fast in his convictions. The same is true of
him in social and professional life. He was
ever kind and courteous to his antagonists
considerate of the rights and the feelings of
others. and may be said to have been Just
even to his bitterest enemies. Mr.. Hen
bricks was that manner of man young men
naturally respect and look up to and pattern
after; one whom they admire for his manli-
ness, his uprightness his purity of life and
nobility of character.
Mr.. Hendricks early became profoundly
impressed with the conviction that the young
men who are in the flower of their youth, full
of vigor and activity, enthusiasm and deter
mination, are the worlds great workers, the
stay of the present and the hope of the fu-
ture. Certain it is that they are soon to be-
come the fathers, the guides and the de-
Tenders Of the community and the nation. In
the morning of their manhood, when the
senses are unworn and tender, the ambition
undisapponted and determined, the ardor
uncooled and fervent, the enthusiasm I'M
foiled and undauntea, when the whole man is
awake in every part, and 1.-The gloss Of nov
city fresh upon all objects, ere they have
learned by bitter experience of the
FICKLENEss OF FORTUNE
and the perfidy of men, young men look at
the present through the past, and the future
has hopes for them.
The Fate of Capua teaches us to believe that
There is time in the gay spring of life
When every note is as the mounting lark's,
Merry and cheerful to salute the morn.
With men advanced in years, those who
have felt the pressure of the hand of false
hood and perfidy, seen the fickleness of for
tune ''who promises fair and performs but
i'll have tasted of the shallowness Of pre-
tense and honors.
'Memory watches O. re the sad review
OF joys that fade like the morning dew"
DR.. Samuel Johnson has said that youth is
the time of enterprise and hope. That hav-
ing yet had no occasion for comparing their
forces with opposing powers. the young nat
urany form prescriptions in their own favor,
and fondly imagine that Instructions and i'm
pediments will give way before them. NJ.
man actions he ever heard or read, he had OBJ
served that, both in former ages and his own,
more were performed before the age Of 30
than after; and that this occurred GOTTEN
times in the very lives of the same men,"
He instances as illustrations the lives of
Hannibal and his great concurrent Scipio,
and declares that
THE BETTER HALE
of their lives these heroes lived upon the
glory they had acquired in their youth;
great men after, it's true, in comparison of
others, but by no means in comparison of
themselves"
Recognizing the truthfulness of Lord Ba-
cons saying, that authority followeth old
men. and favor and popularity YOUTH Mr..
Hendricks ever sought to ally himself with
worthy and earnest young men. both in pro-
fessionallabor and public life His political
interests were, as rule, entrusted to young and
active men; and, so far as has ever been
known, he seems to have been satisfied with
the manner in which the trust was discharged.
Mr.. Hendricks himself had characteristics of
perennial youthfulness: these may be found.
if nowhere else, in his ever hopefulness and
confidence in the future and what it pos
sessed for him.
Promise of youth, fair as the form
OF Heavens benign and golden bow,
Thy smiling arch beguileS the storm
And sheds light on every woe" X.