Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-31
AWAY FROM POLITICS:
Connecticut Boys No Longer After
 PupIic Preferment.
Hallway and Manufacturing Ave- nues 10 Wealth Sought by the Great EIsjority-Busines-
 Instead Of Politics.
rHnrtford Cor. New York sun.l


 ~The brightest and ablest of the young men born and brought up in Connections do not 70 into politics. was the complaint recently made by a veteran politician of this ctr. These most promising fellows either 20 into business or go west Many of them go no further west than New York city. A generation Or two ago alt the boys were taught before they got out of bib and tucker that they might become president some day, or at least go to con gress. and it used to be duly instilled into the minds of the young girls that they ought to improve every advantage against the coming time when they would be the wives of presidents or senators or governors. So the brightest and ablest of the lads became early fired with home and school instilled ambition, went to 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 t.cs got the services of the most intellectual men. There were the SeymOurs. Thomas II. and Origen; the Baldwins, the Sher- mans and Ellsworths; Lafayette :. Oster. who was the model presiding officer of the senate, according to the late Senator Anthony; the profound Ferry, Ralph l. lngerson, Charles Chapman, Isaac Toussv. Gideon Welles. and many others whose careers weSe most honorable to themselves and the state.
 But today 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 HO longer look 10 the law as the stepping stone to political preference. The power of wealth and the fascination to be found in getting it honOrably are the lessons now tau ght. 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 1t $ an- nOunCed that nearly all the students are eager to attend these lectures. Into the banks, the manufactOries and the railway offices the young men are now going who formerly would have looked for a career only at the bar and in politics
 Il suppose l am worth half million, said a man still young who a few years ago began a political career which was es- pecialiy promising. and who abruptly qui.i-d il Tor the fascination of money making in connection with the develop ment of the telephone "l have money enough now, he added, but the delight of making it by conqucring difficulties, The pleasure of winning iS worth more than any political prefcrmcnt Some day wten l get O q and tired l may try to go tO tle United States senate. to take it easy, have a good time and round off my ca reer.
 Two of the aLlcst lawyers the state has produced, both successful politicians and one once a mcluier of congress. practi- Cally abandoned law and politics to be- come president Cf the great railroad cor pOratiOn of the state. The son of a sue CCssfUi politician, young man of great promise. threw down his law books, packed his college degree away. put on Oyeralls and entered a wooden mill as an apprentice some year ago. He learned thoroughly every detail of the mechanics of a wooden mill, as well as of the manu- lecture of wool into cloth To-day he is at the head of the largest wooden mills in the country Che of the ablcst lads that Yale has matriculatcd for years closed his law office. sold his library, and applied his brains to a certain line ot iron manufactur- ing. and today 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 10 pay his way through l ale, 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 responding salary.