The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-03
AWAY FROM POLITICS.
GsnAscticut Boys No Longer After
Puplic Preferment.
hallway and Manufacturing AVes
nues 60 wealth Sought by the
Great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Instead OF Politics.
FHartfOrd Cor. New York Sun. ]

"The brightest and ablest of the young
men born and brought up in Connecticut
do not 70 into politics, was the complaint
recently made by veteran politician OF
this city. These most promising fellows
either go into business or go west. Many
Og them go no further west than New
Work city" A generation or two ago all
the boys were taught before they got ous
Of bib and tucker that they might become
president some day, or at least go to con-
aress. and IL used to DO duly instlled into
fhe minds of the young girls that they
ought TO improve every advantage against
2hs coming time when they would
be the wives of presidents or
senators or governors So the brightest
and abless of The lads became early fired
with home and school instilled ambition,
! aguna a0rcoileue, studied law and began
tneIr careesa with Aheir eyesFever hxeu on
tia White House. TO be sure, none OF
once within single life of it. But poi-I
tics got the services of the most intellectual
men There were the Seymours, Thomas
II. and Origen; the Baldwins, the SheT.
mans, and Ellsworths; Lafayette s.
Foster, who was the model presiding
officer ~F the senate, according to tf late
Senator Anthony; the profound Ferry:
1alphE. Ingersoll, Charles Chapman, Isaac
Tousey. Gideon Welles. and many Others
whose careers were most honorable to
themselves and the state
But to-day mothers and school visitorA
and tbs ministers do not stimulate ambi
sion by telling the boys that they may &c
60 the white House. The bright boys ne,
longer look to 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.
taught, and the brilliant young fellows ara
studying railway problems, the laws of
trade. mechanics, and the arts. AT Yalek
college series of lectures has Just BEEN
begun in the problems Of railway manage
xnent, the laws natural and political that
the development of the railway systems oG
che country have created, and it is and
nounced that nearly all the students are
eager TO attend these lectures. Into thss
banks. the manufactures, and the railway
offices the young men are now going who
Formerly would have looked Tor career
only at the bar and in politics:
II suppose am worth half million
Gasd man still young, who few years
ago began a political career which was esq
NsciallT promising, and who abruptly
quilted e for the fascination OF money
SnRksng In connection with the develop
ment Of the telephone. have money
enough now, he added, shut the delight
Of making Ii by conquering difficultiess
the pleasure of winning is worth more
than any political preferment Some day
vshSn / get old and tired / may try to ga
10 the United States senate, to take it eaeyA
have q good time and round off mJ ca
resr.
Two Of the ablest lawyers the state ha4l
produced, both successful politicians. and
one once q member Of congress, pTactt&
cally abandoned law and politics to b.
come president Of the great railroad corr
pCraSion of the state. The son of SucS
c9sstul politician, young man OF gTeat
promise, threw down his law books,
packed his college degree away, put on
oTef&lls and entered a wGolen mill as ar
apprentice some year agN he learneN
thoroughly every Sstail IF the mechAnics1
Iacture of wa.d concert. he iRf
ut the he 81
the coUP EH
YaIe&End will play the following pro-!
law g this afternoon, at 4;;2ooSS I NAM ct,T
tCxzee: his stars that he
Saxch-"Happy New Yes5right though poor
ovsr,uro- Queen osssved enough from ms
49, :. - s0liier in the army to pay hia
hattes 'uOrssoo, ALE. and who had brilliant
Cave SssIrusad p,us - OF some other PohucA
WAfssiSd 81 ansJ az, piSS eErse after graduation,
,ss1VuOp (ra., pus '1fqanics and chemistry,
sr 70 '% n z,g iaist q G l5e O. eOu e1s
e; sSgs So sss,r,.-, ~ .SSI'usId pes ap1
.. mill, as well as OF @a5ooa1 nsa
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