The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-25

Chase and Fessenden. OF forty-four sec
retaries of war twenty-five were college
educated; of thirty-three secretaries OF
the navy, seventeen; of thirty-tgo post
masters general, sixteen; and OF seven
teen secretaries of the interior, twelve,
and of the thirtv-three secretaries of state,
twenty-four. The treasuryship has been
considered especially as the business mans
department At the close OF the Revolu-
ton, when currency was mot worth
continental" and during the civil war,
when the treasury was impoverished and
it was absolutely necessary that money be
had, Hamilton and Chase. of Dartmouth,
managed financial affairs admirably. They
have been called by Mr.. Eyarts the
two great fnanciers of our history"
Professor Bryce speaks of the former as
the most interesting figure in the early
history of the Republic" Daniel Webster
has spoken just as highly of Mr.: Hamil-
ton, and Lincoln of Mr.. Chase. After the
war when with the huge debt our finances
needed readjusting, the main burden of
the work was assigned to David A. Wells.
another college graduate OF mis- services,
General Garfield said: 81 do not believe
that any man appointed by the govern
ment in the civil service has done any
more valuable work than David A. Wells.
Into the financial chaos resulting from
the war, he threw the whole weight of a
strong, clear mind, guided by an honest
heart, and during the last three years he
has done more, in my Judgment, to bring
order out of confusion than any one man
in the United States"
On May 18th next a national Republican
convention will be held at the University
of Michigan of college men interested in
politics, at which most OF the colleges in
the United States are expected to be repre-
sented. and it will be addressed by such
college men as Judge Gresham, General
-. Nc
Estee, General Aiger and many others.
This is to be done because the Democrats
have been for some time doing something
similar, and shows how both parties are
looking towards our colleges for power in
the present and future.
As far as can be learned in regard to
those concerning whose education is
known, 1.75o out of 4, so members OF the
House of Representatives have been COL
lege educated, and $50 out of 40 members
of the Senate. Of thirty-two speakers in
the House eighteen were alumni OF col
lcges.
The seven chief justices of the supreme
and of the fifty associate justices thirty
SIX, and also about two-thirds of the
United States circuit judges. At present
the supreme court Is composed entirely of
college educated men.
A long list of names in our diplomatic
service shows the same facts. Among
them have been the Adam ses, George Ban
croft, Edward Everett, Motley, Rush,
Pierrepent, Edward J. Phelps. Hamilton
Fish, James Russell Lowell, Thomas JEFF
ferson, James Monroe, Elbridge Gerry,
William L. Dayton. the two Livings.ons,
Andrew d. White, C. NJ. Clay. J. A. Bay
ard, Carl Schurz. George P. Marsh. Viii
liam w. Aston, Caleb Cushing. Peter Par
ker, James B. Angel and John Russell
Young.
Thirteen out of twenty-three vice presi-
dents have been college men, and fifteen
out of twenty-three presidents. In the
last hundred years there have been fifty
seven candidates for the vice presidency
who were not elected, and thirty-six for
the presidency. OF the former thirty-five
were college men. and of the latter twenty
one.
Lincoln, non-college man, was noted
for the clearness of his STYLE and was once
complimented about it after one of his
speeches. In reply he said that when he
was studying law he found that he had no
comprehension of what it was to prove
thing. Knowing that he must overcome
this if he would be successful. he dropped
law and took up Euclid. q college study.
and mastered it. When this was done his
difficulty had disappeared.
Garfield once said: There is no way in
which you can get so much out of a man
as by training-not in pieces, but the
whole of him; and the trained men, other
things being equal, are to De the masters
of the world"
President J. F. Ellis, late Of Pacific uni
versity. Oregon, says that in the House of
Representatives the proportion OF college
men IS about 50 per cent, or one-:hird Of
the whole; in the Senate, AZ per cent. or
three-sevenths, and in the presidency
cabinet and on the supreme bench. So per
cent, or nearly three-ifths. And this is
the more remarkable when we remember
that the ratio OF college men in the United
States 10 non-college men is as to I9g
or less than one-half of / Der
cent. and yet this one-half of /
per cent. gives 80 per cent. in the House.
~ IN the Senate and IS in the higher de.
partments. 1t about substantiates the
statement OF DR.. Crafts that the college
man has 100 times as many chances for
political pre-eminence as other men.
Unless | am mistaken the premeirs of
England for the last fifty years or more
have all been college men. and a recent
writer on the English house of commons
says: The instances are few. and / be-
heye VIII long continue so, in which any
DIT men OF university training can attain
great pre-eminence in the government of
the British empire" u
The reason OF all this ia Mai, A.
trained fingers are needed to male a snc.
cessiul pianist. writer or painter. ne
ior boxing, running. wrestling and the
ike. the trained persons surpass ths
others. in gaparal