St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-10

upon himself. 1t is the man that makes
the career and not the career the man.
1t is the man who availS himself OF Op-
pDrtunities. aud creates them If they do
not exist, who profits of favorable cir
cumstances, and su6dues to his own ends
unfavorable ones. Mr.. Hill is the we'll
informed man. the rounded scholar. the
refined gentleman. He is too broad
minded to have confined himself to one.
or to a few lines of thought or action;
too generous-hearted not to have entered
into the possession Of all the charms of
cultured existence. He is At home
with the master in art; he counselS the
farmer and the merchant; he puzzles
with his questioniDgS the author and
the theologian; he alarms the politician
with the power which his statesman
ship affords BIN.
The successful man Is needed by his
fellow men, and they prize him when
they have found him. The dead level
Oflcommon mediOcrity is fatal to all up
rising of the race, to all progress and
civilization. Some one man rises up
ward by his strong indiv iduality, and
the tens of thousands are benefited.
Columbus opened to the nations of Eu
rope a whole continent. Washington
gave liberty to America, Lincoln pre-
Served it. So do men create for
their fellows material wealth and pros
perity. The builder of the Great North
ern diScloseS an immense territory, rich
in mines, forests and fertile fields; mill
ions will flock to it; cities will spring
up; new Industries will be born. What
benefits will there not be to the whole
country in our own lifetime from the
success of Mr.. Hill? Our own cities Of
st. Paul and Minneapolis will, owing to
it, tIIrob with new energy. and go forth
with Increased rapidity to the attain
ment of their destiny as one of the three
great commercial and industrial centers
in North America!
We All Grow
In Gods providence, no one lives for
himself; he is brother In the human
family. Duties and possibilities in-
crease with each ones elevation and
power. The successful man is never
tested so thoroughly as when he is
viewed in his relations with his fellow
men. The acquiring of success, and
the use of it must be along the divinely
marked lines of justice and social
charity. Success is the most fatal Of
gifts if it hardens the mans heart,
isolates him from his fellows,
elates him in pride. or leads him
to fancy that the world exists for him,
powerful and the rich. Not so does
success work in the soul of James j.
Hill. l dislike the task of telling all
my thoughts in his presence; but he
must listen, as l must speak for truths
sake. In no range of action is Mr.. Hill
so grand to my eyes as in his relations
with his fell0w-men, since the reign of
success has come upon him. Riches and
power have not putfed him up; he is the
plain,
Democratic American Citizen,
with hand open to salute the plainest of
the plain. Access to him is easy for all;
his word to all is polite. The employer
of decades of thousands of employees, he
deems their interests one of his first
duties. Severe, as the man loyal to his
trust must be, toward Incidence. neg
lect, or incapaclty. he is just and
paternal, most kind and encouraging
where merit appears. He studies, as he
would study his own, the interests. the
welfare OF the Immigrant settler and
the businessmen who have mutual in
tereStS with him In his road. | dare
allow myself only the barest alusion to
widespread benefactionS bestowed so
often in the manner of Gospel COM
mands so that the right hand may not
know what the left is doing. Our sue
cessful man! There are too few men
like him in the land, for the betterment
of the people no less in the softer
spheres of the moral world, than the
more gIittering realms of the material.
"rhe Successful Man," my toast
reads. 'is the uncrowned emperor
where genius is patent of nobility.
His is the only title legitimatized by
the republic" We salute him from our
hearts by his well-won title with more
true affection than ever peopl saluted
crowned kings or emperors. Our
homage is the most voluntary of offer
ings, brought out by merit only; it
honors ourselves, because it is a tribute
to- exceptional personal worth; it lifts
upward the whole community OF which
he who receives it is so thoroughly
part, and the welfare of which is the
more secure, as his power is made
stronger and more enduring. Long
live our "Successful Man"
HOW'g This
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