The morning call., 1893-02-12

In Washington before he became President
be led a very simple lie anc did not waste
anything in entertaining"
How about CltYe and, Judge? DO you
think lie viii make any changes Ia the Of
Gces?"
No. I don't" was the reply. 81 think
he viii increase the list Of men in the civil
service. and that few changes will be made.
think many OF the foreign appointments
viii remain as they are. | was with Presi-
dent Cleveland once in the White House
during his term when a delegation called 10
ask bim 80 remove one ofsthe Central Amer
lean Ministers. They stated their case while
I was there, and President Cleveland lis
tened s0berly to them. After they went
out lie turned 10 me and said: It seems 10
NE that these men are very unreasonable.
The man they want 10 remove has been IN
that place fer eight years. He gave up his
business 70 20 there. lie has learned the
language Of the country and has become
settled. lie IS doing his duty better than
new man could do IL. | don't see why we
should change him. and l won't
u have heard President Cleveland ex-
press himself forcibly upon this matter at
other times" continued Judge Holman,
sand l don't think he wants TO make many
changes. President Harrison has kept a
number OF his appointees in Office, and
there will probably be great many disap-
pointed men about the time that the new
What is your idea, Judge, Of the next
four years? Are We going TO have an era
Of retrenehmeDt in Government expenses? ?"
I'VE are bound to have" was the reply.
81 ncle sam IS becoming a spendthTift. aud
during the last few years his D0cket-b00k
Las been open to every one and 10 every
thing. Our people are gradually growing
very eXTaVagant and our Federal taxes
must be cut down. We must reduce them
not by millions but by the tens of millions,
aud we have got to do this in order 70 main
tam republican Institutions. / don't care
how rich we get II we can keep down the
taxes. We are now the richest nation on
the face Of the globe and we are growing
richer every year. As long a. the money is
properly distTl buted II is all right, bat our
enormous taxation is bringing about CEN
traliZatiOn Of wealth. The money is COL
leeted dollar by dollar from the seyenty-Odd
million people Of the country, and The hun
dreds Of millions thus collected fall into the
hands Of tens Of thousands. The result is
that the rich are growing richer and TO O
certain extent it seems to me that the poor
are growing poorer We have got TO cut
down taxation"
do you think. Judge, that we are grow
ing rich too fast?" said l.
Yes. do. replied the Judge. ''The land
grants to tie railroads brought the hordes of
eniIgraDts upon US so fast ID al we could not
dgest ara asslmIlate them Had the cum
Try been settled up more slowly America
would now be inhabited by Americans
instead Of consisting Of a succotash of
nations. The opening OF these lands took
capital by the millions and men by the
thousands from Eastern States. This was
not noticed at first, but the lands Of the
East have now fallen ia consequence.
Farms IN the great valley Of the Ohio
have deprecated 30 per cent and more
within the last twenty years; and along
The Ohio River, where land was worth
my un tan
get it for $50. Many Of these land grants
were bought by foreigners. English and Ger
man capitalists own nearly all the 0,C00, 900
acres gran ted to the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, and Mr.. Carter. the Land Commits
siOner under Harrison, told me the other
day that foreign capitalists own 5000, 600
acres Of mineral lands in Montana which
are filed with an almost inexhaustible
wealth. The emigrants got their lands in
the West on a small cash payment Bad
crops resulted in their not being able to pay
the interest, and there are today more
tenant farmers in Kansas than in Indiana"
The above are the ideas Of an old man of
one Of the older States. l want to offset
them with a chat ] bad yesterday with one
Of the brightest young men OF the West.
Senator WolcOtt of Colorado is the best
human type which grows west OF the NJ IS
sissippi. SpT0uted in the nursery of New
England from one of the oldest families Of
our history and surrounded by the associa-
tons Of the Puritans and Yale College he
was pulled from the ground by his own
energy and ambition and transplanted as a
young man into one of the widest parts Of
the mining regions Of Colorado. With a
great-great-gr grandfather who was one
Of the first Governors of the Con-
nectcut colony, with a great-grand-
uncle who was George Washingtop's
Secretary OF the Treasury, and with no end
Of relatives in the Revolutionary war; he
dropped his genealogical tree in the East
and began life as young lawyer at George
town, Colo. When he first practiced law
there he tells me that the Judges often
pulled pistols out Of their coat pockets and
enforced order at the point of q gun. He
soon showed himself able to take his stand
with the best of them. Georgetown soon
got too small for him and he went TO Dem
Yer. He u now one of the ablest Senators
from the West, and he has shown that his
GRAY matter is fully equal to his blue blood.
He never saws anything about his family,
however. and he has made his way by sheer
force and brains. he is a man of wonder
fnl brain power He is great reader, and
gets more by intuition and q0ickness Of in
teIleet than the plodders Of the Senate do
by hard work. He has the muscles OF a
prize-fishter and he is tie personihcation OF
physical vigor
/ asked him as to the future Of the West
De replied:
begun to scratch the surface Of our posi-
bilities. There are vast regions west OF the
Mississippi which will be eventually settled.
and tbe center of population will soon be
west of the Mississippi. A large part OF the
West. which is now considered worthless,
al ,i,a f,f..ra tina basl agricultural