St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-17

ups and downs. Today he may be worth
millions and tomorrow he may be feel
ing arOundin all his pockets for coppers.
but from his actions you would not
know the difference. He is one of the
biggest %pluDgers in the country and has
enough shreWd business ability to gem
orally come out on top.p
Rich men, in fact, are dropping out of
the senate. You can now count the
milliOnaires on your fingers. and the
great majority of the body will not run
over tile 500, 600 mark. Most of the
Southerners have nothing to speak of,
though Vance has a big estate through
his wife. Senator Morgan owns a plan
tation. Pugh has a big farm, which he
works with negroes, in Alabama. and as
Senator Walthall was making $4,000 a
year at the time, he was elected
he has probably saved something.
George Vest is not a rich man.
Roger Q. Mills cannot afford TO
keep a carriage, and Senator Joe Black
burn lives at a hotel. l don't know
what 1sham q. Harris is worth, and l
never looked upon him as having the
money-makiug inStict, but L learned
the other day that he lost $3.50, 600 by
the war and that he had made all this
money himself. HIS father was a poor
farmer of Tennessee, He had a piece
of clay land and ten negroes to
work it, land young lsham had
to fight his own way. He began
as a clerk and soon had a
store of his own. When he was quite a
young man he had amassed 81, 000, when
the bank failed and he lost it all. He
took a rich partner, and in two years
had regained all he had lost, and he
went on from this point until he made
the fortune which he had at the time OF
the war. He is probably well-to-do to-
day, but he lives very simply in an UNI
fashionable quarter of the city near the
capitol.
The senate grows smaller the closer
you get to it. 1t has shown its humanity
TO the people, and Its divinity is fast go
ing TO the dogs. Look at the careers of
these men below me and eXclalm:
Now III the lame of all the Gods at once,
Upon what meat have these our Caesars
fed g
That they have grown so great?'
They are fat and famous now, but
they had to hustle i'll the days gone by,
and they may yet have to hustle in the
days to come. Senator Perkins. of Cali
fornia, had to shin up the maStS oil sail
ing vessels in all kinds of weather. and
he scrubbed the decks with the fear of q
ropes end in his eye. Senator PETER
grpbbed stumps out of the soil before he
got a chance to stand upon the stump
and farm with his mouth. He had to
hustle for the victuals which made the
lean meat which covers his homes, and
he was making S25 a week as
editor of a farmers paper when
ne got from the legislature
of Kansas this senate job, which pays
him So 600 a year. Hansborough lives
at the Cochran hotel now, u he was
half-starved when he cleaned type and
turned the press as a printers devil.
and his colleague, Senator Roach. was a
quartermaster's clerk. John Sherman
carried a surveyors chain for daily
wages. Cal Brice had to count the cop
pers while he was teaching school, and
the first year of his law practice hardly
paid for his salt. Pettigrew worked as
a common laborer when he first went to
Dakota, and when Kyle was preaching.
up to the time Of his election,
a silver dollar was ten times
as big as it is now. Don Cameron,
though his father was rich, began his