The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-25
The daita 1a1v Eaele Sunday eloru,no guac IS 1893

The effect of thus eIevating the
| standard of requirement is also to
! make it more difficult for those below.
! for if they climb on the platform and
! stay there they are in danger of drop
ping down into the ranks of ordinary
! labor. So the educational agencies OF
an institution like the Railroad club
furnish the means by which those
which have not had the opportunity in
their youth. can reach the position
worthy Of their ambition and their
efforts. ! don't like a man who stands
still. l was brought up in community
where things stood still; it was undig-
nifed to move, and it was not good
form. The horse which l first drove
when l used to go around the country
when / commenced to practice law be-
fore the Justices courts was named
Beeswax, because he chung to the
ground.
| rememb Der while I was a student at
Yale when l was at home during vaca-
ton, would go up to the drug store,
which was the cknber of the intelli-
gent circulation of the town, and
listen to the oracle of the village, as
he sat in the chair beside the stove
He thought he was a constitutional
lawyer. he was constantly debating
with the people who came in whether
the powers of the constitution permit
ted the federal government to exercise
certain authority over the state I
said to him once-we all called each
other by our first names at Peekskill
then-said /: John, such provision
of the constitution gives that power to
the government"
He said: when get home tonight
l will read that provision"
Ten years after / was in that drug
store and the oracle sat in the chair
alongside that stove. AS / went in he
was discussing the power of the gen.
eral government over the states.
Says l: John. ! think ! have re-
marked TO YOU in recent converse
ton that there is direct provision of
the constitution giving that power to
the general government"
Well" he said, Il haven't had time
since I saw you last to look it up''
But to return to the progressive.
know OF one young man who was in
the Grand Central depot on salary of
s25 month. He attended the Railroad
club and benefited by its educational
facilities to such an extent he is now
getting 500 month.
/ know one of the difficulties in the
railway service is that man wants to
be promoted before he is ready and to
be pushed forward into a place which
he is not fitted for; when that thing
happens something is apt to occur
which disgraces him and throws dis
credit on the management of the cor
poration. l don't take any stock in
the man who tries to do what he knows
he cannot.
1t was said recently in regard to a
remark of mine that would stand by
an employee of railroad who was
charged with a crime until it was
proved that he was guilty, and the re-
mark showed atrocious frivolity on my
part. | do not think it showed any,
thing of the kind. 1t meant that
when an employee in the discharge of
his duty aid or failed to do something
for which he was blamed. and there
was public cutlery against him and the
hands of the law were upon him. that
then was the time if the executive
thought he was innocent. he should
reach out his strong arms to keep him
and hold him up until his guilt was
proven. The other day a man in !
humble employment in the Wander |
bilt service was charged with an act of |
cruelty The charge was SO shocking |
that when the report was first brought |
to me | said: Il will help to punish |
him
1t struck me as not fair on nv part
10 form hasty Judgment Of that kind
without an investigation. | directed
one to be made. and the result of the
was that il satisfied the
impartial men VINO made it. and they /.
me that the man was iuno-
cent
A strong society. powerful in its
influence, powerful in the men who
belong to it, powerful in the men be-
iliiu IT, COIFlUCcO Oh the 2uIJ OF I
his man. convinced the prosecuting
of his guilt. and the whole
power OF justice and of the organiza-
ion was brought to bear to send him
o state prison. | stepped forward with
I'll the power of the Vanderbilts on
he other side, and kept him from GO
ng there.
Twenty-four hours would have land
d him in Sing Sing for term of years
'ut for that. Notwithstanding the ef
orts of the other side tremendous eff
orts on our side succeeded in securing
or him counsel and the preparation of
lis case for trial equal TO all he could
ave had if he had been millionaire.
'o-day he is free and, before my Maker,
believe he is innocent.
Instead of being in Sing Sing. and
is wife and his many children on the
treet and disgraccd, he is at work a
is post and enjoying the companion
nip of his family.
| believe that Is the true relation be-
ween the executive officer and the en-
loye. no matter how humble.
So does Mr.. Vanderbilt
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