St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27
"oH. waD SOME POWER

Ii all Iue SOOu peuple Ill du OUT OF the
newspapers who are giving free rein to
their indignation think that the course
of the grave and reverend seigniors
who compose the federal senate will be
swerved hairs breadth by it, they
little comprehend the nature OF that
crowd or realize the density of the self
complacency In which they are piano.
piled. Burns, snrewd observer of
human nature, realized that it is not
within the range Of human power to
make us see ourselves as others see us.
and that that capacity for sight must be
given us toy some power, and be in the
nature of new sense.
If one could see the operations of tie
minds of these gentlemen as the storm
of Indignation from all over the country
blows through their whiskers; if one
could get their point OF view. the fulfil
ity of any outDurst of disapproval OR of
Indignation would be readily seen.
From the mountain range on which
they sit they look down on the lower
levels along which their constituents are
plodding, and listen, when they listen,
10 their outcries, with a ommiseration'
for their foolish waste of energy over
matterSaof which they know nothing,
and whose regulation it is the divine
plan should be left to the care of the
few superior creatures whom the AL
mighty has kindly and providentially
endowed with measure of His own
omniScience. to the end that the affairs
of the children of men may be directed
in such way as will serve them best.
L hey do not and cannot see them
selves as we see them. No man does
that, and, after all, senators are but men.
1t is an evidence of littleness of mind
when we are disturbed by the assaults of
those who disagree with uS,and 30 Sell
alor would admit even to himself that
his mind was diminutive. Large minds
feel only pity for the misconceptions,
minds. Parents, that Is, wise and SUI
perior parents. regard indulgently the
petulauce of their undeveloped chill
dren denied of their childish desires
whose qualification would be Injurious
Ard so. when these storms of popular
wrath dash against the senate walls, the
serenely wise men inside calmly pursue
fairs of the nation, willing to let the re-
suits of their wisdom justify their
actions to themselves. at least.
The mistake We common people make
is that we do not know what a senator
IS, and persist in regarding him as COM
mon clay like curse Ives. If we could
only real ize him as he appreciates him
self, we would BE- Inundated at our pre-
sumption IN daring to have opinions of
our own-much more at our audacity
in calling them to his attention. 1t is
OF the highest Importance that we gain
this point of view and accept its facts.
for it will save us in the ranks an i'm.
mense amount of useless fret and worry
and eXertion in trying to save the
country by making the senatorial
helmSinen alter the course of the old
ship to clear the reefs which we imagine
we see lying athwart its course.
AS affording our readers this point of
observation, an opportunity to see the
senators as they see themselves, we give
here an analysis of that body madetby a
gentleman rendered capable by long
contact with them and by all unus uaI
capacity for seeing, given in recent
letter to the writer u.f-if.
lin the Case of the senate iespe!
ciaily," he says. ut Is composed in large
measure of elderly gentlemen, 0who
have learned to consider themselves as
OracleS: who have associated with each
other almost exclusively for years and
years, aud whose comfort and opportu-
mites for placing a relative and turning
an honest penny now and then depend
upon the CONF iacence of their fetAAwss
Their life Is passed with each other.
The question whether the nisc- OF ,soIl5
in-law of one Of them shall have in,irpa
pleasant place or be quarterpd upOiT the
government III some particular dirtci
ton, or even whether the Individual
senator shall have new iXinyS or a. more
tasteful fireplace i'll his eommiit5e
rOo!n-all Or lneae uecune or hucn
greater Importance. in their lives than
anything which affects only or mainly
the general interests OF the country
Meeting eae.soiiler almost exclusively.
they inSenS!biy forget that there Is !,
public outside; and aS they gel older OF
more comfortably fixed in their rea-
items with e.lcn Other. they arr NOR.
and more apt To he Indignant at u+ii,-
di,tufuei by having this lac. recalled IL
Them.
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