The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-13
AMERICAN TEACHING.
1, outlined by the President Of
Columbia College.

Collage Training the Soil in Which
vo11owing Effort Takes Root and
ssars Full Fruit.
New York, May 13.-The finest argyll
Mt which could be brought forth to
Itch the accusations and pleadings of
80 nonulists, the socialists, the Coxey-
,.as would be perhaps Seth Low and his
..oer and other men of wealth, who,
r,e him. are giving their lives with un-
.aIesb devotion to energies which are di-
.ooted for the public good. In the ranks
- the Disconnected it is safe to say there
'.+o he found not one man who labors as
NJ Low has laDored for many years and
--bo gives the fruits of those labors al
LOST wholly to the public. In the army
- the vaguely appealing ones now in
eirbt of the capitol and in the other
ormies that have been approaching the
.,ritol. it is fair to presume that not one
ran can be found who has led life of
s,cb industry, self-denial, patience and
oornestuess as have characterized Mr.
nw for no man could possess and exer-
.ise these qualities and be found without
tho means of livelihood and the promise
SUrh A career as Mr.. Lows suggests
80 highest. noblest form of socialism,
snd the only socialism that can ever pre-
oil because while it has for its object
NE sharing of its labors with Others,
.n5 the giving of its toll for the benefit of
others. it nevertheless leaves individual
sction free and untrammeled.
Seth Low had every comfort, every
,,,y1ry that was reasonable, every oppor-
unity that great wealth can furnish from
ne DAVIS of his early childhood Yet
rnw mon the threshold of the prime of
NE mot vet A years of age, he is able to
iook hack to a career of eight years in
rrhlic service-four as mayor of the city
If RrooIzlvn, four as head of one of the
great universities of the United States,
and in addition to that public service he
had also been for some ten years really
The controlling power in one of the mer-
camille houses Of New York, whose ships,
in the good days of American commerce,
were found in the great ports of the
Orient.
ALEssoN IN WEALTH USING.
That is a career which it would be com
Portable for men of advanced years to
contemplate, and vet no one can doubt
that the greater achievements of this
voung man are in the future. He entered
Columbia College when he had barely
nassed the age qualification, and he was
graduated IN 1870 when only 10 years of
age. Upon his graduation young Low
might have taken up any course of life
that had temptations for him. With the
wealth which was in his family he could
have plunged into social pleasures; with
the abundance which was at his hand he
could have sought distraction in exciting
or even enervating pleasures; he might
have gone in for sports and kept his
yacht or his stable, or he could have
followed a more rational inclination, and
one which did possess him at one time
and give years to travel.
EaBut instead of doing any of these things
young Low went to work. Before he
reached his majority he was convinced
that wealth was not only an oppor-
Unity but responsibility, and
there are many young men of
his age or Whereabouts who were
impressed by the same sense of duty
Henry Cabot Lodge, coming out of Har-
ward college a year later than Low, was
graduated from Columbia, and having a
horror OF idleness or the dreary pleasures
OF the purely fashionable rich, took up
first literature as a vocation. and brought
forth works of biography and history,
whose influence and value are scarcely to
be measured. Then he devoted himself
tOpublic service, and has given to that
employment hours of toll, which would
seem TO the laboring man a dangerous
drain upon vitality.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, when Low was a
young student, was a faithful and pains
taxing clerk in a bank, and though the
presumed lnheritor of millions, was teach
Ing, oV his silent example, the lesson of
economy industry and punctuality toihis
associates. Theodore Roosevelt, sent
forth INTO the world few years later and
able to live life of idleness, began al
most on the instant of his departure from
college to take interest in public affairs,
"nicn early brought splendid fruit.
HIS BEGINNINGS.
Young Low entered the counting room
1.-THE firm of A. A. Low & Bros, expect
lg at that time very soon to be called
upon TO bear the burden of that world
famous mercantile house. Its founders
hd9 grown rich in the China and East
Inula trade. They had not only gained
great wealth, but they had obtained and
maintained a name of honor and integrity
ana mad shown that it is possible to gain
rehes without doing injustice to any man
anu on the other hand enabling many
oVners TO share and take advantage of
LHelr prosperity. Very soon after Low
went into the house he became practically
Vne directing force in it.
REFORMED CITY.
They tempted him with social pleasures
III III brooklyn. He lived in the very heart
VI bfooklyn's most cultured and desirable
soJIely' he yielded to these temptations
IIGily so lar as common courtesy compelled
nlu TO do His life was his work. But
uuere came time when his attentions
we're distracted from his private business
W. matters of public concern. The ad-
a ufIIml S of public affairs in the city
VI BROOKLYN had become disgrace Able
s reu complained and vet despaired. 1t
55gepleu as though the fungus Of ring rule
t tau 80 nrmly attached itself to the city
'naV IL tolId not be removed.
ne was youth not yet 80 wears of age.
t guv mat seemed an advantage rather
ssau arawba There were no tricks
w. poIl1lcS, no mysterious manipulation of
wires or direction of caucusses, but there
lbs Pqonc opinion behind this impulse so
Eoco,, vi Low was nominated for mayor
tS ooI use the Office wanted the man, and in
~ nov oesU meaning of that somewhat hack
ue&eu expression.
ny SET up against him another youth
iy rpa L.. VINO had been a reporter in Brook
y w", ouI VINO, having come into property,
WIZ pendent of any mans favors. and
ono personal record was an honorable
test -. II was a unique and interesting con-
ont mr. me .Lle tame Of which spread through
of Inc .ue country. These two youngsters,
bo,L o0ut tne same age, both college bred
boyb I "a III workmen in their vocations