Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-18

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Washington, Jan. f0.--In the course
Of session of the United States sen
ate devoted 10 the delivery of ealogiCs
On the late Garrett y. Hobart, vice
president of the United States, Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered the fol-
lowing eloquent tribute TO the man
whom he was proud TO cad his friend:
Senator Depew's Eulogy.
In mid-ocean, on one of the great
steamships, some years ago, gentleman
extended his hand and said: Il am Gar
you, and want you to know me- After
wards, in the condolences of fellow-pas-
sengers on the sea, he said: The value
of success is not much in the things
ii enables you to do, as the consideration
it gives you in the minds of others. l
have been successful, and i want that
understood and appreciated In this in
cident came out the character of the
man. The freshness, the frankness, the
the things which gave pleasure and inn
portance to his friends, as he felt sure
they would be over his own advance
ment.
The financial distress which caused hard
times in 1894 and 1885, produced wide
resurrected the question, us life worth
the living?" which had been discussed
nightly at Athenian dinners in the time
of Plato and Socrates. The doubt is not
American Its most emphatic affirmation
is evidenced in the life and career of our
friend. He was illustration of what
is possible under American conditions and
with American opportunities, with equal
barring the way to the highest places IN
the land. At nineteen he was graduate
techin schoo1 sg6 st amT S law and at
twenty-five he was called to the bar and
began his battle with and in the world.
Without money or influence, but with
brains, education, health, industry and
chara cter, his was the typical beginning
of most of the youth of our country. ms
confidence in himself and his future led
to early marriage and an ideal domes-
tic life. At hfty-three he was among the
foremost citizens of his state in every de-
partment of its activities. He was a lead
er in his profession of the law and of his
political party; ne had bee, been l., repea;t tfo
OF trust and power; he had accumulated
a fortune, and was vice-president of the
United States. The idle and the tncompe-
tent will find no comfort here for their
favorite theory that life Is luck. He mad
the good fortune to be descended from
that mixed Dutch-English ancestry, which
has the inspiration OF glorious traditions
of civil and religious liberty, OF literature
and adventure, of art ana arms, OF IN
domitable endurance, of conquest over a.
obstacles and of strenuous endeavor,
which no difficulties can discourage II
was his happy lot TO have his career to
work out in this republic, and In the lat
ter half of this marvellous nineteenth CEN
millions, fortune withdrew her assistance,
and the brilliant example We contemplate
was the result of the energy and AGILITY OF
AT the threshold of his career, by profess
sion and membership, he proclaimed him
continued until his death, a consistent
child of the church. His was not the re-
hgion which in Jonathan Edwards period
filled the churches with terror and emp
tied their pews, but the religion OF Ine
Evangelical Moody, which rests upon the
golden rule. Preferring always his own
way, he recognized, with broad charity.
that the paths pursued by others led TO
the same Heaven, and could be more
sive faith which fought on dogma other
creeds and sects, but as he was at all
times active in the good works which are
common to all creeds and all sects.
The scholar in politics is the fam1nar
theme for academic discussion his duty
to participate all admit. his usefulness as
often doubted. He too frequently lacks
that touch with affairs and knowledge of
men which are necessary to give him the
weight in party councils due to his char
acter and culture. The business man In
politics is the hope of the present and fu-
ture. The measures we carry here are
reflected in the markets of the world,
and react upon the farm, the factory, the
for good or evil is felt in every home.
They tie government and its policies so
closely to the manufacturer, merchant.
politics and politics is business. Men of
fortune or of large affairs often affect
contempt for those in public life, and de-
nounce with unbridled license the con-
duct of national. state and municipal mat
tiers. They complain bitterly of taxes and
titled to no sympathy. They are suffer-
ing. If at all, from their want of appre-
citation of their duties as citizens and of
patriotism. Mr.. Hobart was, during his
whole career, the lawyer and man of
business, who keenly understood and la
boriously lived up to high ideal of citi-
zenship. His party found him at the
caucus and at the polls: He had time for
conventions and public meetings. He
could promote the best interests of his
state by service in its legislature, or re-
main in retirement while working uIli-
those best fitted for the offices to be
filled. Charles James Fox said of I'd
right too soon" His speeches emptied
the house of commons in his time, but
in our day are textbook and manual for
British statesmen. Statesmen and re-
formers of this prophetic order sow the
seed, but they do not govern. Wendell
John Brown created conditions which
made 1t possible for Lincoln to act. Sue
cessful leaders grapple with the work-a-
the conscience and intelligence of the
hour, solve the problems which more i'm
their country. The vice-president was of
this class. He was not troubled with il
the man who perpetuaIIy longs for the
good old times and mourns the decadence
Of the present. and sympathized with the
far more useful one who is providing Tor
the unborn millions of the coming GEN.
fury. His lot was with neither. Acute
questions. financial. industrial, interna.
the door. Their settlement Is vital to
the. position of the country among
happiness of its people. Mr.. Hobart was
not state builder nor prophet, but he
was among the master workmen who, as
the years go by, slowly perfect the struc-
ture of government by providing for it's
present needs, and are digging trenches
or leading the assault against those who
destroy IL.
The Joint Traffic association was a con-
ference of the thirty-seven railroads which
carry the traffic of the country between
the interior and the Atlantic coast; Their
vestors, demoralized business and pro-
NOTED trusts. The members were NOT cap
headed and able managers of these corpo-
rations who had come up from the ranks
and adopted the operation OF railways as
both a career and profession. Their
efforts to cure the evils of the situation
were doomed to failure from the Jealous
les of large companies and the fear of
enforce their agreements. BY unanimous
vote they selected Garret A. Hobart as
arbitrator. The questions submitted to
him involved the revenue of the disput-
ants and the movement by one route or
another of vast volume of freight. No
Judge ever held office by so precartous
matters. The defeated litigant could re-
fuse to submit, or by carrying a charge
of injustice, unfairness or incapacity into
as Chairman of the association 1 was
brought in frequent contact with him,
his work and its difficulties He admin
istered that judicial responsibility for
three years, resigning during the first
year of his vice-presidency. There could
be no more significant tribute to his un-
failing judgment, tact and character than
the remarkable fact that there was never
an appeal from his decisions, nor COM
plant Of their unfairness and Justice. In