Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-04-25

set to (Which did not occur all hollow.
Perhaps. as Mark and Toms brother
are both Ohioans. Governor Nash
might be willing to encourage home
production by permitting this mill to
be pulled off, on the sacred soil of
Buckeyedom. If he made any objec-
tions. Mark could bring him to his
senses by refusing bin denomination
for the govprnorship.
Financial Rewards OF Public Life.
The Troy Times says:
In speaking the other day to a retiring senator
Of his carly hopes and ambitions Senator Hoar
Baid ''Before I came to congress had built up
a law practice that brought me an income OF
$4,000 year, and had every reason to believe
that the practice would grow to $50, 900. / had
saved from my income about 100000, and be-
heved could keep my practice and still attend
to my duties in congress- After more than 80
years in the public service find myself at rs
with my law practice gone and the accumulations
of my young days disspated. 1t is impossible to
remain in congress and attend to ones duties and
at the same time to continue outside busi-
ness. -
This has been called 'sthe commercial
age and there are those who honestly
believe and frequently vocifeEate that
we have so degencrated that the al
mighty dollar is the be all and end all
of our existence, yet here is venera-
bic and illustrious statesman who has
thrown away a competence in hand
and fortune in the bush in order to
continue in the public service. He
placed duty above pelf. OF course
there are few lawyers who make $780,
600 per annum and much fewer who
make $4,000, but there are many law
yers in congress who could make more
than the congressional salary. Anoth-
er thing must be remembered in this
connection, and that is this: So far as
making money is concerned, a $4,000
private business in country place Is
equal If not superior to the $4,000 sal
ary of senator or representative when
difference in cost of living, neglect of
private business and incidental and
necessary expenses are considered.
The average representative or senator
remains in public life not for the pc
cuniary reward so much as for the love
of fame, which is the master passion
of the human heart And it is an en-
nobling passion. To be favorably re-
membered is the consuming desire of
most men. When Robert Southey fin
ished one of his ponderous epics, he
would say Now have eclipsed Par
adise Lost l am immortalw True,
nobody reads his epics. He was mis-
taken in his estimate of his mental
output, but the desire animating him
was laudable even if his manifestation
of it is considered egotistical. The av-
erage senator or representative stands
thousand, perhaps a million, chances
but that one chance animates him and
holds him to the treadmill of public
life. Senator Hoar, who has cut a
wide swath and who is now in the scar,
the yellow leaf, did good thing when
he wrote or uttered the sentences
which l have quoted.
The New Attorney General.
Evidently Mr.. Mckinley does not be-
lieve much in the philosophic proverb
that ''it is waste of lard to grease fat
hog" otherwise he would not have two
Pennsylvanians in his cabinet at the
same time. as he now has with Mr..
Knox of Pittsburg as attorney general.
No doubt Mr.. Knox is a tiptop lawyer.
Andrew Carnegie employs no other
sort. Nevertheless, with 10 states in
the Union, it is rather piling up the
favors on Pennsylvania, which has q
most beastly Republican majority, to
give her two such choice plums. Wash
ington had two Virginians in his cabi-
net simultaneously, the younger Harri-
son two Hoosiers for short time and
Cleveland two New Workers. 1t is to
be hoped that the appointment of Mr..
Knox does not presage the retirement
of the other Pennsylvania, Postmas-
ter General Charles Emory Smith, for
he is most genial and popular official,
in no way puffed up by the high posi-
tion which he holds. In addition to
his other valuable qualities General
Smith is one Of the happiest postpran-
dial orators in the land and adds large
ly to the gayety of nations when he de-
liyers an after dinner speech.
How 1t Happened
One of the most thoroughly hair rails
ing stories ever written by an Ameri-
can is DIR. Edward Everett Hale's s'The
Man Without Country" The vener-
able doctor has recently published a
long article telling how he happened to
write 1t. His explanation is decidedly
interesting. 1t is almost certain that