Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-12-02
SENATOR D0LLIvER.


house on Wednesday evening last to q
large audience. The subject of his
address, was "a Poor Mans Govern
ment and Poor Boys County"
Mr. Dolliver also spoke at Stevens
Point upon the same subject, and as the
Journals criticisms correspond with
our views we VI. use them
The senator is not, strictly speaking,
a polished orator, In fact his appear
ance on the stage issomewhat uncOufh
and grotesque, aud his gestures defy
all the rules ever set down ia the books,
but despite all that, everyone who
heard him will undoubtedly agree that
he is an intensely interesting talker
and his gestures serve to emphasize his
thought in his own peculiar way.
In commencing his address the SEN
ator said he was not lecturer, in the
common acceptance of the word, but
plain country politician, makiag,
however, absolutely no apology for
that
His argument was made principally
against the tenets of socialism and
those other issues that aim to reform
the world through a general upheaval
of present policies and conditions. He
did not include in that list anarchy,
which he stated he considered as a
negligible quantity in the political
progress OF the world. He said that
it seemed the purpose of many of these
refOrmers to bring about an era in
which all members of society will have
| leisure, repose relief from competition,
etc, etc He said he personally knew
quite a number of people in his own
town who already enjoy most if not all
of those alleged ideal conditions and
| there was not one of them that
amounted to anything. He also knew
another large class of this same kind of
people, but they are all living on ieser-
vations in charge of government agents.
The law of human life, he said, is the
law of labor, of sacrifice, of earnest
endeayor.
The reformers plead for sympathy
for the children of the poor I'll save
my sympathy for the children of the
rich. The great individuals that have
figured in the progress of the world
have come from the homes of the poor
If there Is man in the audience who
has $50, 600 and son, | wish, he said,
TO advise him to keep the two as far
apart as possible. 1t will be better for
the boy and the $50,000 Give your
money to Institutions of learning, to
charity and philanthropy but let the
boy struggle for himself He spoke of
Lincoln, the mightiest man that has ever
lived in the tide of time, of Bryan and
Mckinley, as examples of the possibility
of eoys of ability to rise from abject
poverty to pinnacles o. fame regardless
of the alleged oppression of capital.
True worth is bound TO assert itself.
he said that every Ycang man ought
TO run for president, not in the hope of
getting, but with the view of being
qualified for that honor There are
naturally but few chances to shine as
great statesmen, great corporation pres
idents or as the holder of other posi-
tions commanding world wide or even
national attention, but the real measure
of mans success is neither fame nor
dollars 1t is the fidelity which bears
to the every day business of the world.
He said he recently ran across a
young man down at Fonda, POcahon-
tas county, Iowa, who is working out
his personal problem of sociology in
what the speaker considered an ideal
war Alex Detweller came from Can
ada to Iowa five years ago. He said he
got off the cars at Fonda in order to
please the conductor When he got off
he did not have a cent left. After
futile attempt to get employment at
Fonda he finally hired out to farmer
to take care of hogs at 5000 a year. He
learned ne had been keeping an ac-
count of his financial transactions for
the past five years and he submitted
the following summary of the same.
Total receipts, 81 ,000 expenses, church
and Sunday school $50, sent home to
mother S175, trip home and to Omaha
exposition SIS, personal expenses,
clothing, etc., $40, team and carriage
$3.50, money at interest S400. There
was no waste or extravaganza there.
Some day that man will be the president
of bank and the fellows who are today
assumedly his equal companions in toll
will stand around the corner splitting
tobacco and cursing this man as a capi-
talist and an oppressor.
Some people claim that capital is the
unpaid profit on the labor of ones
fellows, but Senator Dolliver claims
thatit is the savings and earnings from
labor
There never was time in the history
of the world, he said, that dollar
counted for so little and able men for
so much as today The strength of men
and nations is commensurate with the
work they do.