The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-10-02
RICH MEN WORK FOR US.
IN OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICES
BECAUSE THEY LOVE THE LIFE,

members OF me Gaplnek ana 0AUeIe
Who Keep Their Posts at a Peeuni-
airy saerIiice-in Public Life Be-
cause They Are Interested In Their
Duties.
The senate has often been described
as the rich mans club or the million
aires retreat but It is not In that body
alone that men of wealth are seeking
Office nowadays. In every branch Of
the government service, in the depart
ments in Washington, as well as In
the federal Offices OF the various cities.
rich men are found working faithfully
and hard because Of the interest they
feel in their duties.
John Hay, secretary OF state is per
haps in his present place because OF a
patriotic sense of duty There are
many reasons why he should want to
retire from the cares Of state. He Is
rich and has one of the finest hcmes in
the national capital, just across Lafay-
cite square from the White House.
His social station could easily be
maintained were he cut Of office, and
he could continue to lead in the set
which has been led by him for so long.
But he remains In the public service
because he is told that no one knows
the foreign relations of our govern
ment so well as he, or is qualified to
fill his place just as he has filled it.
He serves because of a patriotic
sense Of duty and because some Of the
ambitions which he has had for the
nation have not been entirely worked
out.
Secretary of War Root also Is rich.
| Il is said that his income at the time
when he went into the cabinet was in
excess Of $4,000 a year from his pro
| fession.
Acknowledgement Knox, too is rich.
Mr.. Knox lives in one of The finest
houses in Washington, and INDUCES
his fancy for fast horses. Every day
that the sun shines he may be seen
driving about the capital behind one
OF his horses, which cost thousands Of
| dollars.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
was rich from the time of his birth,
and has been associated with big bust
ness enterprises in the west, which
makes his wealth grow with, each day
The salaries Of any of the cabinet Off
GERS named would hardly pay their
house rent. All their other expenses
fer entertaining, for horses, for the d.
versions which they seek in summer
and for their households during the
social season must come from their
private fortunes.
! They are necessarily losing large
sums Of money by remaining in the
public service. But each of them has
some good excuse for remaining.
But there are many more places
outside the cabinet circle in which the
homer is proportionately less and
which are sought and held with per-
sistence Of rich men. There is the
place of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, held by H. A. Taylor of Wis
consin.
Uncle Hod," as they call him out II
his state, has long been very rich. He
has great lumber interests in the
northwest, mines in the Carolinas, in
Mexico and Alaska, and hotels, news
papers and commercial enterprises.
But in each Of these he has competent
men who look after his interests and
render him regular and adequate re-
: turns.
Mr. Taylor has been urged to leave
the government service. His family
and his friends and his physician have
within the last few weeks joined in in
sisting that he take long foreign tour
for his health. He has just completed
a model home in the fashionable part
of Washington, and it would seem tina
he has everything that. heart could de
sire.
, But Mr.. Taylor clings tenaciously t
this place, and each day looks after
, the affairs of the government as the!
, come before him with the same enthu
siasm and care that he would if thu
interest was his own. Only the per
sonal friends OF Mr.. Taylor know VIII!
he likes the place. 1t brings hin
small emolument, sum by the yea
which hardly represents the marke
! variations Of his possessions in eacl
i. "a hours.
= But idleness and inactivity are bug
aboos to Mr.. Taylor. From his earl.
!, boyhood he has found ceaseless actiy
] ity to be his portion. Through hi
never ending industry he amassed hi