The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-25
THE JOURNAL
LUCIAN SWIFT, J. s. McLAIN,
MANAGER. EDITOR
Interesting Contrasts.

Interesting Contrasts.
James B. Dill, who visited Minneap-
OH recently, is an interesting man
interesting just now because he fur
nishes conspicuous illustration of the
fact that there are men who know when
they have made enough money, that
there are those who have been success
full in money getting who can be salts
fed with what they have got Such a
man, however, is rare specimen.
Hence the interest which attaches to
Judge Dill.
Mr.. Dill is a great corporation law
yer He has drawn the charters and
framed the articles of association for
some of the greatest corporations in the
country. He has had a law practice
which is said to have brought him in
as high as 100000 a year.
About month ago Governor Stokes
of New Jersey asked him to- take a
place on the New Jersey supreme court,
known in that state as the court Of
errors and appeals. The salary is
$4,000. Mr. Dill accepted. It would
be possible, perhaps, for Mr.. Dill to
do all the work required of him in his
judicial position and yet retain consid-
cradle of his private practice. but no
one appreciates the inconsistency and
improperly of such an act more than
he, and he has given up his private
business altogether and is devoting
himself exclusively to the service OF
the state for what is, in comparison
i with his previous income, a paltry sum.
Of course, Mr.. Dill is not to be cred
tied with having impoverished himself
out of sense of civic duty. There are
others dependent on him and he did not
nor could he be expected to impose
hardships upon them in order to render
q service to the public. Mr.. Dill has
enough. The remarkable thing is that
he knows it, that he is willing to dis
connect himself from those sources OF
revenue which have been so profitable
heretofore and undertake line OF WORE
which will afford him great satisfaction
but little else, comparatively 49, ~ :.
The country has Just been treated tc
another instance of willingness to relin
quish sources of great personal gain II
order to enter upon the discharge OF
Important public duties. Secretary
Root is probably making as much Of 6
sacrifice as Mr.. Dill. The salary Of 6
cabinet officer is no consideration in {
financial way for the services which
Mr.. Root will be expected anC
able to render, nor is it any compensa
ton for the loss to him financially by
the surrender of his legal business. Blu
he, as well as Mr.. Dill, isl~doubtles
financially strong enough to adopt thi
course without suffering financial EN-
barrassment for himself or lis family.
The remarkable thing in his case a.
well as in that Of Mr.. Dill is the settin!
above financial gain the sense of publi
duty and the obligation to the state
The whole country is talking abou
these two men. It is also talking abou
the Rockefellers and the Hydes and tn
Depews, but it is using very sdifferen
language with regard to these tw
classes of individuals. For one 1t ha
admiration and respect, for the othe
condemnation and contempt. One ha
subordinated the dollar to duty. TIL
other has set the dollar above duty
above common honesty, even above al
the obligations Of the most sacred fna1
cial trust-the care Of the substance o
II the widow and the orphan. Common
vulgar, selfish greed is the chief char
acteristic which they exhibit befor
the world and the world is not yet $
corrupted that it does not put upon
the correct and we'll deserved estimate
The Zemstvo congress is rather tam
What we should like to see would be F
Tillman, J. Bailey and r. La Follett
turned loose in that assembly for a fe'