New-York tribune., 1906-07-08
MARSHALL FIELD SERVED HIM.

"a young woman had come to Tuscola to visit,
and before she returned to her home. in Mahonlng
County, Ohio. she had agreed 10 be my wife 1
built four cottage and one Friday started
for Ohio We hurried back to Tuscola, stopping
in Chicago TO buy some furniture with part Of the
500 I had in my pocket. We went to Potter
Palmer's department store. and Marshall Field was
the clerk who waited u.s.
did you continue TO prosper?'
Yes. and saved my money. recollect went
away to try lawsuits. and gone a month.
When I returned my short sighted brother met me
at the station He couldn't get along very well
because OF the prejudice OF which have spoken
and had given him a place in my office and a
share Of my local business. I know you will cuss
me- he said. but while you away went
into something. and have taken you and another
man with me- He showed a building that
had been hurriedly put up and immense but
mighty poor iron safe have started a bank
he said You have 5000. have that much, and
has partner We got a charter from the
government before long, and then moved the bank
to Danville. have been in il as a shareholder
and officer ever since My near-sighted brother
became famous of business. was his part
until he died. several years ago. He looked
after my interests, and owned almost every
thing we had in common
eff you could go back to 1872 would you come
to Congress and give the country almost a gem
Grafton Of your time for the salary you have
ceived?'
'T have been in Congress thirty years have
drawn sl50O0O from the government, and have
spent 100000 of my own money. boarded in
Washington until after I was elected Speaker,
when I took house OF my never kept
horses have lived plainly and within my income.
So much for the material side OF the case It is
good that Of seventy. with his experience
and opinions can't go back to youth; he would
be q social mOnstrosity. But If could return 1
should get three four years Of schooling.
I have lived my life. and my compensation lies in
the humble part have taken in the slow, steady
and certain march of progress. have seen the
world grow better and brighter and 1 am glad
of that have no regrets when I look backward
only for my own blunders and filed with cheer
look onward"
How can a man succeed in public Iife?'
well, in the first place. he mustn't go to his
grave battling for his way all the time. Men
who too obstinate vain to yield are the mar
tyrs who burn at the stake and go to torture on
the rack. Look at Lincoln and Douglas Every
thing favored the latter. He famous man.
the chieftain OF mighty party at the time Lin
coin a poor and obscure backwoods lawyer.
But Lincoln being prepared in the school OF
experience and human nature. He learned to push
forward and not to hazard his chances when he
couldn't get all that he wanted. Little by little
led the way 20 that which he believed to- be sound
and necessary If he had preached emancipation
before the North ready for it he would have
met with disaster. He kept the border states in
the Union and Ohio, Indiana and Illinois safely
and peacefully under the national flag What is a
day a year in great movement? Take the
money question. for illustration. We have come to
security after long and dreary pilgrimage. where
in have been beset by demagogy, fiat money
and free silver. But the men of wisdom always re-
n,embered to do the best thing they could at the
time they were doing it. Republicans voted for
the repeal of the Resumption act. only to turn
upon their own position and to clnch the law and
TO make It more enduring than ever Thus we
fought step by step. Headway is invariably made
If by going back foot you can in day, week.
a month or a year go forward twice that distance