Arizona republican., 1907-10-06

Copyright 1907 by Henry G. Pagani)
 A face enough like Bismarck's to make the resemblance startling. a slender, wiry, boyish figure topped by 3 white head, a manner seif-assured, yet never coarsely aggressive. There in 2 nutshell. is the personality Of one of the most picturesque, interesting figures in all New England-that of w. L. Douglas, ex-Governor of Massachu- sets.
 But it is not chiefly as ex-Governor, or indeed as statesman at all, that the world at large knows Mr. Douglas. A uuarter-mile of factories. a yearly out put of something over three million pairs of shoes, and a face that looks out from the advertising columns of eight thousand newspapers-these are the outward attributes that have made the name of ". L. Douglas so familiar from Maine to California.
 The story of the man who could make himself 50 well known; his secret of achievement. his life history and his hints on business success will not only be Of interest, but of profit to every class of reader.
 For the description of a hard climb, of a winning fight against circum- stances and the climbers" rules for victory are always worth hearing. The world loves a fighter and takes an in- terest in his battles.
 And W. L. Douglas is a fighter, as even the most casual student of human nature could glean from one glance at the strong, prominent jaw, the level brows, the firm set of the lips.
 That cast of features set Bismarck to toppling European thrones. The sane physiognomy (with a gentler mould Of eye and mouth) has caused Douglas to revolutionize business, to wiring wealth from poverty and political power from a State peopled by majority that dlt- fers from him in politics.
 Bismarck tore down. Douglas has built up. That is where the milder eye and mouth come in.
 There is a keyword to Douglass sue cess, of course. Several of them. in fact. The foremost is Advertising"
 His Life Motto.
 ss>-.-,o- oa,-a-tisi,yss ia his life motto in business. First, be sure you have something worthy to advertise. Something just as good as you say 1t is. Struggle to keep it as good, and then advertise it constantly. The newspaper is the field in which my ad- vertising has brought me the only per fectly satisfactory returns. And nave tried many lines before settling down exclusively to that theory"
 The same "cradle" served for New England and for the man who was one day to be Governor of its oldest State. For it was in ancient Plymouth, scene of the Pilgrims landing. that Douglas was born, in 1Si5. His was as pathetic and hopeless a childhood as ever Dick ems pictured for David Copperfeld or other Of his luckless boy heroes. That Douglas rose from 1t to any later posi- tion whatever speaks volumes for the stuff he was made Of.
 In 1850 news came to a Plymouth woman that her husband. the bread winner of their large family. had been drowned at sea All the children were young The mother was almost with out means So two years later she verbally bound out one of the brood "a precocious boy of seven-to his uncle, a shoemaker. The child's life from then on became one long era of drudgery and hardship. His uncle set him at once to begging shoes by hand. This was a task for grown workers, but the baby fingers were kept at the 1ncessant toll of 1t from dawn to dark. No holiday, no let-up of any sort, and, worst of all, no wages.
 The seven-year-old boy was carrying unduly heavy weapons in his life-bat- tie. He has been carrying them ever since. His ability to do so explains why he became Governor William L. Douglas, instead of merely Journeyman Bill Douglas.
 His uncle was a stern task-master. Apart from the shoe-pegging, the child was called upon to perform a score of equally severe duties. Among them was the twice-a-day journey into the woods, in bitterest New England winter weather, to cut and drag in wood for the shops fires.
 Only at rare intervals was he allowed to leave his workbench for the school room. But at such periods he proved so apt a scholar as to make up for the long lapses. He was greedy for educa- tion and seemed to absorb his scanty portion of it without effort. It was only by this strange proficiency that he gleaned any learning at all
 For four years the slavery went on. Then Douglas returned to his mother. But so valuable had he become in the shop that his uncle induced him to come back to him at the munificent wage of s a month. Until he was if teen he continued to work thus, all the time busy with new ideas along his own line. These ideas were one day to Gear fruit.
 Once. seeking to better himself, he went to work in a Plymouth cotton mill at 8 cents a day. This meant fully