Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-18
rNE MAN WHO WORKED UP.

THE MAN WHO WORKED UP.
one of the fundamental lessons Ia
the philosophy OF life which is taught
In every American home. in every
school room and which is made the
theme OF Juvenile literature is the dec
trine that success In business comes
only to the boy who begins at the bot
tom and works up The average imra-
tience OF youth Is held In check by The
constant advice that the successful
manager must have served an appr'an-
ticeship thru all the subordinate de-
Spartments and the experience OF the
business world has stood by the doc
trine with fidelity and strength. Dur
great wholesalers were bill clerks,
statesmen, buyers and assistant mama
gers, before they became manage rs.
Our great railroad men started some
where in the operating department
years before given the management of
the road. Clerks become proprie tors
and farmers are recruited from the
farm hands.
All OF this is such cardinal doctrine
as to be commonplace and somewhat
tiresome to be recounted We're 1t not
for the fact that the people OF this
great nation are being asked to renlem-
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choosing Of chief executive 70. the
business of their national government.
one candidate has served them as
Judge Of their important courts, as
governor general Of their foreign pos
sessions, as secretary of war in their
presidents cabinet and as command
or general of their great canal project
lin Panama. Everywhere he has been
put his record has been that Of dis
tinguished service. He has now been
nominated for general manager Of the
whole nation because he has worked
up to it and knows the business from
bottom to top.
y one OF our most distinguished gem
eral managers OF the past, Grover
Cleveland, says of Mr.. Taft that his
knowledge Of the foreign affairs de-
partment of Uncle Sans business
alone qualities him for first choice. even
if he had no experience in other de-
partrnents to his credit. Imperialism
brings responsibility. The Philippines
Involve q Japanese question and the
Panama canal will involve otter con-
troversies with foreign countries. To
avoid unnecessary wars requires ex-
perience and full knowledge OF foreign
conditions which Mr.. Taft has and
which make him the safest man for
manager Of this nations business.
we are asked to turn down the man
who has earned his promotion by dis
tinguished success in the actual SER
vice and to prefer a man who has been
studying the business theoretically for
many years while he got rich by his
public lecturing. A few uneventful
terms In congress constitute his ex-
perience in the business. A career OF
many unsound and vartegated theor-
les constitute his established record of
study OF the theory Of government. He
has finally been driven by public SEM
timent to adopt more conservative
safer and saner doctrine than ever be-
fore and he is presented now as a new
Bryan, man who has outlived his
former mistakes. All this Is probably
true SO far as his theoretical study
Is concerned but what kind Of stock
holder would put such man IN charge
Of the business in preference to man
who has made good In every depart
ment of it and who has worked up un-
till he has been the tried and trusted
assistant manager Of the last two gen.
eral managers and who las the en-
dorsement of the general manager next
preceding them Let's not go back ON
the doctrine we have been teaching our
boys for a thousand years by turning
down the man who began at the bot
tom and worked up.