The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-11-18
Original
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Climbers
Originality is Factor in Achiev-
ing Success of One Kind
or Another.


Paper Read Before the ChdutauQua Clrcie,
An old maxim says: "Don't turn ;.
the right, don't turn to left, bat keep a
the middle of the road" Now, I do not
know who the author of the above quo
tation is, but it has all the earmarks Of
a saying that might come from Rus
sian grandduke because the people Of
that country have kept in the middle
of the road for centuries. But lately
the people of Russia have done a little
original thinking of their own. The
more courageous of them have shaken
off the hobbies that have kept them in
the middle of the road so long and have
with Tolstoi for guide left the main
pike and are blazing trail of progress
through the jungle of ignorance. This
little band dofindependent thinkers have
just opened their eyes wide enough to
see that the government of the Gar is
nothing but big limburger cheese
with titled maggots feeding on its
heart. The Russian grandduke is blot
on civilization, a cancerous growth on
the breast of the earth.
The late. Edward H. Hartman did
not stick to the middle of the road. He
did not follow in the footsteps of
predecessor, but put his foot forward
and made original footprints of his own
and Hartman was the greatest mag
nate that ever sprinted over the cinder-
path of success. He broke the tape
while others were looking for precedents
to follow.
Joseph w. Folk was the greatest dis
trict attorney that this country has ever
known. The gang pulled off their coats
and worked for his election not because
they thought he would do his duty but
on the theory that he was a weakened
yOupg man with Goodyear backbone
whom they could bend or twist in any
shape or manner, but to their sorrow
they found out that Folk had kl ees
like the arches of stone bridge and
back bone like an Athas. Mr.. Folk had
original ideas of his own as to how the
Office should be run. He looked at the
thief from every angle and was the first
prosecutor to discover that there was
absolutely no difference between the
CRATER who sleeps In palace and the
one who sleeps ilf box car with his
shoes for pillow and the Police Gazette
for blanket. Joseph w. Folks ad-
ministration was grand and glorious
success because he was the first to
conceive the idea that public prose-
cutor should live up to his oath of Office
regaI dless of whose toes he might step
ON. District Attorney Jerome of New
York City has often been likened to
Folk but any person who harbors an
idea like that ought to be tapped for
the simples. Mr.. Jerome first sttracted
public attention by arming himself
! with an axe aud battering down the
door of sbanty in which three or four
"cullud" bootblacks were shooting
craps and in order to reach this shanty
;. Jerome had to pass through the hall
way of hightoned gambling house
that was running wide open. But even
= this met hod of attack on evil doers was
not original with Jerome. He stole it
L from Carrie Nation.
Jerome, like great many before
him, was terror to shoestring and col
larbutton grafters, but armed with q
legal or illegal technicallty, don't
know which, he held the New York
7 police at bay while gang of notorious
insurance bandits held up the stage
coach of infancy and robbed the orphan
= passengers of their milktickets and
: Teddy bears.
/ Bob Fitzsimmons won fame and for
tune and climbed to the top OF the
pugilistic ladder with his original punch
;. known as the solar plexus wallop which
p, he landed Oh the nimble and elusive
y (Oontinssed n co,ssmn 4 THE pdge)