The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-23

ON HERALD, SUNDAY, JAN
health again became bad. There is a
tradition in the family that I saw John
Brown and that he spoke to me. Later
we travelled back across the State of Mis-
souri,, still in the covered wagon, TO La
grange. on the Mississippi River, where
my father. q Douglas Democrat, doc
tored the inhabitants until he told Duff
Green that he would be leading a revolt
against the national government inside
OF six months. So my father. having
expressed Northern sentiments, was ad-
vised to move on. we departed in the
wagon after shutdown, and the property
we left behind was afterward destroyed
Presently my grandfather returned to
Indiana. The Marshalls grayitated TO
Kosciusko County, and have lived in that
immediate region ever since.
my mother tried to persuade me to be
a Presbyterian minister. I have never
thought. however, that l was called to
preach the gospel If / were 10 hear
such a call to-day / should resign my
Office tomorrow and go to work. II was
believed at Wabash College, where
studied four years. that reading made
full man, writing an accurate man,
and speaking a ready man. / always had
the gift Of gab-that's the way 1 express
if. I was neither profound nor scholarly,
but / could put things in manner that
uyRn listened Ia
what I said. A mediocre speech, If well
delivered by a man Of good presepce,
will have more effect than a learned dis
course awkwardly spoken in squeaky
voice. We debated questions suggested
after getting together in our meetings.
and I became rather fluent for a young
ster. Besides. I read Guizot's France,
Grote's Greece, Gibbons Rome Hume's
and Macaulays England Rollins An
cient History d'Aublgne's Reformation,
and Bancrofts United States.
Lending Politicians There.
Moreover. Thomas A. Hendricks. Dan
tel w. voorhees,, Benjamin Harrison, end
David Turpie came TO Charlottesville, the
seat Of Wabash College. to practice be
fore the courts. and as I listened 10
them I thought a lawyer had the oppor-
tunitv OF doing as much good in the
world as any one else. / belive so yet
No lawyer will say that ever did a
mean act during my three and thirty
years at the bar of Indiana, or that I
took any advantage Of the law, or was
Indifferent to my oath as a sworn Off
Ger Of the court I make no boast;
simply want you TO understand that my
early ideals Of the profession were prac-
ticable. and that I have made en- honest
attempt to live by them under all circum-
stances.
ct is said have been known 10 quote the
law against my own client 70 the judge on
the bench. Any man had the right 10 en-
ploy me, and I always gave him my best
thought and work. so long as I believed
his cause 20 be Just and right; when I
| ceased TO so believe. he didn't have
money enough to keep me IN the case
over night.
We'll. should have gone into the law,
anyway. but Benjamin Harrison once
gave me some enlargement and good
advice Two Wabash students and my
self were sued for $4,000 by a woman
/ VINO came 10 Charlottesville ostensibly 70
lecture I didn't like the way she per-
| formed. and wrote her up for the college
paper. I took the article 20 Gen. Har-
rison. He told me II was nbeIous. talked
| 70 me I'm a friendly manner, gave me
counsel, and declined 10 accept a cent of
pay. although I feared that his fee would
be pretty large. got letters from Henry
Ward Beecher, T. De Witt Talmage, and
Inspector Byrnes. saying that the woman
| had been a singer or a dancer on the
Bowery in New York. When she heard
Of the letters. she dropped the suit
Got the Democrats.
! 7 read law al Columbia CITY, IN tht
next county west OF Fort Wayne, and
there I practced. All the lawyers wer,
Republicans and so the Democrats en-
ployed me. Ny fees the first yea
amounted 70 $3.50. Then and until Ions
afterward my partner and I WORKED
early and late During my weeks to opeI
/ the Office, l was there every morning a
! $50 O'Clock. In my weeks OF closing.
| remained at my desk until 10 at night
! We made enough with papeTs-mortgages
/ deeds. and the like-tO pay all OF our eX
| penses. Young lawyers Of the present
/ even in the county towns, begin at II
the morning and quit at in the after
noon. ! have never had any ambition L
/ be rich: neither had my father. Ny pro
| fessional returns however. have Away.
! been gOod-by good I mean $4,000 a year
or better. Ny Accommodations now amount
! I suppose, to S35,0J0-enough for Mrs
| Marshall, were she 10 become a widow
/ We have no children. Meanwhile. I an
spending the 5000 a year paid me by tn,
people Of Indiana for being their gov
| ernor.
| I don't own an automobile. I have NJ
! horses. When I ride, I use a street car
At noon each day I go to q dairy luncl
room for 4 cup of coffee and a sandwich
the total cost Of the same being 10 cents
Still. the $500 all goes. along with ever
penny Of my private income"
Copyright. 1910. by James B, MGTOw.l
WIPING OUT STATE LINES.