New-York tribune., 1911-12-24

ing the maintenance Of appropriate state,
he was never able 10 save from his salary
enough 10 insure freedom from worry over
the future. His was a trying position, AL
belt so enviable. and it would have been
pitiful had not the great soldiers friends
gone to his financial rescue. 1t is fact
that while he was doing his last work
writing his book OF recollections-General
Grant was living on borrowed money
Rutherford b. Hayes never knew the
struggle and grind OF poverty. In his CLIMB
upward he never had to battle against pri-
walton and to emancipate himself from the
memory Of actual suffering. After his
graduation at Kenyon College, Gambler.
Ohio. he studied law and began his ac-
tivity as a breadwinner in Cincinnati BY
the breaking out of the Civil War he had
demonstrated his ability to fight the battle
of life successfully, and the great strug-
gle between the North and the South gave
him an opportunity to show that he was
equally capable of lighting for his coun-
try. During his lifetime he inherited sew
eral largo fortunes. and was at the time or
his death one of the wealthiest ex-Presi-
dents we have ever had.
James A. Garfeld's early career is the
story of pioneer life in Ohio. especially
that part of il known as the Western Re-
serve, settled principally by New England
ers He was Of the log-cabin type OF
American statesmen, and a noble instance
of il in every sense OF the term. He was
always breadwinner. for his poverty
made him familiar with hard labor from
his childhood After he had worked his
ia
the practice Of his profession Of the law
he was elected to the state Senate. Ii
was his fate never TO return 10 private
life. From the Ohio State House to the
Civil War, then to the national House OF
Representatives and on TO the Senate and
the White House-such was the path TO
greatness from which Garfield never turned
aside.
Chester A. Arthur and Grover Cleveland
were ministers sons who began their
breadwinning with capital OF nothing
save robust health and determination 10
be victors. Long before either had
achieved the Presidency he had made him.
self financially independent Arthur, espe-
cally was so successful in his law prac-
tice in New York City that at the close OF
the first ten years he was regarded as a
man in very easy circumstances.
When BENJAMIN Harrison. at the age Of
twenty-one. was ready 10 begin the prac.
tice OF law he hadn't money enough 10
rent an Office. The grandson OF Presi-
dent, his struggle for the first years taxed
every energy and strained every fibre in
his rather fragile makeup. In those
days" he once told a friend. "a dollsr was
nd
When he went into the White House he
was one Of the best paid lawyers in the
country, and after his retirement he 70.
sumed his activity as a breadwinner with
undiminished energy. Not long before hfa
death he received the enormous fee Of
10000 from the Venezuelan government
as its legal representative In an interna.
tional matter.
a poor college student when he entered
the ranks in the Civil War. william Nc.
Kinley returned TO his Ohio home major,
with crown OF laurel. but an empty
purse" After two years of intense labor
and financial stress he was admitted to the
bar. settled in Canton. Ohio married the
daughter of the richest banker in the town
and entered the political field. Like Gar.
field he never returned 10 private life.
From the time he was elected prosecuting
attorney OF Stark County he won his bread
in the public service.
Theodore Roosevelt has never been
breadwinner from necessity having inner.
tied an estate sufficient 10 relieve him
from all financial worry After his gradu.
alton at Harvard he studied law at Co.
lumbia, but became so interested In poll.
tics that he lost interest In the law. and
Is content TO be known as a publicist
william II. Taft was a successful bread.
winner in his profession OF the law before
he entered public life.
Copyright. 1911. by the Associated Litsrar,
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