The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

high. to which ] responded that be-
lieved they were really not high
enough, and that / should try to have
them made higher. The conversation
threatened TO become stormy. Messrs.
Murray and Hess on some hastily i'm
provised plea. took me out into the
street, and then Joe explained to me
that it was not worth my while stay
ing in Sixth Avenue any longer. that /
had better go right back to Fifth Ave-
nue. and attend to my friends there. and
that he would look after my interests
in Sixth Avenue. l was triumphantly
elected
Fellowship of Work
Once before Joe had interfered in
similar fashion and secured the noni-
nation of an assemblyman: and shortly
after election he had grown to feel to-
ward this assemblyman that he must
have fed on the meat which rendered
Caesar proud. as he became inaccessi-
BILE to the ordinary mortals whose place
of resort was Morton Hall He eyed
me warily for a short time to see If l
was likely in this respect to follow in
my predecessors footsteps. Finding
that / did not he and all my other
friends and supporters assumed toward
me the very pleasantest attitude that il
was possible to assume. They did not
ask me for a thing. They accepted as
a matter of course the view that l was
absolutely straight and was trying to
do the best l could in the Legislature.
They desired nothing except that l
should make a success. and they sup
ported me with hearty enthusiasm. I
am little at a loss to know quite how
to express the quality in my relation
ship with Joe Murray and my other
friends of this period which rendered
that relationship so beneficial to me.
When I went into politics at this time
l was not conscious of going in with
the set purpose to benefit other people,
but of getting for myself a privilege to
which I was entitled in common with
other people. So it was in my rela-
tionship with these men. II there
had lurkedf in the innermost recesses
of my mind anywhere the thought that
/ was in some way a patron or a bene-
factor, or was doing something noble
by taking part in politics, or that I ex-
pected the smallest consideration save
what I could earn on my own merits,
I am certain that somehow or other
the existence of that feeling would have
been known and resented.
As matter of fact there was not the
slightest temptation on my part to have
any such feeling or any one of such feel
ings- i no more expected special consid-
erauOn In POLITICS imam L would nave eX-
pected II in the boxing ring. I wished to
act square to others, and / wished to be
able to show that l could hold my own
against others. The attitude of my new
friends toward me was first one of polite |
reserve. and then that of friendly allies. |
Afterward i became admitted to CON-
radeship and then to leadership. I need
hardly say how earnestly / believe that |
men should have a keen and lively sense
of their obligations in politics, of their
duty to help forward great causes, and |
to struggle for the betterment of condi- |
tons that are unjust to their fellows. the |
men and women who are less fortunate in |
life. But in addition to this feeling there |
must be a, feeling of real fellowship with |
the other men and women engaged in the |
same task. fellowship OF work, with fun |
to vary the work. for unless there Is this |
feeling of fellowship, of common effort
on an equal plane Tor a common end II |
will be difficult to keep the relations
wholesome and natural. To be patronized
is as offensive as to be insulted. No one
of us cares permanently to have some
one else conscientiously striving to do
him good; what We want Is to work with
that some one else for the good of both
of us-any man will speedily find that
other people can benefit him Just as much
as he can benefit them.
The Elemental Virtues.
Neither, Joe Murray nor nor any of
our associates at that time. were alive
to social and industrial nseda which l