The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

taneously that would not come out II
1 knew / were on public parade.
"Just here among ourselves, ! am
very glad TO say how sincerely l con-
graduate you on moving into these truis
delightful quarters and how congratu-
late you upon our elevation. so thar we
can look down even upon the Treasury
and feel a condescension towards our
feIlowmen who are on the outside
'T was just thinking as Mr.. Lord was
speaking. Of my sense OF confusion OF
Identity, sometimes, when I read articies
about myself. / have never read an
article about myself IN which / recog-
nized myself, and / have come to have
the impression that must be some KIND
of fraud. because think great many
OF these articles are written IN absolute
good faith. i tremble to think of the
variety and falseness in the impressions
i make-and 1t is being borne In on me
so that 1t may change my very DISPOSE
tion-that 1 am cold and removed per-
son who has a thinking machine inside
which he adjusts to the circumstances,
which he does not allow to be moved by
any wind of affection or emotion of any
kind but turns like a cold searchlight
on anything that is presented to his at
tention and makes II work.
Feels His Responsibility.
Il am not aware of having any detach-
able apparatus inside of me. On the
contrary, IL / were TO interpret myself,
i would say that my constant embarrass-
ment is to restrain the emotions that
are inside Of me. You may not believe
IL. but sometimes feel like a fire from
far from extinct volcano. and IL the
lava does not seem to spill over ii is
because you are not high enough to see
into the basin and see the cauldon boil
Because, truly, gentlemen, in the position
which 1 now occupy there is a sort Of, 1
do not know how else to express it than
to say, passionate sense of being con-
nected with my fellow-men in a peculiar
relationship of responsibility. Not mere
ly the responsibility OF office. but God
knows there are enough things in this
world that need to be corrected
Il have mixed. first and last, with all
sorts and conditions OF men-there are
mighty few kinds of men that have to
be described to me. and there are mighty
few kinds of experiences that have 10 be
described to me-and when think Of the
number of men who are looking to me as
the representative of a party with hope,
with the hope for all varieties of saliva
ton from the things they are struggling
in the midst of, il makes me tremble. 1t
makes me tremble not only with a sense
of my own inadequacy and weakness, but
as il 1 were shaken by the very things
that are shaking them; and IL seem cir
cumspect, il is because ! am so diligent-
Iy trying not to make any colossal blum
ders II you just circulated the num-
Der of blunders a fellow can make in
twenty-four hours. If he is not careful
and if he does not listen more than he
talks. you would see something of the
feeling that I have.
Trying to Collect Brains.
Il was amused the other day at a re-
mark that Senator Newlands made. had
read him the trust message that was
10 deliver to Congress some ten days be
fore 1 delivered IL, and l never stop
'doctorins' things of that kind until the
day / have to deliver them. When he
heard it read to Congress he said, I
think it was better than il was when you
read it to me- I said, Senator, there is
one thing which i do not think you un-
derstand. not only use all the brains
have -butyail I sSan borrow, and have
borrowed a lot since 1 read 1t to you
first That, ] dare say, is what gives
The impression of Circumspectness, and of
the velvet slipper ! am listening; 1 am
diligently trying TO collect all the brains
that are borrowable in order that ] may
not make more blunders than 1t is in
evitable that a man should make who
has great limitations of knowledge and
capacity. And the emotion of the thing
is so great that suppose I must be some
kind of a mask to conceal it.
Il really feel sometimes as If I were