The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-01-28

Carlson for His Inaugural Declara- |
ton That He will Always Consul. |
Mrs Carlson on all Questions
Fine tribute is being paid in news
papers In various parts of the country
New York Journal devoted its leading
editorial on Monday, Jan. IS. to Cover
nor Carlson. under the heading. 'One
Public Man Who Acknowledges His
Indebtedness to His Wife" Ii lie uses
the same Judgment in his official ca
reer his administration is sure to be
"a success" The editorial, which is cop
yrighted. 1915, by the Star Company. is
as follows:
The governor of Colorado. on taking
Office, did not make the usual bombas-
tic speech about his terrific struggle
to rise from poverty to his present
proud position.
He wisely refrained from congratuia-
ting the people of Colorado on securing
self-made mana man of the people
"a man from whom his earliest child
mood had determined to succeed, and
who now stood before them, mis- high
object attained.
The governor is not the usual sort
of public man. In his inaugural ad
dress he took no credit to himself. nor
did he make any glittering promises of
what he was going to do.
Instead he humbly and reverently
acknowledged his debt to his wife, and
announced that he intended to make
her assistant governor" and be guild
ed by her counsel In his official du-
ties.
Here is a governor who ought tc
succeed, and who has ten chances OF
success where the vainglorious. brag-
ging self-made man has one.
There have, of course, been govern :
ors who have been ruled by their wives
There have been public men whose sue
cesses have been made by their wives
But few of them even knew it, and
none of them ever acknowledged it.
The gentlemen who were ruled by
their wives failed. They failed not be-
cause they were bossed, but because
they were too dull to know that they
were bossed, and supposed that all
! their acts sprang from their own
great intellects
Those who consulted their wives
in private have been more successful
| They, at least, were able to recognize
counsel that was unselfish and in their
own interest
of good judgment without the weak
fear that the wife might become in
fated with her power and try to run
the whole show"
| There may, of course, have been in
| stances of men who publicly acknowl-
edged their debt to their wives, but
they are not conspicuous in history.
And if Colorados governor, having
made this acknowledgment, will abide
by his decision and make his career
in public life a partnership affair, the
men and the women and the children
of Colorado ought to profit by his ad-
ministration
Barrie's best and most ingenious
play deals with man who rises high
in public life because as he supposes,
of his own merits and industry.
The truth is that he is a rather duh,
vain and idle man, and that the love
OF his wife, her promptings and as
sistance. have made him what he is
The play is true picture of many
households-it is particularly true of
many families where the man is
seeker after public recognition
The wife interested only in her hus,
band. quietly determines that he shall
succeed. Where he lacks judgment she
supplies 1t. Where he is weak and va
ciIlating she counsels courage and
firmness
of knowledge that is useful to his ca
reer she patiently endeavors to i'm
prove him in it.
Here is not the selfish interest of the
ofiicesceker or the man or woman who
has an AK to grind
She has no corporate interests to
serve, no gang of organized lawbreak-
ers to protect
Of all his advisers she is the one
who is interested in his success. be-
cause che wants to be proud OF him. |
And she alone, Of all who are around I