Year: 1873

triumphs of Buchu, especially in Buchu
fnanciering. we were not aware that the same
potent article was useful in the manufacture
of Chief Justices of the United States. Since
then, however. a Buchu Chief Justice has
dawned upon tue astonished gaze of an admir-
ing world Like many of Buchu's best i'm
presentations Chief Justice Buchu was born of
New England parentage and then went West.
The West is q grand field for the growth OF
Buchu. It has contributed to the country
many notable Buchu statesmen. orators,
fnanciers and business men. 1t has built
hundreds of Buchu towns and cities and
bound them together by Buchu railroads.
Buchu bridges span the rivers and Buchu
steamboats, ply upon them. The West has
even given to the world Buchu religion, with
Buchu doctrines, dogmas and ceremonies


There Buchu marriages and Buchu divorces
are common. 1t is no wonder. then, that out
of SO much, Buchu tho West should also have
given us Buchu Chief Justice and that Chief
Justice Buchu should be an honor to the
whole Buchu family.


| Chief Justice Buchu began his career
earlier than almost any of the Buchus. At
twenty-three he was judge, and already in
fair way Of becoming chief justice. As q
matter of course Chief Justice Buchu became
judge before he became lawyer. and he
has been Buchu Judge SO long it was i'm
possible be ever should be more than Buchu
lawyer But not being lawyer is no dis
credit to Chief Justice Buchu. 1t is pc
cuiarity of the Buchu family to be willing to
undertake the highest trusts. and to sue
ceed in them. too. without any preparatory
education whatever. There was Ghoul Buchu,
example and influence of Q great and good
man, without ever having been inside
of Sunday school And there was the re-
nowned Buchu, the great railway king, who
taught the people the philosophy of watered
stocks but took NO stock in orthog-
raphy and grammar. And Buchu, the
banker, who begun business in moth
ing and failed for million, was mere
self-made man. How, then, is it to be ex-
pected that Chief Justice Buchu should be
learned in the law2 His chief qualification
for his high Office is in not knowing any law.
II he understood law he might be restrained
from doing his duty by precedents, decisions
and statutes, whereas not being restrained by
these things, he can only do right 1t is
characteristic of the Buchu family to always
dare to do right, and in this, as in every other
respect Chief Justice Buchu is one of the
most enlightened members Of the family


1t is not to be assumed, however, that Chief
Justice Buchu sought after this high Office.
Offices came to him too easily for there being
any need Of his seeking them. Few men, as
we have said, know much law at twenty y-three,
but at twenty-three the superior Intelligence
Of the people of Iowa found him out and
made him a Judge. President Pierce, with
that sagacity he often exhibited in detecting
Buchu, even in the plainest forms, robbed
Iowa Of the prodigy and made him Chief JUS
tice of Oregon. But he was not known at
that time as Chief Justice Buohu. Indeed


the Buchu family had not yet asserted
its pre-eminence Another decade passed be-
fore Buchu as statesman, orator and fnan-
cier began to be felt in the land. In the
meantime Chief Justice Buchu had got into the
United States Senate, where he scarcely did
credit to the varied abilities of the Buchu
family. He was q mere Western Senator, who
occasionally exhibited delicious Buchu
modesty and sometimes showed the Buchu
aptness for business. Business has always
been the stronghold of the Buchus-business
and craftsmanship 1t was his aptness for
business which made Buchu, the banker rich
during the war-that business aptness which
enabled him to make profit out of every dol
lar the patriotic people were willing to lend,
because it was absolutely necessary the gov
ernment should borrow. Ghoul Buchu would
never have been able to 90 about doing good
if he had not possessed the Buchu aptitude for
business Old Buchu, the railway king, was
pre-eminently business man. 1t was this
business aptitude of the family which prompted
the formation of the Buchu Savings Bank,
in which the poor put their earnings and
found the investment terribly permanent
one the great Buchu Silver Mining Com
pany of Utah, Limited, by which we extracted
another indemnity from England, and the
Buchu Pacific Railroad, which the Buchu Ring
induced Congress to build from Nowhere to
Nowhere, and make the people pay for twice
over. We have not heard that Chief Justice
Buchu had any interest in the outside con-
Germs Of ths Buchu family-though there was
o Senator Buchu in the famous ''Buchu Silver
Mining Company of Utah, Limited''-but he
participated in much of the Buchu legislation
of the period. He learned his craftsmanship
under Buchu tutelage-a tutelage so thorough
that one Of its most eminent professors has
since ratirad tn an island as paaceful aa waa
Blennerhassets before the insdious Burr
found the abode of the doves. And so rapidly
did he grow in knowledge of statecraft and
diplomacy that he was required to take part
I in framing a new code of International Law