Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — A Contrast. [ARTICLE]

A Contrast.

One man, through favor or influence or interest, gains a high office in political life. Another, without any of these accessories, wins an equal place through his fitness for It, gained by long years of faithful, loyal service and gradual preparation. The former, notwithstanding his official position, has undergone no qiore improvement than the mineral which was dug from the earth. As he was before, so he re* mains. The latter has become truly elevated, for he has risen in worth; the force from within has developed his powers and fitted him for higher usefulness. One youth has been through the various stages of school and college life, he has been sent abroad sot culture, and be has had done for him all that money and friends can do; yet, with all this external pushing upwards, he may not have-half the true mental elevation of another who, without any advantages but what he has earned for himself, is yet a close thinker, a sincere seeker after truth, an earnest wrestler with mental difficulties, a student, not merely of books, but of men and of nature.