Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 248, Hammond, Lake County, 8 April 1907 — Page 5

Monday, April 8, 1907.

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ccmGro fionfis-rfrwit-(To lie Continued). There was a wild scene. Threats, Insults, blows even, were exchanged. And down at the Capital City hotel Dunkirk crawled upon a table and denounced me as an infamous ingrate, a traitor, a serpent he had warmed ia his bosom. But the people of the state accepted it as natural and satisfactory that "the vigorous and fearless young chairman of the party's state committee" should be agreed on as a compromise. An hour after that last ballot, he hadn't a friend left except come galling sympathizers from whom lie hid himself. Those who had been bis firmest supporters were paying court to the new custodian of the plum tree. The governor was mine, and the legislature. Mine was the federal patronage, also all of it, if I chose, for Croffut was my dependent, though he did not realize It; mine also were the indefinitely vast resources of the members of my combine. Without my concent no man could get office anywhere In my state, from governorship and Judgeship down as far a3 I cared to reach. Subject only to the check of public sentiment so easily defeated if It be not defied I was master of the making and execution of laws. Why? Not because I was leader of the dominant party. Not because I was a senator of th-United States. Golely because I controlled th sources of the money that maintained the political machinery of both parties. The hand that holds the purs etrings is the hand that rules if it fcnows how to rule; for rule Is power iplus ability. I was not master because I had th plum tree. I had the plum tree be cause I was master. The legislature attended to such oi the demands of my combine and such of the demands of the public as I thought it expedient to grant, and then adjourned. Woodruff asked a three frnonthi' leave. I did not hear from or of him until midsummer, when he sent me a cablegram from London. !! was In a hospital there, out of money end out of health. I cabled him $1,000 and asked him to come home as soon as he could. It was my first personal experience with that far from uncommon American type, the periodic drunkard. I had to cable him money three times before he started. When he came to me at Washington, In December, he looked just as before calm, robust, cool, cynical and dressed in the very extreme of the extreme fashion. I received him as If nothing had happened. It was not until the current of mutual liking was again flowing freely between us that I said: "Doc, may I impose on your friendship to the extent of an Intrusion Into your private affairs?" He started, and gave me a quick look, his color mounting. "Yes," he eaid after a moment. "When I heard from you." I went on. I made some inquiries. I owe yoa no apology. You had given me a shock one of the severest of my life. Put they told me that you never let- that that that peculiarity of yours Interfere with business." His head was hangng. "I always go oway," he Baid. "Nobody that knows me ever sees me when at that time." I laid my hand on his arm. "Doc, why do you do that sort of thing?" The 6car came up into his face to put agony into the reckless despair that looked from his eyes. For an instant I Btood on the threshold of his chamber of remorse and vain regret and well I knew where I was. "Why not?" he asked, bitterly. "There's always a sort of horrrrr inside me. And it grows until I can't bear It. And then I drown it why shouldn't 1?" , "That's very stupid for a man of your brains," said I. "There's nothing nothing in the world, except death that cannot b wiped out or set right. Play the game. Doc. Play It vlth me for five years. Play it for all there Is In it. Then go back, if you want to." He thought a long time, and I did not try to hurry him. At length he eaid, in his old offhand manner: "Well, I'll go you, senator; I'll not touch a drop." And he didn't. Whenever I thought I saw signs of the savage Internal battle against the weakness, I gave him something important and absorbing to do, and I kept him busy until I knew the temptation had lost its power for the time. This is the proper place to put it on the record that he was the most scrupulously honest man I have ever known. 4 He dealt with the shadiest and least scrupulous of men those who train their consciences to be the eager servants of their appetites; he handled hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions first and last, all of it money for which he could never have been forced to account. He had at one time as much as half a million dollars In checks payable to bearer. I am not confiding by nature or training, but I am confident that he kept sot a penny for himself beyond his salary and his fixed commission- I

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TlIfCQST. etc. so 5 ay Co-"""'-. put fils salary at the outset, at ten thousand a year; afterward, at fifteen, finally at twenty. His cimmissions, perhaps, doubled it. There are many kinds of honesty nowadays. There Is "corporate hon esty," not unlike that proverbial "honor among thieves," which secures a fair or fairly fair division of the spoils. Then there Is "personal honesty," which subdivides into three kinds legal, moral and instinctive. Legal honesty needs no definition. Moral honesty defies definition how untangle its lnterwinings of motives of fear, prido, insufficient temptation, sacrifice of the smaller chance in the hope of a larger? Finally, there is instinctive honesty the rarest, the only bed-rock, unassailaible kind. Give me the man who is honest simply because it never occurs to him. and never could occur to him, to be anything else. That Is Woodruff. There is, to be sure, another kind of instinctively honest man he who disregards loyalty as well as self interest In his uprightness. But there are bo few of thes in practical life that they may be disregarded. Perhaps I should say something here as to the finances of my combine, though it was managed in the main precisely like all these political-commercial machines that control both parties in ail the states, except a few in the south. My assessments upon the various members of my combine were sent, for several years, to me, afterward to Woodruff directly, in $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 checks, sometimes by mail, and at other times by express or messenger. These checks were always payable to bearer; and I made through Woodruff, for I kept to the far background n all my combine's affairs, an arrangement with several large banks in different parts of the state, including one at the capital, that these checks wee to be cashed without question, no matter who presented them, provided there was a certain flourish under the line where the amount was written in figures. Sometimes these checks were signed by the corporatioa, and sometimes they, were the personal checks of the president or some other high official. Often the signature was that of a person wholly disconnected, so far a3 the public knew. Once, I remember, Roebuck sent me a thousand-dollar check signed by a distinguished Chicago lawyer who was just then counsel to his opponent in a case involving millions, a case which Roebuck afterward won! Who presented these checks? I could more easily say who did not From the very beginning of my control I kept my promise to reduce the cost of the political business to my clients. When I got the machine thoroughly In hand, I eaw I could make it cost them less than a third of what they had been paying on the average, for ten years. I cut off, almost at a Btroke, a horde of lobbyists, lawyers, threateners without Influence, and hangers-on of various kinds. I reduced the payments for legislation to a system, instead of the shameless, scandal-creating and wasteful auctioneering that had been going on for years. In fact, so cheaply did I run the machine that I saw it would be most imprudent to let my clients have the full benefit. Cheapness would have made them uncontrollably greedy and exacting, and would have given them a wholly false Idea of my value as soon as It had slipped their short memories how dearly they used to pay. So I continued to make heavy assessments, and put the surplus in a reserve fund for emergencies. I thought, for example, that I might some day have trouble with one or more members of my combiae; my reserve would supply me with the munitions for forcing Insurgents to return on their agreements. This fund was in no sense part of my private fortune. Nowhere else, I think, do the eccentricities of conscience show themselves more interestingly than in the various attitudes of the various political leaders toward the lar'ge sums which the exigencies of commercialized politics place absolutely and securely under their control. I have no criticism for any of these attitudes. I have lived long enough and practically enough to learn not to criticize the morals of men any more than I criticize their facial contour or telr physical build. "As many men, so many minds" and morals. Wrong, for practical purpos, is that which a man can cajole or compel his conscience to approve. It so happened that I had a sense that to use my assessments for my private financial profits would be wrong. Therefore, my private fortune has been wholly the result nf the opportunities which came through my intimacy with Roebuck and such others of the members of my camblne as were personally agreeable or, perhaps It would be more accurate to say. not disagreeable, for. in the clr-

cumstances, I naturany saw a siae or those men which a friend must never see In a friend. I could not help haying toward most of these distinguished clients of mine much the feeling his lawyer has for the guilty criminal he is defending.

CHAPTER X. The Face In the Crowd. Except the time given to the children there were presently three my life, in all it3 thoughts and associations was now politics: at Washington from December until congress adjourned, chiefly national politics, the long and elaborate arrangements preliminary to the campaign for the conquest of the national fields; at home, chiefly state politics strengthening my hold upon the combine, strengthening my hold upon the two political machines. As the days and the weeks, the months and the years, rushed by. as the interval between breakfast and bedtime, between Sunday and Sunday, between election day and election day again, grew shorter and shorter, I played the game more and more furiously. WThat I won. once it was mine, seemed worthless in itself, and worth while only if I could gain the next point; and, when that was gained, the same story was repeated. Whenever I paused to refleet, it was to throttle reflection halfborn and hasten on again. "A silly business, this living, isn't it?" said Woodruff to me. "Yes but " replied I. "You remember the hare and the hatter in 'Alice in Wonderland.' 'Why?' said the hare. 'Why not?' said the hatter. A sensible man does not interrogate life; he lives it." "H'm," retorted Woodruff. And we went on with the gameshuffling, dealing, staking. But more and more frequently there came hours, when, against my will, I could drop my cards, watch the others; and I would wonder at them, and at myself, the maddest of these madmen and the saddest, because I had moments in which I was conscious of my own derangement I have often thought on tho cause of this dissatisfaction which has never ceased to gird me, and which I have learned girds all men of intelligence who lead an active life. I think it is that such men are like a civilized man who has to live among a savage tribe. To keep alive, to have Influence, he must pretend to accept the savage point of view, must pretend to disregard his own knowledge and intelligent methods, must play the game of life with the crude, clumsy counters of caste and custom and creed and thought which the savages regard as fit and proper. Intelligent men of action do see as clearly as the philosophers; but they have to pretend to adapt thir mental vision to that of the mass of their fellow men or, lik the philosophers, they would lead lives of profitless Inaction, enunciating truths which are of no value to mankind until it rediscovers them for itself. No man of trained reasoning power could fail to see that the Golden Rule is not a piece of visionary altruism, but a sound principle of practical self-interest Or, could anything be clearer, to one who takes the trouble really to think about it, than that he who advances himself at the expense of his fellow men does not advance but sinks down Into the class of murderers for gain, thieves, and all those who seek to advance themselves by injustice? Yet, bo feeble is man's reason, so near to the brute Is he, so under the rule of brute appetites, that he cannot think beyond the Immediate apparent good, beyond today's meal. I once said to Scarborough: "Politics is the science and art of fooling the people." "That is true, as far as it goes," he said. "If that were all. Justice, which is only another name for common sense, would soon be established. But, unfortunately, politics is the art of playing upon cupidity, the art of fooling the people into thinking they are helping to despoil the other fellow and will get a share of the swag." And he was right. It Is by .subtle appeals to the secret and shamefaced, but controlling, appetites of men that the clever manipulate them. To get a man to vote for the right you must show him that he is voting for the personally profitable. And very slow he is to believe that what is right can be practically profitable. Have not the preachers been preaching the reverse all these years; have they not been insisting that to do right means treasure in heaven only? It was in my second term as senator, toward the middle of it. I was speaking one afternoon, in defense of a measure fov the big contributors, which the party was forcing through the senate in face of fire from the whole country. Personally, I did not approve the measure. It wag a frontal attack upon public opinion, and frontal attacks are as unwise and as unnecessary in politics as in war. But the farty leaders in the nation insisted, and. as the move would weaken their hold upon the party and so improve my own chances. I was not deeply aggrieved that my advice had been rejected. Toward the end of my speech, aroused by applause from the visitors' gallery, I forgot myself and began, to look up there as I talked, in of addressing myself to my fe. . senators. The eyes of a speaker always wander over his audience in search of eyes that respond. My glance wandered, unconsciously, until it found an answering glance that fixed it. To Be Continued Preserved from Mediocrity. A man Is never mediocre when he aas much good sense and much good , feeling.-Jqubert.

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"But these conditions can be reversed, and in the event of the Allegheny predominating doubtless would be; whence the probability that enormous gorges of drift, or drift and ice combined, would form above the low wooden bridges. In such case they would move off their foundations and the entire mass rush everything in its way until it reaches the first stable structure namely, the Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Eleventh street. What That Bridge Will lo. "Would it withstand the attack? No man can tell. It Is a ponderous structure, splendidly proportioned and sub

stantially built. However, what it will do seems immaterial, for whether it stands and holds the gorge or falls before it It will in either case divert the irresistible on-coming tide towarl the ,mainland. where the damage to physii cal property will be enormous, and lives ny tne tuousanus win tie sacrificed, since there would be insufficient warning to enable the unsuspecting to withdraw to places of safety. Does tli? Bridge Have to Go? ' That there is only one precaution open to avert such n calamity as would almost certainly attend a maximum freshet at Pittsburg is clearly obvious. And that such a freshet may occur any season now that we can see that it i clearly within the range of possibilities is quite as evident. The last call was a close one. The addition to the situation as it was of the amount o:' ice out of the Allegheny usually following a hard winter would alone have precipitated 1be trouble." Fatal Fire at Sanatorium. South Windham. Conn.. April S. One woman, Mrs. Lain a Backus, an insane patient, lost "her life in a fire which .destroyed the Grand View Sanatorium here early in the clay. All the other patients were taken out of the building without harm, although there was no time to clothe them. Carroll College Benefactor Dead. Waukesha, Wis., April 8. Word is received here of the death of Ralph Vorhees at Clinton, N. J. Vorhees was well known throughout Wisconsin as being the chief benefactor of Carroll college, to which institution he had contributed in large amounts, totaling $200,000. 3i in Hammond for the cure of Men The new method treatment cures "Weakness, Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, Varicocele, Losses, Drains, Stricture, Skin Diseases, Contagious Blood Poison (Syphilis), Rectal Diseases. A business man told me not long ago that my new method of treatment had cured him after he had spent $2,000 in doctoring and traveling for his health. He was a rich man or he could not have paid out so much money. Most of the men who come to me after failing to get relief are poor. They quit the doctor because they can't stand his charges. This is the kind of man I want, one who is tired of paying doctor bills. COMMERCIAL BANK BLDG.

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