| Show Office Hunting Itching for office may be a bad disease for a young man to contract It is apt to stay by him Relief only comes when he secures a public position and as that only lasts for awhile the complaint returns and he is as uneasy as ever Too often it unfits him for any private enterprise or occupation He thinks he ought to have office will do almost anything to obtain it and failing he feels discontented and disjointed and the whole world seems togo to-go wrong But there are men who have desired a public office and have obtained the object of their ambition and then gracefully retired re-tired when their term expired and lost nothing of their energy independence independ-ence or ability to occupy private stations with honor and profit to themselves and others Also there are men who have striven for office and failed who figure just as forcibly forci-bly in every day affairs as though they had not engaged in the struggle All men are not alike in this more than in any other particular There is nothing degrading in the public pub-lic service On the contrary it should be esteemed an honor to be elected or appointed I ap-pointed to a public position It ought to be regarded as a mark of confidence on the part of the people who elect or of their representative who appoints It is only when that undue desire for place exists which prompts men to do dishonorable I or degrading things to obtain or retain it that it is despicable We agree with our morning contemporary contempo-rary that it is a very bad thing when a man gets in an official groove and feels helpless in the world unless he can 4 go every month and draw an official salary I That ought to be avoided But we do not see any need in this connection to drag in President CLEVELAND by way of I Illustration particularly in this awkward I awk-ward and unintelligible fashion I I The career of President CLEVELAND has made this matter worse He could not as a lawyer lay up any money He ran for a little office and was elected Then for another little office and was elected and in that office out of little thing he made buncomc enough to give himself a local reputation We say buncome be causeMs duty was plain and had ho not done as he did he would have been directly di-rectly open to the cfcarga ef either unfair aeos er dishonesty Where tits baa < < Jme itti t41A ant why it was bttnaome bwauise his duty was plainJ and if he had aot performed it ho wouldTiave en open to R charge of C o t unfairness it will take the Tribune to I explain It will no doubt make the attempt at-tempt in a few of its column paragraphs I when the matter will ba about as clear as it is now I President CLEVELAND has been successful suc-cessful in office from the first He has also demonstrated his ability to enter into i business when out of official life And when he finally retires there is every reason rea-son to believe that his future judging it from the past will be active useful and contented He will not do for a horrible horri-ble example of the fate of the office seeker and the young men who may be tempted to seek office by his carder will not be hurt much by following his official offic-ial example |
