| Show OF PUBLIO PUBLIC LITE LIFE the expiration of the fifty third congress has sent into retirement an unusually large number of 01 men who have been long find and conspicuously engaged engi ged in public serode eel vice says the bt louis a globa lobe at soun soule of these elioso statesmen will probably regain their lost places after a time lime unit aul others in will il I 1 beaure political Lm employment of sone different forent dif nt kind while baill others can call not hope eer to hold leold another office among the litter latter is llon lion W Y a S of indiana alio ho fully realizes the situation and frankly accepts tho the fact that his public career is ended there is a touch of pathos iu his tate trient thit that he be is now g going jack bick to his faim after having ocen neen a member oer or of fifteen congresses to spend tha remainder of his baysin days in luril quie quiet t close to nature c and free bioni all ambition lie ile is nearly sevena ahrea years old and for over fifty years cars of that time has been almost continuously in 0 office ff ice I 1 1 he busi business nebs of politics has absorbed his attention ever since lie he became a voter and according to the ordinary stan daid ill he has been notably bably tably successful that is ie to say lie u his has obtain eci eO the positions that he sou sought glit and has baa rarely known a I 1 year in which lie he was not drawing an official salary lie ile gained prominence in congress his name was a familiar fi one everywhere I 1 lie he was an acknowledged political leader thero is if much in the record of such a career to suggest the idea of success to the average politician or to to the young man who thinks of entering public life but that is not the way dav it looks to mr bolman lie he does not coa template it I 1 n ill etli the feeling of satisfaction satish action that it deerns to justify it is a disappointment 1 ls to him in the sense that it lias has not paid ile he lias has lived frugally and yet in all this time he lias has not been able to save gave any ally par pan I 1 0 of f lis his salary the government has profiler profi terl to the extent of mili I 1 lions bv by his careful and economical I 1 service cervice in the matter of asprom is lions but that las not bennof been of the I 1 least pecuniary addan advantage tag e to himself I 1 1 I leave congress poorer than i I 1 was when I 1 entered it lie says my farm of acres is not dot worth as ag much as it was when I 1 went to washinton washington and 1 nothing to for all my pio longed political work the lesson nf f his experience as ile ho reads it is is t that hat men men hall had better keep out of politics there is ii a certain fa fucina eina tion about it and it offers certain chances of general usefulness but so far as individual prosperity is concerned it ia i a snare and a delusion there is nothing in it lie he declares and this is the uniform testimony of all those who have given to it the best years of their lives it is a well know fact that the pa pay v of public officials at washing ton on is i much smaller than that le ie ened en ed by other men for the same order of service in the different professions and the various forms forma the tha bovein merit gets its work lone dolle follower for lower wages than soy any private ill wails firm or i corp corporation oraton employing men of equal ability mr ir llo linan could have bave acquired a aitu fortune e if f fahad he had chosen almost any other pursuit and the same is to be said aid as ai a rule of all th ge who make a vocation ca tiou of politics tile the most that 1 they ran ean hope for in the public service is an ordinary ordina rj living and ss as for reputation very few W of tilen them gain enough of ii to be remembered a year after they lose their offices odices it may be said that mr holman BBS aas along time in ill finding out the mockery of the thing and that lie he was even iN lulling illing to herve another term but that is is medely to specify the melancholy chol y fait fact that after a man has bus been in if politics for a given tim c lie he becomes a cun con filmed la is 1 tied for any legitimate occupation ke ile forfeits his scalf re his capacity his relation to the practical affairs of life arid and can call not it in with men of better ex e pei rhe fhe political i licach beach is with wrecks ol 01 li this bolt and mr lIo linan d docia oes ai well ell in arning young men aga agui lilt t a career that is sure sur to 10 prove dib appointing anil unprofitable |
