| Show n r rI 1 I 1 s SENATOR SENAT R HOARS SACRIFICE S t By Which He Hue Has Gained Infinitely More Than Ho He HoHas 5 J set 1 J Has HUB Loot L Dt 5 R R R n k n n R R 1 11 11 U U U Senator Hoar finds himself at the age sir or of is 75 with his law J practice gone gono and isn with but a meager bank account says neat the I he Chicago Tribune In retrospective or dr V moments he Ilc Is Inclined to mourn over curl the tho loss 1088 of oC the comfortable fortune Ilia which he might night have accumulated ted If IC he ho hoJ J had chosen to give his life lICe to the tho law taUer than to statesmanship In speak rust rusl steril ster lag Inn of ot hla hili early hopes and ambitions tevi lev IOV the other day he said vald that before beCore he riO ii entered Congress he had an on annual In Inot of ot ti tf come com of oC 00 with every prospect of 01 B s swing his practice grow crow IrTO to lie i had saved 1100 and believed he could couldn coulden en n r t I p has ing practice and still attend to his duties In Congress Ho soon toon learned learnell that this was wall Impossible His Ills savings were gradually dissipated dl Ills Hla thirty Ma Il year Core eOrA of oC public service have left leCt him a II Iva comparatively poor manIt man manIt manIt It l I it by no means clear that Senator Hoar has hn any an reason to regret his acs c lh j choice ot oI n II career even from Crom the view tI of ot his own self Interest He line hUB lc art c 1 forfeited the opportunity to accumulate ring I riches but he has won a name which j t many n a rich man hIan would give gle nil II hit his hisor or or t I lIh to possess and which no amount I of ot money could buy Probably every over s v j man comes to a place In his career h h la hoft where he wishes he ho had sought sough a n dlf oft aft ferent terent goal roal Humanity Is la so constituted tint the It tongs longs for tor the prize which It does C u not possess and Is Inclined to esteem lightly that list which It has won The man who has spent his life lICe In up wealth wishes wish os for lor fame tame Mel fend public honors but by the time his for fortune fortune or tune tuno is 16 merle made It Is la too late Inte to succeed In til th tit other field neld In the same way the mug who has hag spent his best bc t years eara In handling great questions of ot state stale can no longer loer turn back and add wealth to fume tunic Only Only In a few lew rare Instances like that of tit Senator Sherman do men possess tho double couble qualifications enabling ing lag them to build up an honorable name und lint a comfortable fortune at the tho same time Most men must choose be between between tween wee the two and Senator Hoar chose well The Massachusetts senator has hns writ written written ten his name Indelibly In the political history of ot the United States Slates during his generation He could neither r have done such fur service for Cor hla his coun country country try nor have hae projected his own life liCe lifetime lifetime time Ihne If It ho he had continued his law practice lice tice Tho The tame fame of oC a great lawyer like hIs Ills work In is more mor or leek led temporary and transient The lawyers o have hava been making a II year during Hen Sen Boars Hoars period In Congress Congre s will be bo forgotten and their fortunes dissipated by their descendants long tong before the Massachusetts senators fame ante shall have censed ceased cen to 10 be bo a valuable mind and cher possession of ot his commonwealth and country He lIe would not Choose dif dlf dt differently If IC he hI had the chance to do BO so |
