| Show THE office END before entering upon a career that is intended to engross hits his time and efforts for a considerable period of his life a wise young man will make inquiries as to the probable end of that career at the outset it may seem very attractive and promise all that sanguine and enthusiastic thusia youth aspires to yet it may terminate in bitter disappointment and unendurable humiliation that a political 11 life often ends thus is illustrated by the following examples william churchill of brooklyn was a well educated man had been employed in south sea research by a london scientific society and had enjoyed advantages vian which would ml fill an aa average man with great hope tor for the future he was recently displaced from the consulship at apia abia samoa had been beebi unemployed since and a short time ago disappeared from his home and is supposed to have sul suicide elde the washington correspondent of the chicago record relates this tragic and pathetic story after months of persistent effort with the accompanying expectations and disappointments an office seeker of the name of P H kaufman from ala despondent ana and penniless gave up the struggle last monday and jumped into the potomac river the body w was as undertaken found at A alexandria ae and lay in an undertakers undertake 4 establishment until yesterday when a doorkeeper from the house of representatives senta tives identified it kaufman was a personal friend of representatives aldrich and wheeler of alabama and caune to washington in search of office last october upon falling failing to sec secure an appointment he later went to new york where he supported gen tracy during the mayoralty campaign he made a number of speeches before german american political clubs but without reward as tammany carried the elections he then returned to to washington and renewed his visits to the various departments his funds however were finally exhausted and on sunday he decided to return home he borrowed money from several of the alabama Alai bama representatives and other acquaintances to purchase food and buy a railroad ticket and then left the city his wife and children have been dead several years and although he held the office of receiver of public money and was waa postmaster at huntsville for some time the mayor of that city has ham answered a telegram tor for friends to clade the body by saying that he was a good man but had no money or friends the two cases herd cited in which a career of office hunting ended in misery ao to which self murder w was preferable axe are only two out of thousands that happen in the united states tat ev every year in which the wretchedness or of the tbt stranded office seeker seem seeing la supportable his success in the pa basl att has produced the v very ery conditions that m make ake failure unbearable As an ohice holder he has enjoyed a good goad income has moved in high society soc fety has had the control of subordinates and the dh trib ution of patronage and has been bean fiatt flattered ered and pampered until he has be come totally disarmed against rebuff and adversity when he meets thet these he be Is quickly vanquished his resources and his courage alike disappear er and he sinks into the depths of hu mil milt atlon lation and despondency commenting on the kaufman oase the springfield republican says the warning is an impressive one about the worst thing that can happen to a young man is to secure public office and be permitted for any length of time to grow away from industrial or professional employments and into the tha idea of holding public place as a regular vocation the eph chances ances are nine to one that he will his hold on public life long enough to unfit him for acquiring or adapting himself to an assured occupation but not long enough to pre vent him from being thrown out with much of his life still before him and without the acquirements acquire ments necessary to make it useful to himself or ht his fellows he has lost his place in the great industrial movement of society and drifts perforce into the ranks or of the stragglers who live upon their wits and the favor of more successful politicians tic ians and yet there are parents who are ready to employ all the influence at their command to secure public of flee for a son they could hardly deal with him more unfortunately great temptations to ladoyt adopt politics as a profession axe are wing being laid before the young men of utah but they should be resisted in the life history of nearly every professional politician there is far more suffering from chagrin disappointment the actions of false friends and the general shattering of hopes and aspirations then than is offset by all the pleasures that are am yielded by the triumphs that are achieved the which surrounds a political career is utterly illusory the longings of a heart that has haa been rightly trained trai nied cit cannot be satisfied by the best rewards possible for politics to give utah is making demands upon the brains consciences and patriotism of all her young men who could possibly succeed in politics that forbid them to ellve their time and talents to a pursuit so disappointing she needs all her young men of zeal and ability fox for the development of her industrial and commercial resources the bringing forth of her natural wealth and the furnishing of employment employ nent for her idlet idle labor and it is in this field that aspiring utahna may achieve both fame and fortune that will be of a character to insure self satisfied complacency in their declining years |
