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Show , H JOHN W. MACKAY. ! If there is a young miner in Utah with good H H health, strong arms and a clear brain, let such an m " fl one take courage. He has as much capital' as i'J fl John W. Mackay had 42 years ago. If he says , i tj, ? H to himself: "I was born without a name that is ill I known among men, without one influential friend, M , ' H without money," let him still take courage, he has l; ' ll as much to start in life with as had Mr. Mackay. jf H If with it he has the courage, the resolution, the 1 1 L H fortitude, the high purposes which from the first Ifjjn r 'H were Mr. Mackay's, and if he, like Mr. Mackay, be- jp ' H lieves that the decree which made toil imperative Ili.. vfl upon men was just and merciful, he will succeed. jN 'I He may not accumulate as many millions as the Hi k fl great financier did, but there will, as his soul takes j I f4 ' fl its flight, come streaming back the same clear light ! , 'H that reflects in everlasting whiteness the character I j $H of John Mackay. m . fl If misfortune pursues him up to middle age, let, , ; ''..H him not despair. Forty-two years ago when the ) H winds were howling around Mount Davidson, when iff, I ' fl it was bitterly cold and there was not one comfort jl ( fl for the men who were gathered on the Comstock, Wg i fl Mr. Mackay said: "If I can get my traps together a and sell my interests here for $5000 I will And me l , 'tjR a home in some pleasanter country." Ww Ifl But if any young man determines that he will nil J s,eek to emulate Mr. Mackay, he must not forget ffill' L"fl that there are other essentials which he must mfcf ' fl possess besides those named above. He must keep W J f fl his heart warm and generous. He must so pass '' 'fl his days that he can take his self-respect to bed i fl with him every night; his private life must never 4 1 fl be questioned and when misfortunes, those shafts If? fl of fate, come hurtling about him, he must bare Ifr fl his brow to them and smile as they smite him. H J'J fl The first $300,000 which Mr. Mackay made he lost. Fp H When the Sierra Nevada Bonanza collapsed he lost Mi, !fl $4,000,000. In the wheat deal, engineered by a Iwf (jyjfl trusted cashier in the Nevada bank, Mr. Mackay's Kj f H fl personal loss was $6,000,000 and for weeks he did 11 fl not know that one dollar would be saved from the L ' fl mighty wreck, but his bearing was more lordly ffi jl than ever, the smile on his high face was serene mw ''lifl as ever and the fire in his clear eyes was undim- J a If? "'vfl med. The loss killed his partner, it but gave a ilJfl'fl new temper to the steel of Mackay's resolution. if fl John Mackay's death is an international loss. Hf fl He was an honor to his race; he was a strong fac- iff 1 fl tor in the business of two continents; his example ! ? fl was the highest of all the rich men of America. ffllJi' fl He moved a peer among the highest; he was ready mEIi fl to measure swords with the keenest, but his heart BPlk .fl was down among God's poor and he wanted in- liflHI creased blessing upon his country, that more op- 91 HH portunities might be opened to those poor. Kj fl His highest native attribute was his courage, 9f 191 both moral and physical. To do an unworthy act SI flflB he held as cowardice, and with him cowardice was slJfil the unpardonable sin. When he was poor his acts iffll of charity were countless, as his wealth increased Ufiimill his heart kept expanding, his old abruptness ImmMII passed away and he was gentler, kindlier than flvlfll before. li'HI He kept his mind under constant training; he EfliH was as gracious, graceful, as unaffected a gentle- jfsiflBHJ man as lives; he read much, was a shrewd judge of flflflfl art, a passionate lover of music. Once when the H bonanza was giving up $1,000,000 a week and all flHHfl was excitement, he one day roused himself from a HH day dream and said, "What is so splendid as a fllH perfect tenor voice?" He traveled much, was flflflfl familiar with all Europe, he could with graphic Hflfl mflfl 3 fQHISIN HH ''Ml directness talk of foreign countries, but more than HH jRl ! once ho close(1 nIs remarks with words like these: BHTnili ' "American ought to visit Europe often, in order to HB 'qw appreciate how incomparably greater than any HT UM E country abroad is their own native land." Bm WJjK I Ho had shrewd ideas of his countrymen who are mBt 'Jr ' in hB1 statIons' and shrewd judgment on all pub- H i $$' lie questions. He often deplored the narrowness Bt Till some of our so-called statesmen. He would H? J 'Iff never accept an office, though the highest was H'i -j L tendered him. "I know a little about mining, I H, j" M get along in business," he would say, "but is that W . jfcj : If a reason why I should make a spectacle of myself H !hJr$J in places for which I have had no training?" H ,f -1 $5 was essentially a worker; he believed it was Bt Yi'm e only tung to rely uPon Speaking of a strike HI fl$ that was in progress, he once asid: "These men H !(! ;' ' humiliate me. I have rolled rocks in the Yuba Brr j'M-l river for months at a time for a reward of less B ,v "'! , than $1.00 a day, but I never thought of striking, Rv j , f for a strike pays less than a worn out placer mine. tjf,( Why don't these men work and save their wages x 'A and then in a little while, if dissatisfied, try some- H. '-ri, thing else or some other field? Strikes lead to H v jfl idleness. The taint of idleness soon saps the ener- H '!''. T gies of strong men and that is the beginning of H?' ' J(f their decay." f ' ,H But a few weeks since he seemed in perfect HtM' " health. The frost that will not melt at dawn was H on his hair, but the old ruddy complexion re- flj z) d mained, the old light was in his eyes, the old firm Hl,r, M( grasp was in his hand and he was dreaming of J k4nj "putting a girdle 'round about" the world's great- ill ' Hi est ocean Indeed, a ship loaded with the first sec- F IJ " iff tion of tlie Paclflc cate Inst week pulled out of 1 vl I If an EnSllsa Prt- He ought to have lived another Hl $ 1 HI en years The world needed his work, the poor if-I?rf needed his sympathy, the rich his high example. $ 1 He began life penniless, he died worth millions, F, 'JJfl but his wealth made no man poorer, his was f . 1 ; newly created money. He stormed the strongholds where nature had locked her treasures and took them in fair fight. In obtaining them no taint or stain was left upon his integrity or manhood, and his character shining back along the path which marked his high soul's flight is revealed white as a planet's light. Most wealthy men are estimated by the magnitude magni-tude of their fortune. Had Mr. Mackay remained poor he would still have been a chief among men, for there was a splendor of manhood about him compared with which gold is lusjterless. He was a great captain of industry, as winsome as he was commanding. Had he been made a prisoner by savages he would in a month have been made chief by natural selection. It is pitable to think of him as dead, but now that his transition has come, the memories of what he was are covered already with halos and they will finally cause his image to stand out magnified in its niche, in the great Hall of Fame where are placed the statues of the world's industrial Captains. |