| Show TIlE THE CO CONTROL OP 01 TIlE THE SENATE Extract from Senator es e's ur- ur In the Saturday Evening Post Take Tako the composite result of or these thee two wo laws laws the tho law of least resistance and the law of at effectiveness and and you ou will vill find the almost automatic Intelligence Intelligence intelligence Intelli Intelli- gence that operates railroads and factories fac- fac tories tones mines and ships and ond Indeed that hat directs all systematic activities For Tor example If It a great railroad s system stem s 's tem em secures a good man who constantly constanty constant constant- ly y docs does his work better each day than thun he 10 did the tho day before It Is only following following fol- fol lowing the tho law of ot least resistance to keep him In the railroads railroad's employ and stead steadily 11 to prom promote to him rather than discharge him and try a new man whom you ma may think to be better but whom you OU do not know to be bo better Automatically such a man goes steadily stead stead- ly ily II higher In position and power So Sove Sowe o owe we ve see superintendents of or great railroad rail rail- road oad lines who began humbly I know lenow one whoso first service to the s system he 10 now commands was that of a arrel freight ht handler at a dollar a CL day and another one another one of ot the tho real generals of ot whose transportation whose start In his railway allway career was In turning brakes on n the obsolete freight trains of at 10 years ago ngo Applying these plain principles of ot the he operation oo o all nature to tho the United States Senator Senate you find one reason eason for tor what loosely Is called the tho control of ot the Senate It Is said that row Now England exorcises an Influence over ver this American legislative court or of f last lost resort far tar beyond what the tho area of or Now New En or Its population lon tion or tho the Intelligence of ot Its people or an any other natural circumstance justifies when considered In comparison compari- compari son lon with other sections of ot tho the republic lic tc and this Is true But how film simple pIe the he explanation With notably few tew exceptions the New England states keep their Senators continuously In iii Inho ho tho Senate Senate keep keep them for life lite one I might almost sa say r. r Upon the thc death or r retirement ment of ot a New cw England senator senator sena- sena tor or his state selects the tho man it believes be- be be beeves eves to be bo the tho best hest man to succeed him and whether he Is s tho the best man manor manor or r not not he ho Js Is usually a ta fairly stroll strong man miln At an any rate late he represents with steadiness and vigor the tho dominant sentiment or ruling power of or the that hat selects him and keeps on seating It It-Is It Is steadily faithful to It Having Ha selected him tine the state keeps him that that Is the point Year after year ear term after term he serves at atho ho time nations nation's capital accumulating ev- ev absorbing information a acquiring ac- ac quiring all nU those elements of ot usefulness usefulness useful useful- ness or at least of or power which como come from rom long familiarity with the work or of f government Even If It such a man manhave have havo only moderate abilities ho he Is 18 is at atthe atthe the he end of ot 20 or 30 years years' service more than a match so 90 far tar as conduct ot of f the tho business of 01 the Senate Is concerned con- con for tor an any two new senators who might light be much abler than he and so soar tar far ar as tho the control of ot the Senate Senates Is s concerned he is more potent than hair bait a do dozen n brand new no matter mattel how talented talented for for the senator or of f long service Is In places pit of or now r which nothing but long service can give Ivo I |
