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BILL X YE A XI ) G RO V l ! lt
WILLIAM DROPS IT ON TH2. PP.I2S
DEHT AND HAS A CHAT
Sarins Wlilch lie Learns Some -Thlnn
Hot Intended For Publication, but 1
Able to Say That Hverythins Will !:
All Klffht Soot o the Iawu Tax.
(Copyright. -122V. by. C!;: r Y ; yt-
ProLablv next to. Mr. CIcvr Ir::i! him
self iiecriliiry Daniel S. Ln::io;;t is tlv
Btrongfifit evidence and tho L-n-.in x
ample iio-tv living of what may bj ilo?:
by an ani!i: tioas American boy Lara:nt
is the f.ivu ito in tho present cabinet net
only of who knew him ccuerally.
bat of th'.i president himself
With s-.H 'lao respect to tho present
secretary of the treasury, I think b3 is
a greater I -jjislator than financier Why
vre shonl.i think in this republic that a
man whu can mako a good speech en-j
ffaereforo liine as a warrior or a finan
cier 1 do notrknow. Emineuco of one
kind is nor tho evidence of greatness in
a totally different direction, and that is
Where we makfc a great big mistake in
M
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h m lft
with thk ii:::n:::xT.
national all'airs. Cdar A. Poo wrote
some wonderful.- poems, bat as a busi
ness mau ho did not resemble Russell
Sago iu any way.
We eft en find a bright editor sold cni
by the RherilT because it is very' differ-'
ent writing comments on current events
from preparing dividends for stock
holders. f Sir. Lament is a sound headed, cool
business man who could net on tho 6pnr
of tho moment write a sonnet that Tho
Century Mr.gaziuo would give over ?o
for, and yet ho makes a most successful
minister, lie also turns down his wine
glass, and that is a good thing to do ir.
these days of "overwork."
"Overwork is getting altogether too
common among great men overwork
of tho growler it would bo called if
found in tho leaver walks of lifo.
; It requires a good deal of genuine
' courage sometimes for a man who is
called genial to go through a four hoar
dinner and mako a humorous aud spar
kling speech on apollinaris. But it can
bo done- so l am told -and has been
dono.
1 mado a visit at tho Whito Hcuso
not long ago, and though I am not at
liberty to repeat fully tho conversation
between Mr. Cleveland and myself 1
can truly say that times will be easier
and better inside of a few weeks.
With a card from tho secretary of
rar I dropped in on Secretary Thurber
one pleasant afternoon with no design
on tho president, for it was cabinet day,
and you will never catch mo breaking
np a cabinet meeting with thocondition
that national affairs are now in.
Air. Thurber is a very busy man in a
trying place, but the manages to keep
good naiurcd and preserves tho peace
pretty well between tho enterprising
press and tho administration.
One of his experiences,' if I have not
told it before, may bear telling here, for
it shows one phase of his lifo as a body
guard to tho president of a great Demo
cratic nation.
A very attractive and gentlo manner
ed woman called to see the president on
an important matter, but he was very
busy, and the secretary said it would bo
out of the question.
So she laid her caso iu extenso before
Air. Thurber in order , that ho might
present it to the president Tho matter
involved a good deal of detail, and the
secretary saw at one that he could not
trust his memory with it So ho asked
her to be kind enough to write out the
case as clearly and succinctly as possible
for his convenience. . '
"But could you not remember it your
self Mr Thurber?" she inquired, with
big, blue, appsiliag, childlike eyes.
i "No, madam," said he. "With the
TOlume of other matters and tho gTcat
variety cf widely different affairs that I
am obliged to keep in mind from day to
day I am sure that 1 could not rely upon
myself to retain all these details. It
would bo a physical impossibility. "
"So yon could not keep the matter in
mind without a written memorandum?"
she asked.
"No; I am quite sure I could not."
"Well, then, " said she as shedrw
herself up to her full height, "all I've
got to say is that you've got a d d
poor memory!" -
With this terse remark she turned
tho blinding glare of a big diamond on
the astonished secretary and floated
away like a beautiful dream.
While we were talking the cabinet
i filed out, and the president, with ill
concealed delight, asked mo to come in
He does his work in a large, baro look
ing room at the back of tho White Douse,
on the second floor, overlooking the park
and monument.
Aswe talked be toyed with the waste
paper basket, swinging it to and fro ty
the ears while four or five official heads,
still warm and wet with clotted blood
in the clustering hair, rolled about aud
bumped against each other inside.
(The above is a figure of speech, of
course, for, as a matter of fact, tbei
was nothing in tho basket whatever ex
cept a torn note from a New York pub
lisher asking the president to writo an
article for bis holiday number on "Ad
vantages and Disadvantages of Bait
That Has Been Spat Upon. ")
"I am glad to sco yen, Nre. raid
the president, "fcr I know that you
don't want anything. Yon don't know
how welcome tho friend . these day.
whose cup of happiii's is full and who
does not yearn for anything. WortM
you mind locking through tho key huh'
cf that door a minuto to feo if any one
has his eyoor oar against it on tho other
side?"
"Certainly not," said I, gor:g to the
doer and cursorily glancing through tbo
keyhole as ho bade me do.
"Well, " paid he, dropping his voicj
to a whisper, "I wanted to gay a word
to you privately. You aro a saforaa i. to
intrust with a coulitlencc, I know, -for
even though you write for tho press yon
would uo5 betray me, I kuow, and even
if you did no one woull belL-vo what
you said.
"I have been wanting to tell some'
one fcr a longtimo this littlo truth that
is eating my life slowly away I c-t..vI
not tell it to members of I ho c:;I; :ur
very well, for each of them haj hi:? o.v.i
personal troubles to worry over. I can
not even tell my wife, for -she, too, has
her household matters to think cf, but
I wanted to tell scino kind friend, who'
would i:ot run right to tho toIe;!;r;;:o
with it, that 1 fear ocngrc trs i.; conceal
ing co:rcthi:?3 from i vs
"I d.r.ct L:;owv;I;t it L, bnt-Il:uov
it is something. Whenever 1 rrn acror?
congress suddenly it stops vh::t it wr...
speaking abont and looks cuS of tl:?
window for qnito a spoil and rooms to
bo cerebrating. Of c our so thai is all an
suuted, for congress never cerebrates
Now, no ono can understand how un
happy all this innkcs rio r.!:!c: ho h?.z
been president himself a::d hi. 1 a con
gress on his hands that t!oe not
him its full conS-.lcncc.
"Tho first sign I noticed of reserve
was when congress was out till after 1'2
o'clock ono night and did not tell ir.o
where it had been. Tho r.er.t morning
it could not look mo in tho faca. I fear
that it is loading a dcublo life.
"What would yon do if you wcro i::
my place?
"Of course somo of the things con
gress dees gets into Tho Congressional
Record, but that is only a blind, for
surely what wo sco in Tho Rocord could
not take up one-fourth of its tino.
"Now aud then congress passes an
act j authorizing tho building cf a
bridge perhaps and sends it down hero
for, my signature, but that is cu!y to
mislead mo and mako me think that 1
have its confidence and am allowed to
come in on tho ground floor.
"Formerly congress used to como
right up to mo and lcok mo straight in
tho eye and sallow mo to smell of its
breath, and there was absolute confi
dence between us, but now tho moment
I go np thero to listen to' the conversa
tion both houses go into executive ses
sion, and I have to go out and sit cn
tho doorstep. It has been so all winter.
"No ono can fully sympathize with
me, for no ono understands the casa
Some ask me if I intend to call an extra
session. What should I call an extra
session for when congress is so reticent
and taciturn when in my society?
"Of course I feel hurt aud grieved,
for when a congress will not give the
president its confidence and comes in
late of nights-and takes off its boots to
go up stairs one feels that it must come
to a bad end. "
With that tho president wiped away
a big hot tear. As I camo away his head
wa3 bowed sorrowfully on his desk, and
coixo Tnnoccn x iu.xk.
a live green Potomac frog that tho pres
ident had in his pocket to fish with aft
er 4 o'clock had escaped and had, after
a cold plunge in the inkstand, quietly
vetoed a bill relative to the collection
of the income tax.
I like Washington, as wo say in North
Carolina, right mnch. I have had no
leisure for loneliness or ennui. The
man who can bo ennuied in Washington
must bo an abnormal anthropoid. Here
you see everybody. The people send
their statesmen here and then come here
to see how, they are behaving them
selves. Thus we have the opportunity
of meeting the eminent and thoso who
made them so.
Here we find the blade, then the ear
and after that the full corn in the ear.
The root and branch of government are
here, and if you keep your eye out yon
will also find the foliage the ver
dancy, so to speak. It comes to seek ap
pointment or appropriation and some
times blows but the gas.
I am interested in politics only as
every citizen the head of a family should
be, I apprehend. As a taxpayer of
course I am interested. I am emphatic
ally down on tho income tax, as every
man is who has any principle or inter
est ' - -
When wo get where we must tax en
terprise and impose a fine upon business
intelligence by taxing a laudible ambi
tion and exempting and rewarding mis
management, we need the aid and com
miseration of other nations. It is the
praiseworthy ambition of every good
citizen to mako of his particular busi
ness an hcuorablo enccess. Tho incomo
tax punishes him for this and encourages
him to do exactly what Ananias did.
And to go still further with tho simile
ho is supposed to report tho incomo of
his wife Sapphira. Sapphira is not a
citizen. Sho has no rights, and tho col
lector has no authority to question her
about her income; but I, for instance,
still carrying cut this idea, will bo rc:
quired to report my wife's income, and
if our united incomes should bo over the
stipulated amount I must pay a tax on
it, so my wifo is not only disfranchised,
but the fact is emphasized by making my
a detective, and I must not only pay a
tax on my efforts -to earn more than
$3,o00 per year, but I must go through
my wifo's pockets after sho ha3 retired,
no matter how difacult it may bo to as
certain where thoso pockets aro and how
to get into them, in order to cscerta:
what sho got for her butter and eg
during tho current year, aud if I fail to
do thio and to add it to my own inpomo
I am a traitor to my country.
Whatever future generations may
say of our intcllig?nco . and statesman
ship I know not, but I am positive that
their remarks regarding rko income tan
'will bo entirely unfavorable.
. I am also required to report the in
como of minor children and to go
through their littlo toy banks whilo they
arc ask: p. ,
I was a postmaster once, rand I point
to that era of prosperity with pride. I
held tho olrico but four years, and yet it
was a period of uninterrupted peace and
comfort. Wheat was $1 a bushel and
hay $20 per ton. Everybody had em
ployment, and dres3 sleeves did not re
quiro crinoline to hold them in shape.
There wero no strikes, and peer people
did not study Delcartc.
My ofneo was rinsed out thoroughly
every spring, and I have never repeated
a word outsido of my family which I
read on any of tho postal cards pa;sin;;
through my hands. I regarded tho office
as a solemn trust, and I never failed to
put back the illustrated papers and
magazines into their wrappers after. I
had glanced over them. Goodwhitocak
aud hickory wood sold for 4 per cord,
and wo wero at peaco with all the na
tions cf tho earth. Letters left uncalled
fcr for the required time wero advertised
in my own paper, and patrons of tho
office who suffered from drought had
their stamps licked for them without a
murmur.
Only enco I had congressional ambi
tions, and that was temporary. I visit
ed Wyoming at the time cf.her admis
sion to tho fJnion as a state, and tho
legislature offered to make mc a senator
if I would become a citizen, and I was
tempted to do it, for it was a great hon
or, but I remembered how close tho air
is in the senato chamber and how many
interruptions I would havo while doing
literary work and while other senators
were speaking and when I needed ab
solute quiet, so I declined tho seat Be
sides, too, tho salary is only 5,000 per
year, and I would havo to mako cam
paign speeches every fall without any
box office receipts. I would have to give
a large part of my salary to various
charities, and littlo red babies would bo
named after me, each of whom would
have to receive a silver mug. The pa
pers at home would attack me every
time I failed to vote, and even harder
perhaps when I did vote. My business'
at home would go to the dogs, and if I
failed of a re-election I would be mad
and sick at heart My boys would grow
up to think the government ought to pro
vide for them and the railroads give
them passes. My wife would need a
new dress, and wo would feel hurt if
we did not get as much attention as the
senators from New York and Massachu
setts. I would have to bring my team"
here to Washington, where feed is high,
and the reporters would bo all tho time
asking me what wa3 done during the
executive sessions, and they would roast
mo and rake up old personalities if I re
fused to tell them, and tho senato would
despise me if did not refuse, and there
you are.
On tho whole, I decided to remain
free as a bird, freo to eat with my
knife, free to express my opinions, free
to ride on tho hcrso cars, freo to attend
whichever church I chose, freo to criti
cise legislation, freo to go to sleep in
the press gallery and freo to writo as I
am now writing.
Yesterday I received advance sheets
of a new poetic volume which will soon
astonish tho world. It is by a rising
poet, who asks ma to mention the book
casually in the paper, so that the pub
lic may be prepared for it and net fool
away its money on ether literary trash
nrior to the aDDearance of this work.
In a frank outburst of poetic passion
tho poet writes on the title page as fol
lows: If all the poems I havo trritton
Was piled together in a pile.
And xrith a candel it was litten.
Yon could see the fire for a mile.
If all the gold that I have gotten
For all the poems I have wrote.
It would cot hurt tho feeblest kitten
To pour it molten down her throat
The book teems with such beautiful
figments of the brain as this and will
mark an era in the literary history of
the United States. I was about to say
that it sounds the tocsin of a literary
revolution, but perhaps I should say tho
antitoxine instead.
-
A Great Baby.
Adoring Grandmother Isn't he a
lovely child?
Calm Visiter Yes; he's a nico baby.
. Adoring Grandmother And sointek
ligentl He just lies there all day an
breathes and breathes and breathes.
Tit-Bits. -
Explained. x
"Has Mr. Staylate regular evenings
for calling here?"
"Yes. Why?"
"I've often wondered where he call
ed when I rfusa to, see him Tuesdays
and Fridays.'' Chicago Inter Ocean.
The United States is on the HVe of a
diplomat!.-victory in the controversy
with Germany over its cUim that
American cattio were-! diseased and
were solely for tint reason jdiut out of
Germany, and the. prohibition . i ex
pected to b? shortly rtvuove-I, Jl-v lirc
inan gorernmewt h-iriii Ih'Cii ton
rinced of its error. When Germany
removes the prohibition tli other Eu
ropean countries which followed, her
in adopting it ill pr.:!y i' (ha
S9-ine. This victory will l.e.ir leslimony
tothe wudom f? Prudent ( 'Ifve.'. ud
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