A PICTURESQUE AMERICAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9103, 1 June 1908, Page 4

A PICTURESQUE AMERICAN.

Here is a man whom "Munsey's Magazine" calls "one of the most picturesque figures in American public life" —Senator Beveridge:—"He began his life upon a farm. He has known poverty. He has worked with his own hands as a ploughboy. He has hauled lumber as a logger. He has lived the open-air life of a plainsman. Pie has been a college student, a law clerk, a practitioner of law, and at the age of thirty-six he became a Senator of the United States. Every one recognises in him a first-rate politician. In his forty-sixth year, he is one of the most picturesque figures in American public life, and stands in the vanguard of men who are doing things. Unless some untoward accident should intervene, it is safe to say that his career has only well begun. He is a profound believer in his own star. He i« a man who can move only in one direction, and that is forward. To retrograde with him would be death. By his studj of men, measures, and books, by the lessons of experience and the self-discipline of hard work, he is continually adding to his mental and political equipment."