companies as prime factors in the debauching of the public servants. In the case in question the railroads threw their powerful influence to try and retain in office a known defaulter, gambler and grafter, and in his closing remarks Governor Hanly thus described the efforts made to save Sherrick:

"On the evening of September 13th I was informed by one who had been aiding him and in whom I have confidence, that he could not make payment on the 15th. I sent him a verbal demand for his immediate resignation. His resignation did not come, but some of his friends did come, and informed me that the money could be raised only upon condition that the defalcation be kept secret and that he be retained in office. I learned that some of the men who were to furnish the money were the representatives of large railroad interests. I could make no such bargain as that."

II. How Governor Hanly Rose From Extreme Poverty to The Gubernatorial Chair in a Great Commonwealth.

Governor Hanly was born in a little logcabin near St. Joseph, Champaign county, Illinois, in 1863. The family was very poor and the boy from early life had to toil early and late. His mother taught him the alphabet and how to spell out words, and when he was six years old his father purchased a history of the Civil war. This was one of the very few books in the little home, and it held for the child a great charm. He read and reread it when he had to spell out most of the words, and so great was its attraction for him that erelong he knew the contents by heart. At intervals, when he could be spared, he attended school, and like Lincoln he utilized

every spare moment in acquiring knowledge. When sixteen years of age he started in search of work in order to aid the family and also to earn enough money to permit him to attend normal school. He walked most of the way to Warren county, Indiana, where he secured work sawing wood during the winter, and in the spring he found employment on the farms in the vicinity. Later he was able to attend the Eastern Illinois Normal School, at Danville, after which he taught school during winters and worked on the farm or dug tile-ditches in the summers.

During all this time, however, he was carrying on his studies as opportunity permitted. He was a natural orator and inclination led him to select the legal profession. He was admitted to the bar in 1889. A year later he was elected to the State Senate, where his ability as a debater and forceful speaker placed him among the strong men of that body. In 1894 he was elected to Congress. His ability as a popular speaker was such that in all recent campaigns his services have been in great demand. He came within a few votes of defeating Mr. Beveridge in the Republican caucuses for United States Senator, and in 1904 he was elected Governor of Indiana by 85,000 plurality—the largest vote ever given a gubernatorial candidate in that state.

Though not so aggressive or pronounced as has been Senator La Follette, he has taken a stronger stand on the railroad question and for public morality than most Republican governors. If in the incoming period of national awakening Governor Hanly should develop the same strength and aggressiveness as were shown by Governor La Follette, daring to brave the public-service corporations and the party machine, it is highly probable that he may become a great popular leader—a commanding figure of national importance.

FAR

AR LESS than in the days when Lincoln was a lad is this great Republic a land of opportunities for the ambitious but poor young man. The rapid concentration of wealth has resulted in a steady narrowing of opportunity. A great army of employés have taken the place of the once large army of independent initiators, and these employés are expected to obey

the dictates of the master-spirits, regardless of the ideal of justice, equity or integrity. Hence too frequently they become idealless opportunists, slaves of corporate cupidity and avarice. If they display special ability in diverting money to the tills of the privileged few, they are highly paid, but to obey the mandates of the princes of privilege is to si

Photo. by Thorson, Des Moines, Iowa.
J. SIDNEY CRAIGER.

lence the higher and finer promptings of their own souls. This condition is most favorable to the production of men of intellectual shrewdness who are innocent of moral convictions and whose opportunism enables them to place all conscientious scruples in abeyance. The legitimate fruit of this condition has recently been seen in the insurance exposures, in the personages of the McCalls, the McCurdys, the Perkinses, the Ryans, the Hydes, the Alexanders; in the political world in the Quays, the Gormans, the Murphys, the Durhams and the Addickses; and in the financial and commercial world in the Morgans, the Belmonts, the Rockefellers, the Rogers and their ilk. But for the high-minded youths overmastered by lofty ideals, the present offers far fewer openings for employment than in the earlier days.

In the newer fields of work, however, there have been positions where the young have been able to gain a foothold and, in a degree

at least, to deal effective blows for civic righteousness, without the loss of positions which afforded them livelihood. Especially is this true of the profession of the cartoonist. It is only in recent years that the great daily papers have begun publishing daily cartoons, and since then a number of our most ambitious young men with pluck and ideas have forged to the front from obscure homes, and others are on the way. One of the youngest of these claimants for a place among the new pictorial historians of the daily press is Sidney Craiger, some of whose recent drawings are published for the first time in this issue of THE ARENA.

Mr. Craiger is an Iowa boy, born twenty years ago at Clinton. From his early youth he displayed a taste and aptitude for drawing. When twelve years of age his blackboard portraits of Longfellow, Holmes, Byron, etc., excited the admiration of his fellow-scholars in Norfolk, Iowa, where he at that time resided. In 1898 his father moved to Des Moines. There the son was in too delicate health to attend school, and with the earnest determination to do something which characterizes the typical Western boy, he began to systematically practice the drawing of cartoons. To use his own language recently given to the writer, "not wishing to be idle I turned my attention to copying newspaper cartoons. I copied scores and scores of Charles Lederer's cartoons from the Chicago Chronicle. My uncle sent me the papers, and I would draw every one of

THE "HAUL" OF FAME.

the cartoons and be out watching for the postman to bring another bundle. I was practically wrapped up in Lederer's cartoons. I used the backs of father's letters. Next year I began to think about being a cartoonist. I could not originate pictures, to say nothing of a cartoon. I wanted to take lessons, and my eye caught the advertisement of a correspondence school, and all the instruction I ever received was obtained by mail. I have tried to study and solve the rest myself. In 1902 I presented some of my work to Tyler McWharter, a well-known American cartoonist. He was drawing cartoons for the Register and Leader of this city (Des Moines) at that time. He is now on the St. Paul Dispatch. He told me I would be an artist some day, and from the day I met him I worked under him for about a year (until he left). I made a number of cartoons for this paper in Des Moines after he left, some of which were reproduced in other papers. The Register and Leader now gets all its cartoons from the other papers, a syndicate deal (you know what that means). I then had to shift for myself in this work. Not being discouraged, I took up commercial designing, making advertising designs and cover pages, and made good sales for my work. The

NO WONDER THE RUSS. AND JAP. KISSED AND MADE UP.

next year I illustrated college annuals, all the while making cartoons and pictures for our high school paper."

We have reproduced this frank statement in the exact language of Mr. Craiger, as it illustrates better than any description we could give, the pluck, determination and laudable ambition of the youth. It is this spirit that in large part is responsible for the greatness of America. The original cartoons which we publish in this issue taken in connection with the facts relating to Mr. Craiger's battle for a place among the cartoonists, promise much for the future, for they reveal elements necessary to complete success in his chosen profession. The cartoonist who wins a name and place must possess artistic aptitude and the mental alertness that enables the artist to quickly see a picture in the news of the day and express it in a striking manner. He should have a wide knowledge of literature and be thoroughly acquainted with familiar quotations as well as the common terms and phrases of the hour, as these may be employed to give special emphasis to his drawings or to make them instantly arrest and hold the reader's attention. And to these things should be added

ESIGNATION

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That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more."