This would have meant that I could never make another dollar.

More than that, I'd have thrown away a trade that I've learned and gone at another one that I know little about--a bad change, surely.

So, you see, there never was anything serious in this either in my mind or in the President's.

Arthur hit it off right one day when somebody asked him: "Is your father going to take the Secretaryship of Agriculture ?" He replied: "Not seriously." Besides, the President didn't ask me! He knew too much for that.
[Illustration: Charles D.McIver of Greensboro, North Caroline, a leader in the cause of Southern Education] [Illustration: Woodrow Wilson in 1912] But he did ask me who would be a good man and I said "Houston." You are not quite fair to him in your editorial.

He does know--knows much and well and is the strongest man in the Cabinet--in promise.
The farmers don't yet know him: that's the only trouble.