at wealth, but are never rich.
To get rich it is necessary to mix thought with labor. To raise
the raw material is a question of strength; to manufacture, to put
it in useful and beautiful forms, is a question of mind. There is
a vast difference between the value of, say, a milestone and a
statue, and yet the labor expended in getting the raw material is
about the same. The point, after all, is this: First, we must
have revenue; second, shall we get this by direct taxation or shall
we tax imports and at the same time protect American labor? The
party that advocates reasonable protection will succeed.*

[* At this point, with far away peals of thunder, the storm ceased,
the sun reappeared and a vault of heavenly blue swung overhead.
"Let us get out," said Colonel Ingersoll. Suiting the action to
the word, the Colonel struck out lustily for the beach, on which,
hard as a rock and firm as flint, he soon planted his sturdy form.
And as he lumbered across the sand to the side door of his comfortable
cottage, some three hundred feet from the surf, the necessarily
suggested contrast between Ingersoll in court and Ingersoll in soaked
flannels was illustrated with forcible comicality. Half an hour
later he was found in the cozy library puffing a high flavored Havana,
and listening to home-made music of delicious quality. Ingersoll at
home is pleasant to contemplate. His sense of personal freedom is
there aptly pictured. Loving wife and affectionate daughters form,
with happy-faced and genial-hearted father, a model circle into which
friends deem it a privilege to enter and a pleasure to remain.

Continuing the conversation, ]

_Question_. In view of all this, where do you think the presidential
candidate will come from?

_Answer_. From the West.

_Question_. Why so?

_Answer_. The South and East must compromise. Both can trust the
West. The West represents the whole country. There is no
provincialism in the West. The West is not old enough to have the
prejudice of section; it is too prosperous to have hatred, too
great to feel envy.

_Question_. You do not seem to think that Arthur has a chance?

_Answer_. No Vice-President was ever made President by the people.
It is natural to resent the accident that gave the Vice-President
the place. They regard the Vice-President as children do a
stepmother. He is looked upon as temporary--a device to save the
election--a something to stop a gap--a lighter--