Seullin was not robust as a boy and 5 a substitute for the more st ous games of youth, ko became a voracious reader and attended night school on top of the day's toil. His father, a keen and discriminating got. young Jim to yead to ind the new Prime Minister tributes much of his early know-Jedge to his senior's selection from the storehouse of knowledge.
Young Scullin's first job was as bush labourer. Then he became a Touseabout in a gold mine and later full-blown miner when he learnt What real work meant. An injury sustained brought him into the Grocery business during which time the studied law and then the urge polities came. He got plenty of Himelight when in 1906 at the age of 80 he opposed the late Alfred Deakin, Australia's greatest orator, Jin the' general: election campaign.
The silver-tongued Prime Minister of. the time cancelled his engagements in the other States to draw political swords with James Henry Seultin, The young man was beaten, but] Australia bogan to sit up and take notice of the new challenger and in 1910 ho met political success in the wave which overwhelmed the Deakin-Cook fusion. In Parliament, hho impressed the older members by his enthusiasm but by his efficiency as a legislator. Members: fon both sides always gave him hearing for they realized that he} had something to say in his, well Prepared speeches.
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