Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-04
BUSINESS MEN.
England Wants More Of Them
in National Offices.
Other European Nations Realize Tha,
Here America Leads.
Emperor William o! Germany the Most Wild
Awake Monarch Of Europe.

| Ii is Il mistake To put merely
Humorous construction upon the re-
mark made by Lord Ruseberv at
Edinburgh recently to the effect that
he would prefer To see an administra-
tion made up entirely of business men.
such as Andrew Carnegie and Sir
Thomas Upton, rather than Of poli-
ticianS. 1t was no mere satire as
some of the newspapers on this side
| OF the Atlantic appear to believe. but
the expression of an opinion which
has Tor some time been current among
thoughtful people in the Old World,
| especially among these who have be-
come alarmed att Nthe phenomenal
growth of the power and prosperity
OF the United States at the expense of
their own countries.
| The superiority Of the American con-
sular reports to analogous literature
| supplied by the governments of other
| l.dtionS to their merchants and manu-
| facturers has long been ascribed by
| the people for whose benefit they are
| craWn up to the fact that the con-
abroad are largely recruited from
among business men. These men have
enjoyed the advantages of a business
training. ana know. therefore. pre-
ciSclY what is wanted of them by mer-
chants and manufacturers. 1t is the
same with the ambasSa dors and ENJOYS
Of I'll" United States abroad Being
business men rather than veteran
officials. they are far more successful
in the negotiation Of treaties of com
nlclcc and in securing advantages for
the trade ana industry Of their coun-
Try than those trained diplomats who
| have spent their entire career in the
service of their government. and who.
hF %ttachins exaggerated Importance
t0 Questions of form and detail, too fire.
cu"ntly compromise thereby the sue
cess of the whole. instead of subordi-
mating everything else thereto.
And the same train Of reasoning may
be applied to the administration of the
government itself. that is to say. to
the cabinet. There is no power on the
fare Of the globe that can vie today
with tn" United States in phenomenal
growth Of prosperity and development.
The national treasury enjoys Il high
Uesrce al credit, ana in point Of
economic grandeur it is assuming pro-
portions that are filing with alarm the
people on Wonder sid, of the Atlantic.
Al this is justly ascribed by thought
ful men. such as Lord Eosebery to the
fact that the United States admins
tration more than any other govern
The world * T1,.yipI on a.
ing tu business principles. by business
men. y successful banker. such as
TIE present secretary of the treasury.
is Inure likely to prove d capable min
iSter of the national finances than the
chancellor Of the British exchequer, Sir
Nj hazel Hicks Beach. who having
spent his entire life since he came of
age in Parliament, with no occupation
when out of Office except that Of Il
Tory squire and territorial magnate.
has TO practical knowledge of finance
or OF business, and is altogether out Of
touch with the principal bankers,
manufacturers, merchants and finan-
cial leaders Of the realm. In the same
Nay lawyer such as Elihu Root.
who ever since his call to the bar has
been associated in the management Of
great corporate and business enter
p.iSnS, cannot tail To prove more sue
ccSstul AT the head Of a department Of
WHr than q man like St John Brodick
whose training mas been purely and ex-
lUsiVely political Parlia amentary af-
ioirS and occasional terms of govern
m"nt Office having monOpoliZe1 his
-ncrgies and his attentions ever since
hc Jame .! age. some five and twenty
years ago.
There is only one essentially business
hIan in the present English cabinet.
namely Joseph Chamberlain. who be
fore takinG to politics made large
fortune as 4 screw manufacturer at
birmingham. and who is an object Of
molly terror both to his collea gues and
70 The permanent officials or
Bureaucracy. for the various govern
m"nt departments. by reason of his
aversion to what is known as red
tgr'. ANA his deter minati0n to apply
5tEsihle business principles and meth
dds 70 every enterprise that he takes in
hand.