Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-08-11
HARTMAN AND
THE PRESIDENCY
His UttePanceS Puzzle to the
Candidates and
Politicians

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. s.
Especial Correspondence. People
here who keep close watch of politics
and business are asking what is go
ing to happen in the near future?
They well know that most of the
talk OF renewed prosperity is for the
purpose of bolstering up the repub-
lican party and the Wall Street stock
market. Neither the G. o. P. or the
Wall Street gamblers can exist with
h out a bull market, therefore, Sun
Il shine Clubs and Prosperity conven-
n tions have been. organized, press
n agents hired and wonderful tales told
Of the increased business being done.
Still there is trouble in business and
politics and no one can tell what will
happen.
The financial managers, of course,
are not deceived by the rOsey reports
their agents have set in motion. Far
from 1t. They are still cropping blind
ly along trying to stay the flood of
liquidation that has continued in
greater or lesser force since last Oc-
tober when the panic overlook them.
That this is not an overdrawn pic
ture of present conditions is shown
FDy the declaration of that master
of finance, Edward H. Hartman, that
he is at his wits end:
In fact" says Hartman, things
have become so complex that l.
scarcely known where / am. So
am going out to the Siskiyou noun
tains to think over the situation, and
when | come back l may be able to
talk intelligently concerning the flu
tuTe.'
Whether Mr.. Hartman will be able
to gather his wits about him in the
solitude of the Siskiyou mountains
and be thus able to tell us about the
future is very doubtful. There are
some things that even Hartman can
not do, although we have been as
sured that he stands upon a higher
H plane than the best of us. History
but repeats itself and ages hence
when the details of history become
dim and translators have warped the
facts to suit some Interior object,
II the story of Harriman's visit to the
mountain may show that he was
really the nnselfish man he says he
is.
Still it is strange that Hartman
should take journey of 5000 miles,
o. more, to a mountain to silently
commune with himself when other
mountains are much nearer and cas-
Ter to be reached. 1t is like Saul
of old seeking someone to divine
what will happen, for there is no
doubt he is in dire strait and as
he says, Il scarcely known where |
am. AS in Elijah's time. when he
went to the mountain. a great wind
may rend the rocks, or there may be
an earthquake. or fire, but the
still small voice, the voice of con-
science. always comes after nature
has spent her forces and commands
most attention.
VIII Hartman heed It? Will he
revise his past and reform his future?
His spirit is evidently striving for
n change for the better, for he
says:
What have done has not been
to make money. but simply because
matters were becoming tangled and
it had become necessary for some
one to try to make a bad situation
better.
AS grow older am beginning to
think more Of my fellow-man. I
want to see this country the greatest
on earth. intend to help make II
such
VIII the Power Of Good prevail
over the powers of evil and is Har-
riman the human instrument for the
lettering OF conditions? Il may be
so. When he returns from the
mountains OF Ssskiyou we may know.
II is evident that there must be
fCOritinued on maze three.