The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial corresrondal ce }

OF politics and business are asking
what is going to happen IN me
near future2 They well know that
most OF the talk of renewed pros
perity is Tor the purpose OF bolster
ing up the Republican party and
the Wall street stock market. Neith-
er the q. 0. p. or the Wall Street
gamblers can exist without a bull
market, therefore, Sunshine CUBS
and Prosperity Conventions have
been organized, press agents hired
and wonderful tales told of the in
creased business being done. Still
there is trouble In business and poll
tics and no one can tell what will
happen.
The financial managers, OF course
are not deceived by the rosey re-
ports their agents have set in mo-
ton. Far from It. They are still
cropping bhndly along trying to stay
the flood of liquidation that has
continued in greater or lesser force
since last October when the panic
overlook them. That this is not an
overdrawn picture OF present condi-
tions is shown by the declaration
of that master of finance, Edward
| II. Hartman, that he is at his wits
! end:
"In fact, says Mr.. Hartman,
'things have become so complex
that scarcely know where am.
SO | am going out to the Siskiyou
Mountains to think over the situa-
tion, and when | come back | may
be able to talk intelligently con-
cerning the future.
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 doubt
tul There are some things that
leven Hartmann cannot do, although
we have been assured that he
stands upon a higher plane than
the best of us. History but repeats
itself and ages hence when the de-
tails of history becomes dim and
translators have warped the facts
to suit some ulterior object, the
STORY of Harriman's visit to the
Mountain may show that he was
lreally the unselfish man he says hi
is.
Still II is strange that Hartman
should take a Journey OF 5000 milel
or more, TO a mountain to SILENT!
commune with himself when othe
ountains are much nearer ant
easier to be reached. Is he like Sau
of old seeking someone to DIVINE
, what will happen, for there is NJ
doubt he is in a dire strait and a
t he says: II scarcely know where
t am" AS in Elijah's time, when h
. went TO the Mountain, a great win,
may rend the docks, or there ma
be an earthquake, or fire, but tn
still small voice, the voice OF con
i science, always comes after natur
has spent her forces and command
most attention.
win Hartman need It? Will h
r revise his past and reform his fu
= ture? His spirit is evidently strivin
Il for a change for the better, for n
y says;
J. "What | have done has not bee
g to make money, but simply becaus
! matters were becoming tangled an
y 1t had become necessary tor som
one to try to make bad situatio
better
r. "As | grow older l am beginnin
ie to think more OF my fellow mai
IS want to see this country tn
J. greatest on earth intend to hel
1t make 1t such"
Ie win the Power of Good preva
= over the powers OF evil and is Ha
. riman the human instrument for II
% lettering OF conditions? 1t may
:. so. When he returns from the MouI
tains of Siskiyou we may know.
1t is evident that there must I
great business or political perils In
N minent when the dominating spir
et of Hartman hos been humbled ar
Ig he seeks light on his perplexlti'
D. land has decided 20 help his fello
10 men and his country. He plain
c. tells us that matters have becon
er tangled and 1t has become necessal
re for some one to try TO make a ba
Is situation better.
20 Somehow | can hardly pictu
in my minds eye the insatlate Ha
40 riman as a reformer. He is a mast'
w OF Wall Street finance; he is r.
publican politician; in 1904 he WI
a delegate to the convention tn
re nominated President Roosevelt; h
" advice was sought by Mr.. Rooseve
r. at a crisis of that campaign ant
m raised the money, which he assure
e. us turned, the scale in favor of Il
ce Republicans in the pivotal State