The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-08
NOVEMBER s

dVHs anu thtit- duu stfttataNioH* ANSN 'h'"e'
make the peoples business-and business Is the
daily God whom the people serve. When poll
tics comes along to distract attention, to take
the center of the stage away from commerce
and finance, the fear of politics as IL may affect
business is where the heart Of the public Is
conferred Conferred on business. the popular
heart fears for it's future by reason of politics.
But human this may be. it must be remen,-
bered that business" and not politics is the
central aim OF prosperous people
Like other general terms business has
hundred and different definitions. TO Wall
Street 1t means the business in shares: to Bos
ton II means mines. 10 Chicago wheat. and
pork: TO Cincinnati, flour; TO the South, cotton;
TO Montana copper; and To consider
able number OF gentlemen with easy flowing
diciion and vivid Imagination it means politics
But politics. business to a few. is not bust
ness TO the many. The people indulge politics.
much community accepts plague Of
measles among the children. Neither. however
pestiferous affects fundamentally the public
health.
The principle reason why no election will Sc.
riouss iniure business far its actual re-
suits concerned is that the politicians BY
whom election results are illustrated know that
whatever they may do and thrive, they must not
touch business They know that the moment
they make II more difficult for the average man
to live. that moment they sign their death war
rant, with execution certain if delayed. Poll
tics from time to time has injured business.
but always more because of the fear which the
people had Of the politicians than anything The
politicians did. The dscredit into which the
administration has fallen is because the poll
ticians mstook the restricted for the popular
conception OF business. Trusts more
business. in the grand total of endeavor In this
country, than politics. The business that uti-
matey will enforce it's demands is that which is
done by the mass OF small traders. and workers,
and builders who, they realize that they
suffer from legislation, always take 1t out on
the legislators In this way and this way only
is business Importantly in politics
In New York, where the campaign has been
frantic in it's intensity, the people will tomor-
row be cool. They will remember that the most
drastic political change can operate to scarce
Is than political "stand-off for two
years at least They will see that Colonel Roose-
welt was not the menace which business made
him out aud they will begin to appreciate what
think is the fact. that the interest of the
country In the New York situation was not re-
motely that OF the New Workers. themselves,
from the point Of view Of the stock exchange
New York looked upon Roosevelt as its mmed-
late destroyer; the nation divided in senti-
ment concerning him between those willing to
trus. with him the national destinies and those
others who giving him credit for his personal
force and popularity, nevertheless choose to
hold TO the caution OF established institutions.
rather than to follow selfproclaimed Noses
In other words the campaign in New York was
In the nature OF stock exchange battle: in
the country it stood for big politics. with bust
ness concerned only in far it's funda-
mentals might be slowly affected