The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-06
POLITICIANS ARE
GRAVEST MENACE
Men Who Rule Affairs of Nation
Have SO Little at
Stake.
OPINION OF JUDGE GARY
He Believes Public Is Beginning
to See Things in Right
Light.
OPINION OF JUDGE GARY
ny II. G. FORBES.

New York, October 81 had a long,
cnlightcning. heart heart talk to-
day with Judge Gary. commander
in-chief Of the greatest Industrial army
In the neutrality-suspicious. the hardest and
certainly one of the best filled, posi-
tons in America.
Judge Gary Is democratic. rather
than autocratic. He has always ia
vored vigorous campaign against the
over working and under paying of his
employees, against ali dangerous phases
Of work. and in favor of enabling
workers to become personally interest
cd in the annual profits. With frank
ness that startled his political inquisi-
tors at Washington some time ago,
Judge Cary declared lie had not the
slightest objection 10 having the gov
eminent regulate industry. even to the
length of limiting prices, in certain
cases and under certain conditions. lie
is not bgoted, as YOU VIII thus see.
Not Mcnnt for Publication.
Before quoting what Judge Gary
said to me. l should explain that our
talk was strictly CONFIDENTIAL and that
not one word Of it was meant for
publication. was so impressed, how
ever, with some of the judges state
ments that | succeeded in persuading
him to allow me TO print them. He
| said for example:
try is that the politicians who rule
affairs to-day have so little at stake
in the outcome of their acts They
arc little affected IL they turn pros
pcrity into depression. Few Of them
have large bodies of employees dcpen-
dent on them for regular work at liv
ing wages. If they had they would
count the cost of action. and they
would feel a heavier weight Of re-
| sponsibility
| after all, 4 nation is dependent
upon its business activities and sue
| cess. Unless you can Ill a mans
stomach. it is useless TO talk TO him
about nonmaterial things. You can
not build on an empty stomach. This
applies to both nation and man.
During my vacation have had time
to think things over. to study the gem
eral trend. AS you know. | have felt
uneasy for the last two years could
see many dangerous elements in our
social and political life.
Feels More Optimistic.
Tut / have somewhat chan.c1 my
/ views. / now feel more opti"istic.
more like my old self believe the
! public are beginning TO see things in
! tie right light. They are less ready
/ 10 lie stampeded by denagogues. They
are getting tired of corporation bait
| ing, of senscless attacks upon capital.
, They are beginning to realize that their
| own welfare is bound up with the
! " elfare of general business more than
with the sedtious demagogues. The
great majority of the people have
stopped listening to revolutionary pro-
posals They don't want TO turn our
institutions upside down. We have. l
| hope, passed the outburts OF hysteria
that at one time threatened to be
frightfully disastrous
What has all the political clamor
| against our company amounted to?
| What have all the Investigations re
vealed? Has anything whatever of an
undetermined nature or of a detrimental
nature been discovered?
| "This corporation early in it's his
tory laid down the maNims:
I've are very big. The only way
we can succeed is by being absolutely
fair and above board, fair TO our men,
| fair to competitors. fair TO consumers
and frank with the public
I'VE have tried honestly and CON
, scientiously to live up TO that stand
ard And have YOU heard. in all the
noise raised against us by the politi-
clans. one word of condemnation by
any competition. customer or cmploye?
| Have they complained Of unjust meth
DDS. Have they not testified that We
have conducted our business on fair
and reasonable lines? We may not be
| entitled To praise for this hut we GER
| tainly do not deserve ccnsurc."
Hopeful of Future.
Questioned OH the business outlook,
| Judge Gary referred TO the damage
| sustained by the crops and to the
| uncertainty that would unavoidably
attend the initiation OF the new tarin.
| but said. nevertheless he was hopeful
that general trade would be OF salts
| factory volume CONCERNING conditions;
ana prospects in the steel industry, he
| sad:
| with the basic conditions good. and
in view OF the present attitude OF the
administration. as 1 understand il. we
| have reason to be very hopeful of the