The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-01
GOMPERS TELLS
OF N. A. M. WORK
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

the typewriter statement which Bran
denburg had prepared for him. A future
meeting was decided upon. Gompers
took the statement and without showing
its contents. had one of his friends,
Vice President James Duncan, OF the
Federation, attach his name and the
date to II as a means Of Identification.
On the following morning Brandenburg
and Gompers met again, and the former
repeated his offer. Gompers expressed
doubt as TO Brandenburg's authority to
speak for the n. A. NJ. Finally he in
sisted that President Van Cleave. who
then was in New York, should meet him
personally and approve the proposition.
According to Gompers, Brandenburg
finally said: well, / will arrange that
Mr.. Van Cleave will meet you in Wash
ington.''
Continuing, Gompers says:
In his effort to convince me that he
was an authorized agent and representa-
tive of the --ational Association of Manu-
facturers. he showed me vouchers and
warrantc and receipts for money paid to
him as its agent The warrants and
vouchers and receipts were in printed
forms of the Century Syndicate, No. l
West Thirty-fourth Street, New York
City. and also printed thereon that 1t was
a bureau or department OF the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Did Not Call Up.
Mr.. ,Brandenburg was very insistent
that I should let him have a written
statement He said that unless he had
1t by the following day. Monday. It would
be of no use to him. / told him that
could not then make him a promise to
do so. but IL made up my mind to do
so l would call him up over the phone
at his home, Il Irving Place, telephone
1873 Grammercy, and tell him. did not
call him up; / did not write it.
Il Immediately went to my room and
there related to Mr.. Duncan and Mrs.
Huber every detail of the statements
made in the conference with Mr.. Bran
denburg.
THE publication OF the malicious and
scurrilous attack in the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers organ. the
American Industries, followed a few
days later. and il made II quite clearly
apparent that the purpose Brandenburg
had to secure from me some written
statement was for its publication as a
sort of recantation or confession in con-
nection herewith.
THE paper Brandenburg asked me
TO sign has never left my possession.
1t is as follows:
so by devious ways / have come
in view of the end of the period. Not
far away is the final cessation OF some
thing mortal, that l know, but that
mystery of the suspension OF other
things immortal must yet be made
clear Soon ] shall stand where l shall
see with unblinded eyes, and to that
point must come everyone. no matter
by what path. and the realization of
that fact palliates the bitterness with
which could contemplate my own
course, were it not true.
Philosophy of Death.
For / have struggled with the hum
blest on a plane of equality. and
have walked and talked with the Nigh
ty ones of the earth and have lent them
my power. The poor cigarmaker's APP
prentice has lived to become the master
of a million minds, and lived a little
longer 10 he what he is today, not
even a master OF himself .-
There is nothing OF the whine in this.
Emptied. broken as l am, l have moth
ing TO ask. Nothing I might achieve
would matter in a little while and this
what l write is. after all, nothing more
than my retrospective thoughts expressed
the accustomed medium of my
pen. Wisdom is cumulative. and out OF
my abundance I might endow posterity.
Vengeance by the law of compensation
overreaches the grave. and 1 might undo
more men a score OF times than will re-
greet my passing. Justice is eXquisitely
and l might with a truth told
here and there paliate many a grave
miscarriage. But why? Why should l.
having driven on to my own aims, leave
my now disabled chariot to retrace the
Each man in his way. be II great |
Dr. small. exists in an attitude toward the |
world at large, in a second attitude to-
ward his immediate associates. and in a
third and almost invariably different
very different-attitude before his own
inner consciousness. Stripped of the |
sophistry which served as a mental lubri- |
can't when in activity. l stand at halt, |
my own ego. |
~ see lust OF power that has tri- !
Imphed again and again
And there it abruptly stopped"
Gompers showed his associates the iden-
teal paper handed him by Brandenburg, |
and which had been Endorsed and dated |
nv lanes Duncan