South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-09
WILSON WILL NOT
LET WALL STREET
RULE IN MEXICO
BY GusoN GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Gradually
II is dawning on the world that Pres.
Wilson intends that the influence OF
the United States shall be in favor OF
d constitutional republican form OF
government in Mexico and that even
the influence OF Wall SITS large in
vestments will not excuse a distator
ship and peonage. 1t is very radical
but very logical. After all, we are
the authors OF the Declaration of In
dependence.
A letter entirely in the handwriting
CT James A. Emery Of the National
Association Of Manufacturers shows
Mr.. Emery making the deal with for
mer Cong. Jim Watson by which Jim
got $3.50 week for boosting the
tariff board-thGt ingenious scheme
by which the Taft administration
sought 10 prevent any reduction Of
the tariff Before the letter was put
into the official record, Sen. Reed was
unkind enough to elicit from Emery
a clear-cut denial that he had any
part in making the Watson contract.
Springing letters like this on untruth-
full witnesses is much like dealing
from a stacked deck in a game with
hayseed sports.
Congress at the last session author
lied the postoffice department CO.
operating with the agricultural de-
partment to spend half million dol
lars for good roads. This expense
was conditioned on the use of twice
this sum by the states where such
roads should be located. Next year
the budget will contain a recon-
mendation for a million dollars to be
used under the auspices OF the post
office department alone in demon
strating a model rural delivery route.
and il is planned to locate this expert
mental road in Virginia between
Washington and Mt. Vernon.
In describing the manner in which
Cong. McDermott met Mulhall, the
congressman's former stenographer
testified that McMichael had told Nc
Dermott he had discovered something
good. IT'S an old guy with lots of
cush," McMichael said. IF we can
get him to back our flying machine
we'll all be in clover" For the bene-
| fit Of poet-lawyer Easby-Smith, the
witness explained that "cush" meant
coin of the realm. Then the testimony
wandered on for manv hours through
an ingenious explanation intended to
show that the Chicago congressman
was not jimmying money out of n. A.
| NJ, but was working Mulhall as SOFT
thing on a fake invention.
What to do about swollen fortunes
| became the text for some interesting
words in the senate when Bristow
/ tried to make more drastic the in
come-tax provision of the tariff bill.
John Sharp Williams. de factor demo-
! cratic leader (vice Simmons, incom-
| petent) philosophical in his usual en-
PERTAINING way. Sen. Williams admit
ted that the problem must be faced
| later if not sooner and did not deny
i 3D. hn1 civ n a
| earnest thought. 'I recognize said
| he, that a vast fortune may do harm
| in the hands of it's accumulation, but
/ recognize too that it may do harm
/ in a still greater way after he is dead
\ by being kept together by his d1rec-
/ ton; and l especially fear sort or
| habit that has grown up among rev
of the great rich families of America
| Of not permitting their fortunes to be
| divided equally between their children
but leaving them to the best money
| grubber in tho family, so that the de-
ceased may feel assured in some other
| life somewhere that his philosophy OF
life is being carried out by somebody
| who is nearest to him in his own lam
! ily. l realize all that. But l realize
! another thing: No honest man can
make war upon great fortunes per Sc
! The democratic party never has done
/ il: and when the democratic party be-
! democratic party and become the So
cialistic party of the United States;
or. better expressed, the communistiC
party or quasi-communistic party, OF
the United States. l have suspicion
that a man can not make one OF
these immense. great, big fortunes
honestly in one lifetime. Perhaps
that suspicion grows out of the fact
| that / myself am not a money-maker
and never have seen any way where
/ by I could honestly do it. There is nc
great difference between the intellecaS
of men. A man who makes money
as a rule, makes il not because he /:
smarter than the man who does MOI
make il, but because he loves money
more The man who loves learning
will grow learned; the man who love:
piety will grow pious; the man who
loves money will grow rich. He may
be naturally 90 percent less able and
with less information than the mar
who piles up his millions. That which
your heart yearneth for, that you are
pretty apt TO attain in this world, be
cause the ruling passion will subordi
nate everything else to its end