The Washington herald., 1914-08-16
BABY POLITICIANS.
Chancellor Day Pictures What They
Have Done to the Country.

4 Have Done to the Country.
In an article on why Millions Are Out
i Of Work" James r. Day. chancellor Of
j Syracuse University, says IN Lesliss:
"A sQualling baby can put ehronom-
4 eter out Of commission Ia five seconds
4 or put itself out Of commission as quick
L ~ by pulling the household cat across
the carpet by its tail We have lots Of
baby politicians In these days who are
doing such things
4 1T requires age and experience ana
1 great ability 70 haE1le even the very
j commonplace affairs OF q eountry's do
nestle economy in these times, IKE trade
and manufactures and commerce. to say
4 nothing OF the great foreign interests
IN exports and imports and diplomacy.
Our national business demands the
| greatest men Of the continent. It Il diff
1 ficult TO get them What we DO get
presents the spectacle OF most conflict
/ ing and destructive variations or views
\ and temperaments, and We scarcely get
out OF one administration before we are
plunged into the opposite opinions OF
I another. 70 the bewilderment and con-
fusion Of the country's business
Il One time We had q real statesman
who uttered some Of the most president
\ wisdom the country had ever heard on
the future Of its commerce, but an as
\ sassin ended his carer. Then we had
| President Of so tremendous energy and
\ expanding force that he would have
\ blown himself into a thousand pieces II
he handn't blown off steam at every
valve, including the whistle, while he
/ changed the bell for everybody to get
off his track The trouble was that that
II escaping steam blew 20 fragments some
\ Of the most magnificent structures ever
built up In any countpy and the wreckage
has not been cleared off the tracks yet.
6wFF NTaa Al. Ia kaW FV3NC
has been expanding itself IN recent years
on lions and tigers and the exploration
| OF jungle rivers.
That President Of superb ability but
misguided and dangerous energies was
succeeded by a placid nature. a personi-
fed smile, with real statesmaaship ideals
and consummate ability. but lie attempted
10 inherit the policy Of his predecessor
and got stuck in a hole too small for him.
As he hung there, blocking the hole. his
i predecessor went TO digging 4 tunnel
Il under him for q third term. but before
he got II done another candidate climbed
over the fence and got into the White
\ House. So here you have three distinct
\ types Of Presidents IN a few years. show
/ ing no fixed plan or continuity Of thought
or definite policy Of government, but in
! PRODUCING endless confusion into our com
merce and manufactures. destroying NIL
lions OF our business
Now We have an academician. col
lege president who manages the country
as he did unruly college students. with
/ little speeches and some private lambast-
ings He runs things with holy awe Of
the Democratic platform when he can
use those pIanks. and when he wants the
tolls he steps on the PLATFORM and " Ks
on his own planl<s.
But he will not allow the men who
! created our stupendous prosperity TO
mend and put together the wreckage
which we have made. And what have
we provided TO take the place Of the
/ trusts and railroads from which We have
, turned millions Of workingnen and aru-
| sans 10 roam the streets? The trusts
and corporations had been doing business
/ twenty years. and they made US the
/ foremost nation Of the globe Congress
has been doing business with the capItsI
/ OF politics for ten years and has mace
Us the Laughing stock and derisfon OF the
| civilized world. The corporations were
| employing millions Of hopeful workmen
| from whose frugal hands had sprung up
tens Of thousands OF cottage-homes WIN
in which were virtuous mothers and
! around which played happy children, ana
the glad voices Of prosperity sounded IN
ioyous chorus through all Of our villages
and valleys. Congress has done business
| for ten wears and the fruits OF its ousl-
ness ability are shown in mhhons OF
I idle men who are anxiously asking IN
those cherries cottages, where the money
for the next taxes and the SHOES aho
! Jackets for the children and the medicine
an5 the groceries is TO be gotten And
tbe President at Washington is saying 10
| Congress. increase your capital. MAKE
sonne more statutes. give them ano'her
InvoIce Of the Sherman law; and 10 DE-
messed business says your burden Is ohIy
psycholoEfcal, Where did the Presldeht
learn the laws Of commerce ana Lne
methods Of prosperous business In Nhat
denartnnents Of successful great business
we're our Congressmen trained!
I 90 the men and women Of the Jnited
s,atas could vote tomorrow, they would
sweep out OF existence politically the in
sane tinkerers Of business m CONGRESS as
quickly as a Kansas cyclone strips the
harness on a mule.
Eve have been trying to do business IN
this country for ten years oy s'atute
and have wasted ten OF the greatest
wears the world has ever, known
| ri ia the straight road 20 anarchy In
this country when the limitations hxed
by the president wisdom Of our fathers
| are broken down and run over oy dema-
! RoEues. whether through polite sophls-
tries or defiaBt assault.
There never has been time wnen
tha institutions OF our constitutional and
: representative government
peril than they are today by the Appeals
| made to class hate by unscrupulous pot
iticians. Politics is shaping rapidly to
this end.
Think Of IL. men who have never
financed any important enterprise deter
mine whether the railways shE2 increase
their capital or make loans for increase
OF rolling stock, men who have not dol
lar invested in the enterprises are to dc
tate TO the men who have brought our
superior railway system to lis masnin-
cent proportions