The sun., 1915-03-13
WILSON'S'RATS'
ANSW Erred BY
MORE LETTERS
Ferguson Gives Oui second
Note Calling Him MY
Warm Friend"
McADOO AND DAVIES
ALSO HIS SPONSORS

Charles Ferguson. the former minis
ter and editorial writer. who is nov en-
ioving a furlough after several months
of strenuous exercise as conductor Of
tho Washington Administrators Para
disc Special is perfectly willing even
If pr, sidout Wilson is not. 20 shed
lghr on his general powers as Rowing
Commissioner of Business Paradise
No, only that. but he Is unwilling TO
let the public think that he had onlv one
letter OF Introduction. the ITO Whom
It MtN Concern" letter from Prosi-
dent Wilson. printed yesterday He has
s,ill another lcttcr from the Presi-
dent. in which the President terms Mr.
Ferguson - warm friend Of mine
lie has q letter also from Secretary
Mc\doo. and the latter terms Mr..
Ferguson "a valued friend OF mine"
But his official status is still fur
ther buttresscd Mr.. Ferguson also has
letters from Secretary of Labor W B
Wilson. one from Joseph G. Davies.
formerly Commissioner Of Corporations
now on the Federal Trade Roari Pres
ideut Wilson st.ll has nothing To- say
about Mr. FcrEusOn's mission
writes to ..Th- sun"
But Mir Ferguson has sen, the foi-
lowing letter to THE SIN
DEAR MR SrN. The pieces IN
your paper about myself make IN"
feel a. ignorant about journalism
~ you say / am about banking For
i've wears WORKED IN a striving
amatcurish sort nf way with - Park
Row editorial pencil But ! never
was permitted to look over YOU,
shoulder and see you edit Ani ~
never could-and AT this moment
ctunot--understJnd how TO make
tho days events happen poetically
As prudent newspaper man
did my best last October 70 avoid
Imaginative publicity rs telling
your chief editor and several others
in plain and urromantic prose just
what I WAS driving at
Thus for i've months I was per-
rittod to follow the factory whistles
without the smallest notice from
any newspaper.
Nv business has been to remind
people OF tho natural limitations OF
governmental power. to point out
Specific ways I'm which the Depart
meut Of Commerce can be made
more useful and to suggest and IL
lustratc the democratic truth that
the commercial and industrial Or
raniZatiou of modern So'tctv ought
70 b. Scu-gOr'rEmD. and can be-
conc So Nv nrSt b'oon.irG more Sc,-
"utifr df,d W0rc human
II you have found three clerks or
secretaries In Washington who think
! have exceeded my authority you
nave found three reticent persons
vino DO not say such things over
their names.
And " YOU have found three
bankers ON Wall street who nudge
each other ana chortlc when they
uotr financial questions hfuarhed .u
N"ruacuIar speech you nave found
thre. auGu.- whose mysteries Ar.
about to- pt exposed. There are FOR
tuuy'rlN. bankers 90 another kind
You arc right iu saying that ! am
pujuyiug Il vacation. I am foi the
uomcut quite d.seugaE,l ,Iii free
from every restraint of official re-
-punSihllitN
Vt my leisure during the next ten
weeks / mean to write an uuvar-
r.4nrd tai" dbout nv observations
during the last two yeas IN Europe
aud Sow Nnyk--Nitn sign posts in
dicAtiag the open r"ti toward that
"rarallss Of Prosperity" YOU talk
about ana some warnings uf the
economic ana financial road that
Europe took
Would you Ike TO prn' e. NJ.
sun
Or shall turn to a".ur cain.
mJoulilic puhlicauou win loss pri-
mary cmugencr and more sober re.
n-ction"
am. sir with sincere admiration.
yours truly.
CHARLES FERGTso>