New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
s'TheWorldWillBe
Ruled by Those
Who Work"
0HARLES SCHWAB, who runs
the men who make the ships that
~ carry the men and the guns and
the food that will heat the Kaiser

Cne men VINO make tpe SHIPS tIldC
~ carry the men and the guns and
the food that will beat the Kaiser
Charles Schwab, who is head Of the
American shipping programme once
casually made remark about the future
Of the world, and he has been explaining
what he meant by it ever since. B. c.
Forbes reports more extended CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Schwab in the September
American Magazine" in which the great
shipbuilder makes clear his belief as to
the characteristic of the period that the
world is now entering. A portion of it
follows:
"'Workers, men who do things either
with their hands or their heads, will be the
real leaders of the world after the war.
Nations will not be led and governed By
men who are aristocrats only by birth or by
riches. The aristocrats of the future will be
the men who, either in business or in other
directions, have distinguished themselves
by what they have done for the progress
and the prosperity of their country or man.
kind.
"'There is coming more equitable re-
services rendered. But the readjustment,
to my mind, will take the form of evolution
and not revolution.
"'Some informal remarks made recently
were improperly reported in the newspapers
and the impression was conveyed that had
declared that the Bosheviki would, by-and-
by, rule the world. have been branded az
prophet of evil, as a revolutionary Social
list, advocating the tearing down of the
existing social order and placing every one
on the same common or dead level in regard
to wealth and material rewards I never
said or meant anything of the kind.
"'What l believe will come and ought to
come is a process which will be the very
antidote to such catastrophe and will
make for a wider and closer and more real
brotherhood of man.
"The President knew what he was doing
when he selected Schwab. For the creator
and upbuilder of Americas super Krupps
was already in his own companies, building
more vessels than any other shpbuilder in
the world. He was also making more guns,
shells and other war munitions than even
the Kaiser's much-vaunted Krupps Schwab
~-~~ SA-~AA
over one hundred thousand men devoting
themselves to supplying America and her
allies with war materials.
when you use the word workers YOU
don't mean only unskilled laborers or those
who work only with their hands, in their
shirt sleeves?' I asked
No. consider myself just as much
worker to-day as l was when I was driving
spikes at dollar day in the Edgar Thom-
son Steel Works. When speak of workers
l mean all who work. The man who works
with his hands to-day, and who works hard
and intelligently, is the man who will be
working with his brain tomorrow. For
hard work we'll done leads to brain work
When l say, therefore, that the world
is to be ruled after the war by those who
work, l certainly do not mean that govern
ments are to be in the hands of such de-
structionists and anarchists as have come
to the front in Russia since the revolution
In the past the term the governing classes
has meant, as rule, so-caled aristocrats,
heads of titled families very often. great
landowners who have inherited their es-
tates, statesmen and diplomats of lineage.
The war has brought home what have
always contended namely, that there are no
more useful citizens than the real workers.
both those in the ranks and those who.
starting in the ranks, have by their indus
try their ability, their integrity, risen to
positions of responsibility and leadership
and who have become largely employers;
men who have developed the resources of
the nation and have built up its Industries.
its railroads and it's commerce."