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Show T f Said James II. Eccles, former Comptroller of ' the Currency, at a banquet of the Bankers' club the other day : "All ccuomic questions such as banking and railroad business, should be better intrusted to those who upbuild commerce and know what they are doing, and who have their money at stake, than to those who stand in legislative halls and whose only call is that they hold public office and who are in governmental authority." This is a financial heresy peculiarly flattering to all greedy lucre-mongers, but one that is, happily, no longer popular with the American public. It would, perhaps, be a sound doctrine if the manipulators manipu-lators of our gigantic financial ' institutions and I industrial enterprises were imbued with the spirit of Christianity. As, however, the ignoble ambition to make the most of one's opprtunities, utterly regardless re-gardless of the public weal, seems to be ineradicably inbred in human nature, it remains everlastingly unsound, and is most pernicious in tendency. L |
