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Show POLITICAL GOSSIPS When one class of people has anything any-thing to say, it has become largely the custom to make a political issue out of it instead of a friendly discussion, discus-sion, to print it in a law book instead of a newspaper and to argue it before be-fore a jury instead of to settle it in the higher courts of Common Sense. As a result, political agitators, political polit-ical lawyers, political preachers and masculine women are powerful in politics and dissension, selfishness, intolerance in-tolerance and hysterics run rampant in public affairs, lor when the low, damp, murky atmosphere of misunderstanding misun-derstanding envelops public thought it breeds political reptiles, vermin, bugs and lice which the pure air of truth and the sunshine of understanding understand-ing will choke to death. We have too many self-appointed interpreters of industry who are incapable in-capable of grasping the fundamental principles of business and who at best can only translate gossip and add color to sensational stories. No business busi-ness can stand upori error and might rules right or wrong. No industry can thrive upon misunderstanding, for public opinion is more powerful , than a King's sword. When prejudice, suspicion and class hatred prevail, power gravitates Into the hands of the weak, for demagogues dema-gogues thrive upon dissension and statesmen sicken upon strife. The remedy lies in eliminating the middleman the political gossip and this result can be accomplished by the managers or business sitting around the table of industry and talking talk-ing it over with the people. Interchange Inter-change of information between industries indus-tries and the people is as necessary to success in business as interchange in commodities, for the people can only rule when the public under-' under-' stands. Away with political interpreters interpret-ers who summon evil spirits from . their prison cells and loose them to prey upon the welfare of the people in the name of "My Country." |