Show A FUSSY SECRET SECRETARY SECRETARY- ARY OT a a. few otherwise intelligent cit citizens zens aro are unable N NOT to understand the tho unique attitude of tho the secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the tho treasury rug ills ceaseless iteration ion that the power of the government will win be used to promote and maintain business stability introduces a false note into tho the commercial harmony of sweet sounds The countr country has bas scarcely recovered ered from a fit of despondency despondency des des- b by one ono of his methodically optimistic statements until another is placed upon shoulders financially overburdened Even the most obtuse must ultimately suspect that Secretary McAdoo McAdoo's Mc- Mc Adoo's Adoo a incessant crying in the wilderness means something somo some thing more than the empty talk of a talkative cab cab- The treasury secretary's explanation of that which the tho government stands ready to do seems so grotesquely unnecessary if one ono one is in consonance with tho the Wilson Vilson administration Tho The cap sheaf of its logic the very citadel of it ita stronghold of policy is ia that the tho application of its economic principles will not injure business Tho The President himself during his campaign campaign campaign cam cam- for the pr presidency constantly assured the tho poo- poo pie that no legitimate industry would be harmed He stakes his political future and his reputation as a n statesman in in embryo upon the tho assurance that L his plans 1 I can in no wise disturb tao oven even tenor 01 oz trace ana aim i i commerce The Tho of the Treasury might be expected to continue his discharge of the tho routine duties that are no great grent strain upon his mentality It is not the tho province of government go to interfere with commerce unless unless un un- un- un less leM a calamity threatens and demands the tho aid only government gov gor- can give Previous administrations rarely found it necessary to intervene o. o Upon such in infrequent re- re quent occasions as the Secretary of the Treasury was compelled to rescue finance from an increasing mu muddie muddle mud mud- dIe dle the incumbent said nothing about it in ill in advance and Ve very little in retrospect It was a matter concerning concerning concern concern- ing which few treasury secretaries have ho cared to talk The task is sufficient sufficiently disagreeable at best and garru garrulity gar gar- ru ity senes no good purpose Mr 1 McAdoo is ia neither frightening nor reassuring anybody In case of collapse of our commercial structure structure structure ture the tho country would woul know where to find him As the apt pupil of Wall Wan street and the representative e of that sinister influence in the cabinet of President Wilson the salvage corps would expect to find him among tho the looting bands that always infest the scene of any great catastrophe It is to bo be doubted whether he lie would have either the will or the ability to furnish efficient assistance if business depression began His entertaining explanation of for the decline in value of tho the United States 2 per cent bonds su suggests that lIe he lacks Jacks the ability to help troubled business and his attitude towar towards s Wall van street hints that the bears would find in him a ready sympathy |