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 26 This is the way the Chicago people reason when their thinkers are allowed to think.

As a rule they are a very busy set of men. On all such questions as a National finance policy their "thinkers" run automatically. Such men as Mr. Gage do their thinking for them. Cities do not breed statesmen. They breed the specialist. A specialist favors what will



tend to promote his business though it may injure the business of others. A statesman must be broad. He must have a comprehensive appreciation of the interests of all the people—especially the poorer classes. If he has been a railsplitter at one time, so much the better.

The men who produce the property of the world are the men whose happiness should be consulted. The men who handle this property after it is produced have little regard for the interests of the producers. Their selfishness and greed blind them. Their minds are running in a groove and they cannot see the rights of others.