Herr Stinnes then calls for a campaign of resistance and
tries to promote antagonism between America and England. This curious and useless outbreak is another proof—we have had many of them in recent years— that successful business men are, as a rule, very poor politicians. Indeed, we cannot recall a single example of a man, who had not inherited wealth but had made a great fortune in business, who became a statesman. Why money-making should unfit men for governance- Is not explicable on the surface, but apparently it does unfit them, and always did. Witness the passage in the Apocrypha in which the world is warned against giving rule to the men " whose talk is of oxen " and in whose ears is the sound of the wheels. The rulers are to be the men who have obtained " the opportunity of leisure," and so have had time to grow wise.
