"THERE is a great deal of striving to be at rest that would be rest if only we stopped striving. Many of our troubles — more of them than we think — are like muddy water that will clear itself if let alone." Judge Elbert H. Gary has been a very interesting witness for several days before the Stanley House Committee of the United States Congress. Mr. Gary is the managing director of the big steel trust, a billion dollar concern, and he admits that it controls half the United States trade in steel. He testifies that the Government, during the panic of 1907, had an understanding with the powers in Wall Street to the effect that it was necessary, in order to terminate the panic, to acquire the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. And altho this transaction might not be considered legal, yet it was made to appear to the Government by the Wall Street interests as a necessary evil thing to do. And in taking this step the Government agreed not to prosecute the trust. How much of this testimony is politics and how much of it is fact it would be hard to determine. But there must be some evidence that deals of that kind are made from time to time, for it is generally conceded that you can never have a big smoke without there being at least a little fire somewhere. Men who otherwise seem to be possessed of integrity and high ideals, are seemingly developing a class of morals that they try to persuade themselves are all right when they are dealing with money matters, and yet they would not think of such a thing as bringing these so-called morals into light of the Ten Commandments.