Show SENATOR ATTITUDE Not In many years has any newspaper new newspaper pap r published an article of ot more vital Inter Interest est eat to the people all the people of the United States than of t Sen Ben Senator Senator Benator ator ator Aldrie s address before bank era ers and merchants of SU St L uis and given to the public in The publican of Tuesday morning The address should be read from be beginning beginning beginning ginning to end It Is not long and it will remove much of the feeling of hos hostility i that has been engendered to the senator and his friends in their work for fora a reform In the monetary system of the United States There is the most perfect t recognition of the immensity of the task before him and before the country There Is the most complete admission that nothing can be done without the cooperation of the business ss s and banking interests There Is the broadest possible declara declaration declaration tion of the purpose the advantaging of i every section and every Interest Int rest No Noone Noone one can OOn read the address and retain r tain a particle of antipathy to the senator nor norto norto norto to the work of monetary reform And there is la no more impressive topic before the people Somehow in all the history of If our nation panics have come Never is there a reason for their coming But there Is no question of their disastrous effects They are arc harmful to the nation They hurt every member of the great republic whether he be poor r e rich richIn richIn richIn In most foreign countries these finan financial financial cial panics are unknown It is not be believed believed believed our people are less capable than are those across the seas nor is it likely there are conditions of any sort In this country which make Impossible the cor correcting correcting correcting of this essential weakness For that reason the monetary com corn commission commission mission Is examining the methods of the theold theold old world is investigating conditions In Inthe Inthe the United States is asking suggestions of practical men in this country No Noman Noman Noman man pretends to understand all about the mooted subject But surely no man mannor mannor mannor nor men every approached a problem with more frankness with better wilt will willingness to arrive at a consensus of ot the best judgment And never has a sub subject subject subject of ot more importance engaged the attention of ot public men menThe menThe menThe The work of the commission will be watched And proceeding as Senator Aldrich is proceeding It will gain the confident backing of ot the people every everywhere everywhere where And in the end there will surely be a solution |