Show GAGE TALKS OF MONEY speaks to the toast currency reform PROBLEM A COMPLEX ONE banking and currency system he I 1 says blust ln be rut put on a clearly sate safe foundation and this he believes may be secured without any necessary contraction of the circulating medium with no danger of on art undue expansion and give clive relief relict to the west and south new yoi boil ae nov 23 21 the one hundred at and I 1 d twenty ninth annual dinner of oc the new york chamber of commerce va kias given at new restaurant tonight men distinguished in protes I i lonal blonak E and commercial life were present and the beautiful banquet halt hall mas taxed to its ll 11 utmost capacity secre tary of tho the treasury laman li man J gise was the guest of honor and the chief speaker alex IS 11 orr president 0 of the company presided secretary gage cage spoke to the toast currency reform now or when lie ile said in part our fathers ashcra had grave bravo problems t to 0 solve our own on are equally serious they are even more complex the fidelity fid clity shoun by the fathers athera should fitly example our fidelity that Is 1 the price through neleh the rood good we enjoy may bo be honorably poes possessed essed added to and passed on to those aho vho ho follow us wo we tire are met just now with ono one ot of thoss those problems which must bo be bravely faced and wisely solved for tour four years its injurious shadow has d pressed industry and enterprise thanks to the wise vise instincts ot of our people and to their declaratory volio voila uttered on november last assurances have come to life doubts fr to baril banish h tears fears to brace hope and to lend cot courage this happy reaction in enterprise now witnessed the that stimulation to in du autry which has followed this new assurance Is a confirmatory evidence of the blighting influence tit of that I 1 herco propaganda foe free silver and which met mat its just rebuke in 1896 speaking broadly I 1 belleme that tho the snaps shape and destiny ot of our life as 03 it may fir be affected by financial legislation Is to bo be determined within the next four years four years Is a period PO fo short in ili a peoples history as to bar nil fill idea of futurity and to require in substitution ution ill moro more immediate arnoll present now the forces and which found victor victorious lous express expression look in the dinst election c aie as now aa a 4 they their were then are arc we intel and courageous enough to take lako the action their present warrant justl fles and secure accuro the future against tho the dangers dancers which have been tor for tho the present overcome it 1 Is said that thata under indor present condl llona it li 14 impossible that ests can hinder raid and defeat the popular will that agitation atlon on so delicate a subject as the ih money standard by 1 dla tur curbing bing that awe have the lh best of gu guarantees arants that for four yearn tho the present status will viii be maintained that I 1 the akra revival 1 1 ot of business win vill b be best beat assured by tho he polley policy of inaction covered acred in one sentence all this la is bummed I 1 1 up in the much abused maxim let iet well enough alone tho the maxim applied I 1 Is ja indeed A wige one but the wis IT in atie application of 0 it lom A of 1 c ll 11 applies api it 1 lo 10 t conservatism sn when ul ultra t ra condition which aich Is iq b bud a it justify y a enough I 1 h tritt instead ol of 0 well enough it 11 la Is fatally fatal that y arni tho II 11 ed lion ot t our currency and hanking bandini ban kini byis betm bad enough kough er la certified fled to by the he ile deliberate ir ot of the great body of oc economic and by ak a general comie niu Us 0 of opinion among basins bubl ness men T tho fie establishment ot of our currency find banking bytell upon more secure foundations foundation sr I 1 li s to the thing a thing lacking tile the one on N aich make tor for a permanent per manen t condition condIt lon rf ct rea reasonable wi lable prosperity prosper liy it a a word 1 I commit a to tile the following follia ing at a cost coit too contemptible for serious consideration the debatable condition of our curi currency ency and banking system may bo be put on 41 I 1 n early clearly C I 1 safe lafe if not theoretically foundations this may lay rr he secured ne curel without tiny any nee a lary co traction of the of circulating r cu lating medium of exchange and M iff I 1 no danger of an undue expansion and beat of all this desirable end may carry lit in its potential relief to thalme districts district in 1 the south find and west went which Ah lell though riot in 0 of and climate have bee been ald back through the ob pence nence of banking capital find and credit nor nill I 1 permit ina be if to doubt that in tile the councils council of our notion nolion a B ailse supported an nd d sustained u 9 t aa n e d raby by g the h ea neadom 0 m and value 0 of f 0 Ls pure u r e p patriotism j lt t I 1 n among yn our ur people will ind find tho the way mail to the much need needed ed res result talt gov gor block gen Il orritt commodore nunce bunce mayor strong and president oilman allm of johns hopkins university responded respond cd to tois |