The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-10-31
Mr.. Fowler Pronounced "a nan of
National Bigness" by the
Newark News,

Mr.. Fowler, who honors New Jer-
sey in being probably the man of
strongest financial genius in Con-
gress, will not remit his campaign in
favor of a more scientific banking
and currency system. "More power
to his elbow" in this important duty.
It is the man who works in season
and out of season that finally
achieves, and the question, one of the
most complex and obscure which the
statesman has to consider, exacts
that the public themselves must BIZ
educated before much weight of
public opinion can force legislative
action. That the Washington Solons
will wait till they are kicked into
it is the present outlook. They are
very much in the moral plight of
those college youths, who take the
easiest electives in the curriculum on
which they can obtain the coveted
heepskin.
Mr.. Fowler is thoroughly be-
lever in the intelligence of the people,
of the plain people, and of their
capacity and desire to grasp the es-
sential points of great question,
when they are lucidly set forth.
A large majority of the writers on
the sound money newspapers have
shown in their discussion that they
recognized suoculently the force and
value of Mr.. Fowler s argument. These
have no doubt, contributed in consid-
cradle measure to clearing up some of
the darkness which clings to minds
fettered by the habit of making
fetish of the present system, around
which war memories cast halo,
and which has proved to be like
Ezekiel's image, gold and brass totter-
ing on feet of clay. The campaign
of education must go on to get this
idol dethroned, and Mr.. Fowler is
wise in distributing his great speech
with those important additions,
which he did not deliver on the
floor of debate, directly into the
hands of the people. Several hun
dreds of thousands of Congressional
Records containing it will be scatter
ed broadcast, and the matter will also
be issued in convenient pamphlet
form. This will be done entirely at
Mr.. Fowlers private expense. The
object is worthy the effort, and the
author is certain that the experiment.
will register corresponding profit in
its effect on the minds of intelligent
Americans.
Congressman Fowler is more than
figure of local renown. He has be-
come a man of national bigness. He
has etched his luoidity as thinker and
debater, his conscience as a student
of some of the most perplexing and
obscure problems of the hour on the
conviction OF the entire country. Few
if any, members of the Lower House
have been of late years more in the
mouths of the intelligent people out
of New Jersey as we'll as in it.
Even those who dissent from his
programme of financial reform, so
ably embodied in what is known as
the Fowler bill, do not question the
mastery and thoroughness with which
he sustains his propositions, or the
great Importance of the ends to which
he has devoted himself. No son of
the State in either House in recent
years has made the name of New
Jersey more honored in the great
federal council.
The question for every man to con-
slider to the exclusion of all side
issues, of all parochial puppet pulling,
of all sordid ambition involved in a
mere political scramble, is Mr.
Fowler's worth as national legisla-
tor, his identification with great
problems. which it is for the interest
of the nation TO solve. If that thought
be kept at the fore, this able states
man and political authority will be
reelected by an increased majority.