The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-09
LEADER CT CURRENCY coMMiS-
SION ADDRESSES ST. LOUIS
BANKERS AND OTHERS.
NATIONAL: LINES
Possibilities Of Work Are Lin'isless
and May Become 6enefieent or
Otherwise-letters From, Cranks and
Demasoeues Not Wanted, But Sug-
sestions From Practical Men.

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- r,,,;s My s-wth cmpbosis
even strnncor ,b,n i, his t.hica 90
sno.cb San.tor AIdr;.b made II eyi
| don't +, III. ,us;pess mon of ~ Louis
| today and rnniynt ,ba, IT is his mr.
nose IN dov,te htms.lf IN The one
! uor, NJ raf,rm;p, tho rurropcv svs
| ton, of ,ha Tinted states He snake
! hriof,v t,d., hefor. , ,imi,ed GATH
er'hs oi bankers at ,he NooIuay c.up'
| the Commercial club. senator Aldrich
| spoke informally tonight
Il don't come to you with any plan
/ OF monetary REFORM he said In
deed IL l should be delegated today
| individually and personally to pre-
pare a scheme for a new system of
| finance for the country | should be
1 at a less to know how to proceed l
| should find 1t necessary to enter upon
| a careful investigation and would not
undertake to formulate anything
| without much more study than | have
| been able to give to this subject.
Even i'm that event | should want
your advice and co-operation and
| should ask your aid lust as am ask
! ing il now for the commission.
Il realize as l know all of you do.
the absolute necessity of reforming
the currency upon the broadcast ma
tional lines. The work to be done
cannot be done by any one man nor
by any set of men: il cannot be done
by any one party, nor i'm the interest
of any one section 1t cannot be done
by a commission or by congress with
out the aid of the country at large
Consider Both Town and Country.
"our MIA, ,pust ha ono that will,
take into consideration tho wants of
the town and ,of tho countr,, ne w.ll
A. those of tba ,ity u-a e,,not az
ford and sh,I, M, attamnt 70 Iaris,ata
alone for Now york or Now Orleans
ar san Francisco. hut we must Iapis-
late for 81 I.,uis Cbicayo Denver
Iouisvi,,a Ati.pt, f,r snr,nyfiaId
Peoria and Little Roes our system
must he one that viii satisfy the
l'laiulaeturers ~ oi ne" Ehslana. 'ne
ley. the miners of the Rocky noun
tains and the Pacific coast and the
merchants of all sections. Surely the
task before us is one of gigantic
proportions: and the results of our
efforts, good or bad. must depend not
alone upon our wisdom. but upon the
assembled good Judgment of the lead
ing banking and commercial men of
the entire nation.
1t is because | have come to re-
aliZe the great magnitude of this
work and it's hmitless possibilities.
benefieent or otherwise that I come
to you at this early stage in our pro-
ceedings. to tell you. not only for
myself, but for the commission inso-
far as l can. just what we have done
and to ask your cooperation in our
future proceedings. A portion of the
commission has visited the p-ir"ipal
capitals of Europe. and some ot our
members have Travelled somewhat
through the Cnited States in their in
Scstigations. Moreover. we have had
published a number of monographs
dealing with many phases of the
banking question.
Enough Contributions From franks
.s,rbesa have been written by gem
,,oma, who have the confidence of
tho commission but who are not
members of i, Tbe,, ha,e haan in
structad bo,,ayer to puard these
namnh,at. from ali prei,dieiaI views.
and they are intended NOT To shane
the ,ho,,rh, of tho country but sim
nI,, Ia snnn,, infnrmation unon which
yiews may he based
From this time forward tho COM
mission will give their attention
largely IN conditions in the limited
. states and wa sh,,, soon bepin to
cali upon men in whose judgment we