Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-13
THE ALDRICH PLAN AS
 VIEWED BY CHAMP CLARK

There are two theories, diametricai. ly opposed to each otLsr touching the so-cailed "Aldrioh Plan. One-the one propagated by the opponents of ! the plan-is to effect that it will create 1 and is intended to creat a Money | Monopoly or Trust; the other-pro- l lgated by Senator Aldrich and his ! COW orkers-is to effect that the Ald. 1 rich plan is intended to break up a ' Money Monopoly CT Trust already existing and to forever prevent the ' creation of one. In the latter case 1 the astute Rhode Islander poses. or ] Is posed by advocates Of his plan, as a q sintere sted and lofty minded pa. ! triot wnose master passion is to be of service to his country and his ocuntrymen. In the former case he { is painted as the enemy of the mass ! es intent upon fastening upon their neC ks a yoke too heavy to be borne. Certainly the difference expressed in these two divergent theories is wide enough to p.case even the most fas- tidious.
 Reformer CT What?
 It Is clear that Senator AIorlc2 re gards this as the most i'm mpurtart work he has ever essayed. lie con. s!dcrs it the cToYning glory of his lie. tor ne voluntarily quit the senate and relinquished the undisputed lead ership of that body.-no small re- nouncemert of honors-to devote hls time. energies and skill to thls Her culean task which he has set for him self in the evening of his fife; anc he is going at its accomplishment with the vim and enthusiasm of youth. He travels up and down the land ex- Claiming his Ilsn. asking for sug- gestions, pleading for it's adoption, making himself agree able, marshall ing his forces and predicting victory. From all reports. his camp chest Is tountifully supplied with the sinevs of war. He has a corps of speakers. able. plausible. persuasive. to aid him. Chief among these are Representative NTeeland of New York and Ex-repie- sentative R. w Bonynge of Colorado To use military expression. they have been smelling the woods" all over the country and beating up TOT recruits. Many bankers have enlisted under the Aldrich banner because they wanted to do so and expect to get in on the ground floor to their own profit.-to be among the Rul- ing Elders, so as to speak. Others nave reluctantly gone in with them to te in high financial society. Stih others seem to have given their ad. hesion to the plan because they are afraid to oppose 1t.
 Ha-te Lccks SuspiciOus
 At any rate. every nerve is strain ed by it's p70pchents to have the Plan" formulated into law as speed. fly as possible. In fact this desire for hasty action Is one of the things arousing suspicion that the Plan would not prove to be as great and universal 2 bles5iu as it is cracked up to be by it's friends.
 Indeed, so conspicuous a financier as Hon. Les ie NJ. Shaw, thrice gov ernor of Iowa, and secretary of the treasury under both President Mo Kinley and Roosevelt, argues that it would do the very thing Senator Aid rich claims it would not dO-thst is, to create a money trust or monopoly in the hands of few men, practically holding the powers Of life and death over every business in the land-and that such a monopoly would be so profitable that the beneficiaries, there. of, could We l afford to pay the entire national dett to receive a perpetual