Mohave County miner., 1916-10-07

consulted. There is no concealment, even by themselves, whose attorneys they are. They have talked to me. I know exactly what they want. 1 have declined to give it to them and now they are going where they think that they can get it. And there is every indication that their calculation is well-founded.
 "There is a more serious aspect even than that. From this time until the seventh of November, it is going to be practically impossible for the admin istration to handle any critical matter concerning our foreign relations, be- cause all foreign statesmen are wait ing to see which way the election goes, and in the meantime they know that settlements will be inconclusive.
 "The conference which is being held with regard to Mexican affairs is em- barTassed every day by the apparent evidence which is being produced that hostility to Mexico is being traded upon by one of the great political parties. These gentlemen may recon cile these influences with patriotic purpose, but it is difficult for all of us to do so. And the one thing l want to lay emphasis upon in this connection is this: That a great, fundamental, final choice with regard to our foreign relationships is to be made on the 7th of November. Some young men ought to be interested in that, some men who want to see the future cleared of the passion which governs the present ought to be in terested in that.
 Singular isn't it, that that should have been the only thing disclosed by the opposition. But I suspect that they are well enough content with many of the things that have been done in domestic legislation, provided they can get in and control them. Let me illustrate it.
 "Take the federal reserve system, by which the credits of this country were hitherto locked up, the credits of the average man have been re- leased and have been put into action; the great system which has made it possible for us to absorb to two thou sand millions worth of American se- curities held on the other side of the water nearly fifty per cent of the whole body of the American securities held abroad; a thing that would have been impossible otherwise.
 "Of the many things that the Re publicans promised and never did, was to reform the currency system. They did what they have always done in such circumstances. They had a thorough inquiry and report made without any purpose of following it.
 "The report was made after long and expensive inquiry and much in- teresting travel by committee pre- sided over by the late Senator Aldrich, and that report is a very valuable document. It is full of a great deal of useful information, along with great deal of useless information, and when we came to do this thing that ought to have been done long ago, that was impossible for the Republican party to do, we found that we could take the skeleton of what we wanted from the Aldrich report, but that we could not take the heart out of it. We so altered the heart that Senator Aldrich himself denounced the thing that we produced.
 "The hand is the hand of Esau, but the heart is the heart of Jacob, and that heart is the heart of the Demo cratic party, the centrO. of representa- tives of the people for the things that concern the whole people.
 "There was universal hostility among bankers to the adoption of the present system, and all of that op- position had its impulse from that cen tral group which knew that they were going to lose their grip on the treas ury of the United States.
 "They are perfectly content to take over the federal commission, provided they can select the commissioners and suggest whom they shall consult. They are perfectly willing to have tariff board provided they can deter mine before hand what it's conclusions are going to be by determining the quality and antecedents of the men who compose it.
 "For example, if you want certain things to happen, select the most em- inent, it may be the most honest, lawyer in the country and put him on the supreme court. His character is not going to fail you. He may have as good character as any