Evening star., 1916-10-01

counsel ts taken In respect OF the POL.
ICY that this country should pursue
with regard to Mexico except those
who have hitherto acted as the coun-
selors for the vested interests in
Mexico. Tho whole country is ac-
quainted with the gentlemen who have
been consulted. There is no conceal
mont. even by themselves. whose attor-
neys they are. They have talked to
me. I know exactly what they want.
have declined to give 1t to them. and
now they are going where they think
that they can get It And there is
every indication. on the surface at any
| rate. that their calculation is well
founded.
There Is more serious aspect
even than that. There is an imme-
diate result Of this thing. my fellow
Of November; It is going to be prae-
ticaly impossible for the present ad-
ministration to. handle any critical
matter concerning our foreign rela-
are waiting to see which way the eleo-
ton goes. and In tho meantime they
know that settlements will be incon-
elusive.
The conference which is being held
with regard to Mexican affairs is em-
barrassed every day by the apparent
evidence which is being produced that
hostility to Mexico is being traded
upon by ono of the great political
oils these influences with patriotic
purpose. but 1t is dinoult for all Of
Va to do so. And the one thing 1
want to lay emphasis upon In this
eonneetion is this; That a great
to our foreign relationships is to be
made on the 7th Of November. Some
young mon ought to be interested in
that; some mon who want to see the
RarAv1 al % R-A
governs the present ought to be in
terested In that. Men who love to see
q great peaceful force expended by
America for the service Of the world
ought to be interested in that
"only Thing Disclosed"
Singular. isn't It, that that should
have been the only thing disclosed by
the opposition7 But I suspect they are
well enough content with many Of the
things that have been done in do
mestic legislation. provided they can
get in and control them. Let mo IL
lustrate It.
Take tho federal reserve system,
the great banking system, by which
the credits Of this country hitherto
locked up. the credits Of the average
man. have been released and put into
action; tho great system which has
made It possible for US to absorb two
thousand millions worth Of American
securities hold on the other side OF
tho water which have been offered
for sale, nearly. II not quite. 80 per
ican securities held abroad-a thing
that would have been impossible
otherwise"
You know that one Of the many
things that the republicans promised
rency system. They did what they have
always done in such circumstances
They had a thorough inquiry and re-
port made without any purpose OF fol-
"The report was made after long and
extensive inquiry and much Interesting
travel by q committee presided over
by the late Senator Aldrich, and that
report is very valuable document. It
is full of great deal Of useful informa-
tion. along with great deal Of useless
Information, I dare say that in any re-
port the useless predominates over the
looking for you can find it in that re-
port. And when we came to do this
thing that ought to have been done
long ago. but which, because of kind
fantile, it was impossible for the re-
publican party to do Il should call 1t a
paralysis of the WILD. we found that
we could take the skeleton of what we
wanted to do from the Aldrich report.
but that we could not take the heart
out Of 1t. We so absolutely altered the
heart that Senator Aldrich himself de-
nounced the thing that we produced.
Heart Of Aldrich Plan.
Now the heart Of the Aldrich plan
was single central bank which was
susceptible of being controlled by the
very men who have always dictated
the financial policy of the republican
party, whereas the heart of our system
is not a great central bank, but body
appointed by and responsible to the
government and, by the same token,
responsible to the people Of the United
States.
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 control by represent