Edited sentence: " And apparently Aldrich's ego was too big." By the time the common man read that in his newspaper he said: "Oh golly, I guess these big bankers don't like the bill very much so it must be pretty good."The Bill of Big Business.Everybody knew that the Republicans represented big business but they also knew that Democrats represented the common man, the little guy, the fellow on the assembly line (like Ted Kennedy).He must've said: "Well no, after all I'm highly respected in the Senate and I am the Chairman of the National Monetary Commission" and for whatever reason he insisted that his name be on the bill.He said: "Nelson, don't put your name on that bill because you are so identified with big business interests that Congress will vote it down; the people will not accept it.It appears that he wanted to go down in history as the originator of the Federal Reserve System.It was brilliant strategy.It will be terrible for the country.Now it was the Glass-Owen bill and it was totally different and acceptable.On all four words we're dealing with appearances of the fourth kind.The first draft of the Federal Reserve Act as it was presented to Congress was called the Aldrich Bill named after the sponsor, Senator Nelson Aldrich.The next thing was to sell this creature to the public.The next thing, Aldrich and Vanderlip began to give speeches and interviews to newspaper reporters condemning the bill.They found Carter Glass in the House and Senator Robert Owen who himself was a banker.They found a couple of millionaire Democrats to sponsor the bill.They said: "This bill will be ruinous to banking.They took the bill back for it was just a minor setback, they scrambled the paragraphs around a little bit, took Aldrich's name off real fast and they found a couple of Democrats to sponsor the bill.This was against the good advice of Paul Warburg.This was different.Warburg was right.When the bill was introduced Congress put thumbs-down on it.When you look at it you realize that what they created there was not federal, there are no reserves, it's not a system at all in the sense of diffusion of power and these Federal Reserve banks aren't even banks