ourselves in a position to perform our promise. We cannot permit the
possible failure of justice, due to local prejudice in any State or
municipal government, to expose us to the risk of a war which might be
avoided if federal jurisdiction was asserted by suitable legislation by
Congress and carried out by proper proceedings instituted by the
Executive in the courts of the National Government.

One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration
is a change of our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater
elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent
the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of
a financial panic. The monetary commission, lately appointed, is giving
full consideration to existing conditions and to all proposed remedies,
and will doubtless suggest one that will meet the requirements of
business and of public interest.

We may hope that the report will embody neither the narrow dew of those
who believe that the sole purpose of the new system should be to secure
a large return on banking capital or of those who would have greater
expansion of currency with little regard to provisions for its
immediate redemption or ultimate security. There is no subject of
economic discussion so intricate and so likely to evoke differing views
and dogmatic statements as this one. The commission, in studying the
general influence of currency on business and of business on currency,
have wisely extended their investigations in European banking and
monetary methods. The information that they have derived from such
experts as they have found abroad will undoubtedly be found helpful in
the solution of the difficult problem they have in hand.

The incoming Congress should promptly fulfill the promise of the