Foreign Consular Lot Numbers country was feverishly preparing out successful. It is indeed some for war against the Government I sent in my resignation, Dr. Kemmerer came to ask me what the commission should do. My reply on both occasions was that the commis sion should continue its laban that what it was engaged in doi is not only for the day, and should not therefore be influenced by the vicissitudes of the moment.
Dispassionate scientific investiga ions of our currency and finance by such distinguished students as the Kemmerer Commission have a value for China and the world, which will outlive the fortunes of individual ministers or cabinets. And as I told Dr. Kemmerer at the time, it may consolation to us that even if, like Moses, we should be unable to tread the Promised Land ourselves, at Toast like Moses we may view it from afar.
"In a truer sense, however, we are not bidding good-bye to the Kemmerer Commission. I have requested. Dr. Kemmerer to let me retain some of the key-men of his Commission, who will the meantime assist us in the necessary spade work, so that when the time is ripe the more ambitious plans of the Commission may be carried out. I am indeed glad that Messrs. Young, Lockhart, Cleveland, Wallace, Watson and Lynch have consented
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