Restoring the Temple.

Some rulers, riding into power on a wave of financial crisis, might have left it to commentators to draw a parallel with the Christ that drove the money-changers out of the temple. Not so Mr. Roosevelt. From his own mouth came the words that link the temples of New York and Old Jerusalem.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temples of our civilisation, and we may now restore the temple to ancient truths.

Surely it is a bold prophet that holds out this promise. An even bolder prophet is he who undertakes to execute it. And what will be the actual result? So far, it seems, additional currency “without currency debasement” and a reopening page 62 page 63 of banks that the officers of the President-Dictator deem sound. Such a programme carries the blessing of even the financial press. But as yet we are only on the fringe of events. They move quickly. Strategy must alter from day to day. Never did economic change begin on a higher dramatic note. Never was the final Act of the play more obscure.