This evidently was the great business that could not be disclosed at the time and for which the repeal of the tolls legislation was the necessary preliminary.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 44: The Committee to celebrate the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812.

The plan to make this an elaborate commemoration of a 100 years' peace between the English-speaking peoples was upset by the outbreak of the World War.] [Footnote 45: This was the designation Mr.Bryan's admirers sometimes gave him.] [Footnote 46: The reference is to President Roosevelt's speech at the Guildhall in June, 1910.] [Footnote 47: This refers to the declination of the British Government to be represented at the San Francisco world exhibition, held in 1915.] [Footnote 48: John Bassett Moore, at that time the very able counsellor of the State Department.] [Footnote 49: Mr.Root's masterly speech on Panama tolls was made in the United States Senate, January 21, 1913.] [Footnote 50: Ante: page 202.] [Footnote 51: This is the fact that is too frequently lost sight of in current discussions of the melting pot.

In the _Atlantic Monthly_ for August, 1920, Mr.William S.Rossiter, for many years chief clerk of the United States Census and a statistician of high standing, shows that, of the 95,000,000 white people of the United States, 55,000,000 trace their origin to England, Scotland, and Wales.] [Footnote 52: The Ambassador's letter is dated March 18th.] [Footnote 53: Mr.Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was one of the most blatant opponents of Panama repeal.].