The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-12-21


:. The offense of John R. Walsh might
have brought great loss and hardship
to every man in Crawford county.
Let us suppose that the clearing house
had not come tn the rescue; not only
the First National but every bank in
Chicago would have been subject to a
great run. The country banks would
have withdrawn their deposits if pos
sible before the crash came, but if the
crash had been general, they, too,
would have been heavy losers. There
would have been shortage of funds
for legitimate business; loans would
have been called in and in spite of
the law of supply and demand the
price of every bushel of corn or of
every pound of pork or beef in Craw-
ford county would have decreased.
These bankers, then, hold tremendous
interests in their hands, interests in
volving millions of people beside their
depositors and when found guilty the
only safe course is to punish them to
the full extent of the law.
The Russian revolution is approach
ing its second stage, the next will be
absolute anarchy following the deposit
ton of the Car, the third stage will
see the Russia's gradual regenera-
ton. 1t seems impossible to us that
the Russian empire should remain as
unit save as an absolute monarchy.
The people are so various, the races
so homogeneous that without the strong
arm of military oppression the state
will fly to pieces and dozen minor
governments will spring up. This
will afford pretext for Germany and
Austria and Turkey to acquire new
territory, an opportunity which they
will sieze with avidity. 1t will be
many years before Europe gets back
to normal and the mystic balance of
power" is restored.
Did you ever stop to think how
much of brains and self-sacrifice there
must be behind this apparently spon-
taneous uprising of the proletariat of
Russia? There are Murats and Ro-
bespierresand perhaps Napoleons NOV
ing behind the screen of history. Men
living, now unknown to us. whose
names will some day be as we'll known
to the student of history as are the
names of the monsters and the martyrs
of the French Revolution. In spite
of police, of spies, of Cassacks, of
prisons and of death, the work of the
revolutionists has gone on irresistibly.
| Somewhere there is great brain at
work, urging, plotting, planning with
a shrewdness far beyond that of the
emperor. Part of this history will
some day be written, but the greater
part will never be known, not even by
the people who will owe their freedom
to the master minds now being sarci.
feed for them.
The railroads of the west have sol
emily and ostentatiously agreed tina
hereafter they will obey the laws O
the United States. The convention
) was duly signed and sealed and broad
: ly heralded. No longer will the rail
: roads be criminals sand if they ar
they will tell on each other, SO run
meth the agreement. Now that tn
:. penitentiary does not stare them
the face, nothing but paltry fine
they will be good.
q They have been criminals.
Alas; Alack.
;, They were forced to it by the greed
, shippers.
But now!
- Oh, JOY!
: They will be good.
- The whole farce is an insult to tt
:. American people, and yet these sell
- confessed criminals have the effrontel
to ask the people to leave the ra
making power in their hands alone
90 they are the only ones having TIL
a intimate knowledge" of the que
$. tion necessary to fix rates with fai
IN ness and justice to all.
TX Bah!