The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-02
UP To CONGRESS.
Senator DOlliver Thinks Finan-
cial Legislation Is Coming.
VIII Make Radical Changes in
Banking System.
MAKES A GOOD TALK.
Discusses Public Questions and
Boosts Roosevelt.
Public Conscience Never at
Higher Point.

will take official recognition of the
| present financial crisis by amending the
present national banking laws in a rad
1cal manner was the assertion made
| last night by Senator ]. P. Dolliver of
| Iowa, who last night lectured at the
J Auditorium in the interests of the pipe
| organ fund. In a few minutes talk
| previous to his appearance on the plat
form Senator Dolliver said: ''Will con-
gress take some action with regard to
| the present financial crisis? Oh, there
| is no question about it. 1 have not the
| time here at my disposal to go into this
| question at any length and relate what
| the probable action in detail might be.
| But it Will either take some form such
| as providing for more elastic currency
| or authorizing and regulating the pres
| ent action of the banks in handling the
| situation that has arisen. We will have
| to bring more modern methods into
play and this will be the work of con-
| gress. 1t is probable that a larger is
sue of currency will be provided for. All
| these considerations will enter in.
think. however, that one of the first
matters to receive consideration from
congress at the coming session will be
to provide a more modern SYSTEM"
The Public Virtue a Question of
Politics." was discussed interestingly
to some 1880 people, in a characteristic
cally bright and happy manner devoid
of any muck raking. Those who ex-
pected that certain corporations and
public men would be assailed were dis
appointed for Senator DoIliver remain
ed within the staid and formal bounds
of what might be termed ChautauQua
address. Only once did he transgress
when he paid tribute to F. s. Jackson,
attorney general of Kansas. 1T is to
the everlasting credit of Kansas that
she has found man for the head of
her legal department who has created
more healthy respect for law than
probably any other man for genera |
lions past said he decisively.
Some Dolliver aphorisms:
I'VE are a nation of politicians"
81 do not believe any man can do |
very much for his country unless he |
believes in the integrity of his coun-
try"
daily life of the people"
1.-The mills of men grind exceedingly
slow and coarse"
Those ages in which the culture
reached its highest levels were also the
lines when the life reached its lowest
pointsA' --e
AN age is what its standard litera-
ture produces.
Il think a dollar is got to be a
mighty low mean thing not to be de-
odorized by putting it to some good
use"
Captain Clad Hamilton made a few
brief Introductory remarks which
served to present the speaker to his
audience.
all p4dIA COQhlIy POllNlCldIs
said the Iowa statesman. There is
considerable room in this country of
ours for politics and politicians l re-
peat we are a nation of politicians and
as far as I can see the best politicians
of the world. I mean rather that in
the past 100 years of practical life we
have put more wisdom in it than any
other country of civilization can sh ow.
The last two centuries of our country
have shown more common sense Ser
vice to the world than all the other {
centuries of the world combined.
Great We are in all that admin
listers to the national strength, we have {
not entirely secured to the creates. | I
degree that, righteousness exalteth
stake in our national life which call
for the highest vigilance. Our institu- {
tons require of the very nature of the
case our attention all the time. t
Il do not intend to discuss our at
fairs from a standpoint of a man
that is in despair. Many think we
live at the worst of all times, that our
institutions have been fatally corrupt
ed by the use of money until about all .
we can do is to protest against the
popular decay. For in the last two
years an organized criticism aimed at
our whole political and social society
not at those evils which our young !.
generation may hope to remedy but |
at the entire foundation on which the
structure has rested for centuries. :
do not believe that any man can do !
believes in the integrity of his coun- '
try.
"A young friend of mine handed to 3
me the other day a list of names of '
men indicted for great land frauds in d
The two states of Oregon and Wash
ngton- A list of twenty-four men who
had been indicted and were serving
lime in the penitentiary. Now he I
thought that indicated a decline of c
national integrity and that we needed
an entire change of government and
4 new regime. 1 told him that 1t did
not indicate anything particularly ex- ,
tentiary and serving sentence. The
public conscience never was at
higher point than it is today and no 2
nation has enjoyed leadership such n
as We have today under that of our
young president of the United States" n
The speaker reverted back to con- n
1itions in public life of the country
such as it was in 1885 at the time II
when the United States was said to o
have been at it's highest point as far d
is purity in official life was concern f
ed He referred to old congressional b
records which contained fraud pro-
,eedfngs in which mention was made s
If a public official who stole $25O9SO
which was a considerable sum in those n
lays with the recommend a ton which n
vas attached to the proceedings that a
he official who stole the fund be re- g
aimed because he had taken so much
hat it was probable that he would "
lot take any more III
have heard men say that the s.
obby had captured our legislative h
hat the lobby has had a pernicious p
activity. But when he says to me v
hat the lobby nowadays has captured 7
of the real conditions
The history of the country is the 81
iaily life of the people W
read from the extracts of Ben W