The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-07-16
strictest economy in every department
compatible with frugal and efficient
adminiatrat tiAn.

0SA ASSSSs SSVuotAS III every OcpuTtueuI
with frugal and efficient
administration.
Coincident with the
offieeholders. enormous increase in
expenditures is
like addition to the number Of Office
holders. During the past year 1918
were added. costing $16.15G.OOO, and in
the past six years of the Republican
administration the total number of
new Offices created. aside from many
has been 99,319, entailing
an additional expenditure of nearly
$1O.OOO,0O0. as against only 1920 new
offices created under the Cleveland and
Mckinley administrations, which in
volved an expenditure of only $6OOO.-
600. We denounee this great and grow
ing increase ~ the number of Office
holders as nse' only unnecessary and
wasteful. but also as clearly indicating
a deliberate purpose on the part of the
administration to keep the Republican
party in power at public expense by
thus increasing the number of its re.
tainers and dependents. Such pro-
cedure we declare to be no less dan
gerous and corrupt than the open pur.
chase Of votes at the polls.
The panic of 1907,
Banking. coming without any
legitimate excuse,
when the Republican party had for a
decade been in complete control Of tho
federal government. furnishes addi-
tional proof that it is either unwilling
or incompetent to protect the interests
Of the general public. 1t has so linked
the country to Wall street that the sins
Of the spectators are visited upon the
whole people. While refusing to rescue
wealth producers from spoliation at
the hands Of the stock gamblers and
SPECTATORS in farm products. it has
deposited treasury funds, without in
terest and without competition. in fa
sorite banks. 1t has used an emer-
gency for which 1t is largely RESPONSE
BILE to force through congress bill
changing the basis of bank currency
and inviting market manipulation and
has failed to give to the 15,OOO.OOO de-
positors of the country protection in
their savings.
We believe that in so far as the
needs OF commerce. require an emer-
gency currency, such currency should
be issued, controlled by the federal
government and loaned OH adequate Sc
curity to national and state banks. We
pledge ourselves to legislation under
which the national banks shall be re-
quired to establish guarantee fund
for the prom6t payment of the depos-
itors of any insolvent national bank
under All equitable system which shall
Ike available to all state banking instt-
tutions wishing to use it.
We favor postal savings bank If
the guaranteed bank cannot be secured,
and that it be constituted so as to keep
the deposited money in the commune
ties where it is established. But we
condemn the policy of the Republican
party in providing postal savings banks
under plan Of conduct by which they
will aggregate the deposits of rural
communities and redeposit the same
while under government charge in the
banks of Wall street, thus depicting
the circulating medium of the produc.
ing regions and unjustiy favoring the
speculative markets.
We condemn rs a
The Misuse Of violation Of spirit of
Patronage. our institutions the
action Of the present
chief executive in using the patronage
of his high office to secure the nomina-
tion of one of his cabinet officers. Il
forced succession in the presidency is
scarcely less repugnant to public senti-
ment than life tenure in that office
No good intention on the part of the
executive and no virtue in the one SEE
lected can Justify the establishment o.
a dynasty. The right of the people to
freely select their officials is inalien-
able and cannot be delegated.
We pledge our
Protection of selves to insist upon
American. the just and lawful
Citizens. protection Of our cit
liens at home and
abroad and to use all proper methods
to secure for them, whether native
born or naturalized. and without dis
tinction of race or creed, the equal pro
lection of law and the enjoyment Of all
rights and privileges open to them un-
der our treaty; and if, under existing
treaties, the right Of travel and sojourn
Is denied to American citizens or recog-
nition is withheld from American pass
ports by any countries on the ground
of race or creed, we favor prompt ne
gotiations with the governments of
such countries to secure the removal
Of these unjust determinations.
We demand that all over the world u
duly authorized passport issued by the
government Of the United States to an
American citizen shall be proof Of the
fact that he is an American citizen and
shall entitle him to the treatment due
him as such.
Water furnishes
Waterways. the cheapest means
OF transportation
and the national government. having
tho confrol nf ooyj<ro h1o yxo torc SbouJd