Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-27
GOULD ATTACKS
APATHETIC MEN
WHEN PEOPLE ARE THINKING
COUNTRY is SAFE
LARGE CROWD LISTENS AT THE
BRYAN WIGWAM
Bank Guaranty Plank Will Make Good
Bankers Out Of Bad Ones
and Restore Conf
dence

Attorney Frank Gould of san fTan-
cisco. who is mentioned as possiple
successor to Senotor. George G. PERKINS,
addressed large audience at the
Brvan wigwam on Hill street last
night. ,-..s.,os
Senator r. F. Del Vale introduced
Mr.. Gould. who was flanked by num-
ber of well known Democrats VINO hao
seats on the platform.
The campaign and the organization
committees of the county were III Ses
sion last night, but as soon as they
adjourned the members, headed by
Chairman Albert M. Norton, went over
to the wigwam.
Messrs Harris. Johnson, Mcdonald
and others made up the party. MI
Gould said in part:
",rhey tell as that this is a quiet
election, but there is no apathy mere.
Voters are not saying much, put
thew are thinking. When the people
are thinking there is no danger for
the republic.
People Not Gamers
''If the people shall cease to regard
the things that are right and listen
only to those who would fill the stom,
achs and pocketbooks, then they VIII
become like the people of ancient
Rome.
dThere has been during the twelve
years of Republican rule great ue-
velopment of the countrys resources
We have seen the wealth grow, ouI
not in our own pockets. The pockets
of the steel and oil and other magnates
are bulging.
."There has been an unfair levying
Of the taxes and the people have suf-
fered. During the last Democratic ad-
ministration a vain effort was maue
to equalize taxes by imposing an in
come tax.
"There is one great obstacle in the
vav of the trusts. That is the electing
of senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie.
"shall the people of California ex-
press their will?
SENATORS have had it in thelr power
to make a battle of the issue, but they
have not done 1t. The corrupt lhlei-
ests prevented it.
Until some measure is passed by
which the senators will be Responsible
to the people, so long shall the senate
of the United States be a bulwark pe-
tween the people and their rights
'"rhe people know that the Demo
cratic platform adopted at Denver
represents their voice.
''At Chicago, by a vote of TO l, the
plank was denied.
DO the people rule?" Chorus of nos):
Shall the people rule? CHORUS OF
yes)
Mr. Gould referred to agricultural
conditions.
Shutting of Prosperity
when you shut off the prosperity OF
farmers you shut off the prosperity or
the country" he resumed.
Everybody is willing and anxious to
work. Everybody is willing to wear
good clothes. Yet we have hard times.
The reason? Because it's Republican
holiday"
guarantee plank.
1.-The people have put away their
money They stored it away in stoves,
in cans, or put it in safe deposl'
boxes.
There ought to be millions in circu-
lation, forming the life blood of busi-
ness. But the depositors are uneasy |
They have lost confidence in the peo-
ple who say these guarantee bank
laws are financial heresies.
And now the Democratic party pre-
sents to the voters a man who origin
ated the idea. Mr. Bryan. 1t was a
law that he proposed in congress four
teen years ago which provided that
each bank should be the others keeper
why should not you and I, poor as
we are. have the right to demand Sc
curity from the banks?
'lne WnOle history Vi lilS petSN iAc''
been illuminated by meteors of heresy. |
Different Heresies
'"To you am hereto. You are to
me heretics. Heresy is that which peo-
pie disagree about
"The heresies of yesterday are the
defiant truths of today.
''The bankers tell you that they don't
want to be responsible for the weaker
institutions.
perhaps it will make good bankers
out of bad ones.
II live in San Francisco" pause and
laughterO We've had two or three
bank failures up there. The financial
men said of one failure:
"'AIl we bankers knew it, That is
the trouble. They didn't tell. Under
the new law they must stand sponsor
for every other bank.
"Instead of fellows gtoating these
banks failed, they will work overtime
seeing that the banks don't fail.
THE remedy is to make them In
terested: make them realize that their
owns banks money is stagnant, and
then they will set the bank commits
sioner on the crooked bankers"