The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-10-09
THE CITIZEN FREDERICK Md FRIDAY. OCTOBER O. 1908

be willing to secure it, but glad to do
il.
The deposits have made the banks
very rich. and yet they are objecting
to protecting the innocent depositors.
The late Thomas Gorsuch, President
of the First National Bank, of this
city, Clerk OF the Circuit Court and
Collector of Internal Revenue, was a
great believer in the national banking
system, and yet he SAID that the one
fatal weakness in the banking system
was that there vas no protection to the
innocent depositors, and that every
body else was protected, and the laws
ought to be amended so AS to protect
the depositor.
Why not protect the innocent depos-
itor? Is it not right and honest? The
deposits are well worth it, for without
them the banks coul not make one
half that they do make. Yet. last fall
when tue panic occurred, the banks
called upon the gOvernnentlfor the use
OF the peoples money to save and pro-
tect the banks, and yet the innocent
depositors are denied protection. But
Mr.. Taft Is in dilemma, for while in
the East he opposes security for the de-
positors, when he goes West he finds
several States where the Republican
platforms are in favor Of protection to
the depositors. So in the matter of
bank deposits, Mr. Taft rides one horse
in the East and another in the West.
lie is strAddling the question.
He is also straddling the trust ques-
ton and he Is also straddling the tariff
question.
He says that there are good trusts
and bad trusts, and the tariff will be
revised, aud some things will be re-
vised up and some things revised
down. How can an intelligent people
vote for man like that?
Mr.. Hughes greatly objects to the
Democratic platform declaration that
no trust or monopoly shall make over
one-hslf of any product of manufact-
ure.
That simply means that the Demo-
Gratis want to lessen the power of mo-
nopoly to Cypress the people and de-
strOy competition. They dare not
openly defend the trusts but they OPP
pose any means suggested by which
the power of the trusts are to be con-
trolled. They do not defend the trusts
by 80 .nany words, but they are OPP
posed to any aud everything sought to
be doue to control or destroy the trusts
There is only one thing to be done and
tlat is to destroy monopoly.
The other great objection is to jury
trial in case of contempt of court Will
it interfere with the material and
financial prosperity to have cases of
contempt of court tried before a jury
any more than the trial before jury
of any other case where mans lib
erty is involved.
A jury trial is part of our legal
system and the most vital part of it,
and certainly no man ought to be de
prived of his liberty in any case with
out jury trial if he wants it and de.
mands il.
Our Republican friends can not
claim that they have any great re-
spect for the sanctity of courts, for Mr.
Roosevelt has shown his disrespect for
the courte in his late criticism more than
any man who has been President, or
any man who was even thought fit to
be President
The Republicans, when Grant was
President, actually debauched the
Supreme Court, by passing u law in
creasing its membership. and appoint
ing seven judges to override Judge
Chase's decision on the Legal Tender
Act, and it was overruled by the new
judges appointed. They say nothing
of the juggling with that court in the
late Income Tax decision, when one
judge changed over night, and the fact
of whoRit was has been concealed from
the people to this hour.
There is no plank IN the Democratic |
platform more important than the in
junction plank, because it is q guar
antee of the protection of the rights
and liberties of tn people.