The newspaper., 1908-10-30
Mr.. Bryan Shows Why the In.
dividual Favors Protection
Of Bank Deposits.
A NATTER OF INTELLIGENCE
Banks Should Attend to the Banking
Business and Not tho
Government

the protection of bank deposits. Thou
sands and thousands of republicans
will vote for Mr.. Bryan on account OF
this one issue, which he has presented
SO clearly to the people of the nation.
In a recent speech Mr.. Bryan pre-
sented this issue in simple and most
convincing way. He said
''Of the many policies proposed in
our platform, the protection of bank
depositors is the simplest and most
easily understood. Why, my friends.
this question is so easily understood
that l suppose there is not a person
in this audience who is not able to
understand it, / do not mean that
every one. everywhere. can understand
1t. l draw the line here: When every
person reaches the period of intel
lectual development. where he is able
to see that when a man puts his money
in the bank he ought to be able to get
IL again. he ought to have intelligence
enough to understand this subject: but
until he gets to this point | do not
know how to reach him. / take IL for
granted. however, that you are all
sufficiently advanced to be able to
understand that when you put your
money in a bank you ought to be able
to get IL out again. Now. my friends.
there are just two questions to be CON
sidered in this matter. One of these
have given you. The other question
is. who must make IL secure2 Our
position is that as the banks make
their profits out of the peoples money.
the bankers ought to give the insur-
ance the people require. Now. | had
supposed that that was a self evident
truth and that IL would not be denied.
Il have made no speech without dis
cussing the guaranty of bank deposits
in all parts of the country. After |
had made my speech in Baltimore ex.
planning our system and presenting our
arguments in support of ii. my atten-
tion was called to an advertisement In
one of the papers. In my speech had
said that you could insure your house.
you could insure your life. you could
insure your buggy or your barn. but
that you could not insure your money.
And in this advertisement my Ian
guage vas quoted and the advertise
ment went on TO say that I was ms1-
taken. for a certain fidelity company
was prepared 70 insure deposits. AMI
then | found out how they do IL down
there. You put your money in bank.
and then go and get somebody to in
sure IL so that you can get II out OF tho
bank again. believe the time has
come to compel all the banks to stanl
back OF the banks and make good the
presumption upon which. you deposit
your money IN the bank.
Now. my friends. you may ask II
the banks are not now sufficiently Sc
cured. That is what the bankers say.
They will even tell you that only occa-
sionally n bank fails. but the trouble
is that we cannot tell In advance which
bank is going to fail. Look at the no
tice they hang up. Does II say. this
bank will fail?' No. the notice SAYS
this bank is closed. and II bankers
follow out this plan I will agree not TO
urge this insuring of deposits. Let
the bank give notice three months in
advance of a failure so the people can
get their money out before the failure.
do you think the banks are suffi-
ciently secure now, The postmaster
general says. in his report in favor
of the postal savings bank. that We are
sending millions of dollars to Europe
to be deposited in government saw
ings banks there. and the people who
send their money there would rather
Stuu IL dCIoSs an ocean tuTtt tnOusduu
miles wide than to risk the banks of
this country I say to you that we
ought to make our banks here so Sc
cure that money will not be driven out
of the United States to find a safe
place of deposit. That money which is
driven to Europe ought to be kept here
and used In the business of this coun-
try. Not only does money go to Eu-
rope, but money goes into hiding. and
this is about the time of year when we
discover some of II. You will see In
the paper every once In a while that
Mrs. So and So for the first time this
fall made fire and was mortified 10
find that her husband. without her
knowledge. had been using II as
bank. A man in New York said last
fall. when the panic was on. that n
billion dollars was in hiding under car
pets. | do not know whether that
estimate Is too high or too low. but
know this. that IL 1 were a banker
would be ashamed to have an old rag
carpet running rivalry with me as a
safety deposit vault. in time OF danger.
IF any man says that the banks are
secure / will remind him
that there is not a national bank in
the United States that can get a dollar
Of Uncle Sans money without putting
up security. The state demands Sc
curity: the county demands security: