Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-29
BUSINESS WILL NOT BE HARMED
 BY TIL ELECTION IF N. J. BRYAN

to protect the depositors in its state banks, the national banks of that state applied to the comptroller of tne currency for leave to participate with the state banks Of Oklahoma in pro viding fund to protect their depos- itors. may say. incidentally, that have in. my committee room upstairs, scores of letters from bankers and prominent business men throughout the country. all favoring this plan of protecting deposltors.
 It may seem an innovation to some of you. but I am satisfied that if men can protect depositors by a fund ere ated in this way, aLi then repeal the law as to bank reserves, we shall have solved the chief financial difficulties that afflict us so sadly in the recent panic and there will be no occasion for any emergency currency. i To my mind in addition to repeating the law relating to reserves, to which I have called your attention, think we ought to do something to protect our depositors. To my mind, as a matter of principle, there is no dis tinctionbetween a bill holder and de positor Both are creditors of the bank
 I While good and sharp business men are able. as a rule, though not always, to discriminate between banks, the or dinary depositor-the plain common people-is not possessed of such dis eliminating power. To him all ma tionaI banks" are good because they are government institutions and are labeled as such. He can not tell whether the banks make proper use of their deposits, and it is these com mon plain people that are entitled to our care and protection.
 ! Mir. Wade H. Echard, of Uniontowh, Pennsylvania, who was connected with the democratic national commit | tee in 1904 and who is interested ID coal properties, arrived in Chicago on Sunday, and will fill some speaking engagements during the next two weeks.
 MT. Echard says the Roosevelt ma ] jority of 5O7 900 in 1904, will be re duced to 100000 in November. Con 1 tinuing he said:
 The tide toward Bryan in Pennsyi-
 vania is simply wonderful. and if the same conditions prevail in other ! slide in November. Not only is there phenomenal apathy among republi-
 cans in Pennsylvania, but hundreds of party men are going to vote for MT. Bryan. In every part of the state one hears reports of republicans who will
 vote the democratic national ticket.
 Several causes contribute to these
 conditions, not the least of which is
 the fact that many of the industries I have not operated since last October
 and only small percentage have op-
 erated at all during the past year. Every indication points t9 the fact Itat Taft will receive the smallest plurality given to any presidential
 candidate since Harrison's defeat in [ 1892.
 In Fayette and Westmoreland coun. ties, in which the large coke manufac. turing plants are located. more than 30,000 men are employed at ordinary times. More than 10000 if these men
 between October and May, returned to
 their native lands; and the 10000 who remained in the two counties have averaged less than one and one-haIi days per week in the last year. The laboring classes are inclined to blame the present administration for the un satisfactory condition of business and can be relied upon to vote almost as Ia unit against the election of Mir Taft. That business shows no signs lof improvement is best evidenced by
 the fact that only last week 1000 ad
 ditional coke ovens, representing em ployment for 1000 men, and produc ] ing coke to the equivalent of 2,50C tons of steel, were put out of blast.