Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-10-01
GOV. NORRIS
TO OUR PEOPLE
Telling Address of Brilliant State Executive al
Opera House on Saturday Evening

civic duty to the best of their ability
and according to what they believe
to be right. No party is blessed
with all the good people, and no
party is burdened with all the bad
ones. We are all striving towards
the same end, intending to reach
the same goal-good government.
The official who endeavors to do
his whole duty seldom has occasion
to consider political questions in his
official acts. The officer who would
be swerved from proper perform
ance of the duties of his office by
partisan considerations is not worthy
of the trust reposed in him. In this
campaign, as in each one in which
have been engaged in the past,
shall not appeal to partisan predju-
dice; rather | shall ask the voters
to give to me, to my opponent, and
the principles which we respectively
represent, their full, earnest and
fair consideration, and by their votes
express their deliberate judgement
as between US.
have no patience with the candi-
date who is not willing to tell the
voters just where he stands upon
questions of interest to the voters.
Let there be full discussions, frank
statements and public arguments on
the part of every candidate, so that
the voters may know the candidates
convictions and principles.
1t is said that Bryan talks too
much. Neither he nor any other
candidate asking the suffrage Of the
voters can talk too much. When you
buy an article of merchandise you
desire to have all possible informa-
tion concerning it. When you vote
for a man you should know all about
his private life, his public acts and
his positions upon public questions.
That confidence is an important
factor in preventing panic is, to
every thinking mind, self-evident.
Such being a fact, the creation and
holding of the confidence of the peo-
pie becomes of prime Importance.
AS means to bring about this con-
dition the Democratic party sug-
gests guaranteed banks Both the
national and state Democratic plat
forms demand the guaranty of bank
deposits. If this principle should be
enacted into law by the federal gov
ernment and the state, it would
mean that the funds of every depos-
itor in any bank, state or national,
would be guaranteed, and, in case
of bank failure, paid from fund
levied and collected from the banks
according to the amounts of their
respective deposits; that is to say,
each bank would be required to pay
into guaranty fund certain sum
based upon the amount of its depos-
it's. This fund would be under the
control and direction of an officer or
selected according to
law. When any bank failed the de-
positors Of that bank would apply to
the Officer or commission for the
to them of the amount of
their deposit in the failed bank. The
resources of the failed bank would |
be first applied in satisfaction of the
amount paid out from this guaranty
fund to the depositor of such bank.
If depositors knew there was
sufficient fund in the hands of the
state, collected from the banks, to
pay the depositors of failed banks in
full. there would be no uneasiness
or apprehension on the part of bank
depositors. It is we'll known fact
that with the approach of fnan-
cial panic, bank depositors become
uneasy. withdraw their money from |
the banks and withhold it from cir
culation. Under the present system,
withdrawal is the only absolute as
surance ddepositors have that their
money may not be lost by the fail
ing of their banks.