Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-03
tense OF black slavery. Some 80
ago, William Larrabee, Governor
Iowa. performed one of the most

Tense OF black slavery. Some 80
ago, William Larrabee, Governor
Iowa. performed one of TIE most |,
borious and painstaking tasks eve
undertaken by the executive of any
State. He revealed in the most lumin.
Gus way the piratical tactics of rail.
way managers. Instead of being re-
warded with a seat In the United
States Senate, the corporations with
the help Of the republican voters re.
tired this splendid public servant. For
over twenty years LaFollette has
fought for right and Justice in Wis
ccnsin Instead Of the people standing
true to him they desert him from
time to time In such numbers as to
make his task so great an ordeal,
that an ordinary man would never be
equal to 1t. When Cummins, of Iowa.
showed IT, rer-'a and ability to crap
pie with ne problem the cor.
porations have united against him, re.
ceiving the support of the very PEG.
pie who should stand true to Cum.
Minis.
Panlcs.
The most distressing circumstance
connected with monetary panic such
as we have been compelled, periodic.
ally to endure, Is the loss inflicted on
small depositors. comparatively poor
people who are the least able to bear
the loss. Mr.. Bryan, sustained by the
entire democratic party, demands a
measure that will eliminate this ugly
feature from all future panics. AND
indeed 1t is diGlcult to see how panic
NnpIH cain hnn i
SO arrange the banking business that
a run on banks would not occur II
is this panicy condition, as infectious
and demoralizing as the small box 1t.
self. that we would render impossible
by compelling the creation of fund
by the banks out of which any de.
positor could be paid at any time, re-
CARELESS of the insolvency of the
bank itself. A more common sense
reform has never been proposed but
like all demands for justice it will be
opposed by some of the very people
who should be the most strenuous In
securing It's adoption. Some dust
throwing expedient will be invented
and used to distort the vision of mar.
row partisans, so as to render the
adoption of this reform as dificult az
possible,
Campaign Contribution.
To publish to the world the sources
from which political parties are
financed during campaigns as well as
the objects for which this money IL
expended, is another reform demand
ed by the democratic party. How
any really honest man can fight this
reform Is another fact not under
standable. When Special interests
pour money by the millions of dol.
lars into the treasury of political
party the act is not one of patriotism
but of deliberately planned selfish
ness. To buy legislative favors is 9
kind of rascality that has been prac
ticed upon SO tremendous scale
that some way must be found to kill
Off this national scandal But 1 must
here repeat. even this reform will he
antagontzed by some ''for the sake OF
party harmony" and the sake OF
party discipline"
Taft and Bryan.
This group of reform measures O,
which | have spoken is emphatically
endorsed by the democratic organiza
ton and by the progressive wing Of
the republican party. The control OF
the republican party having AGAR
passed into the hands of the reaction
aries, into the hand of the Aldrichs
Depews, Cannons, Dalzells and
Paynes, the only possible way to con
sumate these reform measures is te
support for the presidency, not the
easy-going Taft whose lack of combat
iveness VIGOROUSLY units him for .
Strenuous life, whose sluggish tenn
permanent and slew activities will moi
be equal for a contest that will tr,
mems souls", but to vote for the mar
whose mental activities know nj
bounds, whose life Is a marvel. OF
no other American can 1t be SO well
said, he is beloved by all his follow
ers, admired by even his enemies and
esteemed throughout the world.