Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-10
CANNONS CRITIC IN OMAHA
Congressman Fowler Of New Jersey
Spends Day Here.
CENTRAL BANK IS IMPOSSIBLE
Believes the plan Can Never Win In
This Country-AHserts Existing
system Of Ruling
SIS Doomed.

I'VE will never have a central bank in
this country" said Congressman Charles II.
Fowler Of New Jersey, at the Loyal hotel,
where he arrived Tuesday morning and
entertained a party Of friends at noon.
The party consisted OF these men: Luther
Drake. president Merchants National bank;
Milton r. Barlow, United States National;
Charles T. Kountze, First National, and
Henry w. Yates, president Nebraska Ma
tional; Congressman Hitchcock, editor the
worid-Herald, and Victor Rosewater,
editor The Bee Of Omaha; Ernest Hart Of
Council Bluffs and Harry T. Dobbins
editor the Lincoln News; s. II. Burnham
and DR.. p. L. Hall of Lincoln.
Not because ! say so, mind you, but
because the people Of this country will
never consent to IT,. Personally. Of, course,
as I have taken pains to say, I am abso-
iutely opposed to the idea"
when the people Of this country are
given a fair chance to study a thing and
make a guess on sober second thought
they always make a right decision. They
decided right in the struggle to abolish
slavery. They decided right in the fight
for the single gold standard, as all the
world and even the democrats now admit.
SO II has been with everything that has
been put up to them fairly"
NNEU III AAhAANA VI S1AAAACAAoAAAF ~
called. was tlmidly preached to the New
Jersey financial leader, he said with a
snap:
Personalities 1 never indulge in. When
my letter was written. II was done as a
matter Of duty, to cali public attention
to the system that made the speaker Of
the house something much more than a
presiding officer. That system is doomed
as surely as you and 1 are talking. 1t is
impossible. The republican party cannot af-
ford to stand for it or carry it. Undoubt-
edly out here in the west you are realiz-
ing that.
Fight is Not Personal.
THE fight is not a personal one, so far
as 1 am concerned. 1t was on, with me, a
year ago, regardless Of committee appoint
ments or anything else. That I am not
given to personalities is proved by the fact
that in seven campaigns for congress l
have never mentioned my opponent by
name"
OF the Fowler bill, prepared by himself,
the New Jersey legislator said: 1T is not
a bill, as some seem to think, to reorganlze
the banking business of the country. 1t
is calculated to organize the banking sys-
TEN, by making the bankers supervise the
bankers and see they do business right.
Ahhb Soul ClNailib houot HSAN III CihoA
today. 1t is the real supervisory authority,
and It keeps things straight"
Regarding possible developments in the
placing of authority in the next house of
representatives, Mr.. Fowler said:
I'VE win have a committee on commit
tees, beyond any doubt. The democrats
are committed to 1t, and the country is
committed to It. 1t will be put into effect
by the republicans because they will he in
control-that is, the progressive element
that abhors Cannonism-because 1t is right.
You won't find any candidate making a
campaign next year for the existing rules,
even though some men, in exceptional dis
tricts. may be elected not because they are
for those rules, but in spite of that fact. &"
Refuses to Discuss Men.
Mr.. Fowler persistently refused TO dis
cuss men or to touch on political prospects
Of this or that leader. lie talked enthusi-
astically about the west, however. Il am
not a new visitor In this section, having
often been out this way. Back in 1879 l
drove all over this part Of the country,
starting from Yankton I'm a rig and follow
ing the prairie trails away down into
Kansas. / have shot wolves over yonder
with Ernest Hart thirty years ago, and
was in Norfolk, Nsb., when It was Just
starting as a town, with not even a rail-
road In there. I am here now on a trip
partly for observation. partly for business,
and don't expect to he entertained publicly
anywhere, or to make any speeches. i
win go to Kansas city and from there
east"
Mr.. Fowler is a large, solid looking man,
somewhat portly mien, smooth shaven,
and looks competent to accomplish things.