Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-24


Who has some plain things to say about Uncle
like all such characters possessing abso-
lutte power malice is the handspring of
your every action under such circum-
slances?'
After quoting from the official records
to show Mr.. Cannon's attitude toward
Mr.. Fowler reminds the Speaker of the
latter's opposition to remedial legislation
proposed by Fowler to avert the panic
of 1907, and says:
You literally hooted the idea of a
panic and inquired: What in h does
this bowling in Wall street amount to?
The country don't care what happens
to those d SPECTATORS. Everything
Is all right out west and around Dam
Vile. The country don't need any legis-
lation. Then l don't take any stock in
your d asset CURRENCY
Mr.. Fowler adds: las usual, your ig-
norance and prejudice were alI-sufficient
then. But the panic came, as every man
who had any intelligence upon the sub
ject knew 1t would.
Panic Might Have Been Averted.
Now. sir. mark this-the bill pre-
pared by these representative bankers.
which met only with your sneers and
contempt, and known as the bankers
BILL provided for about $4,000 900 of
credit currency, called in that bill ma
tional bank guaranteed credit notes
If that bill had been upon the statute
books When the pressure came there
would have been no general suspension
of banks throughout the country, no
general breaking down of the exchanges
as all the banks could have more than
met the demand for currency.
I am sure that all trustworthy au-
thorities will say that at least one-haIf
and possibly two-thirds of all the losses
OF the crisis Of 1907, direct and indirect,
were due to the fact that there was
general suspension of bank payments and
complete breaking down of our ex
changes; that the public confidence was
so shocked as to destroy completely nor
NAL conditions for many months
A Hybrid Record"
This Is your record upon our finan-
cial and currency legislation. / chal-
lenge you to find a single living man
with 80 rotten a one. It is a record of
ignorance or political cowar1ice or a dis
graceful hybrid of the two. And yet.
sir. you assume to dictate the financial
and currency legislation Of a civilized
country
After accusing Cannon of deliberately
conspiring with Senator Aldrich to pack
the conference committee on the tariff
bill against the House bill, Mr. Fowler
adds:
Il have gone into these details to lay
bare your miserable contemplate false
pretense. and to expose your duplicity
treachery and perfidy to that legislative
body over which you preside. whose bill
stroy.
"Is it possible that YOU the republican
Speaker of the House of Representatives.,
and Senator Aldrich, chairman of the
finance committee of the Senate, entered
into a conspiracy to secure the adoption
of the Senate bill in general and the
highest rates in both bills throughout for
the purpose of discrediting the President
by repudiating his pledges and the plat
form Of the republican party?
"Looks Like q Conspiracy"
Taking all the facts as they appear in
the case, from start to finish, lawyer,
an intelligent criminal lawyer. would
say that 1t looked like a conspiracy. You
seem to have measured the conditions
with accuracy and to have calculated
the distances to the various points of
agreement carefully, and you seemed to
be almost upon the point of conSummat-
ing your undertaking when the great I'M
known factor became the determining
force.
Though this scheme failed. ii exhibits
'Cannonism' in its highest and most per-
feet development
Il challenge you to cite in all our po-
litical history a more dshonorable and
disreputable piece of business, unless,
perchance. you cite something in Your
own career Of which the people are not
advised"
Outlining a program by which the
House could rid itself of one-man power,
Fowler closes his letter thus:
These pledges have become necessary
because of the assumption and abuse
of power by which yau and your confed-
crates have already brought the republic
can party almost to certain defeat, pos
sfbly disruption and destruction, unless
'Cannonism,' with all IT'S corrupting. de-
grading and paralyzing influences, is torn
up root and branch. The republican party
will not brook nor condone your con-
temptible trickery and traitorous treach-
cry your disgusting favoritism and
vengeful malice. your brutal despotism
and daringiy desperate methods.
IF the republican party wins the next
congressional election it will only be
upon the grave Of Canncaism.'