The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-15


ion to the necessity of change in
our monetary and banking systems,
and to the advantages that will arise
from placing some. form of control
over the money market and the re-
serve In the hands of an intelligent
body of fnanciers responsible to the
government. I am told that Mr.. Aid
rich will swing around the circuit
IN the present fall and will lecture
In many of the cities of the middle
west on the defects and needs of our
monetary ssytem. I cannot too strong
ly approve OF this proposal. Mr.. AID
rich, who is leader of the senate,
and certainly one of the ablest states.
men in financial matters in either
house, has been regarded with deep
suspicion by many people, especially
in the west. II, with his clear cut
ideas and simple, but effective style
of speaking, he makes apparent to the
western people what l believe to he
his earnest desire to aid the people
and to crown his political career by
the preparation and passage of a bill
which shall give us sound and safe
monetary and manking system, it
would be long step toward removing
solution of the question.
Tariff Issues.
II am not going to discuss the
merits and demerits of the new tariff
bill with you. shall have often to
refer to that before my journey is
ended, and / must save some thing
for other audiences. Suffice it to say
that the passage Of the bill has re-
a al L.,
ness.
Conservation Needed.
Then, too. the needs in respect to
sources; the amendment to the pub
lie land system; the execution of the
pure food laws; and all the rest of
the important matters that should
demand attention, make the legislative
and executive labor of the next three
years heavy enough, If our purposes
are carried out, to exhaust the energy
OF the most enthusiastic and hopeful.
Johnson Roasted.
Still the world is making progress
our country Is making progress
Occasionally one hears a note like that
Of Governor Johnson, denouncing the
east and calling upon the west to or
ganize in a sectional way against the
east, because the east Is deriving more
benefit from the governmental policy,
than the west, and at the expense of
the west. 1t is difficult for one to
treat such an appeal seriously.
Throughout this country there is free
trade of the freest character and due
to this the prosperity of the west,
especially the agricultural west. is
even more pronounced than that of
the east. Moreover, the east is too
close to the Pacific coast, too close
to the middle west, too close to the
Rocky mountains, because all the peo-
pie of these western stretches have
eastern ancestry and eastern associa-
tions and eastern competitions and be-
cause they have eastern capital with
which their sections Have; been large
ly built up and because they are too
much assisted by eastern markets in
enhancing the prices which their pro-
ducts bring, to make such All attempt
at sectionalism successful. 1t is true
that at times public questions will be
given q local color by what is thought
to be a local benefit, as distinguished
from the general and the national
benefit. But such attitude is general
ly temporary and it takes but a few
years of business experience, it takes
but O panic or two, to present the
most convincing evidence that in this
country we are all in the same busi-
ness boat and that the prosperity of
one section adds to the prosperity of
the other and that business disaster
in one section is only the forerunner
of business depression and disaster
in another.
Il was born and brought up in the
middle west l have had New Eng
land ancestry and New England as
sociations. Fortune threw me out
into the Pacific SO that know some
thing of the feelings of the west coast.
Jurisdiction as a judge gave me a
somewhat intimate knowledge Of
southern feelings and southern as
pirations. feel, therefore, as if
could speak with confidence in re-
spect to the whole nation and, as
president of the United States, may
we'll lift up my voice to protest
against any effort by whomsoever
made, to arouse section against Sec
tion and Americans against Ameri-
cans. Not in the history of the coun-
try since the war has the feeling be-
tween the north and the south been
more cordial and friendly than 1t is
today and political attempt to make
a cleavage between New England, the
east on one side and the west on the
other, will be found to be SO utterly
hopeless as to confound those who
propose it."