Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-02


bill safeguarding the rights of the
depositor, permitting his fund to be de.
posted in the community in which it
was owned, and that the deposit should
not be taken to money centers and
placed in control of gigantic interests.
That measure slept in the house OF
representatives for three months and
then that body struck out the safe
guarding clauses, permitted three men,
not responsible to the people to become
trustees, declared that repositories for
postal savings funds might be created
anywhere they wished, that only bonds
of the United States and municipalities
should be security for such deposits
thus again playing into the hands of
New England where municipal bonds
can be had at merely the asking. The
system struck out of the senate bill
the clause with reference to the rate of
interest and thereby this fund can be
used by these trustees today in the
purchase of the two per cent bonds
now held by the eastern banking syn
dictate upon which they have issued cir.
culating notes The money is taken
from the community in which it is
owned and placed either at Washing
ton or New York, or the great centers
of the east; and thus the bill intended
to aid depositors stands as work of
injustice to the community in which
the depositor may reside.
Has the system of the United States
control of congress? We have but to
read this measure to be satisfied of it's
truth.
The club of patronage is being used
by the president to adopt legislation
and spoils is made the criterion Of
party loyalty. Iowa is placed in the
class of democratic states and all APP
pointments are referred to referees.
The insurgent republican looking With
longing eye on the emoluments that
he thinks necessarily follow success. is
denied the opportunity Of enjoying the
pleasure Of Office holding, unless he is
approved by committee of three.
What an edifying spectacle it is that
three distinguished standpatters, two
of them ex-congressmen in whom the
people lack confidence and the third
unable to obtain the Endorsement Of
his party for the governorship are the
referees of an organization where party
regularity Is the sole merit for holding
federal Office.
Against such system as this every
thinking citizen should rebel. Legis-
lation should be based on merit and
an administration that secures it's in
dorsement by the spoils system should
be driven from power at the first op-
portunity.
The contest of 1910 is on, and the
issue OF humanity against property Is
greater than ever before. I see new
day for democracy. see it moving
hope of human beings. I see it, not
attempting to destroy wealth. but to
create it, placing humanity above vest
ed rights, contending that taxation
shall be just and that the wealth of
the nation will bear is share of the
burden that privilege of all kinds
shall be abolished and that man is SUI
perior to property; that the flag OF
Bunker Hill means the same thing at
Manila it does at Washington; that a
large standing army is not necessary
for peace, and prosperity not Deepen
dent on a ship subsidy that a noble
peasantry IL a nations truest heritage,
and labor its king.
That the exploitation of the many is
crime and that wealth is the fruit
Of equal opportunities; that taxation is
q governmental right not a personal
perquisite, and private interest must
be subservient to public good that i'm.
perialism has no place in a democracy
and that liberty's flag should not wave
over colonies.
This, Oh Democracy, is my hope that
the land of Jefferson, Lincoln and
Bryan may not perish.