The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-08
WOULD CONCENTRATE
POWER WITH THE INTERESTS
Declares Postal Bank PROPOSE
tlon Another Gross Decep-
tlon On the People

Attacking the central bank idea as
brought forward by Senator Aldrich,
and urging application Of the princi-
pies OF the Oklahoma guarantee law,
Governor c.. N. Haskell made public
today the following letter addressed
to Senator IT. p. Gore:
The people of America have their
eyes turned on the American Con
gress. They are asking for bread;
shall the fruits of their prayer be
stone?
Beyond an comparison. the most inn
portant law OF generation is pending
before Congress. Tariff bills may
come and go; they may carry limitIess
opportunities TO the favored class this
year, and be slightly modified or ex.
tended the next, but aside from a
specie Of legalized robbery, they bear
no approximate, unending destructive
character to free government COM
pared with the evil that may grow out
Of possible banking legislation
There is no power compared with
the concentrated power Of money, and
once thoroughly entrenched, no coun-
try has ever been able to dethrOne It,.
From a mere commercial convenience
as a circulating medium, money may
easily become the Lord and master
OF a great people, intended to be free
and endowed with selfgovernment.
Rest assured the burglar never pur-
uOsely sounds the alarm,
The enemy OF free government never
warns. the people OF an intended raid
upon their sovereign power.
In the years OF Gods bounteous
harvest, lin the presence of the
Creators plenty, is offered the great
est opportunities for aggression of the
srecial interests. Far too often the
producing classes in their generous
spirit, see no injustice in the grasp
ing OF share OF their labors by those
who toll not, and in such times things
may be done that under the more
vigilant eye of needy conditions
would be viewed with alarm, and OPP
posed by the people.
And such is the condition today
And availing themselves of this op-
portunity, the banking laws con
templated by dominating Influences in
Congress, il enacted, mark you, will
enthrone the most powerful and far
reaching Influence In our government
possible to contemplate.
You realize that men like yourself
Bristow. LaFollette, Culberson and
Others are contending against the
most ingenious and subtle foes OF the
people In their art grown ripe with Q
generation of experience.
Untried things may only be anayz
ed by the learning, but things time
tried are better analyzed by tht
results they have produced. and thus
In the bitter school Of experience have
The American people discovered tha'
pleasing titles have often been abused
by being applied to vicious and unJus
laws and policies OF government; tina
the most beautiful rose often hide'
the vicious thorn; that the medicine
bitter as gall. may for an instant b
made sweet to the taste by TIM
sugar coating
Like unto these, generation ag'
was coined that pleasing expression
Protection to American labor
The experience OF years relieves tn
necessity OF theorizing upon the rea
meaning of this beautiful expression
II produced few Carnegles, with fol
tunes reaching into the hundreds Q
,,,;lllons of dollars
Il made possible the United State
Steel Company, monopollzing the mos
essential product OF manufacture
able to dominate and limit the earn
ings of labor on the one hand, an
the price to the consumer on IN
other and through such possibilitie
levy tribute that makes millions J
stock values out OF bare iMes
ment, little In excess of the cost
the paper upon which the certifica'
Is printed And having entrenche
itself under the protection OF a trus
dominated Congress. who shall 50
that we, our children, and OF
children's children may not iorev'
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