The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-20
NOTABLE GATHERING 0F
 DEMOCRATS or TANANA
Nearly Two Hundred Turn Out Celebrate One Hundred Foryfomth Anniversary of the Birth of
 Andrew Jackson

lar government from the people of Alaska; the other declares that it is OUT constitutional rights that we should have il.
 Hamilton's. and his aristocratie fol- popular government. and Jefforson's and the D mocratic masses conf douce in themselves. and in their own ability to govern themselves have te Il the historical party strug gles in the United States Time would not permi' Us 10 detail all the ques- ten involved in + in the past. nor all the continued usurpation of power af the pres mt; suffice il to say that my reading of history shows me hat eHcToachments of centralization of power have always come insidi ously, rarely openly and that the people of the United States are but repeating the history of the world.
 Free nations have gone to sleep with their weal'h distributed and have walked to find f shifted as if by magic to a few centers and con trolled by q few men. They have gone 10 sleep with all power distrib- uted among the people and have awaken q To find it centralized. So in he United States A the beginning he principles of Jefferson were tri- LII phant over despCtic European power. and as the nation was organ izcd with power eQualized between he states and the federal govern men the people felt secure and rested. as f were. from their labor But the Cncroachment of power began is work
 Hamilton in spite of the opposi- ton of Jefferson, embodied his cen fraliZation doctrine in the National Bank law. and shortly after the people woke up 10 find wealth con trolled by a few men. power central ized, and their free institutions threatened. l. has already ben eIoa0enrly told by Judge Erwin now q man of the people rose and removed thar poison from our body poliric. l will only repeat what Thomas Bent"n said In searching history he could find but one parallel 10 Andrew Jackson, that was Cicero who destroyed the conspiracy of Ca ta1ina and saved Rome What Cicero did fer Rome Jackson did for us. when he destroyed the bank con spiracy he saved America And Jackson was following Jtffersonian principles.
 In some nations he shifting of wealth has been effected through the force of arms. In ours it has been done by legislation. Gentlemen, do Eou know how rich our country Is? T. is almost impossible to realize the enormous wealth if expressed in figures. They are so vast that for want cf something with which to make comparison We cannot realize their significance. They are simply ap- paling. Someone has said by way of comparison that there is more wealth in the United States than enough to buy the Russian and Turkish empires. the kingdoms of Sweden. Norway. Denmark, Spain and Italy, the colonies of Australia and South Africa, and all of South Amorican-lands, mines, cities, pal aces, factories, ships, flocks, herds, jewels, monies. thrones, scepters, dia- dems and all. Do we grasp what our possessions are worth?
 But who owns and controls this enormous wealth at the present time? How is it distributed? Let Senator LaFollette answer. From a speech delivered bv him in the sen ate March r. 1908. l give the fol- lowing synopsis: He declared that TWO great groups of banks in New York National City bank con trolled by Standard Oil and the Ma tfonal Bank of Commerce controlled by the Morgan interests, control The financial situation in the United States-rhe same old snake that Jackson scotched revived again. He said that these two groups are drawn together by business association in such a way that their ultimate unifi- cation is assured; that they are join ed together in mutual interest as shareholders in the various indus trial concerns which have been fi- nanced by one or the ether; that the tifty-two men who are directors of he banks. standing at the head Of these two groups, are part Of list of less than one hundred men who control the industrial life of the nation. And he proves conclusively that these men control all the indus trial. transportation and financial business of the United States of America.
 Just thinnk of it-less than one hundred men control the wealth and livelihood of ninety million people. Can we doubt the sta ement of La Toilette? No! The people of the great state of Wisconsin have in- dorsed him and have put their seal of approval upon these utterances by electing him again to that high office which he now holds. How then think you. did these one hundred men get control of cur wealth? By leg islation-through and by the perfidy of the political party in power they have disregardeed the constitution granting justice to all and special privileges to none. They have hand ed you tariff baskets strewed and decked with roses of promises, but the leech was concealed among the flowers with it's drawing power of taxation. They have promised a full dinner pail, but in. it you have found tapeworm which gnaws at your vitals. They have promised you safe and sound currency and finan- cial laws, but your savings have dis appeared time and again and you find no redress for it.
 Reflect, gentlemen, that through these laws the favored few have been enabled to control the nations wealth through combination and in stock gambling. That the great fortunes thus accumulated are simply the winnings that others have lost and