Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-01-11

Prsside dent Iaft s. H. M /
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MONEY TRUST S M ACKEp


feans busy.
Washington. p. G, jan Over
eight thousand people passed tsfoss
the President on New Years day.and
MI. Taft gave to each cordial
greeting. and hearty handmade.
The newspapers described the annual
event as one Of brilliance and grand
eur, and carried glowing accounts cfS
the wealth Of gold braid of the milts
tary. the gilt and tassel of the diplo-
matte corps, and the rich gowns of
the ladies who linger about tue
American court, \, Your correspon-
dent took place In the line that
extended for blocks outside the White
House grounds, and moved forward
with two colored laborers In front,
and d number OF shabbiiy dressed
Italian children Immediately follow
ing 1t took from one To two hours
70 reach The president, after passislg
through lines Of ofIicera ana secr4ts
service men who were searching out
suspicious char racters The
House never looked better. and tho
lsninsie of the NJ arine Band added fho
Finishing touch Of the beauti ifui and
artistic to the i'asplendent scens
where the rich and poor, the great
and the the powerful and the \
lssnak. PASSED q long, auita eela,al ,asS
4 stei law
EcoGntry on earth. Mrs. La Follette
has written one OF the best accounts
lof the reception, and 1t occupied on-
lly a quarter Of column. Tine clos.
ling sentence Of her description oil tho
event reads :: We spend an hour,
but as we pass out we see tho foag
line Of people still waiting to shake
hands with their president. - j.
Congressn Lindbergh Of Mime
tsota, has renewed his attacks upon
1.-THE money trust !. and has an ally
| in no less a person than Samuel I'M
termyer of New York. The thing
about Untermyer that appeals is the
fact that he tells how this great
'.trust" operates. Mostly everybody
has more or less fault to find with
l"Inoney trusts = and with bankers and
credit men who Will not trust, + 4 Z bit
the scope Of Mr.. Lindberg's proposed
Investigation is covered in measure
1 by the probes already under way az
4 fecting individual trusts. TO compre-;
A hend the whole problem suggested by
the Minnesota Congressman would be
a job quite equal to search for tho
lost Plefade Untermyer, however. is
4 more definite, and asserts that in real
4 ity it Is not "trust" at all that he is
after He would confine the scope Of
4 the inquiry to finding out the extent
Ito which national banks and the trust
companies are under the control Of
the money powers, and the reasons
|5why the competition between great
land small bankers is practically non
est, and the financial system that has
4 brought us to such plight. RS
Mr.. Lafferty, the bachelor congress.
man from Portland, Ore, who broke
into prominence last summer BY writ.
ing letters to young ladies whom he
had never mel, has appeared in the
4 House with a resolution providing a
Il way for women to vote II is suggest
/ ed that the Oregon man has demon
stTated his fitness to champion the
4 suffrage cause. x
And now Mr.. Snizer OF New York,
wants congress to congratulate China
on becoming renub1ic. This man
4 ISulzer is getting to be a jlggler with
nationalities without an equal. 1t is
4 only about two weeks ago that he
He aaS- the attack on Russia, thereby
making himself a hero III every syna-
| lgogue III America. s,. II
The Presidents peace treaties VIII
remain a live issue before the senate
3 and the country, The opponents Of
Natifcation have recently .emphati.
caliy declared that they have been
nitsrepresented ~ their position. ana
a that they stand for world Wide peaSs
Eand that their difference ii, siewpoiss IL
from that of The president eonceEns
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