The log cabin Democrat., 1913-11-27
JUDGE WI. KIRBY
 OPENS CAMP PA|CN
FIRST ADDRESS AT BENTON
DISCUSSES NATIONAL ISSUES AND ATTACKS SENATOR
 CLARK'S RECORD.

paign for the United States Senate here this afternoon. He discussed al considerable length the official record of Senator J. P. Clarke, declaring that he is out of sympathy with the principles of genuine democracy, and out of touch with the people.
 In discussing national issues, he said that the tariff question has been settled by Democratic administra- tion, that the currency question is in process of settlement, and he devoted some time to a discussion of the un- equal distribution of wealth through the operation of trusts and unlawful combinations in restraint trade.
 Judge Kirby advocated a rural credit system, and upon this point said: "In the establishment of the national banking system of these United States, the farmer was not given consideration, and the great in- dustry of agriculture was ignored, and, even now, the changes proposed in the currency system, while alto gether good, and which should prove remedial and vastly beneficial, deal almost exclusively with commercial banking, supplying the needs of the merchant and manufacturer and not adequately providing for the needs of agriculture. Our banking system is a commercial one, intended primarily to accommodate industries and com- merce, to take care chiefly of the mer- chant and manufacturer and not the farmer. It discriminates against him in not allowing his chief asset-his real estate, his farm-to be taken as security, and does not take into ac- count his need of money for longer periods than required by other indus tries of commerce.
 "In order that he may be properly taken care of and afforded banking facilities commensurate with his great interest and needs, a new system must be created that will take them into account, and 1 favor the estab- lishment of rural banking and cred it system, suitable to our needs and conditions, and also such legislation as will permit our national banks to loan a reasonable proportion of their funds on real estate security
 In discussing the Mexican situa- ton, Judge Kirby said: Our sister republic to the south is rent, torn and laid waste by red-handed civil war, and the handful of American citizens in Mexico are crying for help against existing conditions.
 We have given the other nations of this world to understand. through our Monroe doctrine, that the United States will protect the integrity of the governments on this continent of for eign nations upon it's soil. But this doctrine does not require that we shall regulate the internal affairs of Mexico to protect any financial interest of any of our citizens who have prefer red to try their fortunes in that re- public rather than here at home, and do not believe that we should have a war with Mexico We don't need such a war. Neither glory nor gain can be derived from it. It means the expenditure of vast sums of money and the best blood of our army. It could not but result in the subjuga- tion of republic that has long dem onstrated it's capacity fo1 self-govern- ment in the wonderful progress it has made in recent times, until, torn and rent by contending factions and the selfish ambition of some of it's lead CTS, and this nation could better af- ford to pay to the handful of Ameri- can residents in Mexico, the full value of all the property owned by each of them, or claimed to be owned, than to engage in any such war.
 "Then, too, it would distract the minds of the people from the legisla- tion so much needed to revise the cur rency system of our country and put it within the control of the govern ment, that bank-made panics shall not occur in the future as in 1907, and that the credit of the country and it's currency shall not be controlled by the banks, but by the government in the last resort.
 "I hope no war will come, and ear nestlv believe that our great Demo