The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-10-02
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

49, "
of Oklahoma, according to Representa-
tive Weaver, who finds in the Under
wood tariff bill and the Glass banking
and currency bill GLORY enough for
the administration and for the demo-
cratic party if it were to accomplish
nothing further" Representative
hurry of the same state reviewed the
experience Of Oklahoma under the
state guaranty banking law, and as a
result he leans to the belief that the
national banks, which work the politi-
clans for self preservation, will in
fuence every possible candidate for
the presidency in their behalf. Muir
ray says men would cell their souls to
be president of the United States and
that they all make deals in their own
interests" 1t may be said that Mr..
Murray is very much in the minority
in such a belief, as there were plenty
of expressions during the currency de-
bate in the house which demonstrated
the perfect confidence reposed in the
men chosen by the different great poll
teal parties for the presidency.
And now everybody ought to be hap
ply for though neither Champ Clark Or
ex-governor Folk landed the presi-
dency, the gentleman from Pike coun-
ty is content in adjoining the Speaker
ship, while Folk has become the right
hand aide to Secretary Bryan. Upon
different occasions since these dis
tinguished gentlemen have been call
ed into their own by the American
people, they have all broke the crust
of bread and slipped the nectar of grape
juice together and with everybody
working at a good job, the goddess of
peace should continue to smile ap-
provingly upon the bunch.
During the discussion of the cur
rency measure Representative Cor
man of Illinois declared that the only
corporation which has heretofore exist
ed among the national banks was that
~interlocking of d~irectorates, and which
in turn was responsible for the CO
operation or conspiracy between the
banks and the stock market operators.
According to Mr.. German this kind Of
cooperation is fatal to legitimate bus
mess. He pointed out that the Glass
Owen bill proposes a cooperation
which will aid legitimate business in
stead of sp%eculations.
There is nothing prosy about this:
1--WE no longer use the sickle in reap
ing down our fields of amber grain,
other and more effective methods hav-
ing been brought into use. We can.
not live on tradition alone. We must
meet conditions as We find them. We
cannot afford to procrastinate. To do
so would be financial suicide" The
quotation occurred in the congress
sional Record as the extension Of
remarks of Honorable Sanford Kirk
patrick Of Iowa."
Declaring that his one reason for
not supporting the u rency measure
was because it did not appeal to his
best judgment as being right, Repres-
entative Mckenzie Of Illinois added
that he was not "one Of those who be-
lieves that nothing good can come out
Of Nazareth" He explained the demo-
cratic caucus was the a~ntithesis Of
righteousness.
Former Representative Littlefield Of
Maine, in his testimony at the house
lobby INVESTIGATION admitted that he
had received aid from the Manufac-
~turers Association, but he denied in
substance most Of the implications Of
Mulhall. the lobbyist, regarding the
improper use Of the associations
money in his campaign. Lttlefield
also rose to the defense Of former
Congressman Jenkins Of Wisconsin,
who is dead and cannot speak for him.
SELF" It will be remembered that the
labor unions opposed the nomination
OF Littlef1eld and Jenkins, who were
prominent members OF congress a few
years ago. On account Of the inuuence
these men exercised In protective tar
liR legislation. the Manufacturers As
socistion vry consistently came to the
aid of their campaigns, and nothing
improper would ever have been charg-
ed had It not been for the extravagant
ASSERTIONS OF the discredited Mulhall.
Az an explanation Of why preachers
have not been prominent in holding
ofnces. Seator Clapp told the senate
the other day that "in the early his.
tory Of this country in many Of the
states ministers Of the gospel were
forbidden to hold once. upon the
theory that politics were 90 degrading
that the ministers could not With
stand IT. degrading effects" The
senator explained that 1t was not upon
the theory that the church would dc.
mean politics. but that politics would