The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-15
ROOSEVELT'S HOWL OF CALAMITY BRINGS
 BACK SCRIP DAYS

washrngron. D. C., July 15.-Ex- President Roosevelt has fallen back on the calamity cry or the little Re publican politicians throughout the country and takes the position that prosperity can not exist during a. Democratic administration on.
 This is the same MT. Roosevelt whose occupancy of the Presidency was chiefly signalized by the panic of 1907, and the ensuing depression,, from which the country was only emerging when his successor's suc- cessor was installed in office.
 During that panic, when MT. Roose- welt was in the White House, there. was organized in every section of the country NO MEAT CLUBS. Money was sU scarce and meat was so high many people throughout the land boycotted all forms of meat and were forced to vegetable diet. The people of this nation have not been forced to any such boycott under the Wilson. administration. There is abundance everywhere. ~
 You remember, of course, the SCRIP days of the Roosevelt admin istration. In those never-to-be-for- gotten days people who had good hard money in the banks couldn't draw 1t out. Checks were no good. Depositors were given scrip instead of money, which had to be hawked around and finally exchanged on dis count. Remember those dark days back in 1907? Well, the next time little two-by-four Republican says anything about alleged business de- pression in the year 1914, just hark back to Republican rule and scrip.
 On the floor of the House Congressl man Ralney, of Illinois, forcaful1y called attention a few days ago to the depIorable situation. that existed in 1907. He said:
 '.In 1907 the men who had toiled all 7 eS and under the hot suns of simmer on our farms. were unable to go to their banks and get the money they had earned and had deposited there.
 During that period Of time I my self recall that a check on the, Treas ury of the United, States, drawn by tl7e sergeant arms of this House, l.~yable to myself for one months sal ary, was refused payment by, one of the greatest banks in the middle west. The banks locked up the money of the people in their vaults during that typical Republican panic, and they issued their own paper, in vi9lation of law
 we suspended the operation of the criminal and civil laws of this country and permitted throughout the land every bank that wanted to do so to violate the law. On this sidet of the House there was not a n1urmur of discontent. or disapprova1 ALBUQUERQUE the aOdTk QayS OI 1SVl-- not a single political speech calling attention to this panic. for which the Republican Party was directly res ponsi ble, was made on this side of the Chamber. It was a case where we applied the faith cure to the sit nation, and starting on the Demo cratic side Of the House and of the Senate we made speeches of conf dence. and the inspiration created here spread throughout the country Out in my section g. widow who had saved up two or three hundred dollars and hid it away. because she did not. believe in banks, was so in spired withs the patriotic feeling which started on this side of, the House and extended throughout the country that she brought her money from its hiding place, and deposited it in a local bank. and said; Here Is my money; I feel I ought to com tribute this toward the security of the banks and business throughout the land
 Those acts of patriotism, numer- ous as they were, conspicuous as they were in 1907. can all be traced to the wave of patriotism which was inspir- ed by Democratic leaders here and throughout the country in the dark days of this Republican panic. Pa trtotic utterances so frequent in 1907 and 1908 on this side of the House are absolutely lacking at the present time on. the other side of the House.