The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1915-05-22

ing message to Mr.. Robert u. Van
Cortlandt, president of the Westches-
ter County Democratic club, which
was read at the clubs dinner in New
York April 10:
Please tell the members of the
Westchester County Democratic club
how deeply | appreciate their invita-
ton to attend the annual dinner to-
night. and how keenly disappointed
| am not to be able to do so. Moth
ing but Illness could have kept me
away. If this had accommodating
begun two weeks earlier or If the
dinner had taken place two weeks
later, | would have answered pres
ent at the roll call tonight.
Il am delighted that one of my
colleagues. the distinguished secre-
tary of war, is your guest, and l am
sure you will make him feel the
warmth and joy of Westchester hos
pitality.
"a prominent republican is quoted
as saying: 1 do not look for return
of general business activity until af-
ter the election next year.
This is what republican leaders
are strenuously trying to make the
people believe; this is what they
hope for; this is what they are striv-
ing to accomplish; but they may as
well try to suppress the tides of the
ocean as to prevent the prosperity
which, now planted upon secure
economic foundations, is becoming
more pronounced and widely diff
fused each day. 1t is only through
national disaster that the republi-
can party and the selfish interests
that dominate 1t hope for success.
Every utterance and every action of
republican leaders convict them of
wanting to prevent prosperity in
order to gain control of the govern
ment. This once great party, the
alleged champions of business, try
ing to destroy business to gain its
ends! 1t is sorry spectacle. and
failure Is it's inevitable reward
THE treasury department has
just published summary of the re-
ports of ninety bank examiners
whose combined jurisdictions cover
every portion of the United States.
Among these examiners are numer-
Gus republicans. A democratic adj
mnistration has kept the capable
republican examiners, because of
their experience and because bank
examiners must be skilled men and
competent to deal with intricate mat
ters of accounting and other bank
ing problems. 1t is essential to the
safety of the national banking sys-
TEN, and to the great business struc-
ture founded upon the security of
the banks, that such examiners shall
be men of character and merit. A
democratic administration has not
permitted this service to be prosti-
tuted to political ends. This may APP
pear unorthodox to some eminent
republican governors, to whom the
spoils of Office seem paramount to
the public interest.
For the reasons stated the re-
ports of the national bank examiners
are free from political bias and can
therefore be relied upon. They show
that In every section of the country
there is pronounced business revival
except in Maine and in a few isolated
districts, and that confidence and OPP
timism prevail everywhere.
"The financial and economic stu
alton in the United States is the
strongest in the world. With such
inherent power the only thing that
can overtake us is prosperity, unless
some catastrophe beyond human con-
troll should intervene.
Aside from this consideration
there are two outstanding facts upon
which the sober and intelligent opin-
ion of the people of the United States
must dwell; the first, in the greatest
crisis that ever has confronted the
civilized world democratic admin
istration saved this country from an
appalling and threatened business
and financial panic. Contrast this
with 1907, when the republican ad-
ministration so blundefingly and in
competently handled the situation