Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — TAFT, ALDRICH AND A CENTRAL BANK. [ARTICLE]

TAFT, ALDRICH AND A CENTRAL BANK.

President Taft has allied himself

with .the Aldrich-Cannon crowd for keeps. He not only approves their new tariff law and declares it “the best ever made,” but he makes it his business to defend Aldrich against the attacks of the Republican insurgents. . Mr. Taft has, indeed, gone so far into the camp of Aidrich and his reactionary associates that he commends Aldrich and his new financial plan. This plan Includes a great central national bank, which will handle the money matters for the country. A writer in the

New York World' says: “Imagine Morgan* the First National bank and the City Bank in control of the national financial resources, through some such functionary as Cortelyou.” It would be fine for the Morgan and Rockefeller interests, for the steel trust and Standard Oil, but how about the other eightyodd millions of people and the smaller business concerns scattered over the country, all of whom and all of which are trying to make an honest living and keep out of the bank-

ruptcy courts and the poor house?