| Show TALKS FINANCE TO SOCIALISTS Rev William T Brown Attacks Banking Policy of Roosevelt ARRAIGNS CORPORATIONS SAYS THEY HAVE BLUFFED THE TH THEA ADMINISTRATION A D M I N I STRATI 0 N NIn In his address to the socialists of Salt SaIt Lake Lako yesterday afternoon at Federation of Labor Lubor L bo hall hail Rev William Thurston Brown of oC the Unitarian church criticised the attitude of President Roosevelt during the recent financial disturbance and inti intimated intimated mated that the president had been bluffed by the corporations Mr Brown said The news dispatches have been telling tellin us lately of a most lamentable condition of affairs in India where literally millions of people are dying like flies files from froni an in infectious Infectious infectious disease and the of Great Britain confesses its inability to do anything to stay the plague pl gue It Is pow powless less for this reason rea on The fatal infection n nIs Is carried about by rats The destruction of these rats and other sanitary measures measure would undoubtedly put an end to thi th scourge But in the religious superstition of India the rat is a sacred animal and It would be he a violation of their religion to put a rat to death Comments on Panic We people of America are quite will willIng ill illIng Ing lug to admit the existence of superstition in faraway India and to see its evil re results In that unhappy country countI Have we wethe wethe wethe the honesty mety h to admit the existence of a alike alike like superstition here and the ability to see its fatal effects upon our own peo people people pie Take for example the financial panic which has just come upon us Think of what our leaders have been telling us of late about the unexampled unexampled unexampled prosperity pro of this country CO In try And AnI they now have the nerve to say that this panic is due to lack of confidence on th part of depositors In the banks and the hoarding of their money Nothing could have happened that would have more clearly clear shown just how much virtue there is in our leading poli poll politicians politicians the president included Mr Ir Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt elt was ivas elected to be president by a l sweeping vote ote because be use the masses marses of peo people people pIe In this country believed what he had ha been sa about the need of regulating the corporations and reestablishing gov government government government by and for the people Early Earl in his administration he declared that there must be a sovereign which corporations and individuals alike aUke must recognize re But Buthe Buthe Buthe he had no sooner announced that doctrine than he be discovered that it was held to be treason by our leading capitalists As Louis Louts XIV of France Prance In the seventeenth century had said s ld I am the state so In Inthe Inthe inthe the twentieth century and In America tho the corporations had virtually declared certainly by their acts we are the tate state And It needed only the precipitation of this financial crisis to make even President PresIdent President dent Roosevelt acknowledge In the con convincing convincing language of deed the absolutism of corporate Interests In this nation Corporations Bluff President Not only has the president accepted the tile false accusation of the corporate usurpers of power In the democracy as If it were true that this thing has come about on account of hoarding on the part of the masses but he has outdone his predecessors sors in putting the whole machinery of the government at the disposal of these theao same class Interests Not satisfied with transferring of money from the United States treasury to the banks with without wIthout without out Interest he and his hla secretary of the treasury ask the people of this country to furnish more all of which may me be used as cash reserves by the banks and loaned by them to the people at rates all the way from 6 to 30 ZO per cent In other words the officers of a govern government government government ment called democratic for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of securing seething equal rights to all alland alland alland and special privileges to none are mak making makIng makIng ing a gift outright of more than per year to one small class of people in m inthis inthis this country and throwing the blame of a financial situation due to unbridled Inflation Inflation tion lion upon the masses of people who like their brothers In India are so o possessed by an old economic superstition as to have lost power ower to do their own thinking and tane into their own hands the gov government their votes vot create and their taxes taXI support The meeting was called to order by E ES ES ES S Lund who explained the purposes of tf the socialistic organization In Salt Lake J T Dion made a short address and sai sang sauRa sanga r ra a socialistic chant to the refrain of Tramp Tramp Tramp the Boys Bos Are Marching sq C |
