Show SENATOR LA FOLLETTE F UETTE SPEAKS Senator La Follette of or Wisconsin has been called a n good many names all of ot them somewhat harsh but the Amen Ameri American A nerl can public has Ims a good deal of ot admira admiration admiration admiration tion for him The man Is a hard fight fighter fi ht er He never knows when he Is whipped just gets up again and goes goeson goeson goeson on fighting He fell outside the breast breastworks breastworks breastworks works many times In Wisconsin but hut he finally won He Ho fought the most pow powerful po I erful erCul influences In the tho state and de defeated defeated defeated thorn thom Now he is in the tho senate still fighting And when he speaks he commands attention Yesterday In a talk on the tho Aldrich bill he said some striking things For example Fourteen of the directors of ot the Na National National National City bank are at the head of ot fourteen great combinations represent representing ing 38 8 per cent of oC the capitalization of all the Industrial trusts of or the coun country country country try He declared that the railroad lines represented on the board cover coyer the country like hike a network Through trust companies railroads and industrial corporations the twentythree directors of the bank control an aggregate cap capitalization capitalization of more than Senator La Follette charged the recent panic to these those men and certainly If his figures are correct they had the power to create a panic At the same time nobody has ha suf suffered suffered more mOle seriously from the panic jJ than the rich If they really were re responsible responsible responsible for starting it ft they thel the doubt doubtless doubtless less les wished many times that they had never undertaken It because they bring the trouble to a conclusion c slon sion Their fortunes fortunes have dwindled by b hundreds of of millions of o dollars They are sacrificing yachts automobiles costly cosH establishments jewels and other things Mn order to keep their heads above Aboe water A retributive justice has overtaken them If It they the are responsible re for the panic senate committee on finance yes yesterday yesterday es esterday eliminated the provision of the Aldrich bill making railroad bonds a basis for Cor the Issue of national bank Against this provision I anat at tacks had ben been b en directed Jt was de decided too to retain the provision of oC the present law under which national banks cannot retire from circulation more than per month |