It will be urged upon the Democrats that since the country has now reached a point in its development where it is understood that the beneficiaries of a tariff law should not be permitted to write the tariff schedules, the application of exactly the same principle to the framing of legislation affecting banking interests makes it a monstrous impropriety to permit the bankers to write the law regulating themselves.
With his resolution and
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The two questions are so nearly merged that they should be considered as
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If banks were permitted to accommodate the community in which they do business it would make a home outlet far their deposits, and
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Mr. FOSTER. You treat that there as if
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Mr. LINDBERGH. To speculators.
Mr. FOSTER. That most banks are speculative centers. As was said by Mr. Lenroot, these commercial houses handle paper—that is, their brokers—and send out
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes, Sir.
Mr. FOSTER. You do not treat them as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Sometimes they are ; not as
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Mr. DENVER. Is that for the purpose of stock speculation ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Oh, no ; it is not.
Mr. FOSTER. They are not speculators ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. No ; they are not speculators in the sense of bonding stocks.
Mr. LENROOT. Do you think, Mr. Lindbergh, there is any substantial percentage of loans made by banks on speculators’ paper ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is.
Mr. LENROOT. I mean made direct by the banks ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Not a large per cent of their deposits are made direct to speculators, except in the large cities.
Mr. LENROOT. But a large percentage of what are known as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is a considerable per cent of that.
Mr. LENROOT. It would not be considered very safe banking, would it, in any community where a bank did that ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Perhaps I should give an explanation there. I consider a person who is buying a large quantity of timber out
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Mr. LENROOT. Through its raising value ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes. He is a speculator.
Mr. WILSON. Then you would consider a man trying to corner the wheat market a speculator ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. I certainly would.
Mr. LENROOT. Most anybody would.
Mr. WILSON. Is it not true there in Chicago that the board of trade men borrow great sums of money from
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Mr. LENROOT. I think they put up collateral for everything they get.
Mr. LINDBERGH. Most of those people put up collateral.
Mr. WILSON. Not all of them. I think the character of the man has a great deal to do with that. I think many of the men there can borrow great sums of money.
Mr. LINDBERGH. The creation of the National Monetary Commission was a very clever move.
It was in 1907 that nature had responded so beautifully to the farmer’s touch and
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