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Excerpt from Election and Recall of Federal Judges: Speech of Hon. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, July 31, 1911 It will be contended by some that the recall of judges might safely be left to the National Legislature or to the State legislatures but should not be left to the electorate, because the electorate would not be so conservative in the exercise of the power to recall a judge as their representatives in the legislature. The answer to this is that the electorate of an American State and of any of the American States is abundantly conservative and moves very slowly, more slowly than their progressive representatives would move. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from National Economy and the Banking System of the United States: An Exposition of the Principles of Modern Monetary Science in Their Relation to the National Economy and the Banking System of the United States This act was generally regarded as the greatest achievement of that administration. Under this act of liquid money was created to finance the World War. It financed not only the United States but financed to the extent of billions of dollars Great Britain, France, Italy, and their allies. That one act won the war, said John Skelton Williams, the Comptroller of the Currency. The United States came out of this war in a highly prosperous condition. This prosperity was the result of the expansion of credit and currency which enormously stimulated production and employ ment. In 1921 those in control of the Federal Reserve System contracted credit and currency by the use of the great powers of the Federal Reserve Act. It resulted in depression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Robert Latham Owen was born on February 2, 1856, in Lynchburg, Virginia, the younger of two sons of Col. Robert Latham Owen and Narcissa (Chisholm) Owen. His father, a civil engineer of Scots-Irish descent, was president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad from 1861 to 1867; his mother was part Cherokee.
Young Owen attended private schools in Lynchburg and Baltimore. The death of his father in 1872 jeopardized his further education, but he entered Washington and Lee University the following year with the aid of a scholarship and graduated with the M. A. degree in 1877.
In 1879 Robert and his mother moved to Salina, Indian Territory. There Owen became a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, taught in the Cherokee Orphan Asylum, and later served as secretary of the Cherokee Board of Education. Soon after coming to the Indian Territory, Owen began to study law, and in 1880 he took up practice in Tahlequah. He was the federal Indian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes from 1885 to 1889. During the next few years Owen represented the Choctaws and the Cherokees in several important court cases. He became a familiar figure in Washington and was influential in securing the congressional act of 1901 giving citizenship to Indians in the territory. Earlier he had helped extend the provisions of the National Banking Act to the Indian Territory, and under that act he organized the First National Bank of Muskogee in 1890, serving as its president until 1900. He was also involved in extensive farming and cattle-raising enterprises.
Owen's Indian background and natural abilities encouraged him to enter politics. He was a leader in organizing the Democratic party in the Indian Territory in 1892 and for the next four years served on the Democratic National Committee. He took a prominent part in the Sequoyah movement for separate statehood in 1905, but when Congress refused to approve this plan he supported joint statehood for the Indian and Oklahoma territories. When the first legislature of the new state of Oklahoma convened late in 1907, Owen was elected to the United States Senate. Owen soon emerged as a skillful operator in the tedious business of legislative procedure. As a member of the Indian Affairs Committee, he labored for years to remove federal restrictions on the ownership of Indian land by individual Indians, at a time when government policy sought to keep ownership in the hands of the tribes. Because individual owners were vulnerable to land grabs by unscrupulous whites, Owen's position was criticized by Indian reformers, but he seems to have been sincerely convinced that Oklahoma could be developed only if federal restraints were removed. Owen was easily reelected in 1912, in part because of his ardent support of progressive ideas.
Although a child of the Confederate and Reconstruction South, Robert Owen became identified with the Western progressivism of William Jennings Bryan. In 1913 he helped organize the National Popular Government League and served as its president until 1928. He was a strong advocate of virtually every device in the arsenal of popular democracy, including a thoroughgoing primary system, the initiative, referendum, the recall, woman suffrage, the preferential ballot, direct election of United States senators, and a simple cloture procedure for the Senate. He sponsored measures to prevent inferior federal courts from taking jurisdiction in any case alleging the unconstitutionality of an act of Congress, to simplify and democratize the process of amending the Constitution, and to establish a Department of Public Health and a Department of Education.
Long interested in providing the nation with a more elastic currency, Owen became increasingly preoccupied with banking and currency legislation. He opposed the Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act (1908), which sought to provide greater currency elasticity by authorizing national banks to issue circulating notes. He also advocated postal savings banks and worked to commit his party to the guarantee of bank deposits. In 1913 he became chairman of the newly created Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. As such, he was cosponsor, with Congressman Carter Glass, of the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Owen's principal contributions to the act were his work as administration spokesman in the Senate and his insistence, along with other progressive Democrats, upon complete governmental (rather than banker) control of the Federal Reserve Board and upon making the Federal Reserve notes obligations of the United States.
Afterward Owen sought on numerous occasions to strengthen the Federal Reserve Act by amendment. He was also a warm supporter of the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916. The Oklahoma senator was one of the most consistent backers of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. He supported the administration's tariff and antitrust bills and sponsored an unsuccessful measure to establish federal control of stock exchanges. A champion of liberal labor laws, he was a cosponsor of the Palmer-Owen and Keating-Owen child labor bills. He helped commit the administration to support of a tariff commission and endorsement of a broader program of social legislation in preparation for the national campaign of 1916. Owen firmly supported Wilson's war and foreign policies as well. After the initial defeat of the Versailles Treaty, however, he took a leading part in the abortive bipartisan conferences in January 1920 seeking a compromise and was one of the Democrats who voted for ratification with the Lodge reservations.
Owen was reelected in 1918, but the intrusion of the Ku Klux Klan disturbed Oklahoma politics in the early 1920's, and in 1924 he declined to run again. At the conclusion of his term he resumed the practice of law in Washington. He voted for Hoover in the presidential election of 1928 but supported Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. In 1945 he urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to recommend ratification of the United Nations Charter. Blind during his last years, Owen died in Washington in 1947 at the age of ninety-one, of pneumonia following a prostate operation. He was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Robert Owen served as chair of the Senate Mississippi River Committee (1911–1913); the Senate Pacific Railroads Committee (1911–1913); the Senate Indian Depredations Committee (1912–1913); the Senate Banking Committee (1913–1919); the Senate Civilized Tribes Committee (1919–1921). Owen served as a secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus (1907–1911). Owen was the Oldest Living United States Senator (1942–1947).
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Robert Owen was a member of the United States Senate from Oklahoma (1907-1925). He also was a member of the Episcopal church and of many fraternal organizations.
On December 31, 1889, Robert Owen married Daisy Deane Hester, daughter of a local farmer, merchant, and missionary. They had a daughter, Dorothea, and adopted a son, Robert Latham.
