Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 October 1908 — Page 6

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Practical Workings of Oklahoma Bank Deposit Guarantee Law Explained. Ilecklesa Banking and Speculative Methods Follow Passage of Law. The practical workings of the Oklahoma law guaranteeing Lank deposits were described by Mr. J. W.JdcXeal, one of the most substantial bankers of that state, nid president of the National Dank of Commerce, Guthrie, In i short public address at Denver, Oct. 1, im Mr. JlcXeal said: "To my mind It Is the mosf vicious and i omicious law ever forced on :i body of honorable men. It contains a provision for an unlimited mutual lia bility for all the defalcations, lack of Judgment, dishonest and Incompetent bankers, without any recognition of the time-tried, strong banker, who may nave spent a lifetime In building up his reputation. Under the provisions of this law, the State Banking Board is required to levy an assessment equal to ne per cent of the average deposits In each bank, and, in the future, to levy oi often as may be required, a sum sufficient to maintain this fund, at one par cent of the average deposits of the itate. Wild Cat Danks. "What has leen some of the results -of the actual operation of this law 1:1 Oklahoma? There have been seventyÄ?ren r,ew state bank charters issued ilnce the adoption of this law, fortytwo of these with a capital stock of only f 10.000 each. There has been a regular hegira for starting new state bants without regard to the necessities of thevcomniunity or the character cf the men starting the banks. "We Lave one Instance of where a man failed In Kansas, under his own name, then sta' iMl up In business tmd?r his wife's name and failed, belting his creditor' oit of $70,000, not pa; ing them a cent. Under the old territorial law, he attiupted, under the praise of relatives to start a bank, but In two yoars his business was so trifling that it forced him out of the business, fie now has already started three banks in Oklahoma and boasts that he frill start twelve more. Withbi sixty flays from starting one of his banks, I im Informed, and him statement shows, that he had a deposit account of over $100,000. His cashier Is under Indictment for embezzlement. I hope and trust that he will be able to explain the matter without wrong to him. I only mention thes-i facts to show that It is immaterial what character of rn-n are at the head of banks, they get the business by claiming that the state Is guaranteel ig them and It makes no Difference whatever as to the character or personality of the officers. man may bet all his money on the races, may gamble on the Board of Trad-?, may fight Joint whisky, may lead a licentious life, and go out and solicit deposits, raying 'What do you care what kind of a life I lead, the state Is behind me'r a BanUi Without Capital. Two rne.a recently started a bank of $25,000 capital, In Oklahoma City, a town of forty or fifty thousand Inhabitants. When asked how they expected to succeed with a bank of $25,000 capital In a city of that size, one of them replied: "What do we care about capital, the state is in partnership with r.sr The president of the First National Bank of Perry was also a merchant and failed in business and was compelled to go through bankruptcy. Naturally he had to resign his connection with the First National Bank. lie new has taken out a charter and is president of a state bank in Oklahoma. One man, when prohibition closed his aloon, quit the saloon business and started up a bank and has thirty or forty thousand on deposit. "There can be but one deduction from this enormous rush for starting new state banks. They are being started by irresponsible, inexperienced men, and, instead of Indicating a solid growth for the state of Oklahoma, they lndate an era of irresponsible and wild-cat work. "One of the dangerous evils of this Guaranty Law is that it guarantees credit deposits as well as cash deposits. Now, you all know that not more than one-tenth of a bank's daily deposits are In actual cash. Nine-tenths are credit deposits, are either checks and drafts or proceeds of loans. When these credit deposits, that are made as the proceeds cf a loan, are guaranteed, the guaranty certainly reaches to the guaranteeing of the loan itself, for the reason that the deposit is merely the result of the loan. Fictitious Deposits. "i Lave heard it discussed and I think it feasible for a dishonest man When Mr. Taft defends his own record as a Judge or his attitude toward labor or his policy in the Philippines e his administrative work in the War Department, !.e makes strong and vigorous speeches. New . York World (Dem.). ' "The so-called colonial policy of the United States has added to our trade, already, something over one hundred million dollars a year." Mr. Taft, at Cleveland, O. Don't Forget It. Critics west and east should remember that it Is preeminently Important, aa President Roosevelt has recently pointed out, that Mr. Taft should have a Republican Congress with him. Thi la a consideration which transcends in Important the personality of any one man, or b's views on any one topi-.?. Boston Transcript. tetwea denouncing Roosevelt and aUnding for Roosevelt's policies Bryan Is having quite a thrilling joint delate with himself. The course of the administration baa only been directed against such organized capital as was violating the atatutes of the United States and ro other. The business men of our ccmmtnity as a whole are honest and their xneJiods are soune." Hr. Taft, at Boston, Mass. Bryan has been offered $12,000 a year to be an editor in case of his defeat for the presidency. The person who makes ihe offer must expect a slump In the Chautauqua business. Chicago Trlb-

TO MIDDLE WEST AfiD FOCKY MOUNTAIN STATES' REPUBLICANS.

You want Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman elected, and they cannot be elected unless the Republican National Committee has sufficient money to pay the legitimate exxnses of the campaign. It costs money to maintain an organization. It requires money to pay for printing, postage, salaries of stenographers and clerks at headquarters, traveling expenses of speakers and numerous other details that go to make the campaign end successfully. Congress, as you know, has passed a law making it unlawful for us to solicit money from corporations. We must depend upon the contributions of Individual voters. If every Republican in this Western Division would contribute one dollar to the campaign fund, we will be able to do all thr things that the voters want done; we will be able to elect Taft and Sherman. Will you help? If so, please send one dollar to the chairman of your State Finance Committee, whose name appears in the list following, or send it direct to me and you will receive the ofhYial receipt of the Republican National Committee. Respectfully, FRED W. UriIAM, Assistant Treasurer. Contributions may be sent by check or money order to any of the following named chairmen of the various State finance committers: Colorado. Hon. Whitney Newton. Denver. Idaho, Hon. Frank F. Johnson, Wallace. Illinois, Col. Frederick II. Smith. IVoria. Iowa, Hon. Lafayette Young. Dos Moines. Kansas. Hon. Frank K. Grimes, Topeka. Michigan, Hon. John N. Bag ley, Der mit. Missouri, Hon. O. L. Wbltelaw. 4o North Second street, St. Louis. Montana, Hon. Thomas A. Marlow, Helena. Nebraska, Hon. John C. Wharton, Omaha. New Mexico. Hon. J. W. Reynolds, Santa Fe. North Dakota, lion. James A. r.uch.man, Buchanan. Oregon. Dr. II. W. Coe, Tcrtland. South Dakota, Hon. 0. W. Thompson. Vermillion. Washington, Hon. James IX Höge, Seattle. Or to Fred W. Upham, Assistant Treasurer, 234 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois. -

or set of men to organize a $10.000 bank, then create a lot of fictitious deposits as the proceeds of a lot of dummy notes, then let the bank clov Its doors and call on the guaranty fund to pay these deposits. Naturally, the deposits will be credited to men in no way identified with the note itself. "We had one bank failure In my town for something like $1,000,000. This would have taken more than five per cent assessment on the deposits of the siate banks of Oklahoma. Supposing a bank had $100,000 deposits on a capital stock of $10,000. Fifty per cent, or onehalf of Its capital stock, would be confiscated to make up the ODe loss. It is more dangerous to the honest, small banker than to the large one, because the large one can prepare himself to weather the storm. "Under guise of this law an attempt is being made to put all banks on an exact equality. The man who has spent a lifetime In building up an honorabl? reputation is sacrificed for the sake of making some poor, Incompetent, dishonest banker exactly equal to him. It is a mistake to suppose that sacrificing the assets of the solvent bank is going to prevent the rascal from tailing. There Is more money In it for him to fall, under this law, than there will be to run." REMEDY WOULD KILL. Hard, Painstaking' Work Necessary to Reforms Not the Instantaneous Panaceas of Bryan. (Governor Hughes at Sioux City, la , Oct. 0.) If you look conditions squarely In the fact, you see that what labor wants first of all is work, and that Is dependent upon the country's prosperity. It is hard to protect the prosperity of the country and cut out abuses; hard to provide schemes that won't hurt business and will cure evils. It Is hard to do things right, but we have got to take the time and labor to do them right. In answer to a question I put to him the other day Bryan said that an ouuee of remedy was worth a pound of cure. That is a fallicy ; an ounce of his remedy would kill the patient. What we need Is the expression or the sound thought and good Judgment of the people uion which we can depend. I have had a time for two years in New York fighting the fight and I know It is hard work. You can't have a flash of genius and change it all In a twinkling. What you have to have is work hard, con scientious work. Intelligent and thought ful, as well as determined, to make remedies square with the exigencies of our life. When we consider everything, what we want is to perfect tb upbuilding of our country and promote a steady, forward movement in the middle of the road, as is the aim of the Republican party and our great future President, Taft The Republican party is not only rich in men, but rich in practical and beneficient principles it is rich, too. In Its record. In promises performed and pledges fulfilled, and so we are for party and party principles first, and will acquiesce in the choice of the majority, rallying around the standard bearer who will carry us again to victory. Hon. James S. Sherman. What I am anxious to emphasize Is that there is a wide economic and business field in which the Interests of the wealthiest capitalist and the humblest laborer are exactly the same. Hon. Wm. II. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. Political Snapshots. "The present business system of the country rests on the protective tariff and any attempt to change it to a freetrade basis will certainly lead to disaster." Mr. Taft, at Columbus, O. Bryan Is developing into a real humorist. He has advanced so far along the line that he can now announce himself as "the advance agent of prosperity" without cracking a smile. Sioux City Journal. About the only one of his original dicta that Bryan still sticks to is that "the President Is a hired man." Boston Transcript. When Taft's voice falls, his record and the party principles remain. If Bryan's voice should fall there wouldn't be any remains. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan ha3 been his own advanee agent so long that the public will hard ly be disposed to recognize" him In his new role (borrowed at that) as ad vance agent of prosperity. New York Tribune. Mr. Bryan ought to blush when he looks at a bushel of corn in these times and thinks of his old free silver argu ments. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan will whirlwind through Nebraska over the route covered by Taft and Hughes. This is a certain sign that the Democrats are not wor ried. Omaha Bee. . There are thousands of business or ders marked: "Stop if Bryan is elect ed." If wage-earners doubt this state ment let them Investigate the matter for themselves in the nearest Industrial circles. St. Louis Globe-Democrat

LETS CAT OUT OF BAG. German Manufacturers to Flood America "With Goods if Bryan Should ba Elected. The following cablegram to the New York Sun under date of Oct. 3 shows what German manufacturers expect to do should Bryan be elected : 'Berlin, Oct. 3. The gladiatorial tight between President Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan has suddenly aroused German interest in the American Presidential campaign and columns are now devoted to extracts from the mammoth campaign documents of the combatants. German hoics of Democratic victory have been revived and many merchants and manufacturers have suddenly grown optimistic about a revision of the tariff tchlch tcill enable them to flood America with their goods." The German manufacturers evidently are shrewd observers. If Mr. Bryan should be elected and his "downward revision" doctrine with ultimate free trade be carried Into effect we would sxn be flooded with German-made goods of every description, and our factories could go out of business. Protective Tarif! Theory. On the other hand, should Mr. Taft be elected our friends the German manufacturers v. nuld not be able to break through the wall of protection which would be, maintained for the benefit of American labor. The protective-tarilT theory as defined in the Republican platform, and ns adhered to by Mr. Taft, Is that In order to maintain high wages in this country there must be "the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American Industries." Mr. Taft points out that the cost of production Is determined chiefly by these three elements: "The cost of material, the cost of labor and the interest on capital, or what Is known as the manufacturer's profit." "The normal operation of protection, where competition has free scope," -Mr. Taft asserts, "is to lower the cost of producing and so to reduce prices to the public. As a consequence, after ten years' operation of a particular schedule, it ought to result that the cost of production in this country is made less, and therefore that the difference between the cost of production In this country and abroad is less, and therefore that the duty ought to be reduced."

Dalle of Next Administration. The function of the next administration is not to be spectacular in the enactment of great statutes laying down new codes of morals or asserting a new standard of business integrity, but Its work lies In the details of furnishing men and machinery to aid the hand of the executive in making the supervision of the transactions (of corporations) so close, so careful, so constant, that the business men engaged in It may know promptly when they are transgressing the line of lawful business limitations, and may be brought up standing whenever this occurs, and may be prosecuted when the violations of law are flagrant and defiant, and promptly restrained and penalized. Judge Taft, at St. ! Charles, Mo. It Is greatly In the interest of the worklngman, therefore, that corporate capital should be fairly treated. Any Injustice done to it acts directly uion the wage earners, who must look to cocIorate wealth for their employment. Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. The tariff affects trusts only as it affects all other interests. It makes all these interests, inrge or small, profit able, and Its benefits can be taken from the large only under penalty of taking them from the small also. President Roosevelt, at Minneapolis, Minn., April 7, 1903. Taft's deeds against Bryan's word. That contrast, invited by Mr. Roosevelt, cannot fail to ratke votes for Mr. Taft. "It has been said that Mr. Taft is not a friend of labor. That Is a cruel and unjust accusation. No man In public life has shown himself to be more friendly to labor. At the same time he has not tried to get your votes by offering remedies calculated merely to please the fancy." Governor Hughes. Haskell Is not limiting the amount which may be subscribed by any one person for the purpose of furnishing him with a vindication fund. Chicago Tribune. "Mr. Bryan asks me what I would do with the trusts. I answer that I would restrain all unlawful trusts with all the efficiency of injunctive process and would punish with all the severity cf criminal prosecution every attempt on the part of aggregated capital to suppress competition." Mr. Taft, at Columbus, O. "The leader of the Republican party during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln, and It lias never lost the inspiration of his leadership." Mr. Tift, at Kansas City, Mo.

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1 TO THE F In 1S95 Two Hundred Bushels of Kansas Corn Bought 1,000 Feet of Lumber. Now One Hundred Bushels Buys 2,000 Feet A Concrete Illustration Showing Why Land Values Havo Increased. Out lu Kansas a great deal is being said just now about the lumber trust, the high prices of lumber and the terrible expenses attached to the building of houses, cribs and other buildings, says the Jewell County Republican. The principal buildings leing erected this fall on the farms are corn cribs in which to store away the immense rp widt h was raised throughout Central Kansas, and Is now matured and will be ready for the crib in a very short tii-.ie. In a political discussion here the other day the old story of the hiirli prioes ea'ee up and It was assorted that a largo amount of corn would necessarily be placed on the ground this ytar lecause cf the high price of lumber. One farmer who has no particular love for the trusts, but is inclined to look on the bright side of everything and who Is well satislied with present conditions, declared that in lS'Xt, when lumber was very cheap, and like .vise corn. It took 2 bushels of cora to buy 1,100 feet of cribbing lumber. Now, when lumber is at the highest point It ever reached in i he history of Jewell County, 100 bushels of corn will pirt-Lnse 2,000 feet of cribbing lumber. According to J. W. Berry, of this county, who is a good authority on the prices of farm products and lumber, and makes this assertion, using corn as a purchasing power, lumber is only cie-fourth as high as ltt was tMrteen years ago. Novf on Easy Street. Alttough this county is in the wheat belt of Kansas, many of the farmers have raised corn. Both crops were just like they had been made to order, and the prices will place the tillers of the soil on Easy street for some years to come. In Jewell County there is a farm which has been on the market for sale for the past year, and was held at $20 an acre. The farm consists of 120 acres. Fifty acres are plante! to corn. The other day the entire crop was sold for-$lü an acre, the purchaser to gather the corn, leaving the fodder on the ground. A part of the field will be light and will not average more than twenty bushels to the acre, while the remainder of the field will give up from forty-five to sixty biahels. Fifty acres -f the land was planted to wheat and the value of the crop was equally as great as the crop of corn, while the five-acre patch of alfalfa produced even more money in proportion than either of the other two crops. Values Increased Flvo Tlmea. There are no Improvements whatever on the farm, but the price has been raised 100 jer cent and the owner is not very anxious to sell at that. However, lie says if he had the slightest idea that Bryan would be elected uxi the third of Novemler he would sell his land at $-0 an acre, and In two years he could buy it back and make more money than by farming It. In this county there is another farm which was sold in 1S04. There are SO acres in the farm, and the purchase price was $."0O, or 5,000 bushels of corn at the prevailing price at that time. In the meantime, the 80 hasbeen considerably improved. A part of the land has been put to tame grass, a tine orchard Is now one of the assets, good buildings have been erected and the land has grown more valuable because of the development of the country. This month the land was sold again, the purchase price being $2,500, or the price of 5,000 bushels of corn at the present price. Iteaaon That Arm Still Good. "I am sending Taft to the Philippines," said President McKinley, "because he Is the broadest and the most unselfishly brave man I know, and because he will carry the spirit of the constitution of the United States In his very blood." These seem to be excellent reasons also for sending Taft to the White House. The American people will undoubtedly show on November 3 that they have come to that conclusion. Canton, O., Repository. , The effect of the organization of la bor, on the whole, lias been highly jeneüeent principies-it is rich, too, employment for the whole laboring lommuuity. I have not the slightest doubt, and no one who knows anything about the subject can doubt, that the existence of labor unions steadies wages.-Hon. Win. II. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. "In his own personal experience Mr. Bryan furnished proof that the people do rule. Ills candidacy now Is a protest against the iwpular verdict twice officially recorded. He Is arraying his soaring ambition against the repeated decisions of the millions of electors." Hon. James S. Sherman, Republican Vice Presidential candidate. A gift for appointing the wrong man would not be a desirable quality in a president. "The administration of exact justice by courts without fear or favor, unmoved by the influence of the wealthy or the threats of the demagogue, Is the highest ideal that a government of the people can strive for, and any means by which a suitor, however unpopular or poor, is deprived of enjoying this, are to be condemned." Mr. Taft, at Columbus, O. The enfranchised colored citizen will not vote against the party that gave him the ballot, and for the party that has robbed him of it in the south. "I believe that a navy is the greatest Insurer of peace that we could possibly have a navy commensurate with our resources, and commensurate with our coast line, and commensurate with the number of dependencies we have, and commensurate with our population, and commensurate with our Influence as a world power." Mr. Taft, at Cleveland, Ohio. Oklahoma is Bryan's box of Pandora It gave him both guaranteed bank deposits and the unguaranteed Haskell.

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OLITiCAL Near the Closing. It Is only a short while until the close of the presidential campaignonly a few days in which to make up by an Increased individual effort for IersonaI inactivity since the convention day. The campaign managers have been active, but there has been wanting the marked Individual errort on the part of the thinking voter, the man in the ranks who knows or who ought to know the necessity of making secure the future of progress and prosperity. The time has come for driving work by those who have everything at stake. The Issues are all before the voters, who know them, In aud out and through and through. There Is no excuse for indifference In sight. It will do no good after election to mourn over neglected chances to have worked for suc-ess. There are just three weeks of opportunity left. The sounduess of the claims to preferment made by Mr. Taft and his party cannot be denied. The firm base for future building is In the pledges of the Republican caudidate, whose record makes it known that what he promises he will do. There is nothing shadowy In the Taft program. It has the sanity and the substance that appeal to the common sense of a people who do not :are for Imaginative pictures, no matter what may be the skill of the painter. Mr. Bryan has ;iven the country

Will SEE TO If THAT THE TRAIN TAKES THE RIGHT TRACK.

riews of things full of glitter and color. II'- deals as he always has dealt In the pleasing uusubstantlals. Ills catchpenny bank guaranty policy has been proved a failure by actual trial In the East, and his proposed restrictions on the output of great business concerns are ImiMjssible In practice, and if forced would bring disaster to the commercial world that would overwhelm the emjployed with their employers. The country Is given me choice between Bryan, a perpetual oflU-e seeker, who changes his views of government as often as he changes bis clothes, who cares nothing for consetp.iences when set against the attaining of ends of personal ambition, and Taft, who has let office seek him, ami who has filled everj' pTäce to which he has been called eiliciently and with high credit to himself and to the people. It Is a choice between the tried and the untried, between certainty and uncertainty. The thinking voters know these differences between the candidates. There are three weeks left and only three weeks in which to Impress the facts in the case on those who are indifferent and who have shown little disposition to think for themselves. Individual missionary work prompted by conviction is effective. It is not all-sufll-clent for a man to register and to vote. The speaking in the campaign should not be confined to the big halls aud to the men known as orators. The importance to wage payer an wage earner of the election of the Republican candidate for President cannot easily be exaggerated. Prosperity Is a strong plea in itself. A big business proposition is before the voters, and they have only a short time remaining in which to think about it aud talk about It It takes a business head to run the country. No dreamer is equal to' the work. It is your duty, you the man who knows conditions as they are and ns they may be, yo-j who know what troubles wait on a ;hange in administrative affairs of the nation, it is your duty to give the best of individual effort in these closing weeks of the campaign to make certain that prosperity shall stay. Chicago Post. Wild and Woolly Thlloaophy. It Is characteristic of the school of alleged thought of ideas based on superficial emotion and not on the knowledge of the ages that It seeks to reform by subversion. Bryan has been the mouthpiece of this "wild and woolly" philosophy. Abolish the gold standard, said he in 1S90. Of course it wasn't done. There was nothing the I matter with the gold standard. Adopt j the policy of scuttle for the Philippines, ! lie said in 1900. No, said President McKinley. No, said Mr.- Taft, aud he went over there to live and to show how ; to educate and train the Filipinos. Now the Bryan cry Is, "Wipe out American industry," by confiscation at one end and by demolition at the other. Cuess not. This Is not the- year to scuttle protection and to surrender prosperity. The Republican party Is the only party with the experience in and loyalty to

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l4-rliU 4. 4.4. ( OMMEAJT 1 4. the protective principle sufficient to maintain It while adapting It to varying conditions. The American factory cail be kept in order without blowing it up with the free trade bomb. The explosive policy might harmonize with the position of a Philippine datto but not of an American President. Troy Times. The Tariff and the Farmer. The farmer does not agree with Candidate Bryan that the tariff Is such a vi-Ious affair, for it protects him from competition with cheaper outside products. These are some of tho duties which have been of great advantage to the farmer that Mr. Bryan does not approve of:' , Cattle, If less than one year old, $2 per head; all other cattle if valued at more than $14 per head, $3.75 per head ; if valued at more than $14 per head, 27 Vi per cent ad valorem. Swine, $1.50 per head. Horses valued at $150 or less per head, $30 per head; if valued at over $150, 25 per cent ad valorem. Sheep, one year old or over, $1.50 per head; less than cue year old, 75 cents per head. Now, he who raises live animals for sale cattle, swine, horses or sheep for the market Is protected from the competition of our Canadian neighbors to the extent shown In theseschedules. When It comes to the produce this Is what we find in the DIngley law ns a means cf keeping the home market for our own farmers: Corn, 15 edits per bushel of 50 pounds. Oats, 15 cents per bufe'l. Wheat, 25 cents per bushel. Butter, 0 cents ier iouud. Cheese, 0 cents per pound. Fresh milk, 2 cents per gallon. Beans, 45 cents per bushel of bJ pounds. Cabbages, 3 cents each. Eggs, 5 cents a dozen. Hay, $4 per ton. Onions, 40 cents ier bushel. Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel of ''0 pounds. The American farmer is not fool enough to throw these duties off to help outside traffic Norwich (Conn.) Bui letin. Wagen Hero and There. Mr. Bryan In his Labor Day speech advocated having a Department of Labor lepresented in the Cabinet. Labor Is now represented by a Bureau in the Department of Commerce. From re ports of that bureau facts collected by a sieclal agent sent to Great Britain are obtained, and collated with the statistics of labor in this country gathered for the same records. From the tabulations nl these records It appears that In tveiy trade wages are from 50 per cent to over 100 per cent higher In the l.'nited States rhan In England. Here are a few: the figures represent hour wages lu cents and tenths and hundredths of a cent : Blacksmiths, United States, .2902; Great Britain, .1740; boiler-makers, United States, .2818; Great Britain, .1719; bricklayers, United States. .5471; Great Britain, .20G2; carpenters, United States, .3504; Great Britain, .2028; painters, United States, 3450; Great Britain, .1774; plumbers, United States, .4371; Great Britain, .2027. And so on. These are only a few of many. 11 will be a pleasure to hear what the de fenders of foreign competition have to s-ay cf the comparisons indicated. Buf fiilo News. It Is obviously a more certain source of revenue from customs to put the tax on what we must have but cannot pro duce than to place It on commodities which we can make, and therefore may not import at all. The Republican policy Is the precise opposite of that. Since the party, unwisely lu our Judgment, has so far yielded to free trade sentiment as to undertake to Interfere with a tariff law under which the country has prospered so mightily, we Insist that it is abso lutely essential to the prevention of a complete break-up of business that the revision shall be made by a party pledged to the continuance of the pro tectlon of American industries, and that only at our peril could we commit the work to a party which is pledged to the abandonment of that principle ami the overthrow of the protective policy. San Francisco Chronicle.

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Prosperity, Reform and Taft. There is a threat of grave peril to

th nation In the present pose of indi ITerence assumed by many so-called 'im dependent" newspapers in the pres ent campaign. These journals, too cowardly to oppose Taft and the Roose velt policies, too faint-hearted to advoca te the Bryan cause openly, are deel ai ring that Bryan's election can caus no uneasiness In the industrial world because a Republican senate will tie his hands. The nonsense of the plea is obvious. What earthly reason can there be for electing a President of so uncertain a brand that I: is necessary to tie his hands? If Bryan is entitled on his rec ord and the promise of his platform to ectlon to the chief executiveshin of the United States, then he is entitled to the absolute trust and confidence of the lecple. He should be given full faith nd full power if he Is to be given any power at all. If he should be elected. he should be elected a President, not a figurehead. As a matter of cold fact and hardeaded reason, William Jennings Bryan is no more fitted for or entitled to the Presidency to-dav than he was In 1SCM1 r 000. His record makes him a Presi dential Impossibility. The measures he dvocated In his former campaigns have proved impossible. If the Bryan thiMtries of 1S90 and 1900 had been en tered Into enforced laws black disister would have overtaken the nation. His i resent adherents admit as much; practically he admits the fact himself in his complete abandonment of the theories he advocated so hotly in his first two campaigns. And the disaster that would have fol lowed his election then would as surely 'oil nv his victory now. The recent panic has left Industrial America on the tenterhooks. The business of the country is in no condition for experiments. ,'onsmer the effect on the industrial anil commercial world if it were 1o twaken the day after election to the act that the country has named a Pres ident whoseonly guarantee of safety :es In the knowledge that his hands aie tied by a Republican senate. The argument won't answer. It won't win. The man who must make a living can't afford to take such chances. With the grocery bills and the butcher bills of 305 days a year to face he canjt risk government changes and government experiments that threaten to close the avenues of labor to him. Nor can he risk the block to Roosevelt reforms that would follow a deadlock between a Democratic Presi dent and a Republican Congress. There has been more reform in the affairs of the nation, more unearthing of Iniquity in-high places, more real progress toward better things in the last years of Republican rule than ever before in the history of the country. And the man who wants these reforms continued nrjit and will vote for the Republican candidate. There ha teen more prosperity la Ameiica, more smoking chimneys and busy mills and full dinner pails and material progress under Republican i dmlnislratious tl;in the Democratic party has even been able to. promise, rnu;h less to 'ive. And the man who wants an honest living and a good one must and wdl cast his ballot for William Howard Taft. This country is not going to turn Its back on Theodore Roosevelt. It Is not going to shut up its shops and mortgage its farms. It Is going to elect Taft. Toledo Blade. Pull I leal Paragraph. Mr. Bryan Is having the common experience of finding his past hard to live down. Pretty big crop of "Taft" Democrats this fall. Just so Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria don't get tangled up with some sort of a Haskell! Governor Haskell ought to write a campaign song entitled "How'the Dog Feels When the Can is on Ills Tall." When Governor Hughes speaks he says things. , Meanwhile Mr. Taft is making some mighty able speeches. Colorado is all Taft and Roosevelt wide. As a political and financial contortionist Haskell seems to have given 'em a run for their money. Mr. Bryan's last letter shows that be Is anxious to say nothing more about Haskell. Only 10 speeches a day now for the Peerless One, who wasn't going to talk so much. Just wanting to be president haj brought one man from poverty to a palace. "Who would'er thought Johnny Kern rid on a railroad pass?" Added to his other crimes, this man Haskell is a poet And Colonel Guffey Is not even allowed to look through the stained glass windows he gave for the house at Falrlew. Some Democrats are so optimistic that they even have boies of carrying Maine. . Mr. Roosevelt hits straight from the shoulder. It annoys Mr. Bryan for Mr. Taft to Ik going away back into his old record and past performances. All this isn't bringing as much as 30 cents to the tincup Mr. Haskell has l een holding. DUtrr In Free-Trad Kasland. Free trade England does not lack periods of depression and armies of unemployed. A Loudon dispatch in the New York Journal of Commerce saya that the situation In the British capital was strikingly illustrated yesterday, "when 3,000 men surrounded and attempted to make their way Into a hospital which had advertised for a porter at a wage of $4.50 a week and meals." A big detail of police had to be summoned to keep order and to pre vent the crowd from storming the building. Troy Times. Keep the Uoue Republican. Republicans should look closely to the Congress districts, so that a House may be elected which will not under take to slaughter the protective sys tern, but will improve It, bring It up to date, and enact a measure which will correct present defects, command the approval of a Republican President and Senate, and bring advantage to all productive and business interests. Keep the House Republican. Do it for quick action, for prosperity, and for the good of the country. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The Only Sound. It was a quiet day yesterday. Not a word from Mr. Bryan, nota line from the White House. The dropping of Mr. Kern's annual pass as tho only sound that broke the awful stillness. New York Times.

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Awful Caa of Scabies Body a Maa of Sore from Scratching: -He Tort ore Yield to Cntleara. "A young woman came to oar city mission In a most awful condition physically. Our doctor examined ber and told us that she had scabies (the Itch), incipient paresis, rheumatism, etc., brought on from exposure. Her poor body was a mass of sores from scratching and she was not able to retain solid food. We worked hard over her for seven weeks, but we could see little improvement One day I bought a caka cf Cuticura Soap and a bottle of Cutlcura Resolvent, and -we bathed our patient well and gave her a full dose of the Resolvent She slept better that night and the next day I got a box of Cuticura Ointment In five weeks this young woman was able to look for a position, and she Is now strong and well. Laura Jane Bates, 85 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y Mar. 11. 1907." Tba Cltr Man. AccolIng to the National Magazine, "men in the cities work twice as hard as the farmers, and they get few or no holidays. Thousanls and thousands of professional men, clerks and men in small business enterprises slave and toll their entire lives away and at the end are carted out to the cemeteries without having had any more enjoyment in their lives than a horse on a treadmill. The rut they toil aloug In Is as narrow as a case knife." This is not the farmer's view of the city man, whom he sees only during vacation. when the city man is taking a brief and much-needed rest The farmer sees him sporting his "gla i rags" and mistakenly imagines him to be all the year round only an idle butterfly, con suming the produce of the horny hand ed son of toil. The truth, It Is held. Is that the eity man, as a rule, is the harder worker and gets much less enjoyment out of life. lie longs for the rural scenes and occupations of tha farmer; his dearesi hope Is to get back, to the country to spend his last years. A few of the city folks make a big lot of money and get their follies and amusements in the newspapers, but tha great majority of city toilers live a very monotonous -nd as well a very laborious and poverty-stricken life. The farmer, it is concluded, has "the real thing," while the city man has only barren aspirations and disappointments. The contented farmer is not only tha wisest but the happiest of mankindBaltimore Sun. Schema to Keep Serranta. General Manager The residents of Lonelyville have petitioned ns to rednc the train service at that point Rather odd. Superintendent Not at all. They sia-I-ly wish to keep their servants longer. Judge. Ton Can Get Allen' Foot-Haae FltEE Write to-dav to Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy. X. Y., for a FREE Mcopl of Allen's FootRase, a powder to shake Into jour shoes. It cures tired, sweating, hot. swollen, aching feet. It makes new or tljrbt shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All DruzzUU and Shoe Stores sell iL Z5& Scaling Dons, The painters and decorators wer about to begin work in the professor' study, and the professor, being unwilling to trust the handling of bis books and papers to anybody else, was removing them into another room himself. "I'm only three-fourths of the man I used to be," he muttered. "When I was a young man I was a reporter, and now. (am only a porter.' Mistaken Idea Physician My dear fellow, yoa should practice deep breathing. Caller Great snakes, doctor, I do! L work in a coal mine. If yoa ose ball bine, get Red Cross Ball Blue, tha best ball blue. Large 2oa. package, B cents. Th Rich Turkish Brggar. Beggars are never suppressed in Turkey. The story is told (and they sry It Is true) about an American lady who by mistake pave a beggar of Constantinople a goldplece. The man had left his post when she returned, but one of his colleagues told her where he "resided." It was a fine bouse, and at the door was a servant, who politely informed the lady that "ray master is dressing. He will be down soon." And then the well groomed beggar, dressed for dinner, appeared and gladly returned the gold piece, exclaiming In the meanwhile that such mistakes were highly embarrassing. "Charities and Commons. P0QQ ft 225 -Guar11: The deanest. liahtest. and most comfortable SLICKER fit the same time cheapest In the end Decause it wears longest 3QQ bcrjrwhere Every oormanl guar, anteed waterproof Cordoq free ACWrofJBeautyltB , R. T. Fallx Oouraud'a Oriental Ortsm or Marlon I Baautlfler. Remove Tin, Punplsaj Freckle, Moth rlcie bu Mood U U Of SO fW Ii m fcanl UaultUsMrtt ta prorxrly ad. tt t staUat cub. Dr. I A 6rr st4 to a U4y of tb bat, torn (a twtlenoi "As res ladltS via as tw I riiiBBi Ooods Deälsrt la ths taU4 Sums, Canada aad Earopa, FKlT.raira Prop, 37 tttA km tbdL fcaTal JtftFNTC MAmta U $I0 VTVlty hTKiini AULrl 19 hol fwliHI. Hr,t. f. F.a tlla.tr.w4 C.l W Hl'T AllOtL t. K.MAIL UCULU BLS1.NO. x l!fl.Jw VrkU tt. w Lawsons bwUMlm. ausx a. Rtimtij9 b4 thr Inwrtiant ana o nrWl, "bila Aamm ';immmpmr DAT13, l(Mt arda, -klia-1. Cat .

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