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18 National, Douglas, 33; Casper National, Cas
per, 27.
Colorado Colorado Springs National, 32; Ex
change National, Colorado Springs, 37; First
NKtioal, Trinidad, 33.
NdW Mexico Clovis National, Clovis, 33; First
National, Santa Fe, 39; American National, Tu
cumc'arl, 71.
Oklahoma National of Clarcmorc, 37; Clti
ezns'; National, El Reno, 35; Farmers & Mer
chants' National, Hennessey, 44; First National,
Morris, 4Q; First National, Nowata, 31; Arkan
sas yalloy National, Pawnee, 32; First National,
Pryor', 32; American National, Sapulpa, 31; First
National, Stillwater, 35; Vinita National, Vinita,
30; State National, Shawnee, 30; American Na
tfonnl, Tulsa, 42; First National, Tulsa, 32.
PACIFIC STATES
Washington First National, BolUngham, 37;
Yakima National, North Yakima, 39; Capital Na
tional, Olympln, 41.
Oregon First National, Vale, 35.
California Fresno National, Fresno, 30; First
National, Fresno, 31; First National, Ilardwick,
3C; National, Long Beach, 32; McCloud Nation
al, McCloud, 44; First National, Paso Ilobles, 50;
Union National, Pasadena, 20; First National,
Santa Cruz, 43; Santa Cruz County National,
Santa Cruz, 39; Union National, San Diego, 41;
First National, Wilmington, 47.
Nevada First National, Lovelock, 43; Nixon
National, Reno, 29.
Arizona First National, Tombstone, 47.
' BANKS DEPRIVED OF MONEY
An Associated Press dispatch, dated Washing
ton September 30, says: Following up his warn
ing 'to national banks against hoarding money
and 'restricting credits, Secretary McAdoo today
ordered withdrawn $3,000,000 of the govern
ment's funds deposited in the agricultural cen
ters to aid in crop moving. The money will be
rp-doposlted, Mr. McAdoo announced, in banks
which employ them in tho movements of crops
and for th0 benoflt of the business situation.
MONEY DEPOSITED FOR CROP MOVING
PURPOSES
Washington, D. C, September 29, 1914.
Secretary McAdoo today announced that the fol
lowing amounts had boon deposited in national
banks in tho states mentioned up to September
28, for crop moving purposes:
Alabanih . . $ 300,000
Arkansas . , 175,000
, Florida 81,250
Georgia 368,750
.Kentucky 1,375,000
Louisiana 700,000
Maryland 1,450,000
Mississippi 150,000
North Carolina . ; 456,250
South Carolina 525,000
Tennessee 675,000
Texas 793,750
Virginia 798,750
Colorado 499,996
Illinois . 1,200,000
.Indiana 150,000
. - Iowa 250,000
Kansas .. . 25,000
, Missouri 1,550,000
Nebraska . 325,000
Oklahoma 93,500
Washington 87,500
New York 1,000,000
$13,029,746
. The secretary announced on July 25 that ho
would deposit $34,000,000 in the banks to as
sist in moving tho crops, tho deposits to be made
in installments of 25 per cent. The above rep
resents tho amounts deposited by states up to
September 28.
Wheat dropped four and a half cents a bushel
tho day news came that tho allieB had won tho
battle of tho Marne. This victory did not change
the situation in Europe with respect to tho op
portunity for getting through grMn shipments,
and actually did not add to or detract from the
yalup of a single bushel of wheat. It was merely
grasped as one of tho pawns for use by grain
The Wilson administration is still being run-
Samblors. .
on the, theory that the nation which minds its
own business is thoroby the more certain to keep
out of trouble with others. Owing to the fact
that so very few Americans have investments In
the countries at war in Europe, this seems to bo
rather more popular than when Mexico was tho
theatre of strife. Watchful waiting is a policy
that has justified itself.
PRESIDENT WILSON PREVENTS, CALAMITY
By promptly adopting a program of action, the
administration has enabled tho United States to
meet tho unequalled commercial and financial
strain imposed by the sudden blaze of war
throughout Europe.
Demands of the present have been met and
tho inevitable needs of the future safeguarded.
Tho administration's proposals have all been
unanimously approved by congress. These were
tho big steps taken:
Absoluto neutrality declared.
Offer to mediate transmitted to the five prin
cipal warring powers Great Britain, France and
Russia' on the one hand, and Germany and Austria-Hungary
on the other hand.
Appropriations of $2,750,000 secured to re
lieve tho necessities of and provide transporta
tion home for the thousands of Americans
stranded in tho warring countries.
Cruiser Tennessee dispatched with relief funds
and gold coin to take care of the foreign obliga
tions of American bankers.
Unlimited issue of emergency currency author
ized, thus meeting the immediate demands for
currency in this country's domestic transactions
and stopping the 'outflow of gold to Europe.
Shipping laws so amended as 'to enable the
United States to acquire vessels in which to
transport the country's huge grain crop to needy
and stricken peoples.
Provisions made to use naval vessels to
carry mails and freight both to Europe and South
America.
Settlement of the threatened strike of middle
west railway men effected, thus assuring railway
service during the crisis.
President Wilson met the emergency with his
usual cool, clear-thinking decisiveness. National
Monthly.
A "REPUBLICAN VIEW OP HOW THE NEW
TARIFF AFFECTS THE FARMER
A recent issue of the Nebraska Farmer, a lead
ing agricultural journal of the middle-west, un
der the editorial direction of Hon. S. R. Mc
Kelvie, present republican lieute'nant-governor
of Nebraska, contained the following pertinent
editorial:
"The results of placing meats on the free list
in the new tariff law afford a good example of
the ineffectiveness of duties on farm products,
and show how farmers have been hoodwinked
all these years by the protective tariff theory.
"Incidentally the results have given tho offi
cers of the American National Livestock Asso
ciation an opportunity to display their skill in
mental acrobatics. A year ago they were throw
ing fits about the pending tariff bill and insisting
that to place meats upon the free list would ruin
tho livestock industry in this country. Now
they are writing encouraging words to assure
stockmen that the industry hasn't been injured
at all. In a bulletin just issued by the above
named association, and signed by H. A. Jastro,
president, and T. W. Tomlinson, secretary we
find this truthful statement:
" 'Imports of South American beef for the
first half of 1914 aggregate about 400,000 quar
ters. This is less than one pound of beef for
each consumer in the country. Imports from
Australia and Canada have been so small as to
be almost negligible in augmenting the per-cap-Ita
supply. Complaints about high prices of
meats are as prevalent in Australia as in this
country. The European war will undoubtedly
result in less imports of meat products into the
United States.'
"Minus the allusion to the war in Europe this
is exaotly in line with the predictions made by
careful students before the tariff law went into
.. effect. A year ago men were called traitors to
the farming and livestock interests for predict
ing just what the officers of the American Na
tional Livestock Association now admit have
been the results of free-listing meats.
"As we have already said, this is a sample of
the way in which fanners have been hoodwinked
by the protection theory. Farm products have
been given protection that didn't protect, all to
pacify farmers and make them 'stand for' pro
tection to interests that it did protect. Now
that we have had an actual demonstration of the
ineffectiveness of duties on farm products isn't
it time for fanners to make a new alignment on
the tariff question? Instead of seeking the re
storation of ineffective duties on farm products
should we not demand that there bo further
leveling down of tho tariff wall?"
Mr, McKelvie is aepublican, but his duty as
publisher of a non-partisan farm magazine im
pels him, to show his readers how the protective
tariff has been used to hoodwink the farmers.
How do you like it, Mr. Protection Advocate?
A TALK TO THE BOY
Com boy, to your dad. Let me toll you some
v things
Of the man who loved me as I'm, now loving
you. . ,
For the heart's but a pendulum heavy that
swings
Aye, forward and back as all pendulums do.
And tonight mine has swung far away to the
time
When your dad had a dad just as- you have,
my son
A dad In whose arms I. was welcome to climb
' When his day in the cornfield or meadow was
done.
I crept into arms that were stronger, my lad;
And his hands O so , tender -were harder
than mine.
For the world had been stern with the dad of
your dad
Yet I would that my soul were as gentle and
fine
As the one roughly clad in that body of nisi
That lavishly gave of his strength for the one
Who sheltprs you now. And my prayer's burden
is
That you may think 'thus of your father, my
son.
What I've gained, I have gained his The heavier
cost;
He in embryo held all the things I have done.
But I feaT vaguely fear there are some things
I've lost
That sadly diminish the triumph, my son.
So lie close, little man there's so little we know
'Except that I love you and you can love me.
And I'll smile with content that you're loving
mo so,
And be glad in that love, as my dad used to
he. Strickland Gillilan,
The United States is a government of the peo
ple, for the people and by the people in name
only so long as only half of its inhabitants above
the age of 21 years are alfowed to vote. The
women are asking the vote in a number of states,
because they are willing and anxious to help
those men who are carrying the banner of bet
ter government. Character and intelligence are
the best qualifications for good citizenship, and
these find full flower among the women of America.
The greatest function of government lies in
its willingness to protect the many from the few.
That the administration at Washington believes
in the application of this doctrine was shown
when Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo stepped
to the front and warned those bankers who were
seeking to bring about a" condition whereby they
might reap a richer harvest in interest charges
by hoarding reserves and thus forcing rates up
ward that the government would use its power to
force them to abandon any such plan. Tho mere
threat was sufficient in most instances. There
can be no bank-made panics while William G.
McAdoo is on the job.
The most dramatic rendition of the old drama
of Davey Crocket atid the coon ever presented
was when Secretary McAdoo notified the bank
ers that he would make public the names of
those banks that were depriving business of the
needed money by carrying unnecessarily large
reserves. The coon did not come down as rapid
ly -fr ctr?ckett as did tho pffendlng banks when
Air. McAdoo started twirling his publicity club.
The republicans are playing in hard luck. If
Huerta could only have held on until after the
November elections, the republican campaign
ers would not have been deprived of the oppor
tunity to show how ineffective was the admin
istration's Mexican policy.
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iiie writer who thinks his works form
ed for duration mistakes his interest
when he mentions his enemies. He de
grades his own dignity by showing that
he was affected by their censures, and
gives lasting Importance to names, which,
lert to themselves would vanish from re
membrance. Samuel Johnson.
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