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TTTE OMATIA DAILY REE; TITUTiSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1007.
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Btate of Nebraska. Douglaa County.
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duly aworn. aaya that the actual number
of full and complete coplea of The Dally
Morning, Evening and Sunday Pee printed
during the month of OctouiT, w"
follows:
1 M.70 IT W
t 36,690 H 86,660
t 36,600 1 B6.840
4 38,360 80... 40,500
1 36,650 21 36,630
38,500 It 36,940
1 36,440 II 1,33
36,630 ' 14,... 36,800
36.700 28 36,750
10 36,860 36,700
11 36,490 17, V 35.580
it 36,530 21 37,010
It 85,300 . 3. 36.980
14 36,530 10 36,90
It 38.980 II 37,330
It 38,930
Total i. .,..4 .1438,480
Leua uniold and returned copies. 9,930
Net total 1,189,555
Dally average 38.4J7
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changed aa often as requested.
The bomb throwers will now take
a rest until they get their second wind.
President Stlckney says all bank
panics are preventable. Certainly.
Don't get scared.
As was said, once lef ore in regard
to the matter of specie payments, "the
way to resume Is to resume."
While the currency shortage may
be artificial, ''.f the ' embarrassment
caused by it is the real article.
The country is learning that a
credit, disturbance 1b not necessarily
followed by a stoppage of Industry.
The manufacturers of collar buttons
have formed a combine. Another
scheme for giving it to the plain peo
ple In the neck.
A dispatch from Venezuela an
nounces that "Castro Is showing im
provement." He must be, if there Is
any change at all.
"Sleep on, sleep on, fair city," is
the first line of a poem in the Phila
delphia Record. More truth than po
etry in the contribution.
Mrs. Carrie Nation says Bhe would
not kiss a man who uses tobacco.
However, that is a poor way to start
a crusade against tobacco.
Attorney Qeneral .'Bonaparte cannot
be blamed for telling editors how to
run their business. Many editors
have been telling htm how to run his.
The populiat national committee
has met and called a convention for
next year. The populist, however,
does not attract as much attention as
he used to.
In considering measures for the re
lief of the financial conditions congress
will do well to keep la mind the differ
ence between an elastic currency and
an Inflated currency.
There are 3S6 members of the house
of representatives in ' congress, and
apparently every pne of them has a
bill ready to remedy the ills of. the na
tional currency system.
Mr. Cleveland says the democratic
party needs a leader. , Mr. Bryan,
who has constituted himself leader,
has an idea that the greatest need ot
the party Is more followers.
Mayor "Jim" has been authorized
to buy new carpets for the two rooms
of his private studio. That's what
comes from having a broncho buster
prancing around in tbe mayor's office.
Tbe same people ho were eager to
disfigure our streets with street corner
sign boards have assumed the duty of
forcing all street signs out ot business.
Is this not a rather sudden change ot
heart? .
The Philadelphia Record names
UUhard Olney for temporary chairman
of the next democratic national con
vention and Governor Folk for perma
nent chairman. Mr. Bryan cares not
who names the chairmen so long as
he names the candidates.
New Mexico and Arizona are both
going to ask for statehood at the com
ing setiblon of congress. Tbe an
nouncement "will be cheering informa
tion to those congressmen who are al
ways looking for 8 bumper to kill time
when the are geeiin defeat other
leglalatj
"""rtiAfifiUQ'lTUHi.
The advent of the day nsnly ap
pointed (or national tliankcglviag. finds
the people of the United States occupy
ing the peculiar position of suffering
from the effects of a money panic
while enjoying the greatest plfnltude
of material well-being. The situation,
however, contracted with previous oc
casions of similar financial distress,
furnishes ample reason for offering up
thanks that the dislocation of business
Is so nearly imperceptible and that the
signs of early recovery and speedy
restoration of Industrial equilibrium Is
so encouraging.
Aside from the clouds of business
depression which have a silver lining,
the people of the United States, and
particularly of Omaha and Nebraska,
have many blessings to prompt them
to give evidence of being thankful.
The advances made during the past
year in nearly everything that la up
lifting, mentally, morally and physic
ally, are readily recognizable and
ought to be universally appreciated.
The year has been a good year, as
years go, and while many things have
doubtless happened that we would
have liked to be different, the surplus
of satisfaction over discontent when
the balance is struck is quite big
enough to keep far above the average.
Aa a feast day. Thanksgiving Is set
apart by official proclamation of the
executives of the nation and of all
the states, but they lay atrees only on
Its serious side. It is also a great na
tional holiday, utilized as are all 'such
holidays, as a day for popular enter
tainment and healthful amusement
quite Independent of its religious and
civic aspects. Thanksgiving thus has
a dual character, which must make 'It
appeal with added force to the great
mass of the people.
BORROWED POLICIES.
For some little time Colonel Bryan
has been trying to make much of the
assertion that President Roosevelt and
the republican administration have
borrowed their policies from the dem
ocrats. The simile he likes to use is
that Mr. Roosevelt has borrowed his
clothes, and the articles of apparel
thus transferred are enumerated by
blm as including railroad regulation,
repression of lawless trusts, the In
come tax and arbitration for labor dis
putes. How Mr. Bryan or the democratic
party secured title to these policies is
not made clear, but the clothes which
Mr. Bryan takes most pride In have
not been worn very long as democratic
garments, but were themselves bor
rowed only a few years ago from the
populists. By going buck to the Omaha
platform, in 1892, which is the bible
of the populist party, a list of demands
may be found in which the most of
Mr. Bryan's program can be readily
Identified.
The policy of railroad regulation,
which Mr. Bryan says has been' bor
rowed from him, is the basis for the
populist demand for government own
ership an overcoat which he tried on
and then quickly divested himself of.
The populist platform of 1892 de
mands a graduated income tax and
also proposes a postal savings bank.
It initiates the protest against gov
ernment by injunction and expresses
kindly sympathy with organized labor
In the hope of eliciting reciprocity.
It likewise favors the election of
United States senators by direct popu
lar vote and n one-term presidency.
The popullBts also promulgated a lot
of other policies which they In turn
had borrowed or inherited from ' the
greenbackers, the Farmers' alliance
and other political combinations, in
cluding even the republicans.
The borrowing by Mr. Bryan of so
many policies from the populists, of
course, does not cotne to the question
of merit, but it shows that Mr. Bryan
has been no more particular in ap
propriating other people's clothes than
he has been in accusing President
Roosevelt of reapproprlatlng some of
them from hlra.
QRATT IX RKCKlYKRSfTlPS.
Another illustration ot modern
methods employed in looting investors
has been furnished by an investiga
tion Into the court records in . New
York ot a number of receivership
cases. The attorney general of the
state proposes to Institute prosecutions
against a coterie of "professional re
ceivers" who, in connivance with at
torneys, have apparently made it a
business to secure control of concerns
in financial distress and then proceed
to exploit them, without reference to
the rights and interests of the stock
holders and creditors. As a result of
the attorney general's investigations
several Instances are cited showing the
extent to which this system of graft
has been carried on.
One fipanclal institution which be
came involved in Its affairs about a
year and a halt ago had assets total
ling about $3,000,000 and liabilities
about the same, but thus far the stock
holders have been paid only 15 per
cent of their claims and may get but
10 per cent more. Yet one lawyer
has drawn $184,000 for professional
services in the settlement of its affairs
and the cost of the receivership to date
has been in excess of $500,000, or
more than has been paid to creditors
and stockholders. In the case ot a
loan company nearly $200,000out of
$275,000 paid in was absorbed by the
receiver and attorneys. The policy
holders of a failed insurance company
got $2 8,000, while the receiver and
Ms attorneys divided $188,630... It is
stfmtted that the receiverships ot six
Brooklyn banking Institutions will cost
their stockholder aut $2,500,009.'
The aUuatlvn in New York dlffvrs
from that In most states only in the
matter of degree. It Is the general
experience that receiverships cost out
of all proportion to the service ren
dered. No receivership ought to eat
up one-half the assets of the embar
rassed concern and no legal fee In a
receivership case should be ten to
twenty times as large as would be
paid for a similar service rendered to
a solvent concern. There is wide room
for reform In receivership matters,
both In the method of appointment
and In the approval ot their claims.
Under the existing conditions a re
ceivership is in too many Instances
looked tipon as a rich plum for the re
ceiver and his legal friends rather
than a grave responsibility to be dis
charged for the sole benefit of stock
holders and creditors.
THE DEMoCBl TIC DOltKKY.
The panegyric to the democratic
donkey, pronounced by Colonel Bryan
its a prelude to his latest after-dinner
speech, deserves to become a classic in
donkey lore. Colonel Bryan has be
come convinced that the donkey is the
most fitting emblem with which the
democratic party could be designated
and emphasizes some of the attractive
characteristics of the animal, which
appeal to him most forcibly.
During his travels In foreign lands
Colonel Bryan has discovered that the
donkey Is a permanent resident in
every clime and country, where he is
serving "the common people" as a pa
tient beast of burden. Measured by
service to mankind, he would give the
faithful donkey "the position of
honor" that would entitle him to uni
versal homage.
But with reference to the demo
cratic donkey, as well as with refer
ence to other more vital Issues, it all
depends, as Colonel Bryan sayB, on the
point of view. The Bryanlte vision of
the donkey sees him through roseate
glasses, although the donkey Is sup
posed to have other salient character
istics equally deserving of mention.
The donkey Is known the world over
as an animal with stupid countenance,
blinking eyes and long eara, betoken
ing Its asinlnlty. When it wishes to
overwhelm anyone with argument the
donkey brays. Its hide is usually so
toughened that the most forcible
demonstration makes little impression
upon it. It has a reputation for being
stubborn, sleepy, ambltionless and
lazy and Is ranked low on the scale of
Intelligence even for four-footed ani
mals. In many 'cases it takes more
external energy to make It go than the
donkey returns In service after it
makes a start. The culef point of ac
tivity about a donkey is centered in
its hind feet when used for purposes
of destruction and devilment
But we have Colonel Bryan's word
for it that the donkey is the most fit
ting emblem by which the democratic
party could be designated.
Students at the Nebraska State uni
versity have voted down a proposal
from the faculty for dress reform
which would eliminate bright colors
and furbelows. Because a young
woman attends the university with a
laudable ambition to improve her mind
does not necessarily mean that she re
nounces her Individuality and inde
pendence in matters of dreBs. So far
as we know there is nothing In the
laws or ordinances making a particu
lar style of costume pre-requislte to
admission to the university and we
hopo there never will be.
The answer given to the general
complaint of the democratic press all
over Nebraska against the "gum-shoe"
campaign, waged by the democratic
state committee, Is that the committee
did not have enough money to pay
postage, much less buy red fire and
hire brass bands. The democratic
committee ought to parallel its report
ot campaign contributions with a list
of. distinguished democrats who ought
to have contributed, but didn't.
Another collection of money in the
Omaha High school la announced for
the benefit ot a local charity. We
thought the use of the schools aa a
pieco of machinery for collecting
money or soliciting subscriptions had
been strictly forbidden. It Is all right
to inculcate charity and generosity In
tbe schools, but it is another thing to
allow people to pass the bat there.
When Colonel Bryan and former
United States Senator Cockrell met at
a dinner at Alexandria, Va., the other
day, the ex-senator thanked Colonel
Bryan for placing him In nomination
for the presidency In the national dem
ocratic convention in 1901. Senator
Cockrell has never forgotten the dis
tinguished service, even if he has been
a little slow in acknowledging It.
Twenty-three railroads, after a con
ference at Chicago, have agreed upon
a penalty ot $5 per car to be Imposed
upon those diverting them. Although
the country has gone to smash, the
railroads realize they will not be able
to handle traffic offered and are ac
cordingly making efforts to keep their
rolling stock equipment ready tor
business.
The executive committee ot the
Omaha Commercial club has passed a
resolution against the parcels post as
proposed by Postmaster General
Meyer. The abolition of railroad re
bates has emboldened the Commercial
club In a great many ways, but It has
not yet cut all the strings which lead
to railroad headquarters.
If the president really allowed the
South Dakota senator to flip a coin
to settle a difference about federal ap
pointments that was a marked con
cession, for when senators fall to
agree on candidates for federal posi
tions the president usually relieves
their embarrassment by making his
own selections.
Some members of the democratic
national committee are In favor of
holding the convention next year In
advance of the date fixed by the re
publicans. The democrats ought to fix
It so they could hold the election prior
to November, inasmuch as their can
didates do not seem to run well in
that month.
A rug merchant who has Just en
acted the triple role of plaintiff, wit
ness and attorney In a case in our dis
trict court has been rewarded with a
verdict of 1 cent. The old saying
that a lawyer who has himself for a
client has a fool for a lawyer will have
to be revised.
The county treasurer reports that
collections of personal taxes which be
come delinquent with the end of this
month are coming in even better than
in previous years. Prompt payment
of taxes is one of the best barometers
of business conditions.
Business on the Boom.
St. Louis Republic.
Six more railroads, the latest reporting
business since July L report net Increases,
showing the superiority of business, to
high finance and low politics.
Where la the America Ilenf
New York World.
More than a thousand cases of eggs from
effete England came over on the Majestlo
and vaulted lightly over the tariff barrier
of 6 cents a doten Into the local market.
What Is the matter with the American
hen? Race suicide or the high cost of
living?
Partisanship of the Courts.
Indianapolis News.
Things begin to look better for Caleb
Powers. Judge Morris has ordored the
discharge of the second venire of l'JO men
because of the partisan conduct of the
sheriff In calling them. Perhaps, after all,
Kentucky may be capable of trying a man
for his life apart from the question ot
what political party ha belongs to. If It
Is It Is high time that It demonstrated It
and so remove the infamy that attaohes
to It.
Prosecution of Bnnk Wreckers.
Philadelphia Record.
A very practical step was taken In
Brooklyn on Thursday looking to the
restoration of public confidence in the
banks. Thre officers and directors of
the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, who had
been Indicted by the grnnd Jury for larceny
and forgery aa a result of gross misappli
cation of the funds of the bank to thpir
personal uses, were held In heavy ball
for trial. It Is alleged that restitution of
the money taken from the bank has bee"
made, and this will, of course, bo pleaded
in mitigation of punishment for the alleged
offense if it be proven.. The best curb on
frenzied finance Is a oelerltous and re
morseless enforcement of the penal
statutes. The Brooklyn authorities are on
the right track. . ,.
Excellent Taste and Jadfrment.
Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Roosevelt shows excellent taste,
and equal Judgment in causing It to be
known that he wishes no federal office
holders In the republican national conven
tion. It is not a very difficult thing for a
president to cause himself to be renomi
nated, and Mr. Roosevelt might be able to
dictate a new nomination to the men who
hold his commissions. But the people do
not vote with the officeholders necessarily,
and outside of Philadelphia they are very
apt to resent the selertlon of candidates
In the republican convention fifteen years
ago there was a very strong contingent of
men whom President Harrison had ap
pointed, and they rushed his nomination
through with a whoop, but the people did
not approve of their action.
TUB WORLD'S MEAT MARKET.
Interesting Flsrnres o Conaaniatloa
and Production.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Contrary to common opinion, the people
of the United States are neither the big
gest meat eaters of the world, rior Is their
per capita consumption of meat increasing.
A recent report of the Department of Ag
riculture shows that during tho last
twenty-five years our ronsumption of meat
has been steadily decreasing, while that of
foreign nations has been Increasing. At
the present time the per capita consump
tion In various countries Is as follows:
Australia. 163 pounds a year; United States
1 pounds; Cuba, 124; United Kingdom, 12! ;
Germany, 108; France, 7H; Italy, 46; Bel
gium, 70; Sweden, $2. The consumption In
the United States has decreased 30 per cent
since 1640. There has been an especially
noticeable decrease In the last few years,
due partly to the high price of meat and
partly to the Increase In the use of fruits
and vegetables.
America continues to be the butcher shop
of the world. The value of meat animals
In the United States on January 1, 197.
was estimated at $2,152,000,000. Counting In
tha value of the live stork farms, the pack
ing plants and the machinery used In the
meat business, the total capital represented
In the Industry Is $10,fi25.COOOi). This la
eciual to five-sixths of all the money in
vested In manufacturing In the t'nlted
States. This country outranks all others
In Its possession of meat animals. There
are approximately 74.2O00UO head of CHttl.
5S,000,eiO sheep and 68,600,000 swine, making
altogether nearly 35 per cent of the world's
sur-ply.
Dog's Cold Nose
b a jirt of health, but warm
nose means sick dog. Doctors
judge a doj by his nose
nd a nun by his hands.
Folks with cold hands need
Scott's Emulsion
Cold hinds often mean thin
blood, low vitality and poor
feeding. SCOTTi EMULSION
has warmth and vitality and
feeding power in H. In con
sumption and other wasting
diseases it feeds the blood and
gives the power to produce
flesh, it it ti ii u ii u
AH DnwrUui 80c sod 81.00.
POEMS OP TUB DAT.
Thanksgiving; Prayer.
Sweetly snug n little maiden, with a bright
fare, fuli of cheer,
"ThatiK Thee, Father, for our blessings,
for our Hrsstnt; all the year."
She had heard tho first glad singing In her
heart, the hymn of praise.
Is she fciaieful to her parents for their
rare? In future days
Will their love In- unrequited? May they
never live to rue
All thnir tender care and patience! May
each find the other true.
Then shall home be filled with blessings
sent to those who love !od a law;
May His comfort cheer the lone hearts;
Ood Is good, there shall no flaw
Even touch his holy promise. "I am with
you all the way ;
Christ shall rend the maak of evil, God
will reign with those who pray.
-ELIZABETH ALLEN SlALLORT.
Omaha.
Thanksttlvlns; Hymn.
For prosperous times that rule the land,
Kor full ot hi art and fill of hand,
Vor banishment of penury,
And chHiires that to most men be,
Kor blessings which to all have come
In strengthening of hearts and homo.
In spreading of great Industry,
In hopeful vista all can see.
For sweet content Inviting all.
For effort's high rewarded call.
For labor's better, well earned pay.
We thank Thee, Lord, upon this day!
For peace abroad and friends with all,
For world response to our own call.
For weakening of war ' Trim power
And brul ter dawn o gentler hour,
For linking 'round the .oadest girth
That girdles the extent of earth
The peaceful tie which binds all men
In one fraternal, common kin,
In bringing conquest's bloody lust
Before tribunals strictly Just.
For forcing power In upright way,
We thank Thee, Lord, upon this dayl
For knowledge ever going on.
For light of srlenre, nobly won,
For great achievements of the age.
For work of hand and word of saga,
For gradual lifting to the light,
For fall of wrong and rise of right.
For onward progress of the time.
Deep, universal and sublime,
And bringing nearer, as It ran,
The best, great brotherhood of man,
Of so much gift for what we pray.
We thank Thee, Lord, upon this dav!
-S. W. G1LLILAN.
Before Curving: the Turkey.
The president proclaimed It, that we ought
to all give thanks
But I'm an unknown person on the roasters
of the banks.
And I've been sick and worried, and a lot
of things went wrong.
And so I got to thinking that my thanks
could not be strong.
But then, who knows? It might be that the
bank that held my dough
Would have been one that busted so. you
you see, I hardly know.
I look the whole year over, and, I haven't
gained In health.
Nor shot to fame and glory, nor been
cluttered up with wealth;
But still I get to thinking of the things
that mluhf hnva been.
And of the folks In trouble that so far I've
nut been in.
And then, although I'm poorer than a
starving alley cnt,
I think that I am thankful, In a measure.
Just for that.
Why. I might have a title be a count,
perhaps, or earl
And then Ik- nely parted from a million
and the girl;
Or I might bo a magnate with uncounted
money's might
And a thousand busy juries planning dally
to indict;
Or I could be out for office with the public
on mv trail
So I breathe a thankful whisper, rather than
a sorry wall.
When I look the wide world over and ob
serve how all the rest
Have their troubles and their sorrows spite
of all they have possessed, ,
Then I get to th'Ting maybe things are
Just as well let be.
And I don't know anybody I would rather
be than me.
So I sigh a gentlo blessing on the fow
things in my lot.
And I sing a thankful measure for the
things that I am not!
Washington Herald.
The Pumpkin.
Ah! on Thanksgiving Day, when from
Fast and from West,
From North and from South come the
Pilgrim and guest, r
When the grey haired. New Englander
sees round his board J
The old broken links of affection restoredi
When the care-wearied man seeks his
mother onca more.
And the worn matron smiles where the
girl smiled before,
What moistens tho lip and what brightens
the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich
Pumpkin pie?
The Pathway Horn.
Long since the first fruits have been laid
In plentltude before the shrine;
Long since the purple grapes have made
The sacrifice of flame red wine
Ard row across the empty field
Which gleaning handH have left all bar,
Where harvest songs one time have pealed,
The home path stretches, broad and fair.
The home path O. the lnnd Is far
That knows no path to lead us home!
The sky 1s strange that has no star
To guide us wheresoe'er we roam;
Tho ' a Is sad that shows no wake
Of ships that seek the harbor bar
Whereon glad billows leap and break
And sing of whyre the home hearts ars.
Tbe eyes are blind that may not rlose
To conjure visions of the hearth
Where from a laughing firelight throws
Its glamour over heart-born mirth;
The ears are deaf that cannot hear
Tho home song pulsing In the air
In measures soft and sweet and clear
The home song of the days back there.
For each the home path, be It street.
Or fair, broad highway, or the sea
The path that lures the weary feet
To find where all tho home things be.
What though one fares through lands
awav,
Or drifts or beats across the foam?
Forever on Thanksgiving duy
The heart will find the pathway home.
W. D. Ncsblt.
Thanksttlvlns; EvfnlBf,
Slow In the west the sun declines.
Vnwatched by maid or mother;
The happy household, gathered close,
Think onlv of each other.
From far and near, frmi farm and town,
Willi Jovous hearts and faces.
The abnent ones have come again
To 1111 tho old home places.
The dinner o'er, around the fire,
With not a loved one larking,
The elders sit. the little folk
Their Jokes und nuts are cracking.
Ti e tender twilight fills the room
Beneath Its friendly cover
Sweet Mary s soft hand Is deftly caught
By Ned, her cousin lover.
iH-ar 3-year-old, with loving thought,
PHps from the children's room,
Aweary of their noisy games,
Heeks grandpa In the gloom.
The others talk of bygone days,
The summers crops, the weather
But (Goldilocks and S'lverhalr
Hold sweet discourse together.
They linger long about the hearth
So much they have to say;
Some dear one may not le there
On next Thanksgiving day.
Their thoughts grow grave; Ruth starts a
, song, -
Received by each with favor;
She leads, the elders all Join In
With many a break and quaver.
Dear festive day. with memories full,
Where Joy with sorrow blends;
For back to ears of babyhood
Their Influence extends
The d.iy for healing mutual hurts,
For lov- to u!l the living:
No tru born son will e'er forget
The evening of Thanksgiving.
Frank H. Sweet.
ThaiiksKlilna.
Not what we have, O Lord, but what we
missed :
For snlning eyes tjnlght Death might
have klstd.
For loving hands so dear we might not
hold.
For 1H we love which might tonight be
Cold.
For what we missed. O Lord, for what
w missed:
The child who might have wandered,
Judas kissed:
The sin which might have found us un
it f r
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Thy grace
ReJlc that there Is not an einptv place.
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Importance of Keeping It T'pon
I.esrltlntate Lines. '
New York Evening Post.
"Well, It looks as If legitimate business
would now have a chance to get banking
accommodation." Words to that effect
have been heard from hundreds of business
men within the last two days. They think
they sec In the resctuv of certain banks
from domination by promoters and stork
gamblers the promise of a return of all the
hanks to the traditional and safer methods
of an older day.. We have undoubtedly
witnessed a gross perversion of the orig
inal theory and the mercantile functions
of a bank. The general hope now la that
we shall soon get back to the true busi
ness of banking.
That Is, in a word, to utilize savings and
employ capital so as to secure the steady
ongoing of mercantile and manufacturing
enterprise. Tha honorable tradition has
been that each bank has Its customers
whom it must "take care of." That simply
means that the merchant and the manufac
turer, the planter and the farmer and the
dealer, shall be able to get his necessary
loans, on proper security, and always be
sure that good bills will be discounted for
him. To minister to such business needs,
banks were first created; and their chief
duty should be to fulfill that end of their
being. But what have we seen In New
York during the last half duxen years?
Great banking Institutions prostituted Into
tools of unscrupulous speculators. Old
names have counted for little. "Whose
bank is that?" "Oh. the Btandard crowd
has got hat." "That's one of Morse's
string." "Ryan Is behind It." Such have
been the common remarks for years past;
and the Inference Is clear. J?eople have
bought Into banks for the sake of "con
trol," that control meaning use of banking
resources primarily to finance speculation,
and only secondarily to provide regular
business with Its regular advances of cap
ital. I'nder such a twisted and malign concep
tion of banking, business .can, for a time,
mako a shift to get on. ' But 'let 'a "period of
restricted credit befall, as In the last six
months, and what is the result? It is legit
imate business that Is first made to suffer.
Speculation Is left untouched fts long tis
possible. It Is the merchant, tho manufac
turer, whom the president of the bank
sends for and says that he Is sorry, but
that he Is compelled to ask him to cut
down the "line" that the bank Is carrying
for him by one-third or one-half. And
Interest on loans is marked up, 'even for
old customers. But all the time, there is
too much reason to bellevel the resources
of these "controlled" banks were being put
as freely as possible perhaps more freely
than the law permits at the disposal of
promoters and speculators. In other words,
to make It easy for them, legitimate busi
ness has found It made terribly hard for
It. The hold of stock gamblers upon banks
has really been a grip upon the throat of
business. What many people have vaguely
frit throughout the summer has now been
brought home to them with all the force of
a demonstration; speculators through their
ownership of banks have been squeezing
blood from tho business men of this city.
Tho Immense discredit Into which this
vicious system has now fallen must give
great satisfaction to those conservative
bankers who have constantly denounced
and resisted speculative hanking. It was to
them that the very speculators had to turn
when the crisis came; and for their cour
ageous, firm and thorough dealing with the
perverted banks, the financial community
Is lastingly In their debt,
Mlajhty Appetite (or Money.
St. Louis Times.
A hundred millions In European gold,
quickly and even easily secured by this
country, and brought hither to help our
circulation. Is merely another confirmation
of how big our surpluses are and how vast
our national wealth.
Browning, King 2: Co
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Russia handed Japan a check for Irt.CS")
last Saturday. That check must have made
the paying teller groan In these times.
Henri Hochefort, , the famous French
Journalist, has apparently grown weary of
writing fiery articles for "Figaro," and
has become a dealer In art curiosities.
Dr. Henry Lefavour has been elected
president of the Colonial Society of Mas
sachusetts. His ancestors came from the
Isle of Jersey. He is a graduate of Wil
liams college, and since 1902 he has been
president of Simmons college.
After twenty-eight yeirs' service as presi
dent of the Associated Charities of Boston,
Robert Treat Paine announced his retire
ment at the annual meeting of that body.
Mr. Falne's services to the organization
were highly praised by several of the of
ficers. A Chicago society that makes a business
of knowing all about coins declares that
the artist of the $20 gold piece design had
no authority for putting the Indian war
bonnet on the feminine head. Whether he
got It on straight or not doesn't seem to
make any difference.
Brigadier General Edwatd Clinton Toung,
who has been appointed by Governor
Deneen as major general of the Illinois
National guard and the commanding of
ficer of the entire state militia, was born
at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1S02. For four years
he was a cadet at West Point and became
a second lieutenant In the regular army.
Subsequently he became captain of the
First Illinois infantry, and then major and
colonel In the First cavalry. He served In
the Spanish-American war.
.TICKLING THE FVS.V VBONB,
"How could you tell Just from looking
at those two yachts, which owner was u
bull and which a hear in Wall street?"
"Very easily. The bull's yacht tossed UP
the waves, while the bear's yacht hugged
the shore." Baltimore American.
"I hate a bad temper. There's no excuse
for anybody's getting hot under the col
lar." "Isn't, eh? Guess you didn't read about
the molorrnan who was wearing cellu
loid collar when the fuse blew out and set
it afire." 1'hlludelphla I-edger.
"Sometimes," said t'nele Eben,..VJ has a
good deal of admiration foh a mule. Ho
aln' very han'some nor goM-natured, but '
manages to get along by Jes" beln' plain
uslul." Washington Star.
"You eat very greedily," remarked ths
turkey lien to the gobbler.
I'm trying," responded the gobbler, with
dignity, "to arcuHtoiii myelf to the con
dition of being stuffed." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Molly Oh, Pnt, I'm surprised at ye pro
positi' to me yer first wife only dead a
month!
Si r" Molly, she's aa dead as Ivcr
sha'll be. Puck.
"Funny It should declure a 1U per cent
dividend and then keep right on winding
up Its affairs."
"What do you mean?"
"The thread trust." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Cheer up! old man," said ths Invalid's
friend, "you're not going to die yet."
"You bet I ain't!" declared the invalid
with a new determination.
"That's the way to talk."
"Yes, I heard the doctors quarreling
about which one of them should perforin
the autopsy, i I'm Just going to fool 'em.'
Washington Herald. .
"So that's the actress who was kidnaped
the other night?"
"Yes."
' 'I can understand the management's
putting up such a Job, hut why did they
permit her to he brought back?" Phila
delphia ledger.
"Ray, Jinks. I have a proposition to put
before you."
"Put ahead." '
"Four of us are going to chip In and
buy a beefsteak, on credit. We propose to
bond It for four times the purchase prloe,
sell the bonds, and pay the butcher. Then
we're going to divide the beefsteak. Are
you in?"
Jinks was in. Washington Herald,
15th and Deugl&s
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