Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-06-23
Let a primary decide the
postoffice contest.

poatoftce contest.
IF a special session of Con-
gress is necessary, there can be
no good reason for putting it off
until September.
According to the late de-
cision of Chief Justice Fuller, the
Worlds Fair will be open every
Sunday hereafter.
The famous Borden trial is
at an end, aud Lizzie Borden,
charged with numbering her faith
er and stepmother, has been &C.
quilted.
The little story that Charley
Gartrell is out of the postoffice
race has been squelched. He is
in the fight to a finish, and is by
far the most popular candidate in
the field.
Sam Jones says that man
should be 95 per cent backbone.
In Sans case this would leave
only 5 per cent for "cheek", but
its the biggest S per cent we ever
heard of.
There is no lack of money
in the country. Want of conf
dence in the future has caused ii
to be locked up for time, but 1t
will soon be let loose again, and
business viii! take a fresh start.
There has been no bank
failures in China for 500 years.
Under the law there, if a bank
should fail and not be able to pay
its depositors, the banker would
be beheaded. If q similar law
were in force in this country
there would not be many bank
failures.
If all the farms in Adam
county were as carefully titled aE
Mr.. Goodson's few acres north oi
town, Adair county's wealth would
more than double in five years.
It is not the amount of land il
cultivation but the way that it II
cultivated that brings wealth t.
the farmer.
The bankers of Joplin have
decided to purchase twenty Win
chester rifles and distribute then
about town where they would dc
the most good in case of a raio
by bank robbers. They have also
decided to offer $1,000 in cash fol
each dead robber. Bank robber!
will steer clear of Jop lin.
The conditions as to money
have materially improved. There
is still a degree OF stringency a
all monetary centers, but money
can be had more easily, except il
a few large communities in the
Northwest and smaller ones else
where that are disturbed by con.
tinued failures, than at the begin
ing of the month. Depositors who
withdrew their cash from the
baks, are either returning it or in
vesting in real estate, securities
or other interest bearing proper
ties, with the results that, in eth.
er case the money goes to the
bank.
-Kirksville may justly fee
proud of her banks. During the re.
cent financial furry, when many
banks failed and others stopped
loaning and called in their out
standing loans that they might be
prepared for an emergency, the
Kirksville banks did not call in a
single loan, but, on the other
hand, went right on making new
loans to new customers. AS re-
suit there has been no uneasy
feeling in regard to money, and
kirksville has not felt that sIch a
thing as q money stringency ex-
listed anywhere in the country. If
the sound business policy of the
Kirksville banks were followed
by banking institutions all over the
country, there would be no runs
on banks or bank failures to de-
moralize the business of the
country.
= The foundations of tinan-
'cial and industrial certainty and
credit were shaken last Novem-
ber, and since then the President
has done nothing to restore con-
6dence. His suggestions of rem
edies reveal the doubt and uncer-
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