The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-01

nescent results to so large a number OF
people.
All that the News and Courier and Mr..
MISSIONER say is true. The building ana
loan associations when properly organized
and skllnry and honestly man
agci are great aids to individuals
STRIVING on a small salary. posi-
bly,. 10 obtain a home. and TO the
community at large in promoting building
and general expansion and prosperity.
Many important towns have been materl-
ally enlarged through the fundamentally
o. building and loan associations.
In this connection, however, 1t Is peril
nent to remark that probably no class Of
people have been more injured or neon
veuiencel by the appreciation Of gold and
the corresponding fall OF prices than the
home builders In the building and loan as
sociatlons. Owing 10 constantly contract
ing conditions thousands OF them have
been thrown out OF employment and there
fore unable to keep UP their payments
forfeting In the meantime what they had
previously paid. or falling so far bei!nd
they never could hope 20 catch IN IN
their instalments. other thousands who
bought a few years ago at almost boom
figures have seen their properly shrink
steadily In value while their lnstallment8
became constantly more diihcult 70 ob-
Ia n and the dollar went nearer and nearer
the 20 cent mark.
II money we're plentiful once more, If
the basis OF circulation were broadened
md tho dollar ma ie easter TO set and
employment were more general, As for
merry, no branch Of business would feel
the new and upward impulse 30 guiclly
or so strongly US the building ana loan
associations. They depend peculiarly
upon the masses for support. AMI the
masses depend Tor prosperity upon the
case with which money and employment
ca.l be secured.
The hurricane u; Savannah reached 7
velocity greater than that Of the storm at
St. Louis which blew down great buildings
but the damage was not near go great in
Savannah The fact is another evidence
that the S. Louis structures were poorly
built. Properly constructed buildings n i
~ can withstand any kind Of storm
and there ought to be everywhere public
inspectors Of ACKNOWLEDGED integrity ard
capacity to see tina; the big moiern build
ines are not simply thrown together as
death traps.
David Bennett Hin now knows what Il
is Co b. politically n fatheress and
mothorless orphan
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The Kentucky mine owners are getting
very gay In isswng a can for convcn-
ton to urge Chat the government Issue
to each coal m me- owner certificate for
s. for each ton Of coal dumped on the gov
ornment and hat such certificates b.
made legal tender The people should
rather petition the government to pre-
vent the coh combines from dumping on
the public tons Of coal al such exorhltant
pr ces that the poor OF line great /tes
nge frozen 10y hundreds every wntI
The Corbett-sharkey fight q II Prob
ably Sharkey diint talk enough to keep
jim IA ugh ng coNd ton. N
In u recent speech n NMYorIt Mark
Hanna sad, From 1875 Mkfo the present
time ne United statcA&M been pass ng
through a perlrd VA cedentcd hard
times, IL was thls ~ distr sa which
at Chieag>N5NYo uuatie asylum a rSi
J,s, Afi<1z<D'Vuun ncslcctcl to cell as
\4 fat no had put a barrel on tap
~ tVd5S-,c governor cf Texas ole OF the
most cousp euous members % tha, luna
z g asylum"