Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-08
READY FOR TIE |. D. OF.
Preparations Under Way for Big
Odd Fellows Meeting at
Des Moines.
Iowa Building and Loan Associ-
ations Practically Driven Out
OF Business.
Politics and the Police Force
Danger in Des Moines Drink.
Politics and the Police Force
special to Times Republican.

4 Special to Times s-Republican.
! Des Moines. Aug S.-The general
committees of the grand lodge of Iowa
odd Fellows and the Encampmen and
the Rehekahs and Patriarchs and all
the auxiliary and incidental bodies. are
holding a meeting this afternoon in
Des Moines. TO receive final reports on
the work of those who have had charge
lodge in September. This Will probably
be The last meeting of the general COM
mittees before the sovereign lodge
meeting next month. Reports We're re-
ceived of all the committees-those on
rooms. on accommodations halls, dec
orations etc. The committees found
everything in excellent condition. EN-
Lieutenant Governor Mlllnan. of Lo-
gan. prominent on the committees,
said:
We have found everything in good
order. The preparations have been
completed ana the work of preparing
for the greatest gathering of men that
has ever been held in Iowa is now we'll
under way. Few people OF Iowa. l APP
prehend. fully appreciate the magni-
tude of this national meeting which
comes to the state for the first time. In
my stimation there will be 1000 stran-
gers in the city of Des Moines for the
meeting They will be here at least
two DAYS and many of them for three
dayS No state convention or encamp-
ment or political meeting has ever had
any such crowd in the state. These
people must remain over night and
there must be accommodations for
them They will fill this city to over
flowing They are coming from all the
states and territories. The attendance
from Iowa will be great. Counties are
preparing to send delegations of from
500 TO 500 to the meeting. have been
out in the state among them and know
that they are coming Many of these
delegations will come on special trains.
Under the circumstances it is impor-
tant tlat the committee work in the
line OF preparation shall be done per
fectly We find it has been Well done
and Des Moiles will care for the inn
mense crowds that are coming.
The sovereign grand lodge meeting
connection Herewith is to be the en-
campment of the Patriarchs at the state
fair grounds. The auxiliary societies
all have something doing. The indica-
tions are that it will be Il monster af-
fair and that Des Moines will feel worse
than after state convention or state
fair.
So
vy>y.- :,,.;,
are practically going out of business in
Iowa. The laws of the state have done
ii. Their places are being taken by the
psuedo- insurance companies that offer
gold bonds and other forms of fancy
Inducements to speculation An officer
of a building and loan association stat
ed yesterday that the associations that
are now left in existence in this city
are merely closing up their business.
and in five years there will not be one
left in the state unless it is some small
local concern. All those that reached
out for large business have been forced
to quit by unfavorabe legislation. The
building and loan associations in other
states are prospecting and doing a great,
beneticent work among the common
people. They are encouraged and sur
rounded by proper safeguards and are
regarded as most useful institutions
The institutions that have taken their
place are the companies that are doing
Il purely speculative invest tment busi-
ness under the liberal and loose iointed
insurance laws of the state. y number
OF these are doing an immense business.
one of them in this city has taken in
and disbursed over 100000 OF money
largely taken from other tsates and
brought here. and is climbing rapidly. !
has as its manager man who (
received on a five year contract $500
for each of two years and $4,000 year
for the other three Years, and he is not I
4 particularly good business man eth /
eli, and never had any experience in in /
surance. Another class OF companies
that are taking the place of the build /.
ing and loan associations is the home (
schemes, which generally !
approach something of the lottery style :
of doing business. Some of them have /
an insurance adjunct Despite the law
which was passed last winter 10 shut /
them out they are being organized and /
are doing more and more business. Ii (
is pretty certain that the district Judge
TO whom the question of the validity of |
the law was submitted is going TO de-
clare it unconstitutional The governor
had grave doubts about the law stick I
ing when he signed ii. He held it for
some time and got a brief from the at
torneN general. which has since been
submitted To the district court. but the
managers of these new tangled
schemes expect that the law viii go to
the floor and they will run on without
restraint or regulation.
The work of the city police and de
tectiNe force in iockeying with various
murder cases in Dcs Moines. especially
the f'inkelstein case and the case of the
Peterson children. has demonstrated to
The people of Des Aiones in fearful
manner the unwisdom of continuing
the police department at the mercy of
ward politics in a corrupt city. In the
minds of most persons Mayor Brenton
has intended to do We'll and has planned
Cor Il good city administration, and
perhaps has done the best he could, but
In fact his whole administration was
mortgaged i'm advance 10 ward polt
clans. and they foreclosed just as he
,yas oettiner raadv IN do business This