Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-23
FAVORS POSTAL BANK
Postmaster General Meyer
Receives Unique Letter.
AN IOWAN'S BREEZY, VIEWS
Likens Proposed Scheme to Sweet
Song" From Beyond.
HAS "KANNED" HIS MONEY
Tells the Story Of One "Bills" Carrier
at College and Points
Out Moral.
HAS Examined" HIS NONE!

Cabinet officers are accustomed to have
words of all sorts hurled at them in let
tiers, though the honeyed voice is about
all they usually hear. Occasionally
bouquet comes in an epistle. and Post
master General Meyer has recently re-
ceived one of that sort, which was Sc
cured by a reporter of The Star as
literary curiosity. for it might have been
written by Old. .Gorgon Graham when he
penned THE Letters of a Self-made Mer-
chant to His Son.
DIR. ]. A. Wales of Mystic, Iowa, who
sent the letter. had his upbringing in
Kansas. near the soil, and bis experience
of early western banks was not Of the
happiest. 1t apparently affected his vo-
cabulary. for he does not lack the power
of expressing what he feels.
But he can speak for himself, for here
IS his letter to Mr.. Meyer, just as he
wrote it:
Has Sweet Sound.
Dear Sir: Herewith 1 send you a
clipping from the Kansas City Weekly
Star that sounds to me like sweet song
from lifes other side-with your picture,
which you must return. l am going to
frame it and hang it in my Office (unless
you send me better one).
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postal bank for many years. Thirty
five years ago, when / was a boy, l
worked on the Atkinson, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad in Kansas, and de-
the First National Bank of Lawrence
Kan. The bank busted and 1 lost-More
than fifty other boys who worked with
me done the same. What the effect was
on the others l can't say. but it put a
damper on me and caused me to squander
and waste my wages for ten years.
When Gov. Hoch lived at Florence
Kan, and edited a little paper there, the
grasshoppers ate my crop, my brother
in Iowa sent me $50. 1 put SIS in the
Florence Bank. Old Pete Aller run away
with all the money. Three years after he
was caught in Connecticut and brought
10 Kansas and was sent up for twenty
years. About eighteen months ago my
brother. carpenter at Plano, Ia, hid
$50 in the old round oak stove. His wife
filled 1t full of waste paper and burned
1t up A smart Alec Ga neighbor) said
1t served him right. Hams 0he same
Smart Alec put $1,1OO in the nearest
bank, the Farmers & Drovers' Bank Of
Seymour. and lost in less than a year.
when me and my wife started in life
we run a boarding house in a labor
camp. I tried to get the boys to save
their money and get ahead by depositing
II in bank The answer was always the
same No dam bank can blow himself
on my money You see they lack conf
founded. and in view of my own expert
ence and observation I had to 60 way
back and set down.
Conspicuous by Absence.
Well, 1 have just heard of a good old
friend who has dropped his little wad of
$500 in the Charlton. Iowa, bank, that
went busted few weeks ago. My sister
In Kansas has money in a bank that in
vested in warehouse and cold storage
stock In Kansas City. They, are looking
for the money. the promoters. the 100 600
, cases of eggs and other things galore
-ehat WIS said to be stored there, all of
which Are very conspicuous by their alb
sence. SpVhave my money kanned up. Can
you blamS me for it? Does the bankers
and otherS who scold us think we are
all peckAf fools? Give us postal banks
that is absolutely safe and every dollar
will csme to the surface. as it should
when safe place is provided. and there
VIII be no more boarding. Even If you
restrict deposits to s. it will save more
man, womsR and children, and make
them independent, self-respecting law
avfding citizens. 1 am democrat but /
have got SO interested in Roosevelt that
j went to keokuk TO see and hear him
SPEAK. If he strikes out from the shout
der foo postal bank in his message /
win vote for him If 1 have a chance
Whoop 1t Up. My Good. Dear Friend
You are engaged in the most humanitarian
work Of any man on earth today, as we'll
as the most economic business move We
don't kneed more money-too much now
You see with cheap silver coined in dol
lars at private minis that no one on
earth en- tell from the ones made by
Uncle Sam the country has become in
fated. and that is hurting no worse than
the panic.
Iowa Prices.
Horses are selling here at $50 to 500.
Not worth over SIS to 500. Overcoats
and gowns in our shop windows $50 to $50,
not worth over S. to $40 Land In Iowa
at 800 to s125, dear at $40. In Kansas,
s75 to 500. dear at So. Our people are
crazy. When Bill went to College Pap
gave him money enough to take him
through He bowed it. Pap pumped in
more. Bill blowed it again and Pap KEEP
right on pumping in till he was tired
then he went down to see what was all
the trouble. He kicked Bill through the
glass front of a saloon and wiped up the
sidewalk with him. II Uncle Sam, in
stead of pumping in more money every
time the Wall st. Wind Bag bursts will
do as Pap did. and give us a P. o. Bank
with equal distribution and less cach-peny
advertising. fake lies through the U. s.
oil cla