The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-11-28
Pen and Scissors Items.


There must be a great deal OF bust
ness when the chief complaint is
lack of currency to carry it on to the
best advantage
Oklahoma's entrance into the I'm
ion was long deferred, but she is
making up for lost time all right.
Gov. Haskell's friends are already
booming him for president.
Another OF the reports hard to un-
derstand rs that the railroads are re-
ducing their activities, and yet suffer
from q shortage OF cars to handle the
freight offered.
In less than two weeks the Ameri
can people will be reading the presi-
dents message and the department
reports Anything in the nature OF
triumph in condensation will be APP
preciated.
Gold production in the United
States is approaching S1O00OO,000 a
year. of which nne-tenths rs mined
in the trans Mississippi region. This
is a good time to dig pay dirt in in
creasing quantities.
The American people never show
the slightest lack of confidence in the
financial stability and soundness OF
the national government Congress
can work along this line and know
that il is on solid ground.
A Massachusetts judge thinks a
man is entitled to divorce if his vile
searches his pockets. a woman re-
duced to this extremity seldom finds
lnything of value, so the punishment
fits the crime without judicial inter
ference
The Sells-Forepaugh show closed
It's season at Pine Bluff. Ark A por-
ton of the property was disposed OF
o different parties. What property
vas not disposed of was placed
aboard cars and shipped to Baraboo,
Wis.. and Bridgeport. Conn. and the
Se:ls-Forepaugh organization be
comes a thing of the past,
The French are the most saving
people in the world, and the Bank OF
France at this time holds one-third
of rhe worlds coined gold. French
small investors are encouraged by a
postal savings bank system and by
the issue of bonds of small denomin-
atoms guaranteed by the govern
ment.
The fee silver craze" says Col.
Wat;erson, for ii it was not a craze
II was nothing. began by driving tie
o dest and abiest Democratic leaders
OH of pubic life" The party now.
he colonel continues. is "a close cor
poration under the one-man power,
based not upon character, conviction
and intellect. but upon prescription,
intolerance and machine methods"
Many other. Southerners arc OF the
same opinion. but are less outspoken
President A. b. Stickney, OF the
Chicago Great Western railway, has
Joined the forces of the Roosevelt
Knockers Club. Evidently having no
business OF his own to attend to ne
has taken occasion 10 get into the
procession by scoring the present
banking system and the plans of the
administration TO relieve the financial
situation. Mr. Stickney belongs TO
that class OF individuals that can tell
all about things that are not as they
should be, but are very slow about
pointing out practica, remedies
That currency payments will be
generally resumed within two weeks
is the encouraging report given out
by The conference of New York, Kan
sas City. St Louis and Chicago bank
ers which was held in the last named
city Sunday. 1T was agreed that the
sooner cash payments are resumed,
the better it would be for general
business. As one prominent banker
said: People want what they can't
get. When they understand they can
have all the currency they desire
there will be a quick restoration OF
confidence and, Of course, the money
will be left in the banks. People
will not want to carry il around with
them. They either will invest it or
permit it to draw interest as savings
deposits. as in the past" And this
is true 1t is human nature to crave
what rs most difficult to get