The Delta independent., 1908-06-26

DIG HOLE IN THE GROUND SOMEWHERE
AND CLAIM HE HAD A SILVER NINE"
uncomfortably crowded, there will be
less danger to all of us in case fire
breaks out or another earthquake hap
pens.
while only Ave OF the eleven people
paid their way in. l shall not abbre-
viate my lecture on that account True
genius and philanthropy are never rec
ognized until after death.
My remarks this evening will be
made more directly toward the women
in the audience and through them to-
ward the women OF the whole country.
The question is being asked on all
sides. What brought on the late money
panicr A hundred answers have been
given. but none OF them Is correct
We must turn to history to find truth
full answer. and. having found II. we
must point the moral as best we can.
Few of us assembled here this even
Ing can remember the year 175 h. c.
Its too long ago. and we have had too
many other things TO think Of In that
year occurred the first money panic
history gives any account of. 1t was
an old whopper. A man went to bed
one night with 10000 cattle. worth s.
a head. on his hands, and he awoke
next morning to find his live stock
worth 90 cents head. and no one
wanted them at that Money shavers.
money lenders. brokers. real estate
men and chaps who had been giving
banquets of peacocks' tongues costing
$4,000 had to get hustle on them
to pay the hired girl her wages A
man could have handed his note In
dorsed by half a dozen former capital
lists around to fifty different people and
failed to raise $50. For long year
things We're fat as pancake, and II
was five years before the country final
ly recovered.
What brought on the panic? Who
was to blame for Il? The women my
friends - the women. That was the
year buttons were first invented There
was craze to buy buttons. II was
buttons. buttons. buttons-big buttons.
little buttons. buttons OF horn and
brass and silver and gold-until all the
money In the country was buttoned
up and the panic came on.
THE next great panic was in the
year 40 A. u. Money had been plenty
for hundred years. Thousands OF
men kept their chariots and drivers,
and thousands of wives kept n second
girl. People went around with hats
full OF money begging you to take all
you wanted at . per cent interest
They didn't even want security. All
you had to do was to say that your
name was Smith. and It was all right.
sent to Paris for their
hats, and cooks wouldn't be found
dead with anything less than seal.
skin sacks on. In jifYy the whole
thing changed. and the country was so
hard up that It had to give up cham
pagnc and take to pop and catnip tea
The biggest and the richest OF them
were knocked endways, and In Rome
there were 400 suicides In one week.
at was the woman again. That was
me year bangles were invented. Every |
woman must have a bangie-five ban
giles. ten of them. They wore bangles
on their wrists, and they wore them
on their ankles. History hints that |
they also wore them on their bodies.
but that may not be SO. 1t was ban
giles, bangles, and one day when no.
body was looking for It the crash came
The splintcrs flew. and everybody got |
hurt.
Tho Corset Panic.
what IL known as the corset panic
took place In the year 1924 Previous
TO that year every woman had got |
along as best she could without squecz.