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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
GROWTH OF WEALTH PER
CAPITA.

Doctrine that the Poor Are Growing
Poorer Shown to BE False.
(From the Los Angeles Times.)
In 1920 the savings banks of the
United States held $1,13S,576. This
was poor country then compared with
now. The amount was only an average
of II cents for the population of that
time. That amount of average economy
was very small
Now the people Of this country have
$3,690,S7S,945 in savings banks This
Is an average for the whole population
Of this time of over $40 The actual
depOsitors have an average oc $42G to
their credit. In 1920 only $685. per-
sons IL the country were rich enough to
have savings bank account Now
there are S,5SS.S11.
When James Buchanan, the last
Democratic President in a long line.
went into office, there was about $780,
100000 in the savings banks of the
United States. BY 1870, after fighting
out the grea. war, the I'eUple, under
Republican rule for twenty years, Lad
$3.50, 100000 I'm the savings banks When
the next Democratic President took his
seat in 1883, the savings Of the people
had passed the billion point. By 1898
the savings had doubled again.
So there it is In 1920 there were
only about 5000 people rich enough to
have a savings bank account Now
there are over 100000. In 1920 the
savings were II cents per capita; now
they are over $40
That the poor grow poorer and the
rich richer in this country is as true
as any other POpulistic notion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
The Overcoat.

Probably in no other department sar'
torial Is there exhibited so much In
difference to hygienic considerations
as In the overcoat. The greatest fall
lacy Of all perhaps in regard to the
choice Of an overcoat is that the terms
weight and warmth" are synony-
nous. As a matter Of fact, they are
nearly always Numerically opposed.
Moreover. the heavy overcoat is tax
on the resources Of the organism and
destroys the economy which good
insulating cloth is intended to secure.
London Lancet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
BRYAN'S sPECIoUs RECORD.
Judge Taft Points Out the Weak
Spots I'm the Nebraskan's PoIit-
zeal History.

Spots i'm the Nebraskan's PoItt-
zeal History.
(From Taft's Cincinnati SPECIFY
what is it that we have to expect
from Mr.. Bryan? Have we anything
to expect but what he promises? Have
based upon his eloquence and his
adroitness as a public critic? Has he
ever given any practical demonstration
Of his ability to meet problems and
solve them? Has he ever done any
thing but formulate propositions in his
closet of an utterly impracticable
plausibility, and very little with view
Of their operation? BY their fruits
we shall know them
with the record OF promises and
prophecies unfulf1lled for period Of
twelve years; with this record of a
hunt for an issue upon which to
achieve the presidency; with this rec
ord of reputation, of negotiation and
Of running away from national respon-
Sibilities, Mr.. Bryan comes forward
and asks that the people now give him
an opportunity to put into operation
new reforms in respect to trusts and
In respect to guaranty Of bank depos-
it's, wholly untried, wholly theoretical,
and on their face bearing evidence of
their impracticability and Of having
been devised by the ready brain of
one looking for plausible arguments
rather than real reforms. He only in
qualified way approved the postal
savings bank recommended by the Re
publican platform, which is a tried
and proved means Of encouraging the
wage-earner and small farmer to make
deposits In a bank absolutely secure;
but much prefers a system which takes
a mans money to pay another mans
default, and which instead of strength
ening our banking system will break it
down by destroying the value of the
banking character and experience and
capital and by offering inducement to
reckless and speculative bankers with
out character or capital.
"The record of Mr.. Bryan and his
character, as 1t is understood by
twelve years acquaintance with him,
have impressed the business cOmmuni-
ty of this country and those whose
judgment determines whether or not
capital shall be invested that he is not
q safe man with whom to try expert
ments in government; that he loves
financial theories that are full Of So
phistry and are impractical; that he
advances propositions with but little
sense Of respect as to how they may
be carried out in practice, and that he
gives but little attention to the well
fare Of the conservative business COM
munity In his suggestions of reform.
Certainly his record justifies this judg-
ment of him by the business men. If
he was to be elected, unquestionably
because Of his record, however much
now he may seek to pose as a conserva-
tivs-because Of his record, because Of
the failure Of the theory which he has
proposed for the last twelve years
his election will mean a paralysis Of
business, and we should have a recur-
renee Of the disastrous business con-
dition Of the last Democratic admins
tration."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
How Jack Got the Bed.

"a sweetheart of his was longing for
a feather bed" said Goggins, land
Jack determined to get it. Well, he
marched into a house. the door Of
which he found open. and went up
stairs and took the best feather bed
In the house, tied it up in the quilt.
crammed some caps and ribbons he
saw lying about into the bundle and
marched downstairs again. But. you
see, In carrying off even the small
thing of a feather bed Jack showed
the skill of high practitioner. for be
descendhered the stairs backward"
Backward What was that fOrT''
You'll see by and by. He descen
dhered backward when suddenly he
beard door opening and faymal'
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Bryan.


He talks in the morning and talks in
the night,
He talks when he's wrong and he
talks when he's right;
He talks in the office and talks in the
hall,
He talks in the church and he talks at
the ball.
He talks to the Senate and talks to the
House,
He talks to the people as poor common
sOuSe;
He talks TO the press and he talks to
the crowd,
He talks and he talks with a voice long
and loud;
Like an old clapper mill he'll sound to
the end
And die disappointed for Office and
friend
John A. Joyce in Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Housewife on Taft.

l hope and believe that all far
sighted citizens who wish to see
this country prosperous in mate
rial things will support Mr.. Taft.
but above all l ask for support
for him because he stands for the
moral uplift of the nation. be-
cause his deeds have made good
his words. and because the poll
cies to which he'is committed are
of Unreasonable consequence
alike to the honor and interest Of
the whole American people.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
What a Woman Saws,

Singleton want to ask you a ques
don, old man. Wedderly-Come or
with It, Singleton-Does 4 woman nj
ways mean what she says? Wedder
ly-During courtship she doesn't, but
9fter marriage you bet she does.-Cht
eAgo News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
No More Room.

mo IWOTE hOOFn.
Once in Dublin toward the end of
the opera Satan was conducting Faust
through a trapdoor which represented
the gates Of hades. His majesty got
through all right-he was used to 60
ing below-but Faust. who was quite
stout, got only about halfway in, and
no squeezing would get him any far
Their. Suddenly an freshman in the
gallery exclaimed deyoutly, THANK
God, hell is fullw
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Old Time Drunkenness.

In reviewing 1.-THE Early Married
Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley"
the London Spectator comments on the
light In which drunkenness was re-
garded at the beginning of the nine
teenth century. There was a christen-
ing Of twins and rejoicing among the
neighbors, tenants and laborers. "An
the guests, says Maria, "were as
drunk as ! ever had the pleasure Of
seeing any one" Among the laborers,
however, that extent of intoxicatiOn
was not reached which causes men to
be swine"
Lady Sheffield, who received this ac-
count of the festivities, replies: 81
would have given a great deal to be
present. There is nothing I love so
much as such sort Of festivities, where
one has the satisfaction of knowing
that one makes ones friends happy as
well as drunk" In London, she de-
clares. when you give a ball you at
front many people. please a few, make
many drunk and yourself miserable"
Combs Made of Old Shoes.
A mountain of old boots and shoes,
indescribably ugly, indescribably filthy.
lay In the factory yard.
"We'll make combs out Of Them"
said the chemist, combs that will pass
through the perfumed and lustrous
locks Of the most beautiful girls
Seems strange, doesn't itT
Every"
"Yet it's a fact. That is what be-
comes Of all the worlds old shoes
They are turned into combs. The
leather is first cut into small pieces and
Immersed two days In chloride of
sulphur bath; then 1t Is washed, dried
and ground to powder; then it is mixed
with glue Or gum and pressed into
comb molds.
1T makes good enough combs, but
prefer the rubber ones myself.
change.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Guilty Conssiences.

Guilty Conssences.
The following advertisement recent
~ appeared in a London morning pa
per:
'"The person who stole my umbrella
last Sunday in st. Paul's church is per-
sonally known to me- and unless he
shall return it before twenty-fouf
hours he will see his name printed in
this same paper. Address X. Y. 10
High street.
A dozen silk umbrellas were received
by the advertiser the following day,
each accompanied by note of apology
for the involuntary mistake made
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Both Ways.

Woman-Now that have fed you.
are you going without doing your
work? Tramp-Oi couldn't wurruk on
an Imply stomach, mum, an Oh nivir
worruk on er full one, so there yez be.
Smart Set
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
Maxine Headway.

Nervous Traveller Ito seat companion)
How fast should you say you were
travelling? Companion (who has been
flirting with the girl across the way
About O smile q minute.--Life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
ROOSEVELT HOT SHOT.
To Bryan.

In my judgment the measures
you advocate would be wholly in
effective in curing an evil, and
so far as they had any effect at
all would merely throw the entire
business of the country into hope
less and utter confusion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
81 The 30
Scrap Book
Evadinq the Issue.

Evadng the Issue
An old woman who entered coun
try savings Bank was asked whethe.
she wanted to draw or deposit.
"Nayther; Oh wants to put some mon
ey In"
The clerk entered the amount ans
pushed the slip toward her to sign
"Sign on this line, please" he said
"AbOve or below itY'
"Just above it,
"Me whole nameY'
eyes"
Before OF was married."
"NO; just us it is now"
''Oi can't WROTE"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15

l put Mr. Taft's deeds against
your words. | ask that Mr.. Taft
be judged by all his deeds, for he
wishes none of them forgotten. l
ask that you be judged both by
the words you wish remembered
and by the words that seemingly
you and your party now desire to
have forgotten.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
On Haskell.

Governor Haskell's utter unfit
ness for any public position of
trust or for association with any
man anxious to make an appeal
on a moral issue to the American
people has been abundant1y
shown.
AS an American citizen who
prizes his Americanism and citi-
zenship far above any question
of partisanship, | regard it as a
scandal and disgrace that Gov
ernOr Haskell should be connect
ed with the management of ma
tiOnal campaign.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15
GOLD.

iold, gold. gold gold!
Bright and yellow, nard and cold,
Molten, craven, hammered and rolled.
Heavy to get and light to hold,
Hoarded bart4red bought anu SOLD,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled.
Spurned by the young, but Rugged by the
old
To the very edge Of the churchyard mold!
Price of many crime untold.
Gold, gold, gold gold
Good or bad a thousandfold!
How widely it's uses vary
To save to ruin, to curse, to bless
As even it's minted coins express,
Now stamped with the image Of good
Queen BeSs
And now of bloody Nary
Hood.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-15

Address County Clerk, Washburn, Wis.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
Tariff Revision.

In all probability tho revision ef
the tariff will be the paramount issue
In the campaign. The casual observer
might say that inasmuch as both Taft
and Bryan have declared for modi-
fication of existing schedules, it will
make little difference to us which un-
dertakes the work; but this fallacy is
one of the dangers to be guarded
against in the present campaign.
Mr.. Taft and those who stand with
him on the Republican national plat
form would carry out the Mckinley
idea of tariff revision, retaining the
principle of protection for American
industries and American labor, except
with reference to products of monopo'
listic combinations.
Mr.. Bryan, on the other hand, would
smash the protective tariff, imposing
only such duties as are necessary for
revenue. In other words, Mr.. Bryan
would open our markets to the prod
ucts Of the cheap labor Of the whole
world except in cases where incidental
protection results from the imposition
of revenue duties.-Burlington Free
Press
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
Mr.. Taft and the Courts.

One great advantage Mr.. Taft car
ries with him into the present con-
test We believe that, in spite of the
seething discomfort, and in spite of
immigration, the American people
still believe in the supremacy of law.
They had in 1887 the opportunity to
put final power into the hands of an
executive if they wished. They had
the opportunity, also, to make of the
courts a set of mere puppets of the>
temporary popular mood, or to make
the legislature supreme. They did
none of these things. They founded
courts which were TO act irrespective
of pressure from executive, legisla-
tire or popuiace. IF The people of to-
day wish 10 amend the constitution
they are free to 40 80 and TO ralNONc
this power of the soarts to stand be-
tween the permanent and the tenn
porary opinions of the masses. AS
long as we have courts, however, as
the final arbiters of law, it is folly TO
cndeavor, by short terms and by cleo
ton, instead Of appointment, TO make
them popular in tone. Very likely,
during the term of the next president,
four members of the supreme court
Of the United States will be changed.
Who will be likely to put upon
that bench the higher grade of men.
Mr Bryan or Mr.. Taft? That is one
of the most important questions the
electors must face between now and
November. In the optnion Of some of
he most intelligent citizens, it is the
most important question to be faced
Golfers Weekly.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
Maybe Kern Is RIGHT.

II pleases Mr.. John w. Kern of In
diana to look upon his nomination for
the vice-presidency with humorous
nonchalance.
When excited friends first told him
that he had been named he waved
them aside and continued the nara.
ton of funny story. Since then he
has discoursed much about anecdota!
friends at the bar, much about Indiana
localism and much about his beard
He has not, so far as reported, said
one word in serious appreciation of
the honor and responsibility which q
great national party has placed on his
shoulders.
To us this course seems in the
worst of bad taste. 1t also seems &c
be extremely poor politics. A man who
looks upon his nomination to an ex'
allied office merely as a joke gives the
people very convincing reason for
not electing him to that oftice.-Chi
cago Evening Post.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
WITH THE NOMINEE
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS A UNIT
FOR TAFT.
Party's Standard Bearer Assured OF
Loyal Support in the Empire State
Business Men Are Awake
10 His Value.

Mr.. Taft is too wise and too consid-
crate of the attitude he should main
tain toward state politics to seek to
influence New York or any other state
in the selection of it's officers. AS a
citizen and a party man, vitality inter-
ested in the outcome of the election,
he naturally has his favorite for the
governorship of New York. This pref
erence is we'll known to be the pres
ent occupant of the Office, which fact
thoroughly discredits the efforts made
in the past to represent Mr.. Roosevelt
as inimicable to the governor, for Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt are doubtless
In agreement in this matter. The out
look in the state election is excellent
for the Republican party. All attempts
made to have it appear that the EN-
pire state Republicans are seriously
at odds is part of the general misrep-
reservations of the Democrats. The
Taft, no matter who may be the guber-
material nominee.
Everything is shaping up beautifully.
There is not a missing link in the ac-
cord of the party upon national issues.
Mr.. Taft made himself solid with New
York by his early announcement Of
the favorite son principle. He is
known to have played fair before the
convention met, and he will be given
square deal by New York at the
election. The tremendous impression
made by Mr.. Taft, however, is not con-
fined to politicians. The business men
of the metropols-the ffnanciers and
the men of wide affairs generally-are
looking to Mr.. Taft as their salvation
from the flotsam and jetsam that other
wise would overwhelm them.
Mr.. Taft has been tested, and he is
believed TO be sound TO the core.
Business men generally put his quail
fications beyond party and sum them
up very succinctly. Mr.. Taft knows
the territory he is to work; he has
Travelled every part of It; he knows the
line Of goods his party has to offer;
he knows the tastes of the people; he
Is acquainted with the obstacles to be
overcome, 0S is luiIy 90 W
the trade competition of other pow
ers; he is just the man to represent
the American people in every capacity
a president is called upon to fill. This
satisfies the business men. They know
his acumen; they believe in his princi-
pies; they trust his wisdom.
For all these reasons, aside from the
generally favorable political state OF
the case. New York will be solid for
Taft. This is a matter of felicitation
I to the country in general that regards
the New York vote as most important.
The country wants Taft-certainly the
section of the people who are most
keenly sensitive 10 the elements in the
nations life On which depend its pros
perity. Therefore, Taft will fill the
bill for the country. His acceptability
to the conservative business interests
of the metropolis is indication of his
general acceptab!lity to this class the
uation over-Buffalo Express.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
BRYAN UNDER a HANDICAP.
"Shouters" Will Want Reward in Elk
tremely improbable Event of Success.

Mr. Bryan disposes of some gossip
about appointments in case of his cleo
ton by saying that he has made no
promises about officers and will make
none. A wise course.
1t was said of Mr.. Clay that had he
been elected president he would have
been overwhelmed by the multiplicity
of the promises that had been madT
by him, and for him by friends, In the
matter of patronage. Unselfsh per-
sonal devotion did not explain the
whole of the Clay following. Some OF
IT was canny, and wanted assurances.
Many men so disposed got assurances.
Mr.. Clay was approachable in deli
cate way on such scores. If a little
dictatorial at times, he was yet warm
hearted, and he desired very much to-
be president. In the White House,
therefore, he would have been be-
sieged by Clay men from all quarters,
clamoring either for what had been
promised them, or for what they
thought they had deserved as laborers
in his vineyard. And there would not
have been patronage enough by hun
dred per cent. to go round.
This was equally true probably of
Mr.. Blaine-another leader who hadH
the knack of attaching men to him
with bonds of extraordinary strength,
but who at the same time found 1t nee
essary to talk business" to some of
his followers. He, too, had a good deal
of paper" out which it would have
taxed him as president to redeem.
Mr.. Bryan's leadership has been
short as compared with the length
either of Mr.. Clay's or or Mr.. Blaine's,
but it has been long enough to bring
many men under his spell, and thou
sands have associated themselves with
his rise and the establishment of his
power. Fully regiment may be mus
tered who found him first" AS many
more are known in their respective
communities as men who stand par
ticularly close" to him, and with whom
he always confers before taking any
important step. Then we have the
army of shouters, hoarse all through
campaign years from use OF his name,
and convinced of their right to recogni-
ton at his hands.
Is it difficult to draw the picture of I
Mr.. Bryan in the White House, with
the original Bryan men, the men who
stand particularly close" to him, and
the noble army of general shouters, all
moving on him for remembrance in his
hour of triumph? He might not wish
himself in Hongkong, or his besiegers
in Hades. but his condition, even with
out single promise out, would move
all sympathetic persons to genuine
pity.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
THE MAN WHO KNOWS 1T ALL.

wo trace him through the busting
throng,
We find him at the play;
Der church and club and restaurant
Extends his awcsome sway;
In melancholy or in mirth,
At breakfast. bath or ball;
We meet the direst bore on earth
The man who knows IL ALL"
We mark him by his lofty air,
Ard exc his lofty voice.
That bids the venturesome beware,
The timorous rejoice
Debate he likes to interdct-
But, should occasion call,
He'll condescend to contradict,
This man who knows II all"
Rum. riots. racing, Holy Writ;
Fights, fashions or free trade;
War, weather, womankind or wit;
Mud, moon, or marmalade,
on any topic meath the sun,
To which ones thoughts may fall
He'll tell one more than books have done
This man who knows ii ALL"
envy not yon ruler high,
His birthright or his berth;
Not his infallibility-
His kingdom is but earth.
No parliament can shape the choice,
Nor hold the words I'm thrall
OF him who rules by force of voice
The man who knows ii ALL"
-HalfHoliday.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
Taft and Bryan Compared.

Taft is by nature. culture and action
a conservative, with an experience of
indicated value in Jurisprudence and
in administrative work. Bryans skin
holds the core of a radical the tenn
permanent OF an actor, the instinct of a
Bohemian, and the gay residence of an
adventurer on every sea of expedien-
cy. Taft steers by the light of con-
science, reason, judgment, constitu-
ton and history. Bryan begins life
every morning and has sobered in de-
meanor only by his contact with coca
sions. Occasions have wrought no
mental or moral change in him at all.
No thoughtful man would make Bryan
his executor. No thoughtful nan
should make Bryan his executive.
The intimates of the two men are as
unlike as the two men themselves.
The people know that well. The
judges, scientists, Statesmen, pub
licists. scholars and men of leading
who have and who share the friend
ship and the confidence of Taft. and
the motley wear of the shouters. adj
venturers, bosses. time-servers and
charlatans who fellowship and revel
with Bryan, have been thrown on more
than fashlight view at Denver. In
Lincoln and elsewhere, for days past,
and will be for months to come.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-08-29
Mean Joke.

The Artist-That poet played a
mean joke on me yesterday. He said
he had sold a poem and if | would
walk up to his den" he would open a
small bottle.
The Actor-And did he keep his
word?
The Artist-Yes, I climbed up five
stories to his den" and he opened a
small bottle of ink.-Chicago Daily
News.