The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-21

w. S. Grant & Co.
The Watershed Machinery &
Supply Co.
The johnson & Larimer Dry Goods
Co.
The C. E. Potts Drug Co.
The Wichita Produce Co.
The Whiting Paper Co.
The Wichita Wholesale Grocery Co.
The Aylesbury Mercantile Co.
The Western Biscuit Co.
j. H. Turner.
Lehman & Higginson Grocery Co.
The Wichita, Port Huron Thresher
Co.
The Buffalo. Pitts Co.
The Wichita Casket Co.
The Geo. o. Richardson Machinery
Co.
Reeves & Co.
The Nicholas & Sheppard Co.
The Hockaday Paint Co. I'D
The Arctic Ice & Refrigerating Co.
Lample Pro. Co.
The Steffen-Bretch Ice Co.
The Wichita Trunk factory.
The Shattucks-G George Iron Co.
The Jet & Wood Grocer Co.
]. c. Dunn & Bro.
McComb Bros.
Herman & Hess.
r. o. Rodolph.
The J. w. Howard Mills Co.
And many others.
Mr. Frank c. Wood of the Jet & Wood
Grocer Co. informed me that this petition
represents an annual business amounting
to from IS to 20 million dollars This list
includes only wholesalers and jobbers and
am Informed could have been extended
to almost unlimited dimensions had other
business men and citizens been asked to
sign it. Mr.. E. B. Jewett, one of Mr..
wrote me December 31st that fully 10 per
cent of the business men of this city and
.. country Immediately around it are in ia
vor of a special session. of the legisla ture
ban1 ane e eet Coz q f az Lewis sresi
Wichita, one of that city's most promi-
nent and best citizens, wrote me a long
letter bearing date of January favoring
ticular legislation It think the opposi-
ton of national bankers ought to have
6e IN 55s his ds G4epf fba bill
last winter because of the supposed pres
tige a. state guaranty law would give the
state banks
Mr.. ]. H. Howard, president of the How
ard Mills company of Wichita, wrote me
| under date of December 9th. that the
emergency was great, the need of a de-
posters law imperative, and that he
thought the petition from that city voiced
the sentiment Of large majority Of the
| throughout his section of the state.
1.-THE gentleman who has led this small
| movement on the part of Wichita for such
| a law states that he wants such law
that his firm may be able to borrow more
money. says Mr.. Chandler. To what fell
I Chandler refers to this contemptuous SEN
| tence I do not know, and I leave this
question for these gentlemen and these
firms to decide for themselves.
If Mr.. Chandler desires additional in
| formation as to the sentiment of his fell
low citizens, the depositors and patrons
of his numerous banks, think can cas-
| lily furnish it.
The people demand this law and those
| bankers who oppose it in my judg-
/ ment acting very unwisely. To defeat it
| is not to settle the question. It is simply
| to project it into this years campaign to
| the serious detriment of business and es-
pecially to the detriment of the banks
| Nor will the people be satisfied with a
| makeshift like the proposed organization
| of bankers insurance company in lieu
4 of this state guaranty law They will not
be satisfied by. any subterfuge of this
| kind, sprung this year as it was last as
they believe and as I believe, simply for
| the purpose of defeating what the people
| want and ought to have. a depositors
guaranty law, though this insurance com
pany scheme may be honestly espoused by
some conscientious legislators, and may
have some unobjectionable features.
/ Respectfully
u