Mower County transcript., 1908-03-04
BEN'S
COLUMN

Ouf DF8lny SENATOR huuL0 NolSOu
showed up the rascally Aldrich cur.
rency bill in great shape in congress
Thursday. Aldrich wants to allow the
issuin' of lot of emergency bank bills
based on railroad bonds and all kinds
of cats and dogs for backin' insted of
the solid old government bonds which
are behind all national bank bills now
and make 'em good as gold. hope
that Aldrich will get knocked out.
The scheme is to make railroad bonds
in bigger demand but who can tell
what these will be worth six months
from now? The big fellows that own
the bonds will be awful glad to sell 'em
at big demand in stringent times.
Knute Nelson is on to the scheme.
He shows that there's plenty of money
if it could be kept in circulation and
that another such stringent time may
not occur for years. In the New York
banks this blessed mint there's about
$3OO,OOU,OOO OF idle money which no.
body can use. Nelson claims that if
all depositors were guaranteed agenst
all possible loss by failure of banks the
money would be left in circulation all
the time for folks would not wish to
draw it out if they was sure of havin'
it any time.
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I've ben thru one season of wild cat
money in my day and that all suite. l
can remember when banks issued
money without government supervis.
ion and you never could tell over night
whether the bills you had WAS good or
not. They had leetle Detecter book
issued every few weeks and before you
took bill you had to look up in the
detecter to see if the bank was good
and some times you got let down then.
There's plenty of money now to tide
over any stringency If only the banks
did not hav the power to tie up their
reserves so these could not be used
when badly wanted and if the deposi.
tors were absolutely guaranteed agenst
loss so that folks would never be sus-
picious and withdraw money from cir
culation by earryin' it in their pockets.
In the late financial trouble if we had
twice as much money in circulation
the condition would hav ben just the
same. Everybody would hav held on
to all the currency they got their hands
on in the vague suspicion that they
might need it bad before the trouble
was over.
Farmer Ben materially is stuck on
anythin' that is goin' to benefit the
farmers and that's why he alwus wants
to see practical eddication in agricul-
ture increased. That congressman
Davis from Minnesota has got the right
idee in the bill he introduced lookin' to
trainin' schools to be scattered all over
the country to eddicate the farmers
boys and girls in practical work of the
farm. 1 tell you it's no wonder our
bright boys and girls leave the farm for
town life when there's nothin' but
drudgery and slavery on the farm !.
But you eddicate 'em to see the better
side of farm work, show 'em how to 90
at it scientifically show 'em how to
raise more off eighty acres with their
own hands than lots do now with hired
help on three eighties, teach 'em about
soils and seeds and rotation of crops
and carin' for stock economically and
maxim everythin' count, and tell you
life would be so attractive on the farm
that they wouldn't be wantin' to leave
it. Just think Of the ideal life and you
can't find 1t anywhere else SO extra pure
and unadulterated. And to think that
the aristocrat salary grabber Tawney
is fightin' this Davis bill which would
help in farm eddication.
It looks like republicans in Mime.
sofa are gettin' walked up to see the
folly OF lettin' lot of lazy good fol
nothin' political ehysters do the nomi.
natin' of candydates for the rank and
file to reject. 1t used to be so the gang
could rush thru amy scheme and nomi.
nate any thing and then whip into line
the party and bring in q. majority at the
polls. But that don't wash any more
If the dead ducks will take seat and
let the real party pick the names there'll
be no trouble at the polls but other.
wise it's knockout agen. See how
things has ben run in this county. See
who has ben the head of the machine
here of late and the county gone demo
cratic on state ticket for the first time
in it's history. Yet the bosses still keep
to the old notion that they can foist the
same old game on the voters Of the
county agen. It don't set good to see
carnetbappere and lOafin' politicians get