Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-08
Outside Point of Wen

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How true it is that time is money
| But there is a large class of men in
| Iowa and elsewhere who do not realize
| it. The farmer who goes to town ev-
cry Saturday whether he has any bus
| mess there or not, forgets it. The miner
with his numerous holidays. his strikes,
| to say nothing of his loss of Monday
! because Of Sunday dissipation, man
| ages by just such loss of time to re-
| duce his average day wages far below
| those of other occupations. The me
| chanic who works six days In q week
| in some manufacturing establishment.
does so cheerfully at less wages per
hour, because he knows that at the
| end of the year, his time has brought
| him more money than the hour Wage
rate outside, altho his wages may be
| twenty cents an hour and the outsider
| may receive thirty cents an hour for
| identically the same kind of work.
| All this is suggested by noticing the
| large number of men, on the streets,
| in the saloons, the billiard rooms the
| cigar stores, the hotels, the railroad
depots, and as warm weather comes on
in the public parks. and on the shady
side of the streets. Deducting from
this army of iders, the too old and
the too young. the ones that are Tin
ancially able to do nothing, and those
taking an occasional holiday. there re-
mains thousands of men that deliber-
ately trump up some excuse to them
al At fnr. inc tn-
day. Such men will not commence a
Job on Saturday because it's too late
in the week to finish it. Such men
manage to exist, some of them keep
out of debt and break even" but
there are thousands of men today lit
orally without a dollar, simply be-
cause they would not work when they
had chance.
Last summer, during vacation, the
writer was cleaning up things around
the house. He needed help offered
several idle men 20 cents an hour to
dig and delve, to rake and hoe. TO
swing scythe and run the lawn NOW
er. And after a half dozen had re-
fused and six more had promised but
didn't come in the morning, a big
strong Norwegian agreed to help at
20 cent. an hour, "till his boss in st.
Paul sent for him, and he worked at
So day for eight days, when the boss
said Come" and then he took up his
regular work as a stone mason at 60
cents an hour. But that's not all
about this Norwegian. The writer
soon found out that this man working
for 20 cents an hour owned a 160-acre
farm that was paid for that his reg
ular practice was each year after the
crops were in to let the boys and the
woman run things on the farm till
harvest time Every summer he
worked at his trade at S. or Sc a day
and if work was slack took up such
jobs as the writer offered, even at 20
cents an hour. Time was money to
him.
Insuring depositors on the Oklaho-
ma plan, i. e., by a small tax on state
banks, is attracting much attention
here in Iowa. and more than likely |
will result in similar legislation in
Iowa. Bryan, while not claiming it
as an original proposition, is
shrewd enough to see a
vote catcher in it. And more !
than one Iowa citizen is talking of even
now sending his money to an Okla
homa bank. He reasons thus: why |
should 1 deposit a hundred dollars in
an Iowa bank and run some risk |
when l can send it to Oklahoma and \
be perfectly safe. 1t would seem good |
business for our Iowa bankers to adj
vocate such a plan and law for Iowa, |
and not antagoniZe it as at present is
the general custom. The people have
been educated to do banking by mail. !
Oklahoma says to the Iowa farmer and !
wage Garner, send US your surplus
money, your saved earnings, we will
open an account with you and honor
your checks and drafts, and you need
not even take the trouble to inquire
into our financial standing. The mere
fact that we are doing a banking bus
mess in the state of Oklahoma makes
your deposit with us absolutely safe.
The state guarantees you from loss by
risky, speculative or dis
honest work on the part of our bank
officials. Do your banking by mail
with Oklahoma banks, will soon be
advised by circulars and magazine and
advertisements. Perhaps its
not necessary to call an extra session
of the legislature to pass such a law
in Iowa, but we had better "get there
Eli"