The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

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lace In the nightmare Of pessfmism,
kansas has for the past ten years, in
Guiding the good and the bad, raised
an annual average of more than II
record for which no age and no COM
| monwealth have vouchsafed peer,
precedent or parallel
"Of courn probably million acres
! are now planted or being planted.
which is about the average for the
ports are favorable even the man
who kills crops with electricity is
emitting no wall
Alfalfa was never better, and the
acreage never so large. The first cut
ting Is ready for the sickle, and in
the southern counties some of it is
already in the barns
| Ind of the crop-killer: Has it ever
occurred to you that the easiest and
| OFTEN the only way for a nobody to get
his name In print is through the med
ium of some scandalous story about
the growing crop or by pretending to
| disprove or contradict the official re-
turns? Whether from mendacity or
Ignorance. or having held wheat on
| sagging market, he is enabled to start
| around the world telling as descriptive
! OF kansas the tale of those unhappy
and perhaps exclusive conditions he
mas observed only on his own neglected
| farm, or in his township of Flint Ridge.
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bulletined in the markets of the world,
and by 1t everything Kansas is or has
hopes to have is deprecated in the eyes
of mankind, while the ninety-and-n mine
farmers who are at home attending to
their prospecting crops are unsung and
unheard. The stranger sent here by
his employers to discover or invent
scandals for pay may be worthy of a
measure of respect, but the Kansan
who burrows into publicity with an un-
| justifiable tale of calamity to his state
or his county is the cheapest of cheap
jacks. and has in him the makings of
a f1rst-class nonresident.
Denial or suppression of important
truth that needs to be known is not
commendable, but needlessly advertis-
ing and exaggerating as widespread
and destructive conditions that are but
local or that scarcely exist, are as dis
reputable as they are expensive.
i'Whatever the future may hold in
store and that none can foresee, Kan
sas was never before so attractive,
never so rich in blessings, never so
bright with promise as today.
And whOsover will may comet!
The Election of Officers.
There were other interesting address,
sion. THE Panic as Schoolmaster
and What 1t Has Taught U.s. was
clearly shown in general discussion
that was led by E. R. Moses. president
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Bend.
The establishment of postal savings
banks, problem that frequently arises
in bankers conventions, was discussed
by many bankers under the leadership
of George w. Hanna, cashier of the
Farmers State bank at Clay Center.
Q. Chandler, president of the Kansas
National bank at Wichita, told of the
benefits of a membership in the Ameri-
can Bankers association.
- Cv@--{v,
secretary, made a report of the COM
mittee on loan exchange.
THE use of local checks as ex-
changes was discussed by Graham G.
Lacey Of st. Joseph. from the stand
point of the city banker and F. s.
Larabee of Stafford for the country
banker.
These were the officers of the Kansas
Bankers association elected for the
coming year:
W. M. peck of Concordia, president
P. w. Goebel of Kansas City, Kan,
vice president.
w. w. Bowman of Topeka, secretary.
E. r. Moses of Great Bend, treasurer.
C. M. Sawyer of Norton, member of
the executive committee of the Amerf-
can Bankers association.
These are the vice presidents for the
various groups:
1st-J. M. Everts. Baileyville. =
2d-Frank Sponable, Gardner.
3d-Thomas Bolus, lola.
4th-D. D. Brownell, Belleville.
5th-J. P. Russell, Penalosa.
6th-Patrick O'Conne1l, Jetmore.
Some Resolutions Adopted.
The executive committee will select
a meeting place for next year.
A resolution was adopted urging
the establishment of a United States
subtreasury in Kansas City, Kan.
Other resolutions adopted were:
That we commend and support the
excellent work of the legislative COM
mittee of the American Bankers as
to secure the passage of a uniform
bill of ladinS and of what is com
monty known as the Islander bill"
introduced by Representative Dali
zell
That we urge the executive com
operate with the American Bankers
association in its effort to keep ex-
press companies out Of the banking |
business, and to urge in every proper |
way, the enforcement of the law of |
Kansas with reference thereto.
That we again urge the legislature |
of our state to carefully consider our |
foreclosure and redemption law, be- |
lieving the present law to be as ex- |
pensive to the borrower as it is I'M
fair to the lender.
That we express our most earnest |
appreciation of the cooperation and |
work of the comptroller of the cur
rency, of our state bank commits
sioner, of the press and of a large |
part of our professional and business |
population during the recent financial
panic, without which the situation |
would have been much more difficult, /
and that we will ever gratefully re-
member the splendid help given by /
each of these.
Resolutions thanking those who |
aided in the entertainment at Kansas
City, Kan, were also adopted. Only |
one resolution failed Of adoption 1t |
read:
That we recommend and urge the |
passage of a law by congress and by |