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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
THE FAllAcY OF GUARANTY LAWS.

Bank deposit guaranty is Il differ
ent thing when the stumper explains
1T as "a mastery protection to the
common people, and when it is actual
ly invoked after bank has failed
declares The Minneapolis Journal Ok
lahoma has compulsory guaranty law
Under it a big bank has failed and
the state is trying to collect from
the other banks the funds to pay
the depositors. Already it has met
with objection on the part of the de-
positors themselves, who protest against
anyone being paid until funds are on
hand to pay all.
Obviously, this reduces the famous
prompt payment law to about the same
status as receivership. The receiver
would not be allowed to pay out any
money until he had an order from the
court and then he would be required
to pay each depositor a part of his
claim. The court would from time
to time, as funds came in, make distri-
button orders. The only difference is
that the receivers would have to Sc
cure his funds;eout Of the assets of
the bank plus. ,what he could realize
by suits against stockholders.
The Oklahoma law sought to sup
plement these sources of income by
leyies upon. the other banks, a device
of doubtful legality, it seems, for a
Nebraska courts.,bas already held with
reference to the Nebraska law that to
compel a bank contingently to use it's
funds to pay the, losses of other banks
is to take he .npropery of citizens
without due, process of law and is UNI
constitutional. The effort to tie
sound and unsound, good and bad,
banks together, is, repugnant to COM
mon sense"
This bank guaranty law was touted
and supported by William Jennings
Bryan and endorsed by the national
democratic convention. Bryan harped
Oh guaranty of ., deposits all through
the campaign, while those who were
speaking for republican principles de-
nounced the democratic presidential
candidates pet, idea as delusion
and snare. Bank guaranty will in
time be relegated to the political
junk heap along with free silver,
public ownership of railroads and i'm
perialism, Bryan hobbies of other days
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
THE UNITED STATES PENSION ROLLS.

Death is fast thinning the ranks of
the war veterans. Forty eight thou
sand three hundred and twelve names
We're dropped, from the pension rolls
of the United States last year. OF
this number 1881 were survivors of
pension roll from all causes was 81 ,58l.
In striking contrast to these figures,
comprised i'll the annual report of Yes
pasian Warner, commissioner of pen
sions, is the statement that the gov
eminent paid out in pensions in the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1909, $I6l,-
973,703, which the commissioner de-
clares is the largest amount ever dis
bursed for pensions in one year. The
numbers of pensioners on roll, at close
of the year was 946,l94 a net decrease
of 5,493. Survivors of the Civil war
on the roll numbered 593,96l. Com
missioner Warner explains that the
increase in the amount paid out for
pensions was due principally to the
large number of pensioners placed on
the roll under the act of Feb 6, 1907,
granting $l2, $l5 and $40 to
survivors of the war with Mexico and
the Civil war, ON reaching the ages of
62, 20 and ~ respectively.
The increase is also due in part to
pensions granted under the second sec
ton of the act of April 10, 1908
the widows of persons who served in
the Civil war. without regard to their
pecuniary condition and to the increase
of IS to $l2 per month of the rate
of pensions to certain widows, minor
children and helpless minors. The
pension of 207,677 widows, minor child
rem and helpless minors, who were al
ready on the rolls, were increased by
this act.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
OFFICE BOY CLIMBS THE LADDER.

Herman A. Meta, comptroller of
the city of New York, is today forty
two years of age, having been born of
German parents in New York's East
Side on Oct. 10, 1867 He was promi-
nently mentioned as the democratic
candidate for mayor, but was side
tracked for Gaynor. His career is
useful as setting forth what may be
accomplished by even the poorest and
humblest, who are ambitious . to ear
rive" Metz received his education in
the public schools and Cooper Union,
where he studied chemistry in the
evening classes. At fourteen he be-
came an office boy for a large COR
poration.
He didn't stay an office boy long,
and was studying during his spare
time. He became in turn laboratory
assistant, clerk, city salesman, travel
ing salesman, Boston agent, office
manager, and later, when he concern
was Incorporated, vice president and
treasurer. That was in 1893. By 1899
he was president and virtual owner of
the enterprise. Since then the bust
ness has broadened out into a dozen
. cities, and Mr.. Metz is one of the lead
ing dye stuff and chemical manufac-
turers in the country and is interested
in other manufacturing enterprises.
During all the years of his business
life, Mr.. Metz has been stanch dem
ocrat, though he calls himself an Gam
ateur" in politics. He was a founder
of the Kings County Democratic club
president. He became prominent in
politics when twentysiX years old as
one of the leading supporters of Char
les A. Schieren for mayor of Brook
Ign. In 1893 he was an organizer of
the shepard Democracy" and the in
dependent committee of one hundred
formed in 1901 to aid in the canvass
of Edward M. Shepard for mayor, was
organized at Mr.. Metz's home. He
acted as chairman of that committee
Previous to becoming comptroller
Mr.. Metz served as commissioner of
education of Brooklyn and member
of the board of education of Greater
New York and has long been an advo-
cate of a great and broad public
school system for the city. In 1905
Mr.. Metz was elected comptroller by
a large majority. He has held the
office ever, since. Mr.. Metz is di-
rector of the Guardian Trust com
pany of New York and president of
the Guardian Savings bank. He is a
member of a dozen clubs in New York
and Brooklyn and a captain in the
fourteenth regiment. He belongs to
many chemical societies and trade or
carnations.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
THE ANHulTIEs IN CANADA.

Consul Frederick NJ. Ryder of Rim
ouski furnishes the state department
at Washington the following informa-
ton concerning the annuities act of
1908 inaugurated by the Canadian
government. The measure originated
with and passed the senate and house
of commons without dissenting voice.
Annuities from $50 to 5000 per year
are provided upon payment of stated
sums periodically or lump sum
amounts.
The annuities are nonforfeitable, and
cannot be seized for debts of any
kind. Premiums may be deposited in
local postoffices, and in case a bene-
ficiary should die before annuity be-
comes payable, all payments made,
with. compound interest at three per
cent added, will be paid to the heirs.
The government, bears all expenses
of management and responsibility in
connection with the undertaking, with
out charge of deduction of any kind.
That this new departure has every
appearance of becoming popular is
shown by the fact that sale of an
nuities during the seven months in
which these have been on sale has
totaled $2O5,00O, with the prospect of
total of half million dollars at
the close of the first year A pamph-
let has been issued by the superin-
tendent of Canadian government an
nuities, setting forth the advantages
to be reaped by this method of gov
eminent insurance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

American believes that this is the
best country the sun ever shone up
on, that it is particularly taken care
of by the Deity and is sure to come
out right in everything, and what is
more, he is willing to say it, and if
necessary, say it through his nose.
There is a good side to this. 1t is in
the tremendous heat of this enthus
iastic alteration of the nation, this
religious patriotism, that America has
become the melting pot of the races
of Europe, and is producing new race
neither Celtic, Slavic, Romantic nor
SaXon-but an American race charac-
terized by vitality, energy, good cheer,
high faith; and learning for its motto
in golden letters on a field of blue
the celestial bidding, "Boost, don't
knock" s
All these characteristics have their
source and summary in the quality of
optimism. We know they laugh about
us for that, too, and tell us the. con-
firmed optimist is typifed in the man
who fell out of the sixth-story Win
dow, and on passing the second story
was heard to say, $50 far all is we'll"
But the fact is there isn't much use
for man on This territory who isn't
an optinist. I'VE haven't time to lis
ten to meanings and wailings, and we
propose to clean out the distempers
and diseases of things that aren't
as they ought to be the dwelling on
the blessed health and opportunity of
the things that are Just right.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
GROWTH OF RAILROAD BUSINESS.

The American railroad system
changes while you wait, is the COM
ment of Success Magazine. You see
it grow. A decade ago the railways
received only a billion and a quarter
dollars from the patient people, hard
ly more than our annual national eX-
penditure. Now they reeeive-with
fewer thanks-$2, 5OO,OOO,OOO. Then the
passenger traffic amounted to only 1873
billions of miles for one passenger;
now it amounts to 955 billions of
miles.
In other words, if one passenger
were carried each week day from
Des Moines, Iowa, to the sun, his
journeying would fairly represent the
distance daily travelled by passengers
on American railroads. Our freight
traffic, too, is bigger. In one year we
carried a billion tons of freight an
average of 24O miles each If each
man, woman and child in this country
hauled each day 500 pounds of freight
a distance of thirty-two miles they
would not accomplish in the year the
vast amount of carrying that the
railroads perform.
The next ten years will show still
greater progress. Many railroads will
be rebuilt; others will be electrified.
New roadbeds, new tracks, new sta
tions, stronger locomotives, bigger and
better cars-all of these are in the
estimates of the next decade. And if
the people stay awake and demand
their rights, the whole vast engine of
progress will be equitably and eff
GENTLY administered in the interest,
not of stock jobbers, but of investors,
employees, passengers and shippers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
MS BOOK IS FOUND EVERYWHERE.

Although his principal book is not
on Presidents Eliot's fve-foot shelf,
nor yet numbered among the six best
sellers, Noah Webster's shade need
not repine, since the modern offspring
of his original Spelling Book" is still
numbered among the works most often
consulted by his countrymen.
Today is the anniversary of Noah
Webtser's birth, Hartford having been
the place and Oct. Is, 1858, the time.
He graduated from Yale at the age of
twenty, having served in, the Revol-
utionary war in his junior year. When
twenty three he was admitted to the
bar, but relinquished that profession
for teaching in the following year
Journalism next occupied his atten-
ton, and in 1888 he settled in New
York to ply the pen as a means OF
livelihood.
Ten years later he settled in New
Haven, later going to Amherst. for a
time but returning later to the city OF
his beloved Yale. His first book was
published in 1888. and was entitled
"The Grammatical Institute of the
English Language" "Webster's Spell
ing Book" ga Plain and Comprehen.
sive Grammar" and can American Sc.
lection of Lessons in Reading and
Speaking" followed and attained wide
popularity and a large sale. :,
In 1906 he published an English die
tionary which, paved the way for shis
monumental work which made shis
name "a household word. The first ad-
dition of his complete dictionary Mas
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
HINT TO GOVERNOR EBERnART.

The Free Press is glad that James
Hamlin, the versatile gentleman who
writes for Knute Sandum's combined
press and bureau of publicity, has
broken the ice to this extent: at is
right and proper that Governor Eber-
hart, if he so chooses, should retain,
in their present positions, the late
Governor Johnson's appointees, es-
pecially in the various departments,
but it will not be right for them to
use their positions to further the ends
of Minnesota democracy as exempli-
fed in the famous kitchen cabinet
As heads of the oil and the boiler in
spection bureaus especially, these re-
tanned democrats have many local APP
pointees throughout the state, over
which they have control. We know
that these minor officers have. been
assessed a certain sum for the sup
port of the party organized. Now, the
question arises: Win Governor Eber
hart, from strictly and honorable
republican standpoint, be justified in
retaining these officers and allowing
them to use their offices for the pur
pose of perpetuating the reign of
democracy within the state? And,
again, would it not be worse than
political idiocy to expect anything else
of them?" Governor Eberhart would
not be justified in retaining in office
those who would seek to build up the
democratic party at the expense of
a republican administration.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
CIVIlIzIRG THE INDIAN.

Our brother in red is not a striking
proof of the theory that civilization
tends to race suicide, says The ST.
Louis Globe Democrat The Indian is
multiplying under the influence of civ
ilization, as he gets it. The more
civilization, the more Indians in the
west. If this process could be car
ried on to what some people may
claim to be its. logical results, the re-
suits might be the return of the In
dian, thriving under civilization, to
the possession of the land-if the
theory of white race suicide was more
tenable than it is. None of the pres
ent generation of either whites or reds
can hope to see it carried as far as
that.
The official figures are interesting
none the less. The Indian popula-
ton of the United States has increased
about 10000 during the last twenty
years. Within that time approximate
ly $lOO,OOO,OOO mas been expended by
the government in works designed to
give the Indians the opportunities and
the necessary means and appliances
for learning how to work, which is
about the best means of civilizing
anybody. Spending a hundred mil
lions to make 10000 new Indians may
not be regarded by everybody as a
civilizing work. The old notion that
the only good Indian is dead one is
not the motive of the work of making
new live Indians to take the places of
those who had died during many years
i'll which the death rate was exceed
ing the birth rate among nearly all
the tribes. But it is the policy OF the
government, and it is certain to be
justified in its economic results, as it
lis already justified. from civilized
humanitarian point of view.
1t may be possible, during the course
of this generation, to abolish the In
dian office as a branch of the gov
ernmental machinery. Indians are now
not only farmers, though farming is
the work to which most of them ma
turally have turned. They are drift
ing into the trades and the professions,
and their skill in athletics has just
had illustration in the defeat of the
st. Louis cracks of football by the red
players of Haskell !, Institute. 1t is
even possible that the Indians may
ere long be civilized enough to raise
up man who will knock out Jack
johnson as The champion of the world.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
AN AWAKENING IN the SOUTH.

A conference on industrial problems,
especially as relating to the church's
duty toward men, women and chill
dren employed in the cotton mills and
other industrial enterprises of the
south, will be held at Charlotte, N. c..
during the next three days and has at
tracted some of the leading ministers
and laymen of the Methodist Episco-
pal church south. Delegates from ten
conferences, extending from Virginia
to Mississippi will be in attendance. 1t
is time that the south awakened from
its comatose condition and moved for
the adoption of laws that will pro-
hibit the employment of infants in
the mills and factories.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

The South Dakota state census de-
partment has prepared it's estimate on
the corn crop for this year, but it is
subject to slight revision, as it has
been prepared somewhat hurriedly that
it may be used by Governor Wesley
in his southern, and eastern trip. The
showing is 2,395,OOO acres planted to
corn this year.. a gain of 10000 acres
over last year. The total yield is placed
at 86,S88, 900 bushels, a gain OF 1885,
600 bushels over last year. Bon Homme
county stands at the head of the corn
counties of the state with yield
this year of 7,S50,0O0 bushels.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

The report of the state bank eX.
aminer on the condition of state banks
in South Dakota, on Sept. l, and
that of the national bank conditions
for the same date, show that the peo-
pie of the state were carrying individ-
ual deposits of $72,3s6,OO4. This with
a population estimated at less than
100000, is showing of which any
state might be proud. The state
banks, 472 in number, were carrying
the bulk of the deposits, with $45,-
53O,7594l, while the ninety-fve ma
tional banks of the state were carry
ing $26,855, 245O5.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

The rest of the world calls us great
braggers. We know they think So
We do undoubtedly use the phrase,
biggest in the world rather frequent
ly. Kipling was told on his first visit
to Chicago that the Palmer mouse was
the 'inest hotel in the finest city of
God Almighty's EARTH" and the Ger
man professor, Lamprecht, reports
that, after being treated to all forms
of the superlative while on mis- visit
here, he was finally offered to drink
"the purest water in the world" /
presume we do overdo it little, but
then We really have such frequent oc-
.easion to use the superlative in the
interest of truth that we mignt be
forgiven.
'The Boston Courier says: The real
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

An investigation into the marriage
and divorce question, undertaken five
years ago by the census bureau, cul-
minated recently in the publication OF
a comprehensive report, the gist OF
which is that the rate of divorce in
the past twenty years has greatly in
creased. During that period 1882, O44
marriages took place in this country
while during the same time 945,62J
divorces were granted. The number
during the preceding twenty years was
only 32S,746. 1t states that the divorce
rate steadily increases as one goes
west
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

Professor Thorndike of the Teachers
College, New York, has just completed
an investigation into the conditions
of the teachers in secondary schools in
this country which shows that, con-
trary to popular belief, women teach
ers are nearly as permanent as men,
the average being six and nine years,
respectively. As regards pay, it is
shown that the average for men teach
ers is 500, while that for women is
only $3.50. Private schools pay better
wages on the whole than public.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

FaTmont Independent: A very sad
and distressing accident took place Ill
Manyaska township a short distance
from Welcome about 1890 on Monday,
Oct 49, We have been unable to OBJ
tain all the particulars, but it seems
that Monday forenoon f. E. Schetf
was engaged in blasting stones on his
farm in Manyaska township. For some
reason there was premature or ac-
cidental discharge. Mr. Schell's hand
happened to be placed in such a posi-
ton that it received the full force of
the explosion and was multilated and
mangled in horrible manner Dr.
Janss of Welcome was telephoned for
and arrived in few minutes. He
found the hand so badly injured that
it was impossible to save it, and it
had to be amputated at the wrist.
The many friends of Mr.. Schef will
sincerely regret the unfortunate acci-
dent.
Blue Earth Post: On Friday after
noon, Oct s, 1909, at her home i'll
Pilot Grove, occurred the death of
Miss Anna Donovan. Miss Donovan
died very suddenly, she being in her
usual health when last seen at about
3 80 o'clock in the afternoon, she went
to her bedroom up stairs where her
lifeless form was found later by her
mother. 1t is supposed she had
heart failure. This is certainly Il
great shock TO the family, especially to
her aged mother who found her. An
ma Donovan was born in Pilot Grove,
May Is, 1874, where she has nearly
always resided. Besides her mother
she leaves three brothers and four
sisters TO mourn her loss. They are:
Mrs. Kate Bondin, Elmorc, Mimi;
John, of Montana; Mrs. William Coal
ter, of Mankato; Bert, residing on the
farm; James, of Leeds, n. Oak, Jo
sephine of Great Falls, Montana,
and Mrs Joe Kuemmeth, of Mankato.
Funeral services were held at the
Catholic church at Blue Earth Mon
day, Oct 18th. Rev. Father Murphy
having charge of the ceremony. The
family have the heartfelt sympathy of
all in their sad bereavement.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

In the current number of The Jour-
nal of Sociology, Professor w. |. Thorn
as of the University of Chicago at
tacks the idea of regarding the present
day child as having a mind like a
savage, saying that while the savage
is a person with definitely fixed and
specialized aims and habits, the child
is primarily one whose calling is
growth. He objects to the present
method of the schools in teaching
children to make fishnets and other
implements of savage life, saying that
they should be constructing electric
dynamos and other articles intended
for use in the. twentieth century.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22

The Marshall News Messenger ex-
presses itself as well pleased with
Governor Eberhart and makes the
prediction that the new executive will
SO conduct himself as to merit the con-
fidence of the people of Minnesota. In
other words, he will make good. The
News Messenger always was great
admirer of our late Governor john
son.