The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-05

some cheap rate orders still refuse to
see the Handwriting on the wall. Reg
ulatiye laws We're the means of driv-
ing wildcat building and loan associa-
tions out of business and creating
state and local institutions on an en-
during basis, their total assets as a
result of soundness being nearIyS1 600
100000. In the upheaval of 1898 crimes
committed by the, national building
and loan associations were exposed.
and an appalling per cent OF them
were found to have made more prom
ises than Were possible of fuifillment
with the securities and dependable re-
sources in their vaults. In the crash
the savings of tens Of thousands of
people were lost. yet the results were
less tragic than that furoscen by the
national fratcrnal congress if below
cost rates for insurance he continued
by the fratcrnal bodies which have not
yet rcadiusted their charges for life
insurance certificates. The experience
of all the sound organizations has
been compiled by the congress in
mortality table which accurately shows
the averages of human life and the in
creasing percentage of members taken
by death as their years advance.
Money losses to the state as the re-
suit Of the spread of drug addiCtions.
particularly cocaine. the American
curse of today. and the increase Of
crime criminals. the insane and dere-
licts are the subject of the inquiry
taken up by the Currier commission.
state boards Of charities or control in
every state having been appealed to
for the facts. The effort Is to ascer-
tain the numbers of patients in state
institutions who are there as a result
of drug addictions and to determine
what drug in different localities Is
making the greatest inroads. The fig
urc of 100000 cocaine victims in the
United States Is very conservative to
the earliest returns. Right here in
Chicago in the DcSplaines street dis
trict. under the supervision of Inspec-
tor Edward Mccain, now under suS-
pension. under the eyes Of the police
stations and missions houses the
dope" ficnds number at least 5000.
Charles W. Collins and John Day of
the commission assert in a Chicago
Everyday Life: In the
done district of Chicago may he
nicked up from the cutters in buckets
fui always empty bottles Of 'catarrh' .
or headache patent medicines in
whose formula cocaine has played
large part. 4 church stands i'm the
heart Of that district where dope and
GO hand in hand-thc ca
the,lral st. Peter and Paul. DrugGcd
wrecks of men float d"liriously un-
der its windows and within n stones
throw are cottages where women place
themselves an. sale. "hcan. The dean
IF that cathedral. the Rev. Walter
told as-with a vial of the
'catarrh cure in his finGers-I have
picked up these bottles 10y the score
off the lawn of the clergy house. We
would clean them un in the morning.
hut the night brought Il new crop
They were tossed there nonchalantly
by the population of the region. float
ing merrily to ruin after exhausting
the contents"
Zuologica gardens IL replace the
cramped quarters for the 1900 growl-
ins. squeaiine. patterinc. painting.
squeakine and roaring
Lincoln park exhibits To which half
million men. women ana children
every week of the year seem
likely to he the Chicago solution of the
wave of protest against Gagged live ami
mails i'm favor of stuffed ones. The dis
nlay of elephants, giraffes and boa
realistically displayed in
mimic iungles browsing as in their ma
-
scum. A zon 'of live ones that will +
Guido the bronx of New York and
Rock Greek park of Washington Is