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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
THr UNFAIR TAX.

The inheritance law ID a good
one and the more attention paid
| to It, the better the people will
like 1t. 1t Is fair that inherited
money should bear Q small bur-
den. People who get money that
easy ought not to kick upon
paying tax to the state.-Law-
renee Journal.
Is 1t fair that wife should pay a
tax simply because her husband
dies? Is death taxable proposition?
Governor Stubs is trying to side
step responsibility for the taxes and
many persons went to hear him in
Abilene expecting an explanation OF
this unjust tax but he did not mem
ton It.
Sevsral hundred persons heard
him two years ago at the fair
grounds in Abilene vociferously de-
mand such a tax and they know he
was the prime influence in forcing 1t
through the legislature.
Here is an example Of how vt
works:
Some thirty years ago Anthony
Larson and wife Julia located In
Hope township, this county, purchas-
ing a farm with money belonging to
Mrs. Larson, but for convenience the
deed was made in the name OF Mr..
Larson.
Mr.. Larson, who died recently,
was an invalid for nearly 20 years
prior to his death, and unable to
work or look after the farm. this
duty, together with the rearing OF a
family Of ten children, fell upon the
faithful wife who worked almost
night and day, suffering many hard
ships without murmuring in order
that her sick husband might be
comfortable and something laid by
for old age and the children.
Now since the death Of her hus-
band she has been notified to walk
up and pay into the state treasury a
large slice Of her own efforts ana ac-
cumulations. The estate is In pro-
cess Of settlement and will pay about
$500. What a shame that any COVER
nor should urge and sign such a law,
but 1t is presumed that Stubs needs
the money to keep his inspectors go
l1N
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
WHAT'S THE MATTERq

What's the matter with Lawrence?
Yesterday was the grand stubbs-
Mitchell rally Of the campaign, the
governors homecoming. The Law
renee Democrat says: The weather
was cool and pleasant, the band
marched down the street and made
sweet melody but of the 5000 voters
in the county only some 500 took the
trouble to spend an hour or two to
listen to these seekers after votes.
And that after the mayor had re-
quested all business men to close
their places Of business and tax :
themselves to the shade Of our beau-
tlful park to listen to the words Of
wisdom. Only two Of our leading
merchants needed the solemn ire
quest Of the mayor. All the banks
were open. The farmers were con-
spicious by their absence"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
A NEWSPAPER MANS VIEW.

An eastern newspaper man was In
Kansas this week and speaking OIL
politics said: "You are queer peo-
pie out here. When we have a con-
test down east 1t is on business ideas.
We fight for things that will make
us prosper. But here you are re-
markably prosperous. I never saw
a state look so rich, yet lot Of your
politicians are raising cain over
things that do not help or hinder
your prosperity. This is the queer
est thing about Kansas-that you do
not 20 after the things that make
your prosperity, places to sell your
products in our own country"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
ann REWARp OFFERED.

To the end that we may have an
honest and falr primary election. free
from the charge Of perjury and cor
ruption, / offer in behaK Of the Wag-
staff Republican committee a re-
ward Of 500 for.the prosecution aad
conviction of every Democrat whO
swears in and casts a Republican bal
lot. l earnestly appeal to every Re-
publican in Kansas to aid in protect
ing the sanetIty Of the ballot, a duty
YOU can perform for your party, Cor
the good name Of Kansas. for de-
cency and law, By seeing to 1t that
Republicans are present at every yot-
ing place to challenge illegal voters.
A. @. STITCH.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

campaign. This announcement came
after the appearance Of Eees as a
tariff talker at Manhattan. The talk
that he made on this campaign oc-
casion caused his bosses to tell him
for pity sake not TO be guilty Of try
ing to talk on the national issues
again or his muddling Of facts and
logic would give Calderhead the un-
animous nomination. He evidently
has taken the advice and will avoid
making a joke Of himself by not at
tempting to discuss questions about
which he can not distinguish between
the Democratic and Republican doc
-Concordia Blade.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
THEY WILL,
"Will the farmere vote?" demands
the Sallna Journal.
mi. 49, .,,ilI
ing.

"Will the farmere vote?" demands
the Sallna Journal.
They will.
Depend upon it.
The farmers of Kansas have been
doing a lot of thinking lately. The
fact that they have been busy with
the cultivator or in the harvest field
doesn't mean that they have been
occupied with crops to the exclusion
of everything else.
The farmers of Kansas know that
during the last few years they have
been getting more money for the pro-
ducts of the fields than ever before,
a condition which is due directly to
the stimulation of the market by the
application of Republican policies.
They know thst~the operation OF the
new tariff law is bringing more ra"
material into this country for use In
manufactures than the best records
of previous years will show, which
means an unprecedented amount OF
employment for American labor and
ready money with which to buy
wheat and corn and meat, and the
many things which the farmer has to
sell. They know that credit for this
fortunate condition belongs chiefly to
President Taft and the loyal Republic
cans in congress who backed him
up in a program the effect Of which
inevitably should be the encourage
ment of trade and industry.
VIII the farmers vote?
They will. And they will vote for
the men who have been backing up
the president and for those candi-
dates who believe in Taft and real
Northumberland Times.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Hope Dispatch: At the last cleo
ton Calderhead carried five counties
and Rees carried five, but Calder
head received a majority Of ST.
votes. Rees carried Dickinson, OF
tawa, Republic, Riley and Saline.
This year Dickinson will give Cald-
erhead a big majority, and so Will
Riley and Republic. Rees will carry
only two counties at most, his home
county, ottawa, and possibly Saline,
Rees is not In 1t more than a rabbit
and the more he travels around the
less votes he will get.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
"ITss.TJP no YOIJ.n

When Speaker Cannon told his
Herington audience that ut is UP to
you" whether or not Kansas wants
another period of low prices and
business disaster he put it exactly as
it is. The Kansas farmer may like
to follow off the insurgents and the
Kansas City Star and bring Demo-
cratic administration but we do not
believe they will.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21


"Cummins, Dolliver, Nelson, Bris-
tow, Clapp, Beveridge and our own
Senator LaFollette are but reflect
ing the views of their constituents
when they abandon the Republican
ship upon which they so long have
cruised."
Thus have the Wisconsin Demo-
Gratis, in convention assembled, plac7
ed the seal of their approval upon the
Republican insurgents. According to
the dispatches from Milwaukee, this
sentence was the keynote Of the
speech of the permanent chairman,
william Wolfe of La Crosse, and
was more enthusiastically applauded
than anything else he said. 1t indi-
Gated the temper of the convention,
and is taken in Badgerdom as prom
Using more than verbal harmony be-
tween the LaFclletteites and the
Democrats.
1t is a pleasing recognition Of the
Democratic services Of the insurgent
Republicans. 1t is particularly pleas
ing in that It comes from state
where the insurgent Republicans and
insurgency have blossomed and
thrived far more luxuriantly than in
many other states. The Democrats
Of Wisconsin know what Republican
insurgents are at first hand, not
merely from their Nominations in the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
ERnM HIs HOME PAPER.

The Lawrence World does not
mince matters. 1t says: Here are
two men asking for Republican votes
who announce their allegiance to
Roosevelt, but who ignore President
Taft, the Republican president OF the
United States, in announcing their al
legiance, and by way of innuendo, &C
cuse him Of betraying the interests
Of the public. The World has been
for Stubs as a Republican, but II
he is the sort Of a Republican who
is ashamed to stand up for the Re-
publican president of the United
States, we do not see how the loyal
members Of the party can in good
faith support him."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21
THIN RUBBER TALK.

CONGRESSMAN Anthony: Bristow's
rubber argument as an attack on the
PAYNE bill Is a miserable failure
with manufactured rubber increased
but s per cent and crude rubber on
the free list as It has been In all re-
cent tariff bills, Senator Bristow
would try to make us believe the b
per cent increase in the tariff was
responsible for so per cent increase
in the prices of manufactured rub
Der, and chiefly on automobile tries
Everybody knows that crude rubber
all over the world advanced from 70
cents to $500 a pound before the
Payne bill was ever thought Of and
with crude rubber on the free list'
both then and now. The enormous
quantity Of rubber required for au-
tomobile tires caused the price to ad-
vance from 80 to IS per cent, not the
tariff.
1t was ex-President Roosevelt who
openly charged that any man who de-
clared the trusts might be fought
effectively by chopping down the
tariff was a demagogue pure and
simple. Roosevelt said that to try
to kill a trust by removing the tariff
meant the death warrant Of the In
dependent manufacturers competing
in the same line Of production.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

AtchisOn Globe: II you should hire
. man to manage your business, and
be claimed a saving in every depart
ment. although his balance sheet
showed q million dollars short,
wouldn't you discharge him, parti-
culariy Il he were impudent about Il,
ana kept saying that II his service
uas rot satisfactory. you should set
ia Of him moral: stubhal
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21


. We have had the Sherman anti
trust law for the control Of cor
" porations since 1890 and 1t Is
: enforced more and more every
. year.
We have now the Corporation
" Income Tax which requires
" every corporation with an in
" come Of over $4,000 to report its
" business, its capital, its stock,
. its indebtedness and it's income
. All this Is in the Payne tariff
. law. Would you repeal 1t or
. what would you do with it? II
corporations violate the law
. they are subject to the severest
. penalties and the Department OF
. Justice has been given ample
money to prosecute for every
; violation. Would you repeaI
; this or what would you do with
; It? We promised to strengthen
: the Interstate Commerce Com
. mission and we have done 1t in
= the interest of the people.
> Would they repeal this?
. I have voted for every line OF
. law that has been made by con-
. gress I'd regulate railways and
. Interstate Commerce corpora
. tons during the last twelve
. years.-Congressman Calder
. head.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21


. The American system Of pro-
tective tariff is not merely q
= form Of taxation upon the peo-
pie for the support of the gov
eminent. 1t is a system of pro-
lection for the wages Of the
American laborer and for the
protection OF q great home mar
ket for the American farmer.
This system is not privilege
granted to the manufacturer or
the corporation or the so-called
INTEREST"
" The American protective tariff :
system does not grant privil-
" ege or permit a monopoly. The :
. principle which underlies pro-
. lection is the securing to '
. American workingmen the OPP :
. portunity to work at greater '
. wages than they can get any .
. where else in the world, and :
. the securing at all times to =
. the American people the mar '
. kets Of America.
: II means that the work OF this :
. nation shall be done by the '
" people Of this nation. 1t is easy "
. to sneer at the tariff as a tax ="
. and forget that the importer "
. must pay that tax in order to en- '
. ter our market. Congressman
. CaIderhead.
- o
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Osborne County Farmer; For
lieutenant governor the people Of
kansas never had q chance to vote
for a better man.than J, W. creeeh
Of HsrInEton. He has had plenty Of
legislative experience and would take
TO ne office a valuable fund Of useful
Information concerning Kansas nnd
Ils HaIloul neela
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

The Hon. Stubs says he never
felt better in his life; that he has
had excellent preliminary training
for the Big Fight and that he will
win. The Hon. Jeffries, you may re-
member, lately voiced similar senti-
ments.-Marysvllle News.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Lawrence Gazette: ]. W. creech.
who wants to be lieutenant governor,
Is one of the most leYel beaded lesis-
lators the lower house in Kansas has
had in recent years. He is a man Of
undoubted probity. and he has
proved his ability. He understands
well the duties Of a presiding officer
and he would be impartial and fair.
These things are conceded BY men
who are opposing him. He Is a splen-
did man, a strong man, would be an
honor'to the office.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Lawrence World; There was a time
when ]. W. Creech, as member Of
the legislature from Dickinson coun-
", saved the appropriation for the
university, when some Of the men
who were supposed to be working
for the institution we're in reality
sticking a knife into it. creech
saved the day and now the friends
Of X. U. will have an opportunity of
repaylng the favor by assisting Mr..
Creech in his campaign for lieuten-
ant governor. The men who served
with Mr.. Cresch speak highly Of his
honesty and ability and believe that
be would make an excellent presid-
ing officer for the senate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21


The tariff bill became a law
" and when 1t went into operation
. not a man in America lost an
" hours work or wages by It.
= Not a farmer in America lost
cent from the price Of anything
he produced to sell. l promised
= the people Of this district that
would work for q revision Of
the tariff and l would vote for
reduction on any item on which
changed conditions or manufac-
ture or the changed conditions
Of production would justify re-
duction and whenever that re-
duetion would not close a fac
tory or reduce the wages Of
American workingmen. For The
manufactures and the great
army Of workingmen in America
are our great market for every
form product. have kept this
:. promise faithfully and no work
ingman has lost his wages and
no farmer has lost a cent on any
. farm products BY reason Of thisre
vision Of this tariff. And there
Is not a line in the tariff to IN
. crease the price Of anything
that either the wOrkingman or
. the farmer has to buy.-con-
. gresham CAiderhead.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

5 Here is good point from the lola
Register: "six years ago Governor
stubbs and the Kansas City Star
agreed that Tom Wagstaff then Coun-
" attorney Of Montgomery county.
was big enough, old enough, brave
enough, wise enough and good
enough to make an ideal attorney
general for Kansas Today, when he
is six years older, Just as big and
brave and good and a whole lot
smarter, they declare 1t is an OUT
rageous joke to consider him Quali-
fled to be governor. The longer you
chew on some of these innocent
goodies that are being handed out,
the harder you find them to digest. :"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Word from the Republican state
convention of Wisconsin: eve are
against men who are Republicans
for office, and Democrats in office"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

Clean old papers at this office S
'ents a bundle.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-07-21

ne Ross organs hare announced
that be YIN not naka q speaking
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13
Rates For Loans.

The different banks quote rates
both for loans and for deposits, that
are very nearly the same. The exis
tence OF branches Of more than one
bank In many districts insures this
advantage of competition. The Riks.
banks discount rate gives, in conse.
quence, a measure of the rates cur
rent everywhere, though there re.
mains some variation in the rates re-
turned by the several banks in the
monthly accounts. These fluctuations
may perhaps represent, in part If not
entirely, differences between the
classes of business serured BY the diff
ferent institutions.
During the panic of 1907 heavy de-
mands were made upon the ROYAL
Bank, which reduced its foreign bal
aarnces, because the bank failed to i'm
pose with sufficient energy and
promptness the check of an increased
discount rate on the speculative spirit
manifested nan in business circles. The
rate was raised on November 9. 1907.
to IL per cent. when the London
rate was per cent and the Berlin
rate Z IL per cent. The bank was
benefited, however, by the fact that a
ne" swedish government loan had
arranged in France for about s13,ooo,-
ooo' against which the bank was en-
abled to sell drafts pending the need
Tor the use of the money at home In
1917 over so per cent of the redis-
counts Of the other banks were made
with the Royal Bank, and in 1908 over
"a per cent and about three-fourths
81 the inland bills held by the Royal
sank were obtained by rediscounting.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13

plying increased amount noushment and strength every
the body s. S. S. ds the system of feeling qe Inc
makes refreshing stomach dl
auce promotes good digestion and adds and vim the entire system
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13
is THE CHAMPION
BANANA GUZZLER
ottumwa Man Claims Distinction Of
Having Eaten Thirteen Bananas
In Less Than Three Minutes.
(6y Union Associated Press.)

Ottumwa, Ia, July 13.-Charles E
Allen. a railroad trainman residing
IN this city, claims to be the champion
catch-as-catch can, ground-and.lofty ba-
mana eater of the world, and to main.
tain his title has issued a challenge
to all other banana eaters, offering to
meet them for 500 or more a side.
Discussing his record, Allen says:
about two or three years ago l
read the account of man eating
twelve bananas in four minutes and l
said I believed I could beat it; my
conductor bet me I could not. I made
the bet to eat them in three minutes,
and I ate thirteen in two minutes and
twenty-five seconds, and peeled them
myself.
Il read the account Of John Champ,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13

of Workman, Mass, eating twenty ba
nanas in twenty minutes on a bet
can beat him to standstill and not
half try.
Il am very fond of bananas.
Il bet with a grocer in st. Joseph,
Mo-, J. H. Kelly and ate eight dozen
and quarter in about thirty or thir-
ty-three minutes. At another time 1
ate 157 in about two hours and thirty
minutes, but l did not do It on a bet,
but because like them. 1t is a COM
mon thing for me to go to the store
and get four dozen bananas and eat
them exclusively for months at a
time"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13

S"- N SuyR51 3nf n1I
spantsssvsralum6pths BIT last oyear in
pursuing the pfessnt Investigation TO,
me Commission. The, volume I'M
cludes brief schetchess OF the banking
systens ~ Nprway and Denmark, as
wen IS Sweden. yssecial interest at
tachss to the bankins expefience OF
sweaen. becanse she, adhered to the
system of Isolated local banks of is.
isuer longer than II any other European
JaeensntrYl ssteSept Switzerland, NV : n Is
only since. January /, 1904, that the
right ~ Iiape1banE notes isi Sweden
mas been brought under the control Of
the ERiksbankJ or Royal Bank, and it
was in October. 1906, that switzer-
land after twenty years of discussion
authorized the creation Of the Nation
al Swiss Bank. whose history is told
IN monograph already made public
by the Monetary Commission.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13
sanks Grow Rapidly.

Both the Royal Bank and the en-
sk1lkda banks grew rapidly with the
expansion Of business during the lat
ter part of the nineseenth and the
beginning Of the present century. A
movement for centralizing the note
issue gained ground under these con-
diuons and was embodied in a law in
1897. The aim of this law was to give
greater security and uniformity to the
note issue without impairing the re-
sources of the enskilda banks for
granting local credit. The notes of
the Royal Bank are legal tender, and
are redeemable in gold on demand at
the head office. The capital of the
bank Is 100000 crowns $13,4OO, 0O0).
and the metallic reserve Is required to
be In gold. The minimum reserve is
Fixed at 100000 crowns ($1O,72O.-
'OO). or 40 per cent of the authorized
circulation of 1O0,oOo,OOO crowns, but
my additional amount may be issued
When fully covered by gold or foreign |
alliances. .r 4t. ...-,t. .f..
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13
THE HATTIESBURG NEWS

document used for the purpose being
designated bank note. The Royal
Bank thus occupied, from two and a
half centuries, a dominating position
in Swedish banking, but notes were is
sued by another type Of institution
known as the "enskilka banks" These
institutions were corporations whose
capital was divided into shares, but
the liability 5of the principal share
holders was not limited, although
there might be associated with them
silent STOCKHOLDERS with limited liabil.
ity. The FIRST of these banks was
founded IN 1871, and as late as 1857
only 70 we're in existence, with total
assets of about $15,eoO,O 900. Several
efforts were made to bring them under
uniform rules in regard 70 the issue
OF notes and the character OF the as.
sets held. by the mint law of 1873
the notes lot these banks. who had
formerly been 'redeemable in the
notes Of the Royal Bank. were maze
redeemaple In gold. in accordance
with the policy Of establishing the
gold standard firmly in Sweden. Notes
Tor crowns ($1.aO) were suppressed
at the close Of 1879. in order to leave
'oom for the circulation Of gold coin.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-13
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTED rRus.
TEES SALE.

l, George w. Currie, substituted
trustee, under the provisions of and
by virtue Of the authority conferred
upon me in certain deed of trust.
from George D. McInnis and Mrs. M.
s. McInnis. his wife. to the Hatties-
burg Trust & Banking Company, a
corporation organized and doing bust
ness under the laws of the State of
Mississippi and domiciled in the City
OF Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on the 3rd
day Of January, 1908, to secure a GER
tain Indebtedness to said Hattiesburg
Trust & Banking Company, which said
deed OF trust is recorded in Book 1,
pages 46-7 of the record of mortgages
and deeds Of trust on land. in the
Chancery Clerks office of Forrest
County. Mississippi; and the said
George D. McInnis and Mrs. M. 8.
McInnis having failed to pay the
said Indebtedness at maturity, and
having been duly requested as sub
stituted trustee. will, on the
18th day Of July, 1910,
oner for sale and sell, at public auc-
ton for cash, to the highest bidder at
the front door Of the court house in
the City Of Hattiesburg. Forrest Coun- |
ty, Mississippi, the following described
land to-wit:
W. nj. Of N. w. or. Of s. e. Or, Sec
ton 3. Township N, Range 10 West
In Forrest, formerly Perry County,
Witness my signature this 14th day
IF June. 1910.
GEORGE w. CURRIE,
Io-5weds Substituted Trustee.