The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-19
Illinoisans on Record for Change
After Fearful Roast of Uncle
Sans Methods Is Given by John
V. Farwell of Chicago.
COL. J. HAM LEWIS
ON DIVORCE EVIL
Picturesque Democrat of Chicago Of
fers Plan, Like One in Canada, to
Cure What He Thinks Is a Great
National Menace.

Chicago. Oct. 1S-The declaration
that the United States has the worst
banking system Of any civilized
country, which proved q bombshcll
during the meeting OF the Illinois
State Bankers Association last week 4
was made by John " Farwell, of
Chicago, president of the National
Citizens League, coupled with the
statement that the banking systems
inequalities and shortcomings bear
most heavily upon the wage-earners
and the small business men of the
country. The inelasticity Of our
present currency system, he pointed
ont, acts as a brake upon business
by making interest rates high when
the South and West need money to
move their crops, and the fact that |
in time of stress banks war upon one
another to secure currency instead |
OF acting together for mutual help |
nhu piptbttipu, plOuOlC HHHlCb III |
stead of quelling them, inflictng a |
tremendous loss upon the people of |
the country. One OF the reforms |
most urgently needed, according to |
Mr.. Farwcll, is one that will remove |
the performance which bonds the |
stock securities now enjoy over COM
n pos- - ~, III
loans.
The effect of this would be to place |
the producer and handler Of the |
country's products on an equal foot |
ing with the stock speculator where |
as now the latter has the preference |
Every piece of commercial paper" |
said Mr.. Farwcll, represents direct |;
ly or indirectly some transaction |
through which some commodity IS
on its way toward serving It's useful |
purpose. 1t may be a shipment of |
cotton, grain, merchandise or any
other commodity. 1t is much safer |
for a reserve agency to loan on such |
fhENI Nulth ltd0 Il SUOlL maturity |
than on bonds which have a distant
maturity and almost no market in |
painky times This will greatly help |
the South and for West ard the large |
Graingrowing .sectiops of the
country. TheDcontinuancc of thel
present conditions without an ear
70 al, 10. |
only national disgrace, but also o
moral wrong and crime against the
people"
While the bankers were somewhat
surprised at the vigor of the de-
nunciation coming from the repre-
sentative of great organization OF
business men, the association went
on record as declaring the necessity
OF change in our present banking
system to make 1t better adapted to
the needs of legitimate business
For effectually curbing the divorce
evil, which he declared has become
national menance, Col James Ham
ilton Lewis, vice-president ial candi-
date Of the democrats in 1900 has
propoundcd in the Chicago Maya
zine" a plan closely resembling the
one adopted in Canada. AS to the
rapid increase of divorces he sound
ed this alar-run: "The time seems
to be approaching when what is des-
iPnated as the divorce evil, that U.s.
the rapid increase of divorces and
the frequent separation of mothers
from their children, wives from their
husbands, and wives and husbands
from their home, threatens the sta
bility of the state. When the unit
of civalizaton- designated the home
is no longer preserved, there ceases
to be that stimulus for individual
achievement which in the aggregate
makes for the prosperity, advance
and renown of the state" His So
luton he states thus: II suggest as
something of a solution--and this
ditci CouolucTdDle TC0eCttOn and
study of this subject, comparing Of
the countries of the world with my
own-that instead of the divorce
being primarily allowed because of
mere difference between the
parties, that there be tribunal es-
tablishcd where both the Church
and the state be represented, and
whore the differences between hus-
band and wife may be submitted.
Lot of the applicant or the aggrieved
person present to this body, or to the
different committees of it, theirl
grievances in secret and in quiet
And let the applicant there be the
power in this committee to suggest
some new course and call the parties
before II and put this new course be-
fore them, and through the aid of the
courts enforce the came In the nv l