The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-20
Williamson, pianist; Rev. NJ. F. Trox.
ell, pastoral concilor.
Q. HOPE JONES.
Some Plain Talk to the Women OF
America.

My Dear Friends-Let me begin my
lecture this evening by asking the
questions:
What is money panic?"
| What causes it?"
Who is to blame for it?'
Having asked the questions let me an
swer them:
"A money panic is a tightness of the
needful. We all want 15 cents worse
than we ever wanted dollar but
Rockefeller and Morgan have got the
scads in their pockets and won't give
them up.
"A money panic is caused by the ex-
travagance of the women. shall show
that later on. Business failures on the
part of husbands has nothing whatever
to do with it.
Who is to blame for panics? I have
answered the question above. If 20
100000 women want 20 ten dollar hats
at once, and will raise a row if they
can't get 'em, there is the beginning
of a money panic They know it is,
and yet they will have those hats.
1t seems eminently proper for me
to state for your edification, that in O.
Hope Jones, which is me, you have:
"A man that has lectured before
crowned heads.
"A man that has seen vesuvius in
eruption.
The man that stopped the great coal
strike
THE man who invented ginger ale.
s The man that refpsedSas gift of ST.
0OO,OCO from the money trust.
THE man whose lectures are pro-
nounced classic from start to finish.
AS We are not uncomfortably crowd
ed there will be less danger to all of
us in case a fire breaks out or an
other earthquake happens.
while only five of II people paid
their way in, L shall not abbreviate
my lecture on that account. True genius
and philanthropy are never recognized
until after death.
My remarks this evening will be
made more directly toward the women
in the audience, and through them to-
ward the women of the whole coun-
try. The question is being asked on all
sides, What brought on the late mon
ey panic?' A hundred answers have
been given but none of them is cor
rect. We must turn to history to find
truthful answer, and, having found
it. we must point the moral as best
we can.
Few of US assembled here this eve
ming can remember the year IT'S B. C.
It's too long ago, and we have had
too many other things to think Of In
that year occurred the first money
panic history gives an account of. It
was an old whopper A man went to
bed one night with 10000 CATTLE worth |
next morning to find his livestock
worth so cents a head, and no one
wanted them at that. Money shavers |
lenders, brokers, real estate men
and chaps who had been giving ban
quets of peacock's tongues costing
$4,000. had to get a hustle on them to
pay the hired girl her wages man
could have handed his note Endorsed by
half dozen former capitalists around
to so different people and failed to
raise $50. For a long year things were
flat as a pancake and it was five
covered.
'w hat brought on the panic? Who
was to blame for it? The women my
friends-the women. That was the year
buttons were first invented. There was
a craze to buy buttons. 1t was but
tons. buttons-big buttons. little but
tons, buttons of horn and brass and
silver and gold-until all the money in |
the country was buttoned up and the
panic came on.
THE next great panic was in the
year 470 A. D. Money had been plenty
for. a hundred years. Thousands of
men kept their chariots and drivers,
and thousands of wives kept a second |
girl. People went around with hats
full of money, begging you to take all
you wanted at per cent interest. They
1idn't even want security. All you
had to do was to say your name was
Smith, and it was all right. Cham
oermaids sent to Paris for their hats,
and cooks wouldn't be found dead with
less than sealSkfn sacks on. In
1 jiffy the whole thing changed, and
he country was so hard up that it had
% give up champagne and take to pop
Ind catnip tea. The biggest and the
'ichest of them were knocked endways,
md in Rome there were 400 suicides in |
me week.
1T was woman again. That was the
year bangles were invented. Every
woman must have a bangle-five BAN
giles, ten of them. They were bangles
IN their wrists and they wore them on
heir ankles History hints that they
tlso wore them on their bodies, but that
nay not be SO. 1t was bangles, ban
yles, and one day when nobody was
ooking for it the crash came. The
;plinters flew and everybody got hurt
What is known as the corset-panic
ook place in the year 1924 Previous
o that year every woman had got along
Is best as she could without squeez-
nd