The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-18
STATE BANKERS

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none. You can see that bad laws are
not passed through ignorance or be-
cause of haste, and that is the source
of most poor legislation. You will
have means of securing legislation
that you need, and most of such legis-
lation is lost where there is no one to
look after it.
And you will also be protected
against political legislation. For when
congress gets ready. just before cleo
ton, to pass some laws for home con-
sumption, they'll pause before crack
ing their whips at the state banks, and
will say to themselves:
Wed better wait, they're organ
ICED"
Investing money in their home state
Kansas, was urged by w. F. Benson,
state bank commissioner, in an adj
dress preceding that of Mr.. McDer-
mott.
why any Kansas man will invest
his hard earned money in lands in any
other state than Kansas 1 do not
know said Mr.. Benson. There is
no state in this union that offers bet
ter opportunities for land investments
than Kansas
Continuing Mr. Benson reported
conditions in Kansas as more prosper
Gus than in years. In closing, he said
Point Back With Pride.
THE state of Kansas has reached
the point in its history when one can
point with pride to it's past achieve
ments; no longer is it necessary to ex-
plain what we can do, but rather what
we have done. We do not stand low
in the percentage column of progress,
education, morals or financial stability
and whatever success the people of
our state have attained, a portion of
the same at least, can be attributed to
the integrity and wisdom of the Kan
l,a wi
Governor Capper had been sched-
uled to speak. In his absence, the long
suffering Charlie Sessions, private sec
rotary, read one of the canned ad-
dresses of the chief executive. Reports
of the secretary, Will Whyman of
w. Robinson of Wichita, showed the
association to be in a prosperous con-
dition. Eighty-four new members
have Joined the association in the last
year.
/ Senator Wilson's Speech.
| A few years ago the state banker
hardly realized that he existed To-
day he is in the saddle in Kansas-to
great extent through the influence
1 of the Kansas State Bankers associa-
tiUl. Such was a statement made this
morning by Senator Walter E. Wilson,
| president of the Kansas State Bank
ers association, in an address delivered
at Representative hall at the seventh
annual convention of the association
Fully 400 bankers are present at the
convention. The convention adjourns
/ tomorrow evening.
But a few years ago when the leg
! islature convened hardly state bank
er was asked what the state bankers
wanted during that session., said Sen
ator Wilson. During the last legisla-
ture not bill was passed that at
fected state banks that didn't have the
approval of our legislative committee
! Money on Bonds.
when We met on the roof garden
of the National hotel you were paying
$3.50 for your fidelity bonds and to-
day the most you have to pay through
our association is $3.50. Seven year,
ago this summer you were paying s.
a thousand for depository bonds ant
they marked them cheap. Today il
a guaranteed bank you don't have t.
pay one cent and if your commission
ers demand it of YOU they are liabl
to lose their jobs. If you are so un
fortunate as not to be a guaranteed
bank then you only have to pay 81. s.
per thousand Burglary insurance i
much lower than it was when thi