The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-09-29
WISH FATHER TO THE THOUGHT

II. d. Evans, cashier of the Lead
Belt Bank at Bonnie Terre, and Re-
/ publican State Committeeman of this
Congressional district, had himself
, interviewed by the Globe-D Democrat
representative who reported the Re-
publican rally at Flat River last week,
According to Mr.. Evans "The indi-
cations are that the great Lead Belt
territory embraced in this county
will swing strongly to the Republi-
cans this fall, due to the fact that
the mines under the Wilson admins
tration already had begun to slow
down when the world war began and
created a demand for lead abroad
This resulted"-the slowing down pro-
cess-"from the fact that the Dem
ocrats took virtually all of the tariff
off lead and forced the mines to COM
pete with those of Mexico"
Forced the mines to compete with
those of Mexico" ought to be con-
vincing, when everyone is cognizant
of the fact that for the last seven or
eight years Mexico has been torn and
disrupted with incessant revolutions
and virtual anarchy, all of her mines
practically out of commission and
lead importations from that country
a mere bagatelle. That men of in
telligence will venture such tri1ing
reasoning to bolster up their ground
less contentious is remarkable. As
to the lead mines beginning to slow
down under the Wilson administra-
tion," we might ask if there ever was
time when the lead market didn't
fiuctuate? Lead has been at other
times as low as it dropped during the
Wilson administration, when the Re-
publican party's panacea for all bus
mess ills, the highest kind Of protec-
ton, was doing duty. The tariff had
nothing to do with it. It would be
hard for Mr.. Evans or anybody else
to recall time when lead prices were
not higher in London than in the
United States, and where the prices
are highest there the surplus pro-
ducts tend as naturally as water
flows down stream, and not to those
countries producing the article
Does Mr.. Evans remember the
pinching panic under the Roosevelt
administration, when the companies in
the Lead Belt were paying their men
off with "John Smith" checks? He
was cashier of the Lead Belt Bank |
then as he is now, and he was haunt
ed with nightmare and all but nerv-
Gus prostration because his bank
couldn't get money with which to |
honor them. We notice now by his I
latest bank statement that his assets
have increased enormously. Has he
no appreciation of what the Wilson |
administration has done to guarantee
such conditions, and by it's Federal
Reserve law make panics impossible?
He will not have to worry any more
over "John Smith" checks and mere
scraps of paper" while throughout
.he Lead Belt the companies and the
people were never more prosperous
and full of business confidence, nor
he miners receiving better wages
han under the sane and wholesome
administration of the patriot states
nan, Woodrow Wilson.
Isn't it nice, Del, to have your mon
y invested in an institution that pays
IS per cent? What more do you
want? But some people are so con-
tituted that if they ever get to hea-
EN- they will bark back to the "good
Id times" they had here on earth.
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Judge Lamm says if he is elected