Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-05-26
BANKERS WERE HERE.
Group Four Iowa Bankers Associa-
ton i'm Big Meeting Here.

Monday was big day in DEBORAH
when in the neighborhood of $50
bankers from Dubuque county, Clay
ton, Fayette, Chickasaw, Howard
WInneshiek and Allamakee met here
in a convention, Group Four Iowa
Pdnkers Association.
The registration headquarters
were at the Winneshiek hotel. A
Program of speaking was carried on.
at the Grand. The invocation was
given by Rev. NJ. Willett, and the
address of welcome by w. F. Baker
of the National Bank of DEBORAH
The response was made by c. H.
Kenyon, of New Hampton, chairman.
Other speakers were Hon. Jas. B.
Weaver, of Des Moines, ]. H. Nc
Cord of Spencer. Walter Ramsay,
Secretary of State, Frank Warner
OF Des Moines. ''-
In the afternoon the bankers took
in the Luther-Dubuque University
ball game, and In the evening a
banquet at the Winneshiek was ell
joyed, after which they attended the
moving pictures and vaudeville at
the Grand. The bankers were a fine
prosperous looking lot of fellow ;
and apparently enjoyed their outing
here. The following resolutions were
adopted at the meeting.
Resolutions adopted at the An
nual Meeting, Group Four, Iowa
Bankers Assn. DEBORAH, Iowa, May
"A, 1920.
!.
Realizing the present acute con-
dition in the financial affairs of the
Nation, we desire to commend the
curation measures recently adopted
by the Federal Reserve Board, and
pledge our support to the program
which they have inaugurated. We
pledge that in the management of
our own banks we will endeavor to
single out the non-essential from the
essential enterprises, discriminating
against all financing of a speculative
or non-essential nature. We recog-
nize our great responsibility in this
grave matter and shall by precept
and example and by counsel given
with discretion and without Great
ing alarm seek to check the wave OF
reckless borrowing and spending
which is sweeping our country We
Will endeavor to apply the only rea-
sonable and efficient remedy by the
encouragement of economy and
thrift.
We commend the officers of our
State Association collaborating with
our legislative committee, for the
good and efficient work done in the
fight they have and are now con-
Quoting against blue sky gambling
2.
We urge legislation changing the
automobile tax law so that the
funds collected under such tax shall
remain on deposit in the county in
which they originate.
A..
The menace in American life today
is the specialization of hostile
6roupes and effacement of a sense
OF interdependence. Men are seek
ing place and power by playing On
Inc prejudice of their brother men.
They are offering untried short cuts
as solutions of the gravest economic
problems. They present programs
utterly destructive of every princi-
PIE established by the experience of
the last hundred years. They attack
The constitution and ask not govern
ment by and for the people, but for
ard by class and upon such appeals
to prejudice are seeking election to
igh office. We call upon the citizens
: Iowa, regardless of occupation. to
refuse to listen TO appeals to class
feeling and to remember that the
Institutions under which America has
reached her proud place in the life
Df the world, Were not built in a
day, and that we must all prosper
or fall together. We appeal for
resurrection of the spirit OF brother
hood among men.
8.
We fully endorse Senate Bill 2309,