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FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
A reliable barometer of a city is her banking institutions. When they have stood unshaken through the fluctuations of half a century they are regarded as substantial and conservative. The First National Bank of Jefferson City was established in Jannary, 1871, the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States authorizing Messrs. N. C. Burch and W. Q. Dallmeyer to organize a National Bank in Jefferson City, with a capital stock of $75,000.
The Capital City Bank (organized 1867) entered into negotiations with Messrs. Burch and Dallmey- er. by which its capital stock was increased to $75 .- 000. and was converted into "The First National Bank of Jefferson City." A full charter was grant- ed (April 8, 1871), with J. S. Fleming. President : John G. Schott Vice-President, and W. C. Boone. Cashier. They continued as officers until 1874, when W. Q. Dallmeyer was elected Cashier, (Vice Boone) continuing until August. 1882, when he resigned and was succeeded by H. C. Lambert, who, two years later, was succeeded by Oscar G. Burch (1884). A. M. Davison succeeded J. S. Fleming (Jan. 1875) as President, continuing five years (1880) when Maj. J. M. Clarke was elected, serving until 1888. In January. 1889, W. C. Young assumed the respon- sibilities of this office, retiring (1891) when JJ. W. Henry was elected. continuing until 1900, when Hen-
Henry J. Dulle, President.
ry J. Dulle was elected. Mr. John G. Schott contin- ued Vice-President of the organization until the day of his death (1894), when his place was taken by Geo. Wagner, upon whose death (1895) Dr. R. E. Young was chosen Vice-President, and remains such to- day. Mr. Emil Schott, Assistant Cashier, has been with the bank since a youth and has occupied his present position since January, 1895. In July, 1879, the capital stock was reduced to $50,000. With the
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
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accumulated real estate the shareholders organ- ized a real estate association with a capital stock of $25,000. The First National Bank has always numbered among its stockholders the wealthy and influential, with directors chosen for their fitness and ability. The present officers are Henry J. Dulle, President; Robert E. Young, Vice-President; Oscar G. Burch. Cashier; Emil Schott, Assistant Cashier; Theo. W. Dulle, book-keeper; Samuel H. Smith,
O. G. Burch, Cashier.
teller; Joseph 11. Rephlo, collector and messenger. Directors: Henry J. Dalle. Henry C. Geisberg. Jesse W. Henry, Jacob Tanner. Conrad Wagner, D. C. Weatherby. Robert E. Young. At this time May, 1900, the surplus of this bank is $50,000, with undi- vided profits of about $10,000, while the deposits are nearly half a million.
THE MERCHANTS BANK.
The Merchants' Bank of Jefferson City was or- ganized and incorporated under the laws of Mis- souri, March 21. 1889, with a capital stock of $25,- 000, but did not open for business until its building was completed. In the meantime the capital stock had been increased to $50.000. On December 2, 1889, the doors of the bank were opened for busi- ness with the following officers: Maj. J. M. Clarke, President: Hon. D. H. Melntyre. Vice-President : C. G. Brooks, Cashier; JJ. H. Diereks, book-keeper.
Soon after Mr. Brooks engaged in other business and J. Il. Diereks was elected Cashier, which posi-
L. C. Lohman. President.
tion he has occupied continuously since. John T. Clarke was book-keeper and Assistant Cashier two
J. H. Diereks, Cashier.
years, when he was succeeded by Walter Berryman who, after serving one year, was succeeded by Fred
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MONROE HOUSE, CORNER MONROE AND HIGH STREETS, AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN THE IMPROVEMENTS CON- TEMPLATED BY THE PROPRIETOR. W. W. WAGNER, ARE COMPLETED,
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Its contributors are among the brightest and best teachers in the State. lis columns are open to all. Every issue filled with matter interesting, helpful and inspiring to every reader. It has been the greatest factor in building up the State Teachers' Reading Circle. Ontfines for each month's reading will be found in its columms. Every question of interest or importance to Missouri, educationally, is discussed from time to time. The State Superintendent and State Teachers' Association speak officially through its columns.
Read the Journal and learn what the teachers are thinking, saying and doing. Twelve members per year. Price, $125 in advance. Single numbers, 10 cents. Address the editor,
H. A. Jass, Jefferson City, Mo.
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C. Binder, and he by C. F. Lohman, who now ocen- pies that position. Maj. Clarke died one work after the bank opened and was succeeded as President by Hon. D. H. Melntyre, who soon after removed from the city, when M. R. Sinks was elected Presi-
Bank building (corner of High and Jefferson streets, the east room of which is used by the banky con- tains, in addition to its fine steel vaults, safety de- posit boxes for the convenience and use of its pa trons. It is the largest and most modern business
The Merchants' Bank Building.
dent, who. after serving several years, declined re- building in the city. The second floor, east side, election and was succeeded by J. S. Lapsley, who has elegant rooms occupied by professional men, while those on the west, a suite of six, the finest in the State, are the splendidly equipped quarters of the Jefferson City Commercial Club. The third floor is a magnificent lodge hall and is the meeting place of the Blue Lodge, Knights Templar and Com- mandery of Jefferson City. served one year, when L. C. Lohman, who is now President, was elected. The Board of Directors are 1. C. Lohman, W. H. Morlock, F. II. Rephlo, J. R. Edwards. W. J. Edwards, J. S. Lapsley and John H. Diereks. The officers and directors are all sub- stantial, prudent business men. The Merchants'
EQUAL TAXATION LEAGUE.
The Equal Taxation League of Jefferson City, President, Rev. J. P. Pinkerton; Vice President, MI. Mo., was organized April 12, 1898, On motion of JJ. Tettemer; Secretary, A. J. Monteer; Treasurer, 11. J. Sarman. Chas, Opel, Rev. J. P. Pinkerton was elected Tom- porary Chairman and A. J. Menteer, Temporary The present officers are: Rey. J. P. Pinkerton, President : I. E. Mellenry, Vice President ; B. Gold- man, Secretary; H. F. Sarman, Treasurer, who were elected June 6, 1899. Secretary. The following committee was appointed to draft constitution and by-laws: Chas. Opel, J. E. MeHenry, HI. J. Tettemer, J. Goldman and II. F. Sarman. At the meeting on April 26, 1898, the The organization at this place is fully alive and among its members are many representative men of the city, one of its members, Mr. Chas, Opel, hay- committee appointed for the purpose reported the following permanent officers for the ensuing year:
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JOSEPH F. SCHLEER.
FERDINAND G. SCHLEER.
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Roofing, Guttering and Spouting a Specialty
If yon expect to get married, you will need our hardware and our low prices. If you don't expect to get married, come and price what you need in our line anyhow. No trouble to show goods.
SCHLEER BROTHERS,
108 East High St.
(See Ad. on Page 74.) JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
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ing been honored with the Presidency of the Mis- souri Single Tax League, which organization has, since the beginning of this year, been actively en- gaged in pushing the work throughout the State on the question of direct legislation, otherwise known as the Initiative and Referendum. Single Taxers have always advocated and worked for the idea of govermental control of public utilities as may be seen by referring to their public declara- tions and platforms.
We herewith copy the Single Tax League plat- form, with notes, which expresses the ideas which they advocate on the social and economic problems more clearly than we are able to do with our limited opportunities for investigation :
SINGLE TAX PLATFORM.
The single tax contemplates the abolition of all taxes upon labor or the products of labor-that is to say, the abolition of all taxes save one tax levied on the value of land, irrespective of improvements.
Since in all our States we now levy some fax on the value of land, the single tax can be instituted by the simple and easy way of abolishing, one after another, all other taxes now levied, and commen- surately increasing the tax on land values, until we draw upon that one source for all expenses of gov- ernment ; the revenue being divided between local governments, State governments, and the general government, as the revenue from direct taxes is now divided between the local and State govern- ments, or a direct assessment being made by the general government upon the States, and paid by them from revenues collected in this manner.
The single tax is not a tax on land, and there- fore would not fall on the use of land and become a tax on labor.
It is a tax, not on land, but on the value of land. Thus it would not fall on all land, but only on val- uable land. and on that not in proportion to the use made of it, but in proportion to its value-the pre- mium which the user of land must pay to the owner, either in purchase money or in rent, for permission to use valuable land. It would thus be a tax, not on the use or improvement of land, but on the own- ership of land. taking what would otherwise go to the owner as owner and not as user.
In assessments under the single fax all values created by individual use or improvement would be excluded, and the only value taken into considera- tion would be the value attaching to the bare land by reason of neighborhood, etc. Thus the farmer would have no more taxes to pay than the speeu- lator who held a similar piece of land idle, and the
man who on a city lot erected a valuable building would be taxed no more than the man who held a similar lot vacant.
The single tax, in short, would call upon men to contribute to the public revenues not in proportion to what they produce or accumulate, but in propor- tion to the value of the natural opportunities they hold. It would compel them to pay just as much for holding land idle as for putting it to its fullest use.
The single tax, therefore, would-
1. Take the weight of taxation off the agri- enltural districts where land has little or no value irrespective of improvements, and put it in towns and cities, where bare land rises to a value of mil- lions of dollars per acre.
2. Dispense with a multiplicity of taxes and a horde of taxgatherers, simplify government and greatly redner its cost.
3. Do away with the frand, corruption and gross inequality inseparable from our present meth- ods of taxation, which allow the rich to escape while they grind the poor. Land cannot be hid or carried off, and its valne can be ascertained with greater case and certainty than any other.
4. It would, on the other hand, by taking for public uses that value which attaches to land by reason of the growth and improvement of the com- munity, make the holding of land unprofitable to the mere owner, and profitable only to the user. It would thus make it impossible for speculators and monopolists to hold natural opportunities un- used or only half used, and would throw open to labor the illimitable field of employment which the earth offers to man. It would thus solve the labor problem, do away with involuntary poverty, raise wages in all occupations to the full earnings of labor, make overproduction impossible until all hu- man wants are satisfied, render labor-saving inven- tions a blessing to all, and cause such an enormous production and such an equitable distribution of wealth as would give to all comfort, leisure and participation in the advantages of an advancing civ- ilization.
The ethical principles on which the single fax is based are:
1. Each man is entitled to all that his labor produces. Therefore, no tax should be levied on the products of labor.
2. All men are equally entitled to what God has created and to what is gained by the general growth and improvement of the community of which they are a part. Therefore, no one should be permitted
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JOSEPH H. DULLE,
Groceries --- Queensware
Carry a Complete Line of All Kinds of Groceries and Queensware.
FLOUR
and
FEED
Always on Hand
and Sold at LOWEST PRICES.
Stock is all new and fresh. We wish to build up a large trade, and will therefore strive to please. Call at our store, or tel- ephone us an order, and it will be DELIVERED PROMPTLY to any part of the city.
HIGHEST
Market Price
Paid for
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Either in
CASH or TRADE.
Corner Main and Bolivar.
Adjoining Bridge Approach.
JOSEPH H. DULLE,
630 West Main Street.
Telephone 84.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO.
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to hold natural opportunities without a fair return to all for any special privilege thus accorded to him, and that value which the growth and improvement of the community attaches to land should be taken for the use of the community.
HENRY GEORGE.
Henry George, the great political economist and the ablest writer on social problems the world has produced, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 2. 1839. He was a son of a publisher of Protestant Episcopal church books. He received his early education in the public schools of Philadelphia. His first work was in a queensware store, from which. after one year. when 14 years of age, he made a trip to New York, London. Melbourne, Calcutta and back again to New York as a cabin bov, the voyage cover- ing fourteen months. At the earnest wish of his father he learned the printer's trade. the confine- ment, however, being distasteful to him he shipped as an ordinary seaman on a coasting vessel baund for Boston. In 1858, he was drawn by the reports of the discovery of gold in British Columbia, and ship- ped before the mast on a vessel bound for the Pacific Coast. He worked his way to the gold regions on the Frazer River, where his hopes of securing the precious metal were not realized. He returned to Victoria, B. C .: soon took steerage passage to San Francisco, Cal., which place he reached in 1859. penniless. After suffering extreme poverty here he went to Sacramento, where he found employment in a printing office. But from this place he was soon tempted by the stories of the great wealth of gold n ines, to the interior of the State. a trip that again resulted in disappointment. Returning to San Francisco he was for sometime a compositor in a newspaper office. In 1860, he established. with others, a newspaper called the Journal, which he dis- continued on account of the difficulty of obtaining news from the East. He later opened a job printing office in San Francisco. This venture proved on- profitable. When the attempt was made to estab- lish an empire in Mexico under Maximillian. he joined an expedition and intended to aid the Mexi- cans, but was prevented from sailing by the United States forces. Ile now began writing for different newspapers under an assumed name. His identity was discovered, however, by the editor of the San Francisco Times, on which he accepted an editorial place, and subsequently became managing editor. Ile was Vater engaged with the San Francisco Chronicle, Herald and Oakland Recorder. While on the last-named paper his opposition to corporations
and monopolies led the Central Pacific Railroad Co. to buy a controlling interest in the paper and make a change in the editorship. In 1871 he published a pamphlet under the title of "Our Land and Land Policy. National and State," which had a limited sale. The following year he was delegate to the con- vention that nominated Horace Greeley for Presi- dent. He later established the San Francisco Even- ing Post. a venture which resulted in the loss of his accumulations. He was then appointed Inspector of Gas Meters in San Francisco, a position which
yielded him a fair salary and left sufficient leisure for literary work. In 1879 he completed his book. "Progress and Poverty." of which a few copies were printed privately in San Francisco. He removed to New York, in 1880, where, after one year, with great difficulty. he secured the publication of the book in that city and London. Going to Ireland, in 1881. he wrote up the land question for several Amer- ican newspapers, during which time he delivered a series of lectures in England. Ile also lectured in Scotland, on the invitation of the Scottish Land Restoration League. The result of his observations while in England and Scotland was the "Irish Land Question," "Social Problems." and "Protection and
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Free Trade." On his return to the United States he was a candidate of the Union Labor Party for the office of Mayor of New York, but was declared de- feated, but always believed and claimed he was «lected. In 1887 he established the "Standard." and with Dr. Metilynn organized the Anti-Poverty Soci- oty. in whose interest they both lectured extensively. Hle was an nusuccessful candidate for Secretary of State of New York, in 1887. In 1889 he visited Eng- land, and in 1890 made a lecturing tour in Anstralia. Ite died in New York, October 29, 1897, in the midst of the campaign for the mayoralty of Greater New York, for which office he was a candidate. More than 30 000 persons viewed his remains while lying in state in the Grand Central Palace. His work "Prog- ress and Poverty" was published in French, German,
Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian. Japan- ese and Chinese languages. His pamphlet on "The Condition of Labor," "An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII." and the "Perplexed Philosopher," were among the greatest productions of this remarkable man. His latest production was entitled "The Science of Political Economy." which was published in 1898. Mr. George was blessed with an observing analytical mind to which was added the severe ex- periences which can only be secured through a fight for existence in a battle with poverty. He is un- questionably the greatest writer on social problems the world has produced. It is on the great truths discovered and developed by this great mind that the Equal Taxation League bases the objects of its existence.
THE MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY.
The Missouri State Penitentiary. located at Jef- ferson City, is the largest single institution of the kind in the United States. It occupies fifteen acres within the prison walls with accomodation for 3,000
hospital. In close proximity, as shown by the ac- companying view, is a brick vard and stone quarry with an inexhanstible bank of fine building sand, all of which material is used in the construction of
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East View of Penitentiary and Brick yards.
prisoners. There is a farm of 48 acres adjoining on the East. where are raised by the labor of convicts, vegetables for the institution and pasturage for the cows which furnish the milk and butter for the
buildings of the institution, enabling them to erect the same at a minimum cost. The State has two large pastures where the State's miles are pastured; also a cemetery for deceased
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onviets. Within these walls are operated ve shoe factories with an aggregate output of ,000 pairs of shoes daily; the saddle tree factory s one of the largest in the world. There is also manufactured within the walls brooms and working men's clothing. Through the contract labor system he institution is made self-sustaining and the pris- ners receive the benefit of the wholesome exercise of a busy, useful life, and to this fact is largely due he excellent physical condition of the men. This is he only prison in the United States where the in- come exceeds the expense of operation. 1500 men tre employed in the factories at 50 cents per day; 30 women are employed at 30 cents per day. The Factories are modern, well ventilated and thoroughly equipped, being in every respect equal to the best in the United States outside of prison walls, while the order and system of business is just as thorough and complete if not more so. The power for the factories. electric light plants and the steam for heating and cooking purposes, is furnished by a central power plant. Six powerful Corliss engines drive the ma- chinery. The electric light plant furnishes, in addi- tion to the lights for the entire prison buildings and grounds, light for the Capitol building. Supreme Court building, Armory, Warden's residence, and operates motors for running light machinery. The prisoners at this date, May. 1900, number 2,135 of whom 2,070 are men and 65 women; one-third of the men are colored and four-fifths of the women. The cost per capita for maintaining the prisoners during 1897 and 1898, was 25.29 cents per day, the average earning 28.38 cents, leaving a daily balance of 3.09 cents. The daily average number of inmates dur- ing these years was 2,228. The amount paid by con- tractors to the State for labor of convicts, use of buildings, power, etc., was $440,508. During 62 years. 289 prisoners were received whose ages ranged between 16 and 20 years: 686 between 20 and 25, and three wore received who were over 70 years of age: thirteen entered under sentence of 99 years and four under life sentences; 3.403 pardons have been granted since the opening of the institu- tion. The three-fourths law, which went into effect in 1870, has resulted in the release of 498 prisoners under its provisions. In the past forty years, 872 deaths have occurred. No epidemic has existed in the prison for many years and the death rate has been less than that of the average village. In 1898 the State property was valued at $1,589,474.59. The prison was open for the reception of prisoners in 1836, the first prisoner received, March 8, of that
year, was Wilson Eidson, 22 years of age, a native of Tennessee. He was sent from Greene county, Mo., under a sentence of two years and forty-five days for grand larceny. There are many refining and elevating elements of which the unfortunate inmates of this institution receive the beneficial influences. Among them is a thoroughly stocked green house, a floral court which is constantly kept beautiful with seasonable flowers, and a library under the sup- ervision of the Chaplain, Rev. W. G. Pike, contain- ing 5,280 well-selected volumes, the largest and best prison library in the United States. There is in charge of the Chaplain also an orchestra and musi-
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Floral Court in Front of Dining Hall.
cal department. A well-appointed chapel is provided with a seating capacity sufficient to accommodate the entire population of the prison, where every Sun- day afternoon, may be witnessed the novel sight of most of the inmates at worship, the services being conducted by a regularly appointed Chaplain. The song service, with orchestra accompaniment, is led by a choir selected from among the prisoners. The present officers of the institution are: J. D. Starke, Warden: T. M. Bradbury, Deputy Warden; J. B. Tolin, Assistant Deputy Warden; W. E. McMahan, chief elerk; G. W. Hobbs, book-keeper; Porter Gil- vin, yard master, and Mrs. Lina Spahr, Matron of the Female Department. In addition there are sub- ordinate officers and 110 guards employed. All pris- oners when released are required to leave the city and county within 12 hours. For this reason Jeffer- son City has fewer of the criminal class than any city of its size in the State.
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