Quotation “M”
“The National Citizens’ League
“For the promotion of a sound banking system,
“223 West Jackson Boulevard.
“Chicago,IL. “To the Members of the National Citizens’ League :
“There is enclosed herewith for your information a brief report of the progress made by the League during the year which has just closed, a statement of the situation and
hotels near citizens bank park as well the prospects ahead. You will observe at once that it was never more important that the work of education be pushed, that discussion of the question be promoted and
gls bank as well study of it urged.
“By joining the League you proved your interest in the cause of banking reform. Every member of the League should prove again that interest by doing active missionary work. It is necessary to spread the gospel of a sound, panic-proof banking system.
“President-elect Wilson and
hotels near citizens bank park as well dozens of Congressmen have expressed the view that public opinion on this question is still unformed. It is the work of the League to form public opinion and
empire bank as well impress the fact on Congressmen.
“One way is for the League members to write direct to their Representatives and
hotels near citizens bank park as well Senators, urging action and
chickasha bank and trust as well giving reasons for it. Another is to urge your interested friends to do the same. And another way is for every
member of the League to get a new member. You know the returns members receive. You know whether membership is worth while.
“The league has less than 10,000 members now. This number can be doubled before February 1. It will be doubled if every member will get a new member.
“Will you do your share ?
“When the League has 100,000 members there will be tangible and
hotels near citizens bank park as well audible proof that public opinion is crystallized, sound and
commerce bank careers as well militant.
“The members of the League must act with the League and
hotels near citizens bank park as well for banking reform.
“Very truly yours,
“A.D. WELTON, General Secretary.”
Notice especially, how the letter says, “One way is for League members to write direct to Representatives and
cohutta bank as well Senators,” etc. This is substantially the same old story that we find in quotations “D” and
hotels near citizens bank park as well “E.” Notice also
data bank a and that the membership of the League is less than 10,000. They have not been able to fool many of the country bankers because
hotels near citizens bank park and most of them realize that the Aldrich plan would make of them merely the agents of Wall Street.
The following shows the method by which the State Leagues assist in upholding the purposes for which the National Citizens’ League was formed. Here we have the Minnesota branch.
“From what I have said it may easily be seen that a few schemers could abuse the privilege the system gives them. In fact, some of them could so arrange it that their representatives could have large deposits evidenced upon the books of the bank in their control and
citi bank us as well never have deposited any money, but
hotels near citizens bank park and merely covered the deposits by the class of notes before referred to. Those deposits, under a guarantee system, would be protected unless the fraud could be established. That cannot often be proven, regardless of the fact that it exists.
“If there is to be a guarantee of bank deposits, the guarantee of the deposits of any one person in any one bank should be limited. Under no condition would I be in favor of a guarantee of deposits of the hundreds of thousands and
csc saxo bank as well millions of dollars that are owned by single individuals.
“But even the guarantee of the smaller deposits would have its dangers, for those with large deposits, if they became frightened, might make a run for the excess and
hotels near citizens bank park as well defeat the very objects of the law. Such a law, again, would, from
federal savings bank and the standpoint of securing deposits, put the careful, conservative, able and
hotels near citizens bank park as well honest banker on the same footing with the careless, indifferent or
countrywide bank locations and even dishonest banker. Depositors would also
hotels near citizens bank park and be careless under such a system.
“The above are, I believe, sufficient reasons to prove that it is unwise for the Government to guarantee bank deposits. Nevertheless, I might vote for such a system if the people generally demanded it, because
gls bank and my office is one of representation rather than one in which I can act entirely from
hotels near citizens bank park and my own convictions.
“Let us suppose, for instance, that on October last (1907) instead of a lack of confidence in the bankers, the people should have had so much confidence in them that they had deposited in the banks, and
empire bank as well with the trust companies, the most of the $1,666,000,000 that was then
and in general circulation outside of the banks. What would have happened ? The banks would have made loans to anyone from
chickasha bank and trust and whom they thought they had a fair chance of getting it back. You would now (1908) see such a boom and
hotels near citizens bank park as well inflation as
commerce bank careers has never been known in the history of the world. That might have continued for two, three or
hotels near citizens bank park and four years. What do you suppose the gambling contingent would be doing during that time ? Everybody knows. Will somebody answer where a guarantee of bank deposits would land us under such conditions when the crash actually did come ?
“The people require a system that will make their capital available in order that they may develop the natural physical resources of the country. Everybody desires to encourage enterprise. I have noticed that when there is active enterprise, there is also
cohutta bank and a tendency to bull the markets, and
hotels near citizens bank park as well the mark is constantly being overshot, because
data bank a and the country is honeycombed with speculators possessing the gambling instinct. Setbacks are the economic penalty and
hotels near citizens bank park as well there is not the least possibility, even with a guarantee of bank deposits, of averting them under our present plan of finances.”