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Show THE WOLVES AND THE LAMBS. ) The same disquieting dispatches are being ' i sent from the East that come every year at this Jl i season, that the vast amount of money which the 1 A seacoast cities have to send West in order to 1 y move the crops, makes a stringency of currency '? in those cities. The effort is always to carry the u :, idea that the bankers in the great Atlantic cities 5 If'i are straining every nerve to oblige and support j 111 , the dependent West. The truth is that the West 4' is only asking for its own. f Jj' Every considerable bank in the West has de- f 1 posits in Eastern banks; many of them have tre- mendous sums deposited East, and what makes l the Eastern banks squirm is to have these de- posits drawn upon. The benevolence of the East- v ' ern banks is shown by their reluctance to give 1 ' j up to the owners the funds in their keeping. This j j i Is a somewhat sore subject with Western men. I ,' When in 1893 to assist Mr. Cleveland in his de- j J i termination to utterly crush silver as money, those 1 ,& New York bankers a score or two of them sent I f out circulars to all Western banks to call in loans : , and extend no more credits; naturally there was a I' iH ' crash. A storm was raised that the conspirators .f could not ride and finally they, to escape utter M, ruin, had to get back to back in what were called " hm clearing-house certificates to certify to each oth- I er's solvency. Their doors were practically closed $ k and hundreds of perfectly healthy banks in the f t West went to the wall solely because those East- , r ern bankers could not honor drafts for money $ which they had placed in those Eastern banks to ' draw against. t ij, Since then whenever Western men read that j tilt. New York currency is depleted because of the ef- iljft forts of those philanthropic Eastern bankers to Jl '.- supply the means to the needy Westerners to i &g move their crops, each individual swears or laughs j L according to his disposition. l ' Iffl The humiliating feature is that the telegraph '' fl and the average newspaper help to circulate the ! j'L slander upon the West, and to continue to pic- rp ture those lofty-aired pawnbrokers as great flnan- ' M ciers, great statesmen and at the same time as 4& fl men whose hearts are running over with the milk 1 JIiM of human kindness. f? fl |