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Show Orioinallt a bank was a placo where monoy was deposited for Btife keeping. To tho custodian-ship custodian-ship of money, however, tho modern mod-ern ban'.s udds so vera I other aed very important functions, and banks are no more to ba regarded simply as financial ponds or lakes, but ns part of the arterial system of commerce through which its blood passes to every part of the body politic. As with the human system, so with the financial system the purer the blood and the more regular and normal Hs dissemination to every part of the body the greater tho vigor, energy nnd ability of the individual or tho body politic. Whatever disturbs this normal V.r.lntion is an enemy to health, and, in the c.&j v". tV body politic, as this disturbance 'affects the public health it oujht to be subject to wise hygienic regimen, i |