Show THE SAVINGS BANK an eastern paper contains contain an es ee dimate showing that the total amount of deposits in american savings banker is in round figures the astonishing sum of five billion dallara do dol llara larel more than the aggregate amount anlou nt of metal money in circulation in the whole world and anck more than the most moat expensive exien sive war of which history makes mention ever out the victora A dozen people could noti nob count it in fifty years the sum aum la is 0 00 o inconceivably vast and how was it IL all accumulated by speculation large investments great deposits or by a succession oi of strokes tees of good fortune 2 no neither of these figured to any appreciable extent As a rula those who patronize savings are unable to put in more than athars 10 or 20 at a time a 50 deposit is ie a rarity and a one seldom 80 idom if ever heard beard of in ID the smaller ditt riots tho the great bulk ut the money finds its way into safe keeping 5 at a times time and in many places the amounts deposited below that figure exceed several times those above it yet by continual depositing and leaving where deposited see what those insignificant ant dums have grown tol to how they have rounded out into a col colosio colo esai osIL whole greater than any sum which the nation in which the owners of money live ever controlled in any year of its life or perhaps ever will wild la not the picture complete without or comment J the he same paper devotes some thought ought to the savings banks deposits dep ogita iu in another relation it shows shown that thal they are worth more than cents centa on OIL the dollar in times of peace and confidence to la abroad jn the land they earn on an average ax 8 per pelt cent per annum being the most moat beneficent money we have they keep the wheels ot of commerce oum merce and manufacture going in the shape of In interest geresi they add to the small email pite pile of the industrious poor irom from quarter to quarter without asking the depositor to do any extra work they are always abw A y 8 4 co tile hie to responsible borrowers and to no others T they bay are a clear gain to ahk count rys s wealth from day to day they d do 0 lk not ot fi figure gurs in speculation great commercial and manufacturing enterprises whose earnings and unencumbered cumb cumbe ered reu real estate entitle them to credit from a business point ot of view are accommodated for abort periods with a port loni I 1 this active moving circulating medium the savidge of and economic living savings avanga busy earning three and one half bait per cent per annum as a permanent and they are batter than british console which yield only tchee ib iee per cent and what bank ever refused gold for british console consol con sols 8 the inference from all this Is chown to be that any kind hind ot of money gold silver or paper is ib worth what it will wili earn ald as aa a medium of exchange it IL should have a greater earning power in the united state than in europe because we have more and natural resources than auy any other country these galling calling continually lor for money while supplying security for its ito reburl return then let our monea accumulate where it will do us pack and the community in which we live the most moat goo goob I 1 the people of the world learned a great leabon in point from the manner in which france met the first installment of the german indemnity this apropos of our national situation with the money changers abroad call log ing in their loans from here france was TWOS more crippled than it Is possible for this tale nation in the ordinary course of things ever to be yet the crushing burden or what was intended to bo be such euca was promptly met and successfully borne it was thought a marvel of finan ciering skills skill but it has been shown that it was merely the result ol of the people omiah to the aid of their country with their savings Tinga sa what a patriotic picture and what a noble jesson throughout |