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Show TO MOVE THE CROPS. Already in tho East tho annual canard is be- M ing circulated that tho banks are preparing to M send money West, with which to move the crops. H This ancient joke is perpetrated with great per- M sistency annually, and Eastern financiers and M economists insist that there should be such an adjustment as would permit the banks to expand their currency enough to take away this annual shortage. The joke is that the Eastern banks do not send a cent West lor any such purpose. The strain comes upon them when tho Western banks H begin to draw against their reserves in Eastern banks; those deposits amount to fabulous sums, and did the Eastern banks desire to be perfectly H frank, they would say their troubles como not through the sending of money West to move the M crops, but through honoring the drafts snt by M Western, banks, drawing upon them for the mon- M ey those same Western banks have all the time U deposited with them. It is as though some mln- U ing company, say the "Silver King," had deposit- M ed with a Salt Lake bank, say $300,000, and that tho company, for its own purpose, was to draw, M say $200,000, that then the bank should deny other M customers credit on the score that it had been H obliged to send the vast sum to Park City to help M out tho Silver King, and claimed credit for its M noble work. M |