Show bMENIOAfl BANRCR3 IN l CUfi ell Tbe American Biakera Association Associa-tion have mute IITJD C meats on an unusual ecao to bod their annual convention on tho lltb 12th and 13th of next August at Saratoga Springs Ov r 70X ignitions i to bankers at home anJ abroad have been icsued a Urge number of which will be acctped Th proceedings which are to bo printed for extensive circulaion in Europe as well as the United Sates cannot fail to be interesting inter-esting Soc etary aberman will make an adilreta on resumption and re funding Mr AlfXUider Mitchell of Milwaukee the great crop mover of the uorthwe who u president of the Ass riittion will give A hu oncnl sketch of western banking bank-ing Mr Muctioil who n personal character was always AU impregnable fortress in the od trilJ cat bank lug dp is admirably qualified to preach where ba lisa sn well prao liccd Other successful bankers will participate in too discussion of the silver question iLe tiankirg and industrial in-dustrial development of the past year the prevention of pouica the clearing house Bjstemi at home aad abroad and the financial conditions which pro met s booking stability commercial commer-cial progress amid industrial prosperity prosper-ity That the popular treatment of such topics by men who profess to know nil about them will ecattar knowledge aud do good is of course to be expected ex-pected TbAt 1 re reseotfttiVo body of bankers ought o be the accredited and unquestioned financial inetruo ton ot the people is not to be denied That the authority of these financial instructors ever has bean questioned in to Bore extent teir own fault The failure in the past of guob a mass of trained ability to keep the nation from panics and depression and to save tbe people from mismanagement mismanage-ment of tbu national finances is i due in part to the fact that tho talents in required to make men successful practical aOairs wihin a small field are not the talents required for correct cor-rect and UieoinE general zilion in 1 very large field The beat financiers finan-ciers the bed politic economists the belt nUteamcn in this country in England Germany and France happen hap-pen not to have been suiccsrful bankers bank-ers and practical men of affaire Such meetings of the bankers os that arranged for next month tberefore while it seems to be designed mainly for the eduoation of outside barbarians barbar-ians may possibly do the bankers themselves some good by broadening broaden-ing out their view somewhat and by teaching them tbodifierrnce between comprehensive generalization and the coie and routine application of accepted principles N Y Ecening lelegram July 22nd 1SSO |