Show OUR STOCK OF MONEY t l i It j I I Comparisons Made With Treasuries tJ r of Other World Power Showing I j i Gain in Precious Metal III I it ashlnSlUn Sept Zli1Is 11 1 Roberts hi tJ i I treasurer of the United States who Is attending I I at-tending the joint convention of the Maryland Mary-land and District of Columbia Bankers 1 I j association which Is being held I on board 1 a steamboat on the Potomac river tonight r to-night delivered an addrc before that convention In which lie said NATIONAL BANK NOTES II l I if f National hank notes constitute less than If onesixth of our stock of money 118587 I fflo out of yVJXttaiJiXS and no legIslation i il J can change that ratio very iiaterlallv i Gold on the cither hand furnishes iiCijf r t 7oH9 or close to onehalf of our stock and It grow nearly 2000OCO last month last month I S ROOK BOTTOM OP GOLD If 3 jri Lat us be content to stand on the rock t 1j i I i I bottom of gold Of 52St0217S money In t8 I If circulation gold In coin and certiilcate l j is 51JW33007S bank notes arc just less I than 4UOGWCOO And again look at the Ii tliJ If treasury holdings The gold there la tOday t to-day the largest um ever recorded V33 COOOOO Our treasury holds three and nine r 11 tcnths things the amount of cold belong ing to the Bank of England which Is Sioc S 3 S53000 It Is I inoic than three and eight jj tenths limes that of the Imperial German bunk which Is l70n000 or very nearly m j I tinio = tlmerf that of the AustroIIungariaii U I bank which In 22I + UG00 It lacks only Sb > COOi00 of being equal to that of both tIn 9 banks of Knghmd = and of France which i latter holds SiyifOoOX and It exceeds the I amount of Russia Germany Belgium and 1 the Netherlands combined I 1 I I GAIN IN YELLOW METAL I In five years the Bonk of J France has I I gained 5l7JIOfiOO 1 and the AustriaHun I garian STOllOOW in tho same period the I f 1 j Imptrlal German bank has lost 86S > OW m tho Bank of JUngland S LOlOOO I and Russia 1 i Rus-sia SKUJIOCOO I Good fortune has added S lo the gold In the treasury vatilta oC tho 1 I Inlltid States froni the closn of August I 1SOS to the lust day ot the current month 1 j t TOoOS02o or very nearly 3SO000OOft a year i on the average L POCIvIriS OF PEOPLT3 t Let us get a little t to Limo hank vaults and I ILl j i tIme poikels of the jieonlo Tho gold coin q and oerlilluatefl In rlrcnlatlon Soptembor Ii I t 1 IMS was KdUCGlG1 which was 37 per I V if cent of the total Jy the first of the present f pres-ent month this factor had become 1011 f XllOiS or 1 per oont of the whole HeroIn I Hero-In the gold currency of tho land la I a gain i C for f-or fciWlfllO within live years This Is th 1 strength of our circulating medium and u t ill crown as well as the cornerstone of toUt t-oUt financial system i1 |