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Show tion on the New York stock exchange. Western money, loaned 'on call." has always kept things moving in Wall street. The reason is plain enough. Better rates could be obtained for money loaned "on call" than in legitimate enterprises. en-terprises. So all the surplus cash flowed into the coffers of the New York bankers. bank-ers. As a result of the war all of the eastern banks are overflowing with money, and the western institutions may be said to be fairly comfortable in this respect. But even if there were no war in progress, there would be a more equitable equit-able distribution of funds than heretofore, hereto-fore, and federal reserve banks would finance the movement of crops without any help from Wall street. The new law has been successful in this respect, at lna.-,t. NO HELP NEEDED. There is money enough in the northwest north-west and southwest with which to move the crops without any government deposits de-posits or out-side help of any kind.- It is to be presumed the west and south are equally well supplied with ready cash, although Secretary McAdoo has deposited $15,000,000 in the reserve banks at Richmond, Atlanta and Dallas to be used in case of a shortage. Agents of the federal reserve banks at Minneapolis Minne-apolis and Kausas City declined all proffered aid, declaring that money was plentiful and the rates low. Owing to the operation of the new currency law. we shall miss the annual claim that money is tight in the east because Wall street has been compelled to furnish the funds for the movement of crops. As a matter of fact, all that the eastern banks ever did in this respect re-spect was to let go of some of the western west-ern deposits, money that belonged tn the west, and without which there ' would have been mighty little specula |