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Show $2,400,000,000. "Do any of you lab r!ng men save anything of your earnings'.'" asked Mr. Brvan the other day. The comptroller of the currency can give the ingenious questioner some information in-formation on this point. He has been looking at the figures of the savings banks' mutual and stock, the great majority, ma-jority, however, being of the former class". A little nosegay of statistics for the paramount: lSWi. Total savings deposits. .$l,007.ind.277 Number of depositors... '1lJ1) Average deposit S37O.50 1000. Total savings deposits about ' ?2,400.nOO.Ol.O Number of depositors. . . . St. SIS Ave rare deposit ?::',i2.in The bulk of the deposits is in the purely virtual savings banks, which hold in lfto.) ?2.1"4.471.1H0. and which held in ISilO l.CSS.l'.lft.filtS. Here is a little "apparent" prosperity of nearly ?4."0.ftro.(iOO. a gain ef almost twenty-five twenty-five per cent, under the iniquitous gold standard. As illustrating Mr. Bryan's theory that the poor are growing poorer, it may be said that in 1S83 the nun.ler of savings bank depositors was 2.S70.-4eS. 2.S70.-4eS. It has almost doubled since then. Two billion, four hundred million! There is aggregated wealth for you. ' Mr. Bryan.' There is plutocracy and' I there are the plutocrats, "going on" six millions of them; and millions more are on the road. And now. perhaps, I you know whether the laboring man . I saves anything or not New York Sun. |