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Show In tho December "Pearson's," the noted writer, James Creelman, gives a list of twenty or more bank presidents, presi-dents, cashiers and tellers who have absconded during the past two years, at a loss of practically 25,000,000. This is excellent food for that class of critics who like to take a whack at the "financiers" of the country, aud the present opportunity Is not being lost. Various comment on banks and bankers Is being indulged In, and little of the comment Is flattering to the "financiers" or their methods. Perhaps much of the criticism Is not founded In good Judgment but It is safe to say that bankers themselves are responsible for the onslaught that strikes the ear of the greater proportion propor-tion of the public as tinkling music. All thoughtful men appreciate banks and bankers, and readily recognlzeand admit their genuine worth to the public, pub-lic, but there are few men whb'afc one time or another have not expressed resentmenfat the disposition of banks and bankers to demand a consldera- !tlon, a "holler than thou" homage, not Justly their due. The Idea that a bank has done a man a lavor In loaning loan-ing him money at 10 per cent on good Hi security Is purely an assumption or trie banker himself, uuu Is an sstuifctlon that sticks our. rather promlnefKftwL most financial institutions. ItW equally truo that the public has been Impressed with the Idea that bankers as a class are necessarily more honest than other classes and must be regarded re-garded with a peculiar sort of reverence. rever-ence. Hencd the illy concealed Joy at the presentation of .facts and figures calculated to prove that the banker Is In reality but human and wholly unentitled un-entitled to the halo he would wear or the pedestal he would occupy. Banks are all right and bankers' are all right when they are all right, Just as in the case of the 82.00 laborer. |