Show WORKMANS N IS SAVINGS A deplorable C condition alti from tue calamity 11 lers Stanli it is tho the duty of tho the superintendent of the banking department of the state of new york to make out semiannually a 1 report showing the condition of tho tile bunks banis under his supervision usually his figures are read and digested only by experts but this year they have a meaning in that excites more than ord ordinary in terest the calamity howlers bowlers how lers of democracy have been trying to persuade people that they have hav 0 been plundered d to tho the verge of bankruptcy by tho the robber tariff and that it change of national administration Is ts necessary in tho the interests of tho the taxpayer if these wails wei were e based on facts then the report of superintendent preston ought to show a decrease in the total deposits in our swi savings banks since the AIcKin ley act into effect and a decrease also in tho the total number vf if depositors de minors mi tors what superintendent Pres tons report does show is that the total deposits in the savings banks of the state are peculiarly the wage earners places of deposit have bave increased from on jan 1 1889 to 48 on july 1 1892 the amount of savings gs per capita is about the same in IM 1889 and in 1892 but the number of depositors lias has increased from fron 1 3 to that is to say more wago wage earners have opened small accounts and put some of their surplus in the savings banks than had done so two years and a half ago to these depositors thero ther ewas was paid 0 out ut in interest for the six months ending july 1 1892 1802 the sum of about seven dollars to every depositor on tho the average TIM tl total amount of deposits oddly enough increased during tho the first six months of tho the year by almost the exact sum paid out for interest why is it that tho the wage earners of the state have been able to savo save nearly out of their wages durin during the first six months of this year ane answer is found in the report of la labor 1 commissioner peck who reports that ho lie has found persons whose wages have been raised under the operations of tho the mckinley act and that wage earners in manufacturing industries received over more in wages in 1891 than in 1890 these two democrats br peck and superintendent preston liale lial e furnished in their official reports without at all meaning to do so two excellent Ile republican publican campaign documents doa ments they have proved as conclusively as it t can bo be proved by the returns of a single state that tho the republican tariff is a blessing to the people I 1 the practical application of ohve facts will be made at tho the ballot boxes on election day new york press |