Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27
Cashier Smiths Announcement.

He extends cordial greeting to the pub
lie and speaks of the banks prospects in
enthusiastic terms. This, with the banks
statement, is convincing evidence that the
institution is financially solid.
To the Public.
GREETING-Every preparation for the re-
sumption of business by the Merchants
national bank having been undertaken and
perfected, rejoice, as its cashier, in being
able to announce, agreeable to directions OF
the board of directors newly constituted,
our determination to resume business at
once; that at 9 o'clock sharp on Sat
urday morning, the Goth inst, we will
throw wide ajar its ponderous
doors. Of the extraordinary circumstances
which in the main led to the suspension of
the bank on July 20 last. the public in gen.
eral are familiar to the minutest detail.
That the enactment by the Twenty-second
legislature of what is widely known as the
alien land law, impelling as it did the with
drawal from the custody of a sudden, very
large balances of money maintained in the
usual and regular course of business to the
credit of alien corporations, in sense, was
primarily, the fruitful source of woes I'm
numbered, and chiefly the cause of events
which led up to the disaster
with which the Merchants national
bank was, when in the flush
of pride due to a long line of brilliant
achievements overtaken, is incontestably
true.
Begging your patience further, I desire
after first making the most cordial acknow-
Judgements of the very generous patronage
heretofore extended the Merchants ma
tional bank at the hands o its many friends
and patrons, to hopefully bespeak for it a
continuance of large measure of popular
support, pledging in all sincerity confd-
ing clientage and the general public at once
nd bn fipnn an, hab off IF
constituted of the ripest business and bank
ing talent, their heartiest cooperation in all
undertakings of a purely and strictly legit-
innate character.
Having no aspirations to glorify and no
ambitions to serve, save and except it be to
so manage in the future the affairs of the
association as to secure a just measure of
popular appreciation, coming as a result of
the following up Loyalty of lines of conduct
running parallel with principles of high
born conservatism, thus insuring the most
gratifying results to all concerned alike, we
of the new management fancy we can of
right hail with joy unbounded the event
herein announced, and withal point with
degree of pardonable pride TO the fact that,
despite the marvellous circumstances nota-
bly, present as characteristic of the none
tary markets and business circles
and centerS of the country,
the Merchants national bank
has, like unto the tabled phoenix of olden
time, approved itself strong and resolute in
all the elements of self-reliant and ex-
haustless vitality, IN that, like the phoenix
of old, it has risen regenerated in spirit
and purpose, and that to-day it stands upon
the threshold of a future made bright with
the promise of most prosperous and hon
orable career. With renewed faith in its
superabounding opportunities, it conf
IDENTIFY and fearlessly faces the future, con-
.scious of its ability to fulfill its appointed
functions of usefulness and destiny at
once unfaltsring. magnificent and magnan-
imous. l respectfully invite your attention
10 the statement made of the condition, at
Ibis writing, of the Merchants national
bank, published herewith. Respectfully
a. B. SMITH, Cashier.