Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-11

! ing his check today and sending in tomorrow his
deposit slip in time to reach the bookkeeper be-
fore the returns from the clearing house are
all in. Washington is q typical banking city
because the people. as rule, are prosperous,
make money. keep 1t and deposit it in bank,
and borrow on good collateral. The manage
| ment of the national banks here is conservative
and the business conducted with the utmost
strictness and adherence to legitimate banking,
and lending their assistance to commercial en-
terprises and to the advancement and the devel-
opment Of this capital city. And while prudent
and cautious, they are always ready to aid
where security and safety are assured, and
carrying at all times an available fund largely
in excess Of that required by the national bank
ing law;
Institutions so generous and so just could not
fail to command the respect and the confidence
of the community. and that they enjoy these to
| the full is indicated by their large and con-
stantly increasing business.
| Ex-REPREsENTATIvE TAYLOR
Mr.. Warner then introduced ex- Representa-
tive J. D. Taylor of Ohio, speaking of him as a
banker, the president Of the Ohio National
Bank of this city and of the Guernsey National
| Bank of Guernsey, Ohio. Mr.. Taylor jokingly
stated that he surprised at Mr.. Warner 8
| transformation. He was not, he said. banker
and never had been in his life. He had prac-
| ticed law twenty-fv years, but never practiced
|
knowledge Of banking. He expressed his in
| debtedness to Mr.. Warner and his associates for
their hospitality. He had heard travellers say
! that Washington was the handsomest city In
! the world. He said things were done hand
somely here. Washington inaugurated Presi-
dent handsomely. The people never stopped
| to inquire whether the new President was re-
publican democrat. If the peoples party
| were successful, they would do the handsome
thing Just the same. They had shown by their
| of tba Arm oft ha Re-
public how they did things. Washington, he
| repeated, always did things handsomely. He
had, he said, always taken the greatest pos
sible pleasure in voting for every thing that
| Washington wanted.
Except the half holiday" interjected Mr..
| Warner.
THAT shows" retorted Mr.. Taylor, THAT I
am not a banker"
He laughingly continued that he never met
the Washington bankers but once, and that was
a very solemn occasion. There were twenty
five Of them and he made twenty-six. There
were twenty-five votes for the half holiday and
he alone voted against it. Washington, he
went on, was growing to be great city. 1t
was in its infancy yet. They had right to be
proud, not only of the city, but of their sue
cessful management of it. He congratulated
his hearers on their great prosperity and on
their great outlook for the future. He spoke
OF the national banking system the greatest
in the world. He could look forward only with
sadness to a day when it would be abandoned.
He narrated his experiences on a trip from his
home in Ohio to the cities of Philadelphia and
New York i'll 1857, when he had been Obliged to
spend the night at Wheeling in order to get the
Ohio and Indiana monev with which he started
from home exchanged. Then again he had to
stop in Baltimore to make a further
exchange. And when he made his purchases in
Philadelphia money in Wheeling every $40
bill he had went for only So In recent times
he had gone from Boston to San Francisco
and at every point paid his expenses with the
same money out of the same pocket book. He
could go around the earth today with this
money. He expected the newspaper men
would say that this gathering was intended to
help Secretary Carlisle out OF hole. Mr.. Car
Isle, be declared, was not in hole. He would
pilot the ship faithfully through the storm.
The speaker saw no use of living awake worry
ing about the gold. whether there was much or
little Of it IN the treasury. II there any
gold there it should be paid out. That
what it was there for. The magnificent credit
OF this great country was worth more than a
thousand millions Of gold piled up in the
treasury. There was no cause for anxiety
whether the President was democratic
publican. All they had to do was to 60 along
their ways and stand by the controller. He
referred 20 Mr.. Cannon's allusion to money
being vital 1t was what blood was in the
veins Of man. giving him vigor and health. To
poison one was az fatal as to poison the other.
They must keep their money good and pure
and stand by the controller, stand by the
Secretary Of the Treasury, stand by Grover
Cleveland. and, more than all, stand by this
great republic, this flag of ours, that should
wave on forever.
Mr.. Warner remarked when Mr.. Taylor con-
cluded that notwithstanding what the latter
said he thought he had succeeded in fishing
up a pretty good banker. He desired, he said,
to introduce another Ohio man. a practical
banker-the president of the Belle Fontaine
National Bank. He referred to Judge William
Lawrence, who, he remarked. had first con-
troller ruled frequently against the District,
but who had changed his views and now.
he believed in favor Of the most liberal ex-
pendltures for the capital city.
JUDGE LAWRENCE ON THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Judge Lawrence said: Although my home is
in my native state of Ohio, yet do not feel
that am trespasser on forbidden ground in
sharing with you the pleasures Of this occa-
sion. Here is located the Congress which makes
laws for the whole republic; here the great
powers Of the President chiefly exercised
and here the highest judicial tribunal of the
nation administers justice Every citizen Of
this vast and mighty republic. wherever may be
his abiding place, is interested in the exercise
Of these powers. All who WELD the honorable
and responsible duties Of national offices are
the agents and ministers of the people. For
the greater part Of fifteen years, during which
it was my fortune to be honored with national
| official positions, resided in this capital city,
and feel that l know something of the rea-
| ton which the government does and should
| sustain to it.
As this is the grandest noblest, freest and
best of the republics of all time great, if not
greatest among the nations Of the earth, the
American people may, and do greatly expect,
that all the appropriate powers of the govern
ment shall be fully and literally exercised to
make this capital city excel all others in all that
can demonstrate the highest progress in archi-
lecture. in art. in science. in agencies for the
development of the resources of the whole
country and in all that can add to its magnifi-
cence and beauty. Here grateful people have
erected n monument to the memory of the
father Of his country taller than the pyramids.
Here statues and monuments to testify the
gratitude of the American people to heroes and
statesmen and scientists and men illustrlous as
benefactors of our race. These as occasion
may require. should be multiplied among the
flowers that bloom IN the parks and circles that
adorn this beautiful CITY,
More than half the real estate wealth of this
city is directly the property of the nation. All
the money appropriated by Congress to erect
buildings for convenience in the administra-
ton of the government, all expended to adorn
the capital, adds to the value of a common heri-
tage for this and the generations to come.
When citizens or subjects of foreign nations
visit the limited States they tn q largo eytept