The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-28
CURRENT TOPICS,

We note an Interesting pass al arms be-
tween the Charlotte Observer and the
Charleston News and Courier. The Char
lotte Observer said:
1.-The Baltimore Sun twits the Southern
expansonists with the New York Suns
virulent editorial upon Robert E. Lee,
saying that they will scarcely love Nc
Kinleyisrn more because it's chief news
paper advocate denounces the immortal
Lee as one who surrendered his soldierly
honor and was common 'deserter.' No;
nor will they love the Republican party
generally any the more for this detraction
of their chief idol by this leading Repub-
lcan paper. And here is where a true
Southern man, who might want to connect
himself with that party, would perhaps
find his greatest obstacle
The News and Courier replied:
so you don't like some of your new
company, Ell? We thought you might not.
Better come back into the fold, neighbor.
All will be forgiven and no questions asked,
If you get in before election day
The Observer then fired this parting
shot:
..As the clown says when the bomb eX-
plodes in the circus: Never teched me!
NC" COiNpdlly dilS Colii-
pany, new or old. Flocking by ourselves.
''2 Better come back into the fold?'
Haven't gone anywhere yet.
SO All will be forgiven?' Don't want
your forgiveness-haven done anything to
be forgiven for. Besides, You haven't been
forgiven yourself for having supported
Palmer and Buckner in '96, for they only
let You in at the hack door and still make
you eat in the kitchen
What we want to know is how did the
Charleston News and Courier get back?
When Mr.. Bryan was in Richmond in 1896
he said: ''Now, my friends, as l have
said, we appeal to no man to go contrary
to his conscience and his judgment, but l
want to warn you who are contemplating
desertion from the Democratic party at
this time, that the man who, in the face
of such an enemy, either goes to the rear
or is found in secret conference with the
enemy. is a traitor on whom the brand
shall be placed, and he shall not come
back again
Now. how did the News and Courier get
back? If Mr.. Bryan has withdrawn that
edct we have not heard about it.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
lust sent out a statement showing the
amount of loans, bonds, surplus and profits
and number of savings banks in the United
States in 1856 and in 1860. The statement
follows:
1S96-Number of banks, 9SS; loans, $, o55,-
1877, 769; bonds, 1906, POI, eS7; total resources,
50 14s, 3O7 1853; surplus and profits, STA. ia
ss3; aggregate deposits, 81, 935. 466, 4GS: num-
Der of depositors, 5,065,4st: average depos-
its, S376.5o.
leoo-Number of banks, 1902; loans, ST.
1857, 7Ss, 7OS; bonds. S1,202, al ,Go9; total re-
sources, s2,6a.s1S, 6S4; surplus and profits.
$685. 7es 55; aggregate deposits, Sc, $685. 719,954;
number Of deposiiors, 5.S9S, 091; average de-
posts, S404.SS
Increase since lSS6-Number of banks. II;
loans $1l2, 591 1857; bonds, S29I 269, $50; total,
resources, S4Sl566,41; surplus and profits,
So, 0SS, 162; aggregate deposits, $+o42too,4s6
number of depositors, 1928 average de-
posits, s27.S5.
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
1.-The friends Of the late William L.
Wilson, who was president of the Wash
ington and Lee University after his retire
ment from public life, have chosen an
admirable form for memorial to his fine
character, real craftsmanship and devoted
of his friends and alumni of the University
TO raise by subscription fund Of at least
$lo0Ooc, which shall maintain professor
ship. The fund will be known as the vii
son endowment, and if the responses to the
appeal are at all commensurate with the
worth Of the man whose virtues it Is pro-
posed to commemorate, much larger
sum than $4,000 should be readily raised.
William L. Wilson belonged to the best
type OF the scholar in politics. He was
3 broad minded patriot, with singular pur.-
8 " ana elevation OF character. It would be
d.dicul, TO natne In recent years any, man
In pub,lc life who came any nearer than
he did In realizing In his character, ability
and sound equipment the ideal OF what
American public men should be. AS Post
master-G General. as chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee. as a leader of the
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