Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-12
Our Savings Institutions.
IRON the Burlington Free Press. /

tue FREE freSs.
The savings banks and trust companies
OF Vermont are in a gratifying as we'll as
a healthy condition, according TO the an
nual report of State Inspector of Finance
F. S. Platt. There are % savings banks
and 10 trust companies in the state, and
their aggregate is the very handsome total
of $3S, 900, 900, a gain of 81, 1853, 644 dur
ing the past year. The depositors number
1884 and it is gratifying to be able
to state that 103, 100 are residents of Yer
mont, an increase over the preceding year
| of 1856. The non. resident depositors
numbered 14,555, an increase during the
year of 702. The average amount of de-
posits to each depositors on June 30 last
was 323.52, an increase in the average for
the year of $1.33. The average amount
to each resident depositor was 1907. OF,
and to each nonresident depositor SAL
IS.
1t is interesting to note that the mort
cages on real estate in Vermont held by
the savinge banks and investment COM
panies aggregated $7,S04,271 %, an in
crease during the year Of 1878, 794 IS while
the aggregate of mortgages on real estate
outside of Vermont was $13, 1927 ,S1S 81, an
increase of 1888, 9460l. The loans on
personal security reached total of 81
! 942, 1856. 10.
The report makes an excellent showing
for our Burlington savings institutions.
OF these the Burlington savings bank
leads of course as it does In the state. the
next in strength being the Vermont saw
mont savings bank of Brattleboro. The
Burlington savings bank has deposits
amounting to the enormous sum of ST.
434, 125, IA, while those of the BrattlebOro
institution are $9,179, 1883.
Two Lawyers on a Title.
From the New York SUM-
On question of title, whether valid or
unsound, there are few responsible citi-
zens of the United States who would not
prefer the opinion of George f. Edmunds
to that of William J. Bryan. Both gen.
tlemen are lawyers, but the professional
eminence of Mr.. Bryan is not yet so wide
ly recognized that there is a hot chase af-
ter him as legal adviser in matters where
large interests are involved
Mr.. Bryan has been travelling through
the West pronounciDg defective the ma
TONS title to the Philippine Islands. In
one of his speeches at Omaha he said:
"If a Republican says that the FnipInos belong
to US, ask him how we got them; demand OF him
even show a quit claim deed from anybody who
ever had any authority to give it,"
Mr.. Edmunds's opinion on the same
| question of title is equally brief, but 1t diff
fers considerably from Mr.. Bryan's. Mr.
Edmunds says:
1.-THE Philippine Islands belong to the United
States by all rub of International law; they are
| ours; we bought them and paid for them, and
| the Inhabitants OF those islands are citizens or
subjects Of the United States just as surely as
| you and are"
The title which Mr.. Edmunds declares
to be sound and valid, and Mr.. Bryan de-
clares to be worthless in law, was con-
veyed to the United States from Spain by
treaty.
1t is worth remembering, in considering
these two conflicting opinions, that while
Mr.. Edmunds had nothing to do with that
treaty, Mr.. Bryan, as he himself has ad-
mitted, labored arduously with the Demo-
Gratis of the Senate for its ratification, and
is personally responsible for the completion
of the transaction.
And now he is labOring vociferously to
persuade Democrats that this tltle of his
own making is fraudulent!