The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-18
WinstOn's Doors Wide to
Bankers.
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| pcndous pliers the richest and the
rareSt treasure of nature and of art.
| Where the Indian hunter moored his
| little bark canoe now the ocean blue
! bird locks within her sandy prisons
| the White clad brides of the sea.
/ Where the stager ploded his weary
way over mountain and dell, wood
! land and plain now the earth is ribbed
with steel the engine is ploughing
| through the mountains and dashing
| over the plain and the noiseless wire
| is whispering thought around the
globe sWifter than the voices of the
morning. Where once the student
sat by a pine torch or tallow candle
'nodding, nearly mapping, bordering
over rome quaint and curious volume
of forgotten love, now can be read
| by the brilliant electric lights events
that happened but a few hours be-
fore six thousand miles away. Where
once the sanity man knet with his
hand upon his rifle now glittering
spiers point their. fingers heaVenWard
from temple so beautiful and gOr-
geouS as to appear to be not made
with hands Nor is this all. The old
stage coach has been replaced with
the locomotive running sixty miles an
hour, the canoe with the steamship,
the goose quill with the typewriter
cycle with the selt-binder, the scythe
with the moving machine the mus
llet with the Kruppc gun, the hand
loom with the power loom, the talloW
candle with are light, the rail fence
with the barbcd wire fence, the bind
ms of electricity TO mans common
use the thousand and one mechani-
cal appliances that make our bur
dens light and life more worth the
CT
tuTy's tribute to the future.
This is the age in which we live
and this is the age that has seen the
elimination of the wonderful growth
and development OF a system OF eX-
change denominated banking which
has been evolved from the wampum
Of the indian, the tobacco of colonial
days. the wheat, rice, salt, silk, cot
ton cloth, courie shells, iron, copper,
platinum, nickel, silver on up to the
single gold standard now the real
money Of our foreign and domestic
commerce.
1--WE are justly proud of our bank
ing institution and eminence they oc-
supy in the financial world. BY their
justice, by their prudence, by their
firmncss, by their sound business
methods the business interest of our
State have assumed vast proportions.
that code of higher and better COM
mercial stability whereby trade and
traffic can be handled and large bus
mess enterprises conducted with safe
ty and security. Banking is ever the
voice of peace, and when rightly I'M
derstood and properly appreciated and
supported it is an all powerful stimu-
liant to the mercantile and manufac-
turing interest of any community. 1t
&c IF hue fo nd -
crgy the centre of those forces which
straighten out financial tangles and
breathe into them the breath of life.
1t cannot fail III its peaceful mission
among the native of the earth, for it is
the handiwork of commerce and COM
meTcc we all know is the vanguard of
civilization, and wherever commerce
goes there must go the blessings of in
dustry of thrift and enriching all who
follow its divine prospects.
WHO can adequately describe the
triumph of banking? 1T came not
with esteemed pomp and splcndor,
with the blare of trumpet, the waving
of banners, or the resounding trump
of armies. 1t grew like the seed in
the soil, yielding, too, i'm our own land
according to its own life and passed by
impercepuble degrees through all the
phases of germinatADn' on to the erect
stalk, the waving grain and the rich
fruitage of a wonderful harvest. Just
as the stars seem to multiplL after a
prolonged and earnest gaze, So the field
appropriate to the conditions and
prospects, continually gathers new ele-
ments and fertility from the tenden-
ces and the movements of the times.
Every trade and profession feels the
throb and impulse given it through
this medium of exchange, represent
ing IN North Carolina a capital and
surplus of thirteen million dollars and
deposits of about forty million and a
brain force that cannot be computed.
1t means progress, it means push it
means development, it means a steady
movement to better things and more
glorious achievements. MIR. TOastmas-
ter, the most essential part of the
great science, is not the science itself
1t is the intelligence, the brain, the
sense of truth and honor that reside
in the men who conduct it and make
1t vehicle of usefulness and an up
lifting power in the business world.
The banker is fast becoming the cos
mopolitan citizen of the world, the
friend of all. the enemy of none. He
combines practical skill in the conduct
and management of business with a
knowledge of deep and secret springs
Of human nature. From the bosom of
the old creation he has developed anew
a SySlelH Oh cACDdnSc so vast that 1t
embraces all the world, and so minute
that it pcrmeates every hamlet Of
every nation. He marches steadily on
over the swelling floods of financial
danger and through the turbulent tide
of business and politics, preaching.
Peace be still He achieves grander
victories, wins more durable
trophies and holds wider sway than
the hero who enjoys the fame of po-
litical prestige or wears the laurels of
military glory All honor to the men
who guide the financial destinies of
our State and who set in motion the
life. giving clement-trade and traffic
I'm the name of the Twin City, with
its aspiring present, its commercial
enterprise, it's elegant homes and in
stitution of learning, we open wide our
gates to receive you and bid you a
most hearty welcome.
The Organization.
The North Carolina Bankers Asso-
citation was organized in 1897 in More
head City. Since that time it has been.
steadily growing in influence. There
are now 257 national banks i'm the
State and 2G5 are members of the as
ISOLATION.
The first principal business session
will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning. when President Frank II.
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