The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-24
THE MAN AND THE BANK.

This is an AllegOry-a Financial Al
| legory-one with Political Trimmings.
A Man comes unto h West. He is
unknown, but is a keen, sharp, shrewd
| Man. His ways are not the ways of
| his Neighbors. His eyes have those
| ishy, white puffs beneath and his
| Grip is Cold and Clammy. But he is
not intimately known by those sturdy
| Commonwealth.
So, not being known, h Man sue
ceeds. He makes Money because his
| Neighbors do not know him-do not
know the Tricks, the Crooks of
| Finance.
The Man grows with his Bank Ac-
| count. He is able to attract atten-
ton.
Next, he is seized with a Political
Fever. Being Wealthy, being looked up
to by those men who have labored
hard to pay him Interest, not realizing
| their Labor was for him who sat back
to foreclose, they hold him to high
place. The Man succeeds more. Other
Men, Greedy and Aspiring, join with
him.
With Political Preference the Man
| secures a Bank. Then his Bank Ac-
| count grows still more. He is able to
| tell other men what they should and
| should not do.
Ambition grows. A Coterie assemblies
Ia Coterie of B~loodsuckers, Taxdodg-
| ers and Taxeaters. They grow fat
| upon the Wages Of those who are
toiling to pay Interest-those who
finally Lose when the Man a
then takes their Homes, their Farms.
The Man grows ambitious again and
aspires to High Places. For years
| he aspires, and aspires unsuccessfully.
All of the of the Bank are
! devoted as aid to the success of the
Aspiration.
1 bul Tie MAIL 1dllS. ne Is SllIl 1dIllIA6
in Political Aspirations ~
h Bank cannot succor him. His
Political Future grows dim, but the
Aspirations shine as brightly as ever,
The Bank is called upon again and
| again. But always Failure comes
because the People are beginning to
know the Man.
The Man grows sore. He angers
himself at the Newspapers. His hire
lings venture farther into the Polit-
ical Embodiment.
Finally n of them goes into a Sa-
loon and aids in Disgraceful Scenes.
He is Published broadcast.
The Bank cannot stand the Strain.
The Man and his hirelings, to bolster
up the Bank, become Taxdodgers, as
we'll as Taxeaters. They make mis-
takes"
1t costs the Bank Money. 1t is sus-
pected the deposits dwindled.
The Man and his hirelings become
R~evengeful. They go out into the
business circles of the City and de-
mand the Boycott of the Newspaper
which has exposed them.
The boycott fails. 1t is still failing.
With prominent depositors with
drawing their Deposits, the Bank re-
sorts to the Subterfuge of adding a
Savings Department from which it
can draw the Dimes and Quarters and
single Dollars from the Laboring Man,
with which to brace up the Receding
Deposits.
The Bank, with it's Savings De-
partment, hastily added, is a Web.
Back Of the Web sits the Man who
failed as a Politician, succeeded as a
Chattel Mortgage Shark, lost much
as an unsuccessful Aspirant for Po-
litical Favor, Won notoriety as a
Mistake" and lost considerable in
attempting to close up a Newspaper,
through sending his Hirelings out to
Boycott the only Paper in the City
fearless enough to show him vi
Now the Man and his Bank is ask
ing the Laboring Man, the Father of
a Family, to contribute his Earnings
in the shape of Deposits to help fight
the Battle against the Newspaper.
And the Battle will be to the finish
to the Bitter Climax.
And those small Depositors, who
contribute their Savings, will Deal the
Expense.
The Man n his Bank will evade
Penitentiary.