The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-08-27

HE mlllS Oh Cno uoiiois Siin"
slowly but they grind exceed
ingly fine. There was time
when financiers, and, by finan-
ciers is meant the real handlers of
the money of the country-not the
kings of high crime who count the
money in their heads, but el.genuine
financiers, who handle the nations
coin, currency and protested notes,
1. g., the cashiers, tellers and trotters-
there was time when these trusted
guardians of wealth were regarded as
among the most religious men among
us. Banks were first cousins to the
churches, and every bank president
was supposed to be trustee, every
director an elder, every cashier a dea-
con, every teller passer of the collec-
tion plate and every trotter back
slider. 1t must be admitted that their
policy of a just administration, in
affairs of trust, was established on the
solid truth of the old saying:
..There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will"
But the captains of the present-day
Industry and undesirable monarchs OF
millions are responsible for the revi-
sion aud substitution of q motto more
In keeping with their calling, and
which in the last generation has gov
erned their administration of the pub
Tic wealth. Their answering allegi-
ance to the almighty dollar that shapes
their ends is most sregrettable to say
the least, and for a time when the
Inscription sin God we trust" no longer
appeared imprinted upon the coin OF
the realm, the banks became the most
heathenish institutions in the world.
Outside of the police courts they were
the only places in the country tthat
refused to give man ninety days.
Some of them were accused of conf-
pounding felonies; others escaped with
the accusation of merely cOmpOunding
interest, Whatever the incentive was
that prompted this unchristian like
legislation in refusing recognition OF
the Deity on our new coins is a matter
of conjecture.
One wag when asked why the motto
was omitted said that he thought il
was because it contained the word
strust," and inasmuch as the trusts
were not in good standing with the
government and are supposed to have
q corner on the gold anyway, what
was the use Of advertising the fact or
all the coin. This unwise action OF
the part of our renowned "bear-hunter'
may have been the primary caas'
that precipitated the stampede at thu
various "In God we Trust Companies
during the t'brown October ailment,
and which proves such a veritabl
bonanza for the ever-ready quick
action receivers, who have the knacl
of upholstering financial entangle
ments, and at the same operation kee
their weather eye on the trimming
as reserve. Speaking Of reserve
1t ia wonderful how some of ou
brazened financiers can juggle figure
go as to double, treble or even quat
rupie their actual cash reserve. Tai
about your mystifiers in legerdemail
why ~Herrmann the Great" wOul
turn over in his grave with envy
the dark secrets revealed in "ledgt
manipulation" by these skilled sligh
Of-hand performers.
The fruits we desire to set aside II
future use we keep in cans. Came
preserves are famous all over Il
country. In the banking sense, "canne
reserves" would be fully as desirab
as the present kind. just think ho
uice q bank safe would look with i
walls lined with rows of curren'
jelly and canned reserves. The ca
ming is not impossible. There q
several knights of counterfeit detecto
within these safely walled depOs
vaults, who we're canned for expe
menting In the ~modus operGaadi," II
ing to preserve some of the reser,
And yet banking in many respects
as amiable business as there is &C
where. Ali that the president has
do is to sit at mahogany desk
day and turn down loans punctilious