The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-13
FINDING oun FRIENDS.

SURPRISES unnumbcrcd have marked
the campaign to procure one of the
Fedora! reserve banks for Richmond.
70 was II surprise, for instance. 10 find
that within three days OF Richmond
business men could organize and put
into operation such crcctive machinery
ior pubIicitv II was another surprise
10 discover that in our efforts TO brin:s
.he hank &c Richmond we have antici.
pated by several weeks tho activities
Of our principal rivals. Baltimore. for
instance. is jus, beginnin. 70 urge its
claims
But the greatest and the most pleas
ant surprise was 20 nnd how many
friends Richmond has-friends who arc
quick to urge the cttys claims as 4
financial centre We have already
noted and commented upon the gen
rrous expressions OF the Danville Reg
lister and the Raleigh Times in their
advocacy OF our cause, and In our news
columns we have reproduced a SPLEEN
did editorial from the Fredericksburg
Journal. In which that paper declares
the cities Of tho Commonwealth should
help Richmond. not only with their
sympathy, but with their money.
Ey=ry da: brings additions 10 the
lis, GU. friend. the Harrisonburg
Ncws-Rccord, has this to say, in the
course OF an excellent editorial on the
subject:
Tho Carolinas arc united commercial
~ and financially with Virginia. Their
interests are largely in common With
those Of this state. Therefore when
the report came that II had been sCho-
duled 70 put Virginia in a Northern
district unGcr the currency plan, and
10 put the Carolinas in a Southern dis
triCt, thereby separating these States,
The people Of all three were speedily
up IN arms.
In the same hne spirit the Newport
News Press declares:
Richmond is easily the greatest fnan-
ciai centre OF the south, with the pos
s.ble exception Of New Orleans: 1t IS
one OF The greatest commercial and
manufacturing centres. and II has
grown more rapdly within the past
tan years than amy other southern
city
II has the location it has the bank
ing capital old the banking facilities:
ID Ia. the brain and courage and every
other qualification for conducting a
regional buuli 1t would be most ap-
propriate. therefore, for the govern
mrut 10 inoUg.r1te It's Virginia made
system by locating one Of the reserve
banks IN the caaital cts OF the Old
pouinion
I'm South Carolina. where the Rich
moud committee now is, The Green
Vile News anticipates their arrival by
xpioitins our claims at length In
part, that sterling newspaper says;
" is also true that Atlanta is In the
midst OF q cotton growing country. ana
Is, therefore, more or less dependent
hpon the CROP conditions Tor its money
This being the case, Atlanta Is subject
to tile same conditions to which
GreenVille is subject II money is tiph,
here, ii would oe tight there, and vice
versa on the other hand, Richmond
has the money ali the year round. Re.
taus" Inc money IS there. The strength
al tie regional bank would be greater
!han would ho the case If this banl
were in Atlanta or in some other
Southern city.
we might 4dd. nan.:articles from III,
leading papers OF friendly cities, bu,
the purport OF al Of them IS the same
Bound by Ties that have been weldet
through years OF struggle, Of adversit,
and OF progreRs, our sister cities o
Virginia ana TIC Carollnas are as ON,
with us In urging Richmond as N,
logical site ior tho bank
Their arguments Viii prevail am
Richmora will be chosen. OF this ",
are now convinced. But even we're GU
eampaisu 10 end IN failure, I, woul,
have been worth al 81 has cos, {,
money and IL energy, IN mat it ha.
bound Virginia ma the Caroliras b,