The L'anse Sentinel

A BRYAN MAN HIT HARD.

His Ghoulish Glee Over Bank Failures Quickly Squelched.

In the office of Controller Eckels the other afternoon there happened to come an enthusiastic follower of Bryan, who found great comfort in the recent bank failures. His ghoulish glee was suddenly cut short when the youthful-looking controller of the currency raised his head from the desk where he was signing his name to a batch of letters about a foot thick and delivered himself of the following neat little financial sermon:

"Do you know, my friend, that there is no other line of business in the United States handling any such amount of money where the failures have been so few as in the case of national banks? Since the establishment of these institutions there have been 5,053 national banks in operation, scattered all over the country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and representing the most diverse interests. During the time they have been running they have withstood the shock of the close of the war, the resumption of specie payments, the financial panics of 1873, '84, '90, '93, and the years following them, besides the strain of such campaigns of folly as Bryanism, and yet in all that time and of all that number, handling billions and billions of dollars, only 323 national banks have been placed in the hands of receivers, and it is a fair estimate to say that these broken banks, on the whole, have paid fully 75 per cent. of the claims against them. This record cannot be equaled by any other commercial business in this country."

And the Bryan man stopped talking.—Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.