Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — Let the Public Be Rational. [ARTICLE]

Let the Public Be Rational.

Why have you put your money in the bank in the past! Because you liked to see the banker succeed? Not much, it was because you made the bank a convenience in business, and used checks and drafts and had the bank clerks do vour book keeping. It was because you could not lose your wad out of your hip pocket and because your little bank book that didn’t have a mark in of your own showed every transaction in which you had engaged. If it were not for the banks every depositor who does business by check would be glad to find a book keeper that would keep his acconnts as carefully as the banker does, and would be glad to pay from $lO to SSO a year for it. This talk you heard from some people about bow they will never deposit money in the bank again is unreasonable and irrational. Thtfbanker has protected you and the entire community by the very action that you criticise. The kicker about the bank, is to be sure, largely the fellow who has very little money or none at all, and one particnlar case is known where a man previously without an account at one of the banks, waited until after tbe plan of the banks was announced and deposited a small amount, less than SSO, in order to make a “holler” on the streets. The banks will issue yon drafts that will pay any debt, or you can check against your account to pay any debt yon owe. Be reasonable, and if yon have money put it in the bank. It is not the banker bat the plan he has adopted in the interest of the community, that yon are favoring.