Seventeen Talks on the Banking Question: Between Uncle Sam and Mr. Farmer, Mr. Banker, Mr. Lawyer, Mr. Laboringman, Mr. Merchant, Mr. ManufacturerFowler, Charles N. (Charles Newell)
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Seventeen Talks on the Banking Question: Between Uncle Sam and Mr. Farmer, Mr. Banker, Mr. Lawyer, Mr. Laboringman, Mr. Merchant, Mr. Manufacturer
Fowler, Charles N. (Charles Newell)
Banks and banking -- United States; Currency question -- United States
_Third_: The trust company business: The execution of wills, and the
care of estates; the execution of mortgage trusts, such as railroads
or corporations create; the representation of others in the capacity
of agent or attorney in the complicated business affairs of today; all
such funds are of a distinctly trust character, and the investment
of the money accumulating and growing out of such transactions in
many of the states are specifically provided for by statutes. Such
business cannot be included in the commercial affairs of the country,
economically speaking, because they are essentially trust transactions,
and the funds, generally, belong to the investment class.
_Fourth_: The note issue business: The provision of all the currency of
the country, except the gold coin and gold certificates, which, while
they constitute all of the money of our country, are also used for
currency; and except the subsidiary coin and token coins of the country.
_True bank credit currency is economically identical with checks upon
deposits held by a bank. The bank note is the check of the cashier
against the credit of the bank, while the deposit check is the check
of the depositor against the credit of the bank. The bank note, for
the convenience of the people, is always in even amounts, and passes
without indorsement, while the check of the depositor is for any
amount, odd or even, that may be involved in a transaction, and almost
universally passes only by indorsement._
The people have just as much right to demand that the banks provide
them with a true bank currency, as to meet their checks in any other
way, by cash payment or by draft on some distant city.
Some people have the very erroneous idea that a bank is creating
money when it issues bank notes. It is doing nothing of the kind; on
the other hand, it is only doing something for the convenience and
accommodation of its customers, and serving the public in the matter of
protecting its reserves and so strengthening its credit by increasing
its reserves against its deposits.
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