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THE CHICAGO BANKER
October 3, 1908]
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Bankers Welcomed to Denver
The American
The address of welcome by Mayor Robert W. Speer on Wednesday was one of the pleasant features of the opening session. Mayor Speer said:	Money is sought after more universally
than anything in life, and it is but natural that the men who handle and to a large extent control the currency of the country should be looked up to by all classes of people. Denver as one of the newest cities of the country is especially glad to greet and welcome your association. You have heard of AVestern hospitality—it is only nature freed from restraints and formalities—an honest impulse coming directly from the heart.
Our city is young in years, but great in expectations. Her credit is good, because she has large assets and promptly meets her obligations. She has never overdrawn her account, and for size and age, has a smaller debt than any other city. Her people intend that she shall be known everywhere for her health, her beauty, and her hospitality.
In our journey through life we devote our energies, time, and best thought along special
A. A. JACKSON Philadelphia, Pa. President Trust Company Section
judging men by their heads and cash, rather than by their hearts and deeds.
I have known persons rich in one currency to be paupers in the other. Health, friends, honor, and happiness have often been sacrificed for gold and silver, which only accompanies us to the grave; while heart money scatters sunshine and roses in this life, and passes death as an individual credit in the life to come. We judge men too much by their accumulations; the time will come when they will be judged more by their disbursements. It requires a greater man to rightly give away money, than to make it. It will not hurt the bankers of this country to occasionally stop counting gold, and figure up their assets in heart money.
It is the earnest wish of our citizens that your stav on earth may be as pleasing as they want vour sojourn to be in Denver; and that your journey after death may have as grand scenery and pleasant surprises as you will find on your trip through Colorado, the Switzerland of America.
JOHN H. JOHNSON Detroit. Mich.
President Savings Bank Section
lines; become experts in certain directions. Your views are sought after on financial questions, because that has been your special study. Some
FRED E. FARNSWORTH New York City, N. Y.
of us become so intent at our own work, that we fail to fully appreciate and understand the work of others, and I think this applies to bankers, as well as to other classes of citizens.
There are two kinds of currencies: one, issued by the government and sought after for what it gets; the other, issued from the heart and valuable for what it gives—hand money and heart money—they are both issued in all denominations so as to meet our every want. We are rated by the amount we gather in of the one, and give away of the other; in one case we are rich by getting, and in the other we are rich by giving.
There are debts and obligations which can and must be paid in cash, while there are others which can onlv be paid in deeds, kind words, and good thoughts. These currencies are not interchangeable, and many mistakes have been made by trying to pay the debts of one with the money of the other. Injustice has ever been done, by