The State Banks

Bank Commissioner Shenvooc has made his annual report, anc it is a very gratifying one. ïliere has been but one failure during the year, and not one cent lost to depositors. The following figures may be of some interest to our readers: ]893 1893 Commercial dep's, $21,287,977.08 $22,591,337.27 Savings „ 32,216,067.08 35,9?.9,975.25 Total, 853,504,014.16 $.58,531,284.52 NetGains $5,027,280.36 The evergreen populists are to have a high old time at Greenville on Feb. 6, the date of their state convention. Gen. Weaver will be there, and Dr. Nicliols will make one of his volatile, eflervescing and phunny speeches to the populistic multitude. Public opinión has broadened and deepened within the past few years, and is constantly broadening and deepening. Not more than a score or so of years ago it was thought to be out of place for a girl to earn lier own living 'in any employment but teaching. Now there are many paths] open for thein, and a girl or] woman who earns her own livlihood is higlily respected therefor. "Ovve no man anything" soci eties are being started in diiFerent localities in the state. If the objective point sought by these eties, to keep their members out of debt, is ever renched, their mission will have been accomplished. These organizations should endeavor to show their members that a condition of debt isnot necessarily indicative of a life of slavery and final ruin, for even careless observers know thatmany of our men of moderate means today owe their homes to the fact that conditions permitted them to run in debt for the purchase price. When debts are contracted for the ordinary living expenses, all the conditions being normal, there is something wrong in the domestic system. When debts are contracted for property, real or personal, which is expected to be productive of income of some kind, debt is not only justifiable, but usually a blessing to the debtor. The legislativa junket to the upper peninsular is a mistakO. Wlhai is waaited of the legisla bure ís business. The people are in no mood for play. The McKinley tarlff brought no hardship to the werkman or to anybody els in the United States. There :.is Hot a single clu.s.s in the country today which does not feel the baneful effect of üiat instrument oï robbery known as the Gorman bilí. The nim-der of Chas. L. Carter in Honolulú, is laid at tüie door of thls admLnistration. His blood is upon Pres. Cleveland and Sec'y GresJiam, and there it will rernain, forever. The patriotic people of thls nation have been outraged by the action of those two men. Tliis sentiment is everywherO expressed. The ü. S. war snip Thiladelphia was oi-aered to depart trom San Francisco Sundiay for Honolulú. It will twke six days for it to make the voyage if eveiTÜuaig is favorable. That lengt'h of time may be fatal to the Lnterest.s of Ajnerlca and Mie ciTilized world. For the fact appears to be that the has been brouglit on by Japan, whteh nation lias senfc a man of war to those Islande, and report says, has also landed thousaads of coolies there all wéll anmed, and ready for battle. Jap.an ha long wanted these Pacific Sea islaedB, and toer go-riiment is sharp enough to know when to strike ior them.