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(From Richland County Leader) Lambert.-Again the First National Bank building has been looted and two truck loads of fixtures have been courthouse. hauled to Sidney to be used in the new This is about all that can be removed unless the Receiver gets short on salary funds and tears up the floor and sells it or takes down the walls and sells the brick, which quite likely will happen if time is given. The First State Bank went in this same manner and has been forgotten, ali but the name, now the First National which comes under the control of the Federal Government is going down the same lane. Oh, yes, the stockholders paid in their hundred per cent assessment, the law says they must, and the banks each paid a small dividend. But where has the balance gone? The law does not say that a Receiver cannot rape a closed bank by prolonging its final settlement, oh no. He can keep on drawing a big salary just so long as there is anything left to draw one with and when the assets are gone, he rubs his soft fat hands together and tell the Judge that he has done all he can and that there is nothing more to settle. The Honorable Judge pats him on the back and says, "well done my good and faithful servant, lets go get a drink." We know of a bank in Billings that was closed more than fifteen years ago and the Receiver has kept it going from that time until now without winding up the business. This was one of the largest banks in that city and has proven a fine thing for this man as he now owns nearly all of the bank assets and is considered by the Banking Department one of their crack Receivers. This fellow is fat and sleek and puffs when he walks. And when the son-of-a-louse dies he will be stuck SO deep in Hell that he won't even be able to see the light of the fires. Any community that suffers a bank failure would save themselves a lot of worry and receive some satisfaction if they would blow the establishment into a million pieces and not submit placidly to seeing some bird with a "whorl" on his index finger step in and get away with the horns, hide and tallow. If you think we are spreading it a little too thick, just ask the stockholders of closed banks, ask the depositors or ask the people of the community. They can tell it to you."
