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BANKING AND BUNCOING. When a bank closes its doors other banks are at once profoundly concerned, not because a competitor has gone down, but because confidence in depositors may be destroyed and there may be a general run on other banks. It is this of which the banks are mortally afraid and it is this that accounts for the following press dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.: The local banks have shipped about half a million dollars to Oklahoma City and shipments also were made from Wichita and St. Louis to prepare the banks of that city for any emergency that may result by the failure of the Columbia Bank & Trust Company. One touch of failure makes all the banks kin. If anything like a general run were started on all the banks of a state they would all go under. They rely upon what is called "confidence" and this confidence consists in the depositors keeping their money in the banks to .be loaned out to others at interest for the benefit of the banks. The whole banking system under capitalism is a scheme of exploitation and confidence game, and the so-called guaranty law is a delusion and a snare. Let a few banks break and the alleged guarantee under this law will vanish into thin air. Banking and buncoing are convertible germs in the capitalist system.Colorado Worker.