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A MEW
PLAN FOB A PERMANENT
BANK SYSTEM.
A Proposal to Continue the Present Nation
al Banks and to Permit the Establish
ment of State Banks, with Carefully
Chosen State, Municipal, and Railway
Bonds as Security, in Place of United
State Bonds ; an Explanation of the Plan
in Detail ; now it Would have worked for
the Past Twenty-five years ; how it Would
Provide for a Properly Elastic Currency,
and have a Salutary Effect on the Man
agement of Bonds Eligible to this Securi
ty-ship.
The time has arrived, when by
common consent, a very decided
change must be made in, the volume
and control of the circulating- money
of the United States. The green
back craze and the free silver mania
may or may not have run their
courses ; but, be that as it may, they
both point to changes which must be
made before the spirit of currency
unrest will be quieted. The print
ing ot legal-tender notes, with no
lmit but the sweet will of the aver
age congressman, goaded to extreme
action by the ever-pressing: demand
for more money which reaches him
from possibly the least thoughtful but
most exacting; of his constituents,
opens up a vision of inflation in volume
and of contraction in value which re
calls like a nightmare the French as-
signat, which finally reached a circu-
ation equal to $72 for every man,
woman, and child, while its value
declined until it required $1,500 to
buy a pair of boots, and $150 to
pay for a pound of butter. The
Agentine Republic experiments of
the last few years are still before us,
and the world has scarcely ceased to
shake with the financial earthquake
they brought, an explosion which
threatened Great Britian with bank
ruptcy, and which has left in our own
financial life a multitude of wrecks.
All human experience proves that
a paper money controlled solely by
the will of a legislature, and issued
under the lash of an ever varying
public opinion, ha in it none of the
qualities which fit it for a measure of
value or a vehicle of exchange. If
any thoughtful people have not
reached this conclusion, their number
is small, and it is to be hoped that
their their influence will always be
insignificant.
The next plan, the one under near
ly continuous discussion for several
years, is to supply the people with a
metallic currency, of which silver, to
be coined in unlimited quantities, is
the important factor. This . is open
to more objection, . perhaps, than a
legal-tender paper circulation. Those
who have taken the pains to study
the history of bimetallism in our own
country and Europe have discovered
that two metals of varying intrinsic
value can be kept in free circulation,
side by side, only by limiting the
coinage of the cheaper. It is very
clear to unxperienced people (and
among competent authoritives there
is substantial union in the opinion)
that we have been of late approach
ing the danger-line with startling
speed. To-day no man can with
certainty say how long we may travel
in our present course without meet
ing the shock of disaster and the
earthquake of bankruptcy which
must follow the expulsion from busi
ness channels of $600,000,000 of
gold, now a most useful, serviceable,
and conserving part of our currency
system. The only honest and un
selfish man who can contemplate
without dread the consequences of an
unlimited coinage of silver dollars
worth twenty-five per cent, less than
the standard (gold) dollar is he who
knows nothing of the nature of
money, who has never mastered the
rudiments of the law of coinage, who
is ignorant of the experience of na
tions, and unacquainted with the in
fallible operation of Gresham's law.
There is of course a small body of
competent, skilful men who favor
the free coinage of a debased measure
of value ; but they are men who have
a selfish interest in the matter, and
who reason, that, if the protected
manufacturer under the tariff fallacies
of the past thirty years has been en
abled by law to compel his neighbor
to pay him a dollar for sixty or sev
enty cents'jWorth of product, the pro
ducer of silver bullion should have
the same right to force everbody else
to give him a dollar in exchange for
his seventy-five cents worth of silver.
The people, however, are awakening
to the folly of continued submission
to tariff robbery, and as their eyes
open they have little difficulty in
seeing that free silver is only another
method of reducing the value of de
posits in saving banks, an effective
way of cutting down pensions twenty
five per cent, and generally of fleec
ing the whole people for the personal
profit of a handful of silver-mine
owners, bullion producers, and spec
ulators. The position of the free-
silver advocates is still better under
stood when we recall the fact that
they do not demand its coinage at
its present market or intrinsic value,
but ask that they be allowed what it
was worth m 1792, 1834, or 1872.
It ig as if the vender of potatoes in
this year of grace should call upon
the government for a law compelling
all potato-eaters to pay him two
dollars a bushel for the twenty-five
cent potatoes, because, forsooth, they
sold at that high price once or twice
during the last decade.
The only other way suggested of
ncreasing the currency and of replac
ing the national-bank-note circulation
(which the payment of government
bonds must soon render extinct) is
that of Senator Sherman, which has
recently been telegraphed through
the country. I refer to his proposal,
during his conference with Secretary
Foster, to have the government is
sue treasury-notes to the banks on
the deposit of bullion. This can
hardly be the well-considered plan of
a man of his recognized ability ; but
if it is, it will not recommend itself, as
it carries no promise of efficiency, and
is minus the element of profit and
self-interest for the banks which could
alone make it successful. It requires
no prophet to predict its failure m
advance, or to foretell that it would
simolv invite an irresistible clamor
for free coinage so soon as its failure
was recognized. We may as wel
recognize the fact, that, il the curren
cy is to be increased m volume in
manner which will be either sate or
just, neither of these three methods
can be followed, for none of them calls
for approval, either upon the score of
efficiency, safety, or equity.
Another way to reach the end must
be sought and found. It may not
be amiss, however, to say here that
it is far from unlikeV that our present
circulation of about $25 per capita is
amply large for our heeds, for it is
nearly one-half greater than that of
the most prosperous nation in the
world. And if the methods of doing
business and theyolume of business
done are both considered, as of course
they should be, then we have now
more money in circulation, in pro
potion to our needs, than any people
. a a w- t t tl A
m tne wono. r ranee, nonana, Aus
tralia, Cuba, and the Argentine Re
public have a larger per capita cir
culation than the united states;
but if the actual value of their money,
and the volume of business done with
it, and the methods under which it
is transacted, are studied, it will be
found that our per capita circulation
is relatively by far the largest in the
world. Our currency system, too, is
remarkable in the excellent feature,
that, up to this time at least, we have
managed to keep all our various
forms of money at a parity with each
other. Whether or not we plead the
"baby act" for Americans when we
clamor for more money than even
the least competent nations find nec
essary, is left for the reader to deter
mine. The purpose of this article is to
present a plan for the enlargement
and extension of the banking system,
and, besides providing for its perpet
uation, to supply a method by which
the circulating money of the country
can also be safely increased in
amount As currency makes only
eight per cent of our exchanges, and
checks, drafts, bank-credits, and facil
ities provide the means for transacting
the remaining ninety-two per cent, of
the business of the country, it is very
clear that the volume of actual money
whether it is in coin or paper, is quite
a secondary consideration. The
first need is to provide credit facilities
and to maintain the measure or
standard of value, which, with us and
all other enlightened countries is
gold.
Some idea of the value of banks
may be fairly drawn from the simple
illustration of a river. A great river
carries the commerce of a State or a
nation on its bosom, and yet it is
made up of thousands of streams,
fed by perhaps millions of springs,
none of them able alone to float a
shingle. In like manner, a bank gath
ers in small and scattered sums of the
idle money, made of savings and
earnings, and, uniting them in its
vaults, makes them available in loans,
and with them keeps the business of
a district going and the wheels of
industry revolving. The good which
will be done by the adoption of a
system which will multiply and in
crease our banking facilities, and
plant them more thickly, especially
through the region West of the Mis
sissippi and South of the Ohio, can
not be overstated.
The plan herein unfolded has been
with the writer a hobby of many
years' standing, one which has had,
like others, to be often overhauled,
altered, amended, and recast. It is
presented here, rather than to Con
gress, in order to insure for it a hear
ing free from prejudice, and to avoid
the heat of partisan criticism, which
has only too often delayed, and
sometimes entirely blocked the way of
useful reforms. The plan in its pres
ent shape meets the cordial approval
of all of the many competent persons
to whom it has been submitted. The
supreme test of that feature upon
which the security of circulating notes
depends is that of application ; and it
is conclusive to say that, had the
security it provides been for twenty
five years the sole and only basis for
the national-bank-note circulation of
the United States, neither the nation
nor the note-holder would have lost
a penny in the entire quarter of a
century, and there is no reason to
fear, that, if the plan should become
a law, any such loss would occur
within the next century. The cur
rency it proposes to supply will not
only be safe and stable in value, but
it will be ample in quantity, and will
remove from the arena of discussion
and the halls of Congress the ques
tion of currency supply. It provides
also imperfectly, it is true, but bet
ter than any previous method the
machinery by which the money of
the country may be rendered more
elastic and flexible; for, owing in part
to two features in it, we shall- come
nearer than ever before to having two
dollars in circulation when we need
them, and only one when that suf
fices. It will not be a just criticism
to say that this desirable end is not
accomplished perfectly, unless at the
same time it is noted that it is at
least done better than ever before.
Another valuable feature in the plan
is, that the increase 01 the currency
it provides for will not, as unlimited
silver coinage would, drive other
C, OCTOBER 8th,
money of any kind out of circulation
on the contrary, every dollar of money
issued under this system would be a
distinct and positive addition to the
circulation of the country. Instead
too, of making the labor of maintain
mg the intelligent world's standard
(gold) more and more difficult for
the government, it would practically
lift that entire burden from the nation's
shoulders, and place it upon the back
of the banking system, where it
would be a light and easy load. The
system proposed will not be costly
and burdensome to the government,
but on the contrary, will pour large
revenue into the public treasury. It
will be seen that the tax upon circula
tion, for which it provides, is equal
to the entire interest which mistaken
enthusiasts propose to have paid to
the government as interest unon the
loans which they demand it shall
made to the farmers. How liberally
it proposes to make the banks pay
for the privilege of issuing perfectly
secured notes, in this way meeting all
the legitimate needs of every class of
our people, wnl be understood when
it is known that it provides for the
highest tax on circulation paid by any
banks in the commercial world, being
about twice what the national banks
now pay, and ten times as much as
is paid by the Imperial Bank of Ger
many. It cannot therefore be urged,
by either the honest man or the dem
agogue, that it would endow tne
banks with a privilege for which they
would make no adequate return.
The additional income, too, is great-
v needed by the' government.
Pardon is asked for again referring
to the matter of the security of the
notes. It is of the same character,
but more carefully guarded, as that in
which Massachusetts authorizes her
saving banks to invest the savings of
tne poor ; ano ner conservatism is a
matter of common remark and ap
proval. The security, in feet, for the
note circulation proposed, i will be the
best in use anywhere ; for when the
responsibility of the stockholders back
of it is taken into the account, and
the average money reserves of the
bands are added, it may truthfully be
said that no other bank-notes in the
world will be as perfectly secured as
these. Unlike the security now
given for national bank-notes, it
would always be obtainable, and
hence the system may be perpetual.
nstead, therefore, of having a bank
ing sytem, as now, which is constantly
threatened with extinction (through
the payment of the national debt of
the United States,) we should have
one which would last for centuries,
and which would meanwhile be capa
ble of the constant development re
quired to keep pace with a growing
country and an increasing business.
There is nothing in the plan which
throws it open to the charge of class
egislation, for its provisions permit
the location of banks in any and
every section of the country. And
any citizen can become a stockholder,
for, if desired, the shares of the banks
could be reduced to one dollar, five
dollars, or any other fraction of one
hundred dollars, thus making it very
easy for even the poorest to become
interested and to share any advan
tages which it may be supposed the
law confers.
It will be found also that the plan
proposes to permit the establishment
of local or State banks alongside the
national banks m all States where
they are desired, and provides for a
State bank circulation as amply se
cured and as free from the taint of
irredeemability as the national bank
notes now m circulation, it also
provides, through these State banks,
the facilities for a rapid increase in
the volume of their notes, and there
fore adds another elastic element to
the money supply ot the country.
The State banks would contribute at
the same rate to the public treasury
as they would the national ; and the
existence of the two systems along
side of each other would stimulate a
most healthy rivalry in management
a
supervision ; each local or state gov
erment naturally rivalling the general
government and those of sister States
in the rigid supervision and control
of her banks.
The great difficulty in getting ac
tion upon such important measure-as
this is the tendency to throw it into
politics ; and if it becomes the foot
ball of partisanship, the country may
be .kept from the enjoyment of its
provisions lor a generation ; whereas, 1
if it simply meets that intelligent and
business like criticism which any im
portant commercial measure should
receive, and is approved, it will be
adopted, and within a short time
every section of the country and all
branches of business will be enjoying
its advantages, and millions, of new
money worth the full value of its
face in gold will be flowing in the
channels of trade. It would probably,
it is true, be considered a Democratic
measure, and the country would
therefore in the future regard the
Democratic party as its benefactor,
and come to look upon it again as a
conservative and intelligent abettor
of trade, and the friend of legitimate
enterprises of all kinds, instead of an
organization to be dreaded, because
prone to take up and help forward
schemes that menace trade, commerce,
and (he prosperous course of business,
as it hasunfortunately done in connec
tion with the greenback craze and
other unsafe financial measures.
This would be no just reason for
Republican opposition. Republicans
should remember that the national
banking system, from which they
have as a party derived great advan
tages, is after all but an adaptation,
involving few changes, of the Demo
cratic banking systems which Mr.
Chase and his friends found in ex
1891.
istence m Indiana, Ohio, and New
York in 1863. No more claim can
be justly made that Mr. Chase and
those about him created the national
banking law than could be made by
the writer for his connection with the
establishment of the system herein
proposed, should it become the law,
for it makes at least as many and
quite as vital changes in the existing
system as tne republicans made m
the system they found in successful
operation at the beginning of the
great war of J 1 86 1. Honors, indeed,
between the two parties, in the line
of banking services, are about equal,
and both can well afford at this time
to engage in a patriotic rivalry in
seeing which can do die most to
bring about the change needed.
I he writer has no selfish interest
m the result, beyond that of the
average citizen, for he is neither
stockholder nor officer in any nation
al bank, and only takes advantage of
the recent currency discussion to
bring forward a system of banking
which he has had under way for over
dozen years, and upon which he
has tried to bring to bear the expe
rience, study, and observation of
twenty-nine years as bank clerk, pri
vate banker, bank officer, and manu
facturer. The plan itself is brief and
simple, and its very brevity is the
excuse for so full an introduction. It
is not contended that, if adopted.
changes and improvements in it will
not be necessary from time to time ;
but it is put forth in the belief that it
is a remedy which will promptly cure
the financial ills we suffer from, and
that its adoption is free from danger,
and beyond valid objection.
1 he somewhat numorous notes m
small type are intended to answer
questions which will naturally arise in
die mind of the reader, and to point
out whys, wherefores and .probable
results, which would not, perhaps,
at once occur to him. The basis we
start with is the national banking svs-
tern as it exists, and only the changes
described are proposed. The rest of
the present law would remain intact
I. The list of bonds acceptable as
security for circulating notes should
be enlarged so as to include State,
county, city, and railroad bonds
under the following rules :
Street-railroad bonds are excluded.
because their franchises are usually of
short duration ; and bonds secured by
mortgage upon farms and other real
estate have always proved inferior and
unusually unsafe security for bank
notes. (a) All bonds thus rendered avail
able must be registered, and in
terest must be payable in gold of the
present standard of weight and fine
ness.
There are enough bonds of this kind
now in existence and available to in
crease the bank-note circulation sever
al hundred millions ; and most bonds is
sued hereafter would naturally be
registered, and payable in gold.
(b) All such bonds must have
been listed for at least five years prior
to their deposit as security for circu
lation, upon at least one stock ex-
hange located in the. United
States having a population of 500,-
000 or more.
This would exclude all honds pirent
those having a well established charac
ter, as well as recognized high value.
(c) No bond which has ever been
in default for non-payment of inter
est, or which has sold on any stock
exchange below par within five years,
or which has sold on any stock - ex
change at less than a premium of five
per cent above par within three years
of its proposed deposit as securitv
for circulation, shall be accepted un
der tliis law.
The result of this would nrobablv be
that the bonds deposited as securitv
for circulation wnnlrl h
gold market value of at least no, which
would make them to-day a very much
better security for bank-note circula
tion than United States bonds were
from 1862 to '6a.
(d) No State bond representing a
per capita debt of over two dollars
for each of its citizens, no countv
bond representing a per capita debt
of over four dollars, and no city bond
representing a per capita debt of over
eight dollars, shall be accepted as se
curity for bank notes.
The object of this is to discouratre,
rather than encourage, the increase of
state, county and city debts a con
sumption devoutly to be wished.
(e) AH railrod bonds deposited
must be secured by mortgage, and
none shall be of the form known as
trust or debenture bonds.
(f) No bank shall have more than
twenty per cent of its bonds on de
posit of the issue ot any one Mate,
county, or railroad.
This provision is intended to protect
the banks from loss but of course is
not needed for the security of the gov
ernment or the note-holder.
(g) Whenever any bond upon de
posit under this law shall sell, upon
any stock exchange upon which it is
listed, for a period of thirty days at
an average price ot leas than 105,
the comptroller of the currency shall
require it to be replaced by a bond
fully meeting the requirements of this
law.
(h) Whenever any railroad which
was paying dividends at the tune its
bonds were accented as security for
the circulating notes of any bank,
ceases to pay regular dividends, the
comptroller of the currency shall re
quire bank to substitute other bonds
of the character called for by this
law.
IL Any president vice-president,
manager, secretary, treasurer, audi
tor, or other officer of any interstate
railroad (any of whose bonds are on
deposit under this law) who shall
knowingly issue or permit to be is
sued any false statement of the earn
ings, expenses or condition of said
railroad, shall be considered guilty
ui a ieiony, ana oe suDject to trial in
any court of the United States,
S ' f M . ...
auu 11 iouna guuty snail be sen
tenced to imprisonment at hard
labor for a term of not less than
ten nor more than twentv vears
and may be fined in addition, at the
discretion of the court, in any sum
not exceeding $100,000.
I he advantages ot this portion ot the
jaw. wmcn it is a nirv u,-p a r rnmndisd
to limit to interstate roads, will not be
confined to the bankint? svstem. hut
public which has long been needed.
win t' 1 v 1. -a iff r nn rrt inp irnprn
and which will tend to give far greater
aidvuuy w American railway invest
beats.
III. In lieu of all other United
States taxes each bank shall pay in
the usual manner a semi-annual tax
of one per cent(two per cent per an
num ) upon the average amount of its
notes in circulation.
This will produce a large revenue for
the government, and will tend to pre
vent the creation of new forms of tax
ation, which will be required to meet
11s present extravaeant expenditures
When money on call falls to one-half
per cent or even to one and a half per
cent per annum, this rate of taxation will
cause Eastern banks to deposit lawful
money at Washinerton for the redemp
tion of their notes, and thus impart an
element of elasticitv to the ceneral cir
culation. Experience mav prove that
this tax can be still further increased.
adding to the income of the treasury,
and giving still greater flexibility to the
volume of paper money.
IV. The present United States tax
upon the circulation notes of State
banks shall cease provided such notes
are secured in precisely the same
manner as national bank-notes, by
bonds depositedwith the auditor of
treasurer of the State ; andZprovided
also, that the State in which said
bank is located shall guarantee the
payment of its circulation notes.
State banks shall pay the same taxes
uii liicii nuies, itnu in me same man
ner, as national banks.
This would, in everv State where
there was a demand for it, restore State
banking to its old condition of useful
ness, and would silence the now well
founded charere that national banks
enjoy an exclusive and therefore spec
iaf privilege, -that of issuing circula
ting notes.
V. The amount of the notes issued
by any btate .bank shall be under
the control of the State in which it is
ocated, and nothing in the law shall
restrict the circulating notes of any
State bank to ninety per cent of the
par value of the bonds deposited by
it to secure the payment of said notes.
This provision will be recoenized as
sound by most competent bankers, and
experience will probably lead to its ex
tension ultimately to national banks. It
gives the banks also the power prompt
ly to increase the money in circulation
when urgently needed, such extra sup
ply being retired under the influence
of the tax burden unless there should
continue to be reasonable demand for
it ; thus having a tendency still further
to develop flexibility in our financial
system.
VI. State banks shall not be com
pelled to redeem their notes anywhere
but at their own counters.
Should it be deemed desirable in anv
State to make the circulation of the
notes issued bv its banks local, and to
throw about its influences which would
tend to hold them within the bounds of
the State, this part of the law would
provide a way for doing so.
VI L All State bank-notes issued
under this law to be, like national
bank-notes, redeemable in United
States legal tender, coin or notes.-
Michael D. Harter in the forum for
October.
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For fevers, chills and malaria, take
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For sleeplessness, nervousness and
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For indigestion and foul stomach,
take Lemon Elixir
For all sick and nervous headaches.
take Lemon Elixir
Ladies, for natural and thorough or
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Ur Moziey s Lemon lilixir will not
fail you in any of the above named dis
eases, all of which arise from a torpid
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bowels
Prepared only by Dr H Mozlev, At
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5oct and $1.00 per bottle, at druggists
Lemon Hot Drops.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemmor-
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Return of an Old North Carolinian.
We were glad to see in the city
yesterday Capt Samuel Timothy
Nicholson, who moved from Urace-
bridge Hall near Culpepper Bridge,
Halifax county, N. C, m 1852 to
Livingston, Madison county Miss.
He married a daughter of Dr. Jigget's
family of Oxford. Mr. Nicholson is
lust from Salem where he carried his
daughter to Salem Female Academy.
He is an honest, high-toned Chris
tian gentleman. He goes hence to
visit his brother Mr. Blake Baker
Nicholson of Littleton and thence to
the old homestead, where Col.
Frank Parker now resides.
The Spring Medicine.
The popularity which Hood's
Sarsaparilla has gained as a spring
medicine is wonderful. It possesses
just those elements of health-giving,
blood-punlying and appeute-restor-ing
which every body seems to need
at this season. Do not continue in a
a dull, tired, unsatisfactory condition
when you may be so much benefitted
by Hood's Sarsaparilla. It purifies
the blood and makes the weak strong.
NUMBER 38.
At
Last!
We have at last se
cured the corner build
ing and will occupy it
in a few days ; just as
soon as we can cut the
door way through and
do some fixing up. We
will then have
Tlrree
Stores
In
One
The largest and most
convenient store rooms
in our Beautiful town.
Just received: A nice
line of Fine Cassimeres
suitable for gents suit
and pants. These
goods are excellent
value and are marked
away down; very much
less than their real val
ue. If you are in want
of anything in this way,
you should see these
goods.
Respectfully,
J. M. Leath, Manager,
The Cash Racket Store,
Nash and Goldsboro Sts.
WINSTON HOUSE,
SELMA, N. C.
MRS. G. A. TUCK,
PROPRIETRESS.
DR. W. S. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
. WILSON, N. C.
Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St.
DR. ALBERT ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, n. c.
Office next door to the First Nations
Bank.
DR. E. K. WRIGHT,
Surgeon Dentist,
WILSON, n. c.
Having permanently located in Wil
son, I oner my professional services to
the public.
XW Office in Central Hotel Building.
DR. R. W. JOYNER,
DENTAL SURGEON.
WILSON, N. C.
I have become permanently identi
fied with the people of Wilson ; have
practiced here for the past ten years
and wish to return thanks to the gener
ous people of the community for the
liberal patronage they have given me.
HTI spare no money to procure in
struments that will conduce to the com
fort of my patients. For a continuation
of the liberal patronage heretofore
bestowed on me I shall feel deeply
grateful.
NOTICE.
Having qualified as Executors
of the last will and testament of Curtis
H. Glover, deceased, all persons hav
ing claims against said deceased are
hereby notified to present them to us,
or to our attorney for payment on or
before the 20th day of August 1893 or
this notice will be plead in oar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said
deceased are requested to make im
mediate payment.
Zilpha Glover, )
W.N. Glovk.
John E.Woodard, Atty.
JOHN D. COUPER,
MARBLE GRANITE
Monuments, Gravestones, &c.
in, 113 and 115 Bank St.,
NORFOLK, VA.
Designs free. Write for prices.
( i-M-iy.