The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-01-26
ARTICLE NJ
A Savings Bank at Every Post

| The value of savings banks in promoting econ.
omy, thrift and selfdependence Is universally &C.
knOwledged, and stories illustrative of the beneh-
cent workings Of the English post Office savings
banks are current
A young woman, marrying q capable me-
| chanic. resolved to put away In the post Office
| one shilling GA cents) every week After mar
ried life OF ten years she had thus saved I'D about
$50, which she had preserved from her husband,
| now become drunkard. With this amount she
was able to give him q decent burial and also to
establish berself In small way Of business
Another case was that of a lad who pondered
long one day between the attractions OF candy
| and beginning 10 save. Fortunately for him be
bought penny stamp and affixed it to the blank
| provided by the government and began his Ca
reer as capitalist The desire to save was s,imu-
lated by the opportunity thus afforded him, and
successive pennies were also saved from the cake
shop, till to his post Office blank was affixed 10
stamps and he was able to deposit with the gov
eminent this, for him, large sum of "a cents
while subsequent pennies were attracted to the
same place of security. He was offered the situa-
ton Of Buttons" at o small hotel and his bank
account now enabled him to buy the suit of
clothes without which he could not have entered
on his place. Here the tips Of the guests enabled
him to pursue the career of saving he had entered
upon, while the very consciousness Of a reserved
and the thrift in respect to his own affairs evinced
itself in the case of those Of his employer. The
result was an independent man.
professional gentleman had been used to
give his two daughters an allowance for their
dress. and they knowing the uncertainties of for
tune, carefully saved what they could from their
allowances.
Like many another gentleman. he died, leav-
ing his household goods to be sold for his debts,
and his family without penny. The girls from
their savings were able to buy for themselves
from the wreck sufficient furniture to continue
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piano, with which latter they were able TO sup
port themselves by giving lessons till their mar
riage These though slightly embellished, are
but q few OF the numberless illustrations of the
value Of having savings bank al every post
office, which thus brings the place of deposit
open for long hours into the closest contact with
the community. II is impossible to have cor
poration at every cross roads store for the sole
purpose Of caring for the hard earned and more
hardly saved pennies Of the poor; but the Gov
eminent is a corporation present, in every part
OF our great domain, In the person Of the post
master. 1t alone can oil the function of a safe
savings bank, and a. the bonds of the United
States serve for the savings of the RICH it should
also adopt the Invention of the postof1ce saw
ings bank for the poor. While It 10 possible to
have savings banks In cities, II 10 impossible 10
haye them throughout the rural regions, except
1t be under the national post Office agency, and
yet the country people need them equally with
AAAO SsssSOuos AZ 0ouoOoy OVsVVV OcpOoltOI0 nave
deposited 100000 in their Postal Savings
BaDka Great Britain now holds almost $50
million dollars of the savings Of over 81 million
OF it, citizens-most of whom are the DOOR, and
besides this the Post Once Bank acts a. the
agent Of its depositon In purchasing Govern
ment loans and through this last mentioned
process the Post Once Savings Bank has been
the means Of creating no less than 80 900 holders
Of Ito console (national bonds) within the last
SIX years. Thus tho interest Of all classes 10
bound up with, and even the very poor are di.
rectly interested tn the stability Of their Govern.
mont and ils solvency.
The State Charities Aid Association of New
York have Special Committee on Postal Saw
tngs Banks, Of which the distinguished o.. Post
master, Mr.. 7. L. James b chairman. They arc
preseing upon Congress the adoption Of this Cd
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