Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-03

Postal 6avings Banks.
There-are s $50 post Office saving. bank
in Great Britain and ireland. During the
year 1886 the deposits amounted to ST.
~, 1G2, and the amount standing to the
credit Of all open acco ints at the end OF
the year was s2J4, 81 $50. A this does
not include the ordinary savings banks, it
seems clear that the English worklngman
has acquired habits OF industry and econ
omy, and that, despite the unfavorable
conditions under which they labor and
live, they are able to save something fof
sickness and old age. Yet the total
amoun, Of their savings isv,r ny small com
pared with what American worknen place
10 savings banks or put into solid Invest
ment-, v hile the latter live much better
and give their famires far more privileges
than do those Of Great Britain. Whether
there should be established in the | uited
States the postal system of savings banks
may he considered still an open question.
Though we have large number OF excel.
lent and we'll managed saving banks,
they are 40 distant from a large number
who might deposit their earnings in them,
that many do not utilize them. There are
certainly strong reasons in favor Of the
postal bank plan Of saving, II there are
some arguments adverse.
Superintendent Rowland of the board
Of education in Chicago, in speaking OF
compulsory education law, says "One
of the greatest benefits from "A compulsory
educational law will be the cessation OF
child-labor IN offices, stores and factories.
This will have great influence, not only
on the proper education of the children,
but on the wagc-earuing capacity OF their
el iers. The board Of education will pro
vi le accommodation for an increased at
tendance The committee ON legislation
have made report in relation to the com
pul4ory iucatuu law, and among other
things recommend that where parents or
guardian are TOO poor to spare children
ftom work or provide them with the neces-
sary clothiug, assistance be given from a
fund pros ided for That purpose. The
board OF education committee decided To
procure copies Of the statutes of New
York Mass ,chI,rtt-, Counec iicut and Ne
brt-kd referring to compulsory education
aud hay. them printed for the cons idera-
.. 4 Of Iala-
g,b4 from the council committee on
school, The high school alumni, the county
boat.i 4rn"nl committee, sen ,tor- aud rep
rc-"ntatiyr- aud nj Others Interested. The
ETY., aud rh~ good OF individuals demand
that This course of action should be car
ricd out wig roa-ly aud faithfully.
According to recent and most reliable
ad,icr- the Republican majnrities in North
Carolina were obtained in the white couu-
ties and the Democratic majoritics in the
black couatie.. That is because the white
Republicans werc in sufficient numbers in
the former couutie1 to prevent fraudulent
''t'N N''i'A h'' l''lhiii ''ht hbh
bliud negroes or those who could not read
or write to be- appointed to represent the
Republicans ~ election otlioers. In the
black counties the eolored voters are
cheated right and left. One thing that
helped us in the white counties was the
internal revenue laws. Illicit distiling is
carried on exten>ively in the mountain
counties. Every farmer believes that he
has right to run a small still. ne. the
- Republicans wsmn%S., isaHer the Democrats
gained from tts. "unpopularity of the In
ternal Revenue law. The Democrats de
nounccd the law as outrageous and prom
iscd to repeal it. They have not done so,
but have enforced a. the Republicans
did. The result has been unfavorable to
the Democrats. They wouli have lost the
State but for the fact that the election
machinery was all in their bands aud they
committed unblushing frauds in the black
counties.
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