Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-05-24

' hSoiiJ SNCis DOuy, lTUlu the lar
mer who wishes to subscribe for his
country paper to the largest CONNER
ciai concerns. The bill is known as
senate bill No. S643 and house bill No.
1882 the post check" bill.
The bill was introduced in the SEN
ate by Mr.. Mcmillan of Michigan (rep.)
and in the house by Representative
John j. Lentz (dem.) of Ohio and it's
full title is " A bill to prevent robbing
OF the mail, to provide safer and cas-
Ter method of sending money by mail,
and to increase the postal revenues"
Briefly this bill proposes the follow
ing; To reprint all 81, 50 and S. bills
now in existence and have their faces
provided with blank spaces, the notes
to be printed in the heaviest style of
art employed in the national bureau of
engraving. Each treasury note, coin
certificate, silver certificate or other
form of currency of 81, So and S. de-
nomination to be replaced with q
"post-check' note of like denomina-
SAoi4t petoSN OiA tAC SAINT lOuAudllOu, anu
existing under the same law as the note
retired, thus in no way changing the
present financial system of the govern
ment. This money. with the new face,
to pass from hand to hand in the ordi-
nary transactions of business, just as
the notes now do. Then when one
wishes to send money by mail in small
amounts, say for 81, to subscribe for a
magazine newspaper Or for any other
purpose, one may take SO bill, write
on its face in spaces provided for the
purpose the name of the person or
firm to be sent to, the city and state,
and affix 2-cent postage stamp in a
square indicated, write ones initials
and the date in ink across the face
of the stamp and transform this piece
of currency into a personal check on
the United States government, as safe
for transmission as any piece of ex-
change
y The scheme is very simple and
seems to be quite feasible. 1t would
to be an easy matter-pro-
viding one chance TO have the cur
rency-to take one, two or five dol
lar bill from ones pocketbook and
make check of lit simply by writing
upon its face the name of person to
whom it should be payable. The bill
also provides for the retirement of
$50000,000 of the larger denomination
bills and replacing these with frac-
tional currency in smaller postal
checks ranging from 10 to so cents.
These would require only 1 cent
postage stamp. Thus the cost of send
ing $3.50 by mail would be, under the
post-check system, cents, against
the present cost for money order for
the same amount of IL cents-includ-
ing the revenue stamp, or of 10 cents
without this temporary tax.
But aside from the lesser cost it
would be great saving in time and
annoyance. The tedious and often
secure money order would be done
away with, and safe, convenient and
instantly available form of trans
Missile money would be supplied,
with which the American public could
transact business by mail which now
aggregates, in the small sums repre-
scented by inclosed postage stamps, sill
yer pieces, money orders, express or
ders and other inconvenient and
sometimes unsafe mediums, upward OF
81 mn mn 000 a voar
But think of the advantages Of the
post-check to the farmer! Often he is
miles from money-order postofice
and so has to wait a convenient time
till he visits town to pay small bill
or send a subscription. Under a
post-check system he would only have
TO make a check of his currency, seal
it in an envelope and hand it to the
rural delivery mailman as he makes
his rounds.
And even if the farmer does chance
to be near postoffice 1t may not be a
money-order Office; on the contrary
it is likely not to be. OF all the post
Offices in the United States two-thirds
are not money-order Offices, and These
are in agricultural communities where
ID Is especially inconvenient for the
citizens to secure safe money to send
in the mail. The farmer, more than
almost any other person, must keer
currency about him. He cannot run
70 bank or safety-deposit box every
time he wants to pay bill or give his
farm hands their wages So IL ht
could combine this keeping OF cur
rency with a safe and ready system o.
checking it would be particularly t
his advantage and convenience.
Another point that might be to thu
farmers advantage. This post-checl
money might be so fixed that it woul'
be useless to any person who nigh
steal it. There are times when the far
msr wishes to keep more money in hi
aouse than he has immediate use for
If this were in post-check currency hi
wife could make each bill a check pay