Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-12-05

| time of completing the canal
President Recommends
| Postal Savings Banks.
Il commend to the favorable consid-
| GRAFTON of the congress a postal saw
| ings bank system as recommended by
| the postmaster general The primary
| object is to encourage among our peo-
pie economy and thrift and by the use
| of postal savings banks to give them
| an opportunity to husband their re-
| sources, particularly those who have
! not the facilities at hand for deposting
| their money in savings banks. Viewed.
| however. from the experience Of the
| past few weeks, it is evident that the
| advantages of such an institution are
| still more farreaching. Timid depoS-
| itors have Withdrawn their savings for
| the time being from national banks; in
| dtviduals have boarded their cash and
| the workingmen their earnings; all
| of which money has been withdrawn
| and kept in hiding or in the safe de-
| post box to the detriment of pros
| perity Through the agency of the pos
| tai savings banks such money would be
| restored to the channels of trade. to
| the mutual benefit of capital and labor.
| Il further commend to the congress
| the consideration of the postmaster
| generals recommendation for an ex-
| tension of the parcel post especially on
| the rural routes. There are now 3S,-
2l5 rural routes, serving nearly $1,000
do h1 Va hn aI
| vantages of the inhabitants of cities in
| obtaining their sunnlies These reconn-
| mendations have haen drawn IN to
| benefit the farmer and tho conntrv
| storekeener. otberu,isn sho,,Id ont
| favor them for | believe that IL 10 good
| policy for our government to do every
thing possible to aid the small town
and the country district 1t is desirable
| that the country merchant should not
be crushed out
The fourth class postmasters' con-
| Vcntion has passed a very strong reso-
| luton in favor of placing the fourth
| class postmasters under the civil-sery-
| ice law. The administration has al
| ready put into effect the policy of re.
| fusing to remove any fourth-class most
| masters save for reasons connected
| with the good of the service. and II is
endeavoring so far as possible to re-
move them from the domain of partisan
| politics 1t would he a most desirab bIe
| thing to put the fourth-class postnas-
ters in the classified service"
He reneys his recommendations of
| last year in regard to Alaska. calls at
tention to the admission of 0l,Iabon,a
| as a state: urges the irnnortanca Of rro
| viding SHINING re1iaf for Itav,oii. asl,s
for citizenship for porto Ricang and
| promises submission Of Secrotarv
| Taft's renort on pbilinrinas ~, 49,
| official returns '''''
He asks for the creation of q hura.,,
| of mines. recommends +ba ,,o,,iIinr, %
| funds for nreeeryino ~ II.,it,
the home of Andrew Taoi,so,'. ,,,1 10 - - y,
| erection of no,'oI , ''t.t 'Ii.
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| oituei our IoFh OIL government voting
| 10 iot hiSiSly 1SHt put duty and,
l,ioi ,'.. 81, d luhuaLhehtal ana necessary
quty man IS TO be good citizen.
| l. 10 wen 10 provide that corporations
| .i, NJ ~ ~iD"te " Picsi"ehIldl OF
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| tributions and expendituras There is
| however ALWAYS danger in laws Of tbis
kind, which from their very nature ara
| difficult of enforcement. the DANCER heine,
| lest they be obeyed only bv the honest
| and disobeved bv the upscrunu1ous co
| as to act only as a penalty unon honest
men. Moreover. no such law wouId har,S
| per an unscrupulous man of ,IpIirnftnd
| means from buving his own wav into Of
| fee There is a very radical rneaerra
| which would I believe work a erbetan-
| tiaI improyement in our svstcro of con
| ducting a campaipn althotIpb 7 an, y,eII
| aware that II will take sorna time f,r
peopIe to so familiarize thep,ea1,,ee wiz,
| such a proposaI as IN ba willing 70 con-
| slider its adoption The need for coIIcrt-
| ing large campaipn funds would ,,anieb /,
congress provided an apnronriation for
the nroDer and 1aerftirnata e>.,,o,,sos 20
each of the great national narties an an
! nropriation annie enougb 10 ,,,nat tha
necessity for thorough oreanization and
| machinery. which rn5uiras Iaroo ot,
| penditure of nancy ,Thcn tho sti,,,lo
| ton should be made that no nartv re-
cetving campaign funds from tba treos,Ir,,
| should accent more than q dxod o,,,o,,rt
from anv individual suhscribar ~. donoy.
| and the necassarv nrbIicit,, for ralai,+,
and exnenditures could vltboI,t dimc,,it,,
| he nrovided
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| Il call your especial attention to the un-
| satisfactory condition of our foreign mail
service, which, because of the lack of
| American steamship lines, is now largely
done through foreign lines, and which,
particularly so far as South and Central