The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-23
DEFEAT POSTAL BANK
UNLESS FRIENDS UNITE


postal savings bank bill at the next
session of Congress will fail unless
its friends combine, their efforts. un-
lite in an organized campaign and
present as compact editorially as n
conclusion reached by canvass of
votes in Congress. The urgent advo-
cacy by President Roosevelt and by
President Taft will go for naught un-
less the friends of the measure rally
in force under one banner. Continu-
ing the address TO the public 1t de-
Nares:
"For time il looked as If 1t
might be possible to win the fight
with your silent. moral support. But
the American Bankers Association
Is bending every energy to defeat the
peoples demands for n postal saw
ings system. and unless you get busy
and come into the game in per-
sonal way it seems likely that this
powerful organization will be able to
strangle the bill in Congress.
Here is the situation: There is
small reason to doubt that a majority
of members of Congress, in both
houses, are in favor of the bill as a
matter of personal belief and senti-
lment. but the hostile influence of the
bankers is so strong that If vote
were taken today the vote would
show against the bill. not for it.
"One able representative put the
situation in this light: There are a
great many bankers in this country;
they are respectable; they are digni-
fed they are plausible: they are
powerful, and they are organized!
When they speak with one voice they
make a very convincing sound, that
penetrates even to the dullest ears in
Washington. On the other hand. the
people who want a postal savings
system are right-but they are un-
organized! If they would make their
voices heard in Congress, If they
would get together and make a noise
at the same time they would get the
support of good majority in Con-
gress and get the legislation they
want. In other words. there Is
enough friendly sentiment in Con-
gress to pass the postal savings mea-
sure provided the people will give
them the tangible evidence of their
strong moral backing
"If half million letters from in
dividual citizens asking for votes for
this bill were to be sent to members
of Congress before tn eclose of the
next session the measure would be-
come law, hands down!
I'm other words, the members o.
Congress are in the position in this
ut tNh n
have been asked by one suitor, but
are waiting for a formal proposal by
the one they really favor; they can
not consent before they are asked,
without loss of influence and self-re-
spect
This puts the matter up to YOU.
There is just one way to get half
million letters into the hands of the
congressman. We must extend the
membership of the Postal Savings
Bank League into every city and
town and community of this country.
Will you do yourself the distinction
OF becoming the frat member of the
League in your community
"In his recent speeches President
Taft has made II plain that he Is for
a postal savings system-for 1t good
and hard! And we believe that Con-
gress is with him-only we must give
the members such a body of letters
such tidal wave of public opinion
in black -and-white that the most
timid will not hesitate TO vote for the
measure"
One applicant for membership In
tho Postal Savings Bank League, the
manager of a big coal company in
Montana, writes 81 believe that that
class of people now having the saw
ings bank idea (private savings
bank) will not be induced TO change
their deposits from a private to a
Government postal bank, paying
lesser rate of interest
II know of numbers of people that
win not deposit i'm banks of any kind.
Some of these very people pay to de-
post their savings with the govern
ment at this time. doing this in the
way of buying money orders. which
they carry with them until such time
as they have actual need of money.
| have no doubt that this class of
people would become postal savings
bank depositors, and when duly
educated to receiving interest money,
would in due time, many of them be-
come depositors in private savings
banks.
Thrift makes nation. Thrift is
induced by economy. Economy Is in
duced by saving. Get them all saw
ing"