The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-04
PUBLIC ENLISTS
 TO FIGHT FOR
 POSTAL BANKS
Declaration of War by Bank ing Power Arouses Public to Join Postal Savings Bank League for Uni
 ted Campaign
ACTION BY CONGRESS

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 DEMAND ACTION BY CONGRESS
 American Bankers Associations Dec
 Iaration Against Postal Banks Was
 In Face of Warnings that Public
 Wrath Would Result from Opposi-
 tion-Even in Maine the Need is
 Acute.
 Chicago, Oct. 4-New memberships
 received by the Postal Savings Bank
 tLeague since the American Bankers Association declared open war upon 1.-the postal savings bank measure, in ldicate that the crucial fight in Con- 1gress next winter between the banks lagainst this measure and the people lfor it will find a formidable member iship enlisted, to make organized. unit led demand for the enactment of the Ebill. Letters received from both men land women, inquiring how they can laid in the fight, show the public awake Ito the situation, growing indignant land ready to take up the gauge of tbattle thrown down by the money l Tn preparation for enrolling for a lbig public membership, the League Headquarters will be removed from the Eirst National Bank building to the Wand, McNally building, October 1. Assurances of cooperation and sup bort are pouring in from important Newspapers, magazines and other pub tlications, and the standardization of lpublic sentiment is urged by both konpaign literature, speakers and fdocuments are to be used.
 F In Chicago, both the Tribune, Rec kDrd-Herald ana Examiner have taken | n oh vipOrOI1SJU RTha TrihlInn l kan an editorial headed Bankers, a EWarning,'' has pointed out that the | 9American Bankers Association should 4shrewdly heed the handwriting on the fwa1i, and prepare gracefully to accept | ithe action of Congress, inevitab ble in | fresponse to plain determination by kthe public; that opposition would breed | fa whirlwind.
 iBankers' Association that this govern Enenfs stimu4ous to the thrift of the na- ktion Ifs uneconomic,' has met a very Kchilly reception. The failure of the fprovisions of any kind has left the ob- tEiouSsn of an auxiliary to the pres lent banking facilities unprovided for by>thes sbanl<ers. Even in the New Eng Hand States, savings banA facilities are Hound unequal to the needs of the people who: wish to save.
 e%investigator for the Postal Saw tings k.League has reported he finds Bristol, Me, With a pOpulatlOn or g. 1000 and 10 post offices. The nearest Eeavings bank is twenty miles distant. 1 Theret are 400 postoffices in Maine, but there are 42 savings banks. In the ktowns and cities which have savings Ebankssthere are found to be only 250,- 000 of the 100000 inhabitants of the states.
 Mayor Edward w. Hooker, of Hart fodr, has written to the League: T I do not agree with our savings bank officers that a national system of saw sngs will hurt them in the least, but they seem to look at the matter in jwhaf to me is a selfish way, and feel lfhat the postal savings bank would khurt their business. I earnestly hope Itha< your efforts will be successful, as EI believe the postal bank would be a great benefit to the country and would in no way hurt the savings bank, but would also be benefit to this insti-, tution"
 A bulletin issued by the League over 1.-the signature of George H. Currier, Fchairman of the executive committee and the publisher of "Woman's kiWorld" the magazine of the largest in the world, declares: 'EHNot lin years has there been an issue be- Ffore the American people that was so Eclear cut as this, the people against 1.-the banks. We must organize, for Eunfted we stand, divided we fall, ex- Ipresses the need in the face of the op-