Evening star., 1938-07-17
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
"The demand for the establishment in

po.4., like those which have
'''oi worked so successfully in
Savings. England, Belgium, France,
Italy, Holland, the Argen-
tine Republic, Canada and India is in
creaslng." says The Star OF July IA, 1888,
"and comes from every class of citizen
not only from those who will reap the
immediate profit of the enterprise but
also from those who, as the heaviest tax
payers. must bear the bulk of any burden
that attaches to it. Certainly no valid
economic objection can be raised to the
idea that would not apply with equal
force to the relations that exist between
the Government and the national banks,
which have received the approving sane
ton of at least two generations of states
men and voters. Unquestionably the in
direct advantage to be derived by the
richer citizens from postal savings sys-
tenn would not be less than that received
by the direct benefciaries: for, as the
comfort of the rich depends in large
measure upon their sense of the security
OF their property, everything which
makes for such security is justly well
coined by them, and no incentive to good
citizenship and defense of social order
can be given the poor man that is more
potent than the possession of something
the value of which is menaced whenever
the Governments credit is shaken Thus
both classes become equally interested
IN maintaining the laws and keeping the
public honor unsullied.
There is nothing sordid In this kind
OF appeal to a mans patriotism through
his pocketbook; 1t is simply practical
as opposed to sentimental method of
arouslng his strongest impulses in behalf
OF worthy cause. No European govern
ment is more firmly fastened in its seat
today than that of England and the
loyalty of the people there is largely due
to the fact that Parliament and the
crown have worked together to foster
all the money-making and money-saving
arts. We see the same principle in opera
tion in our own country, in communities
where the private savings banks have
been judiciously managed and free from
peculating trustees; the working people,
as soon as they have, through thrifty
habit, become savings-bank capitalists
turn deaf ear to the enticements of
anarchistic apostles and declare them
selves content with the social system as
they find it, If this is true where only
"a ASAAAoAJ SoA PSi dGC Cdpltdl ID ClIlplUySu
to sustain the savings institutions, what
Is the popular feeling likely to be when
the working man knows that the whole
strength of the United States Govern
ment is backing his bank and that the
defense OF the Government is the de-
fense OF the provision he has made for
the education of his children or his own
support in old age?"
"The Senate committee has acted
wisely says The Star of July II, 1888,
rJs "in attaching to the
1uhos LOT a sundry civil bill an ap-
900" Park. preparation of 100000
for the establishment
of geological park on Rock Greek. The
national character of the undertaking,
its scientific Importance in preserving
living North American mammals other
wise soon to become extinct, and the
public benefits to be derived from it, have
been stated in The Star and have been
generally recognized by leading news
papers of all sections of the country To
Washington the project has, of course,
an additional especial local interest Not
only will the garden be beautiful addi-
ton to the city's attractions, pleasure
ground for our own people and a point
of-intereSt for visitors from without, but
1t will tend to preserve lovely bit of
watered woodland from the pollution
which usually follows the growth of
city to the borders of such a place. 1t
is hoped that the House will give its as
sent without question to this wise and
benef1cent plan and that the establish
ment OF the 200" will prove to be the
forerunner OF decision to convert the
whole rocky and picturesque valley OF
Rock Greek into public park"