Teddy Roosevelt: “Postal savings banks are now in operation in practically all of the…”

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Postal savings banks are now in operation in practically all of the great civilized countries with the exception of the United States.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt notes that the U.S. is one of the few developed nations without postal savings banks.

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