I believe them to be necessary in order to offer a proper inducement to thrift and saving to a great many people of small means who do not now have banking facilities, and to whom such a system would offer an opportunity for the accumulation of capital.
Taft argues that postal savings banks are essential for encouraging saving among people of modest means.
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The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.
Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.
So it is I am here, after having traversed I don't know how many states and visited I do not know how many cities.
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