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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1107, 21 April 1911, Page 6

No fewer than 52,813 persons born in tho United Kingdom settled in Canada Presiding at n council meeting of the Charity Organisation Society, London, Lord St. Aldwvn, speaking generally on popularising Consols as an aid to thrift, said Scotsmen were as thrifty as ever, but Englishmen. Welshmen and Irishmen, perhaps, did not compare very favourably in the matter of thrift with other nations. He was afraid this was increasing. In all classes people were now more extravagant than formerly. One of tho most pervading things in modern legislation was tho desire to do everything for everybody at the public expense. They had savings banks placed whero any man, however poor, could deposit his savings day by day, and obtain 2.85 per cent, interest, and they had other means of investment. But would it not bo possiblo to induce our pcojile to invest their money more permanently in tho National Debt rather than entirely in savings banks? If means could be devised for this purpose, he did not think the country should mii-.A n. little trouble anil expenditure in I aoply'iig it,