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5 Ch. XVI. Circulating Annuities
II. Promotion of Fugality A result not to be viewed without regret is — that,
in every period after the second, and , in proportion
as the rate of Interest afforded by Government-Annuities comes
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Note(a) continued.
children have a principal share :- they derive nothing but
vexation and distress, from the money spent at the Ginshop
or the Alehouse. Compared with the prodigal, the hardest
of misers is a man of virtue . —
In the "oOutline of a plan of provision for the poor" as
printed in Young's Annals of Agriculture, among the collateral
uses as these mentioned, as derivable from the system of
Industry-Houses these proposed, is that of their affording,
each of them to its Neighbourhood, a bank, for the reception
and improvement of the produce of frugality on a small
scale, under the name of Frugality Bank. In the plan
that was handed about of the then proposed Globe Insurance
Company , since established by Act of Parliament, among the
uses mentioned as proposed to be made of the Stock of such
Company, is that of carrying on the business of such
a Frugality-Bank; with a reference to the suggestions
given in relation to it in the above papers .—
Were the proposed Annuity-Note paper to be emitted,
"Every poor man might be his own Banker":
every poor man might , by throwing his little hoards
into this shape , make Banker's profit of his own
money . Every Country Cottage every little town Tenement—might,
with this degree of profit, and with
a degree of security till now unknowne, be a
Frugality Bank. —
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