ABSTRACT
DEAR MADAM,-May I make through your pages an appeal for consideration of an important political subject that has been too much neglected-the question of National Insurance as a substitute for the present un• satisfactory system of Poor Law~ The plan of National insurance is in brief a plan of making the nation a huge national benefit club; every able-bodied person would be required to pay a small poll tax during their earlier life, that is to say, during their hest years of wage-earning, and the money would be available in after years as sick pay and superannuation pay. By this plan the thrifty poor would be relieved from the anxiety they now feel about their savings, which may or may not be placed in a club which is solvent. National credit would secure to each tlw due payment of his portion. At the same time the improvident and thoughtless would be compulsorily set to provide for themselves, instead of being, as they now are, a burden on their more thrifty neighbours and the resources of the nation at large.
