If every worker in England should heed the preachers of thrift and cut expenditure in half, the condition of there being more men to work than there is work to do would swiftly cut wages in half.

And then none of the workers of England would be thrifty, for they would be living up to their diminished incomes.

The short-sighted thrift-preachers would naturally be astounded at the outcome.

The measure of their failure would be precisely the measure of the success of their propaganda.

And, anyway, it is sheer bosh and nonsense to preach thrift to the 1,800,000 London workers who are divided into families which have a total income of less than 21s.