The pocket is the last place for money to fructify, as any wife will say.
We spent that favourable balance by exporting our capital which we used to develop and fructify every country in the world where our trade penetrated.
If you invest your £100 in some steamship company, that £100 is useful to the community, and is fructifying each year, and you are getting an interest on that.
You are taking money away which otherwise would fructify in the pocket of the taxpayer, and which would be spent either on industry or otherwise.
Conservatives used to quote regularly the dictum about money fructifying in the pockets of the people.
Is the money more likely to fructify in the pockets of the people than elsewhere?
A water project started several years back never fructified because of corruption and mis- management.
Your money would truly be fructifying in the pockets of the country.
