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Show Old Age Annuities. Sir Richard .. Cattwrlght lian at-traded at-traded the serious nttentlon of Canada's Can-ada's leading thinkers and politicians by advocating an old-age annuity In the Dominion. His proposition was, listened to with respect and r msldor-atlon msldor-atlon In tbe conservative upp liouso of parllame-. In Ottawa. Ho !j not at all In favor of old-ugo pension t His Idoa Is that a payment of half a day's wages a week will give the average man an annuity of $200 a year from thd age of G5 until death. Ho said that to make any such scheme a success, threo things were necessary: It must be absolutely safe, necessitating government gov-ernment backing; there must be absolute abso-lute freedom from forfeiture; there must be no possibility of anticipating the benefits. |