The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-14
and the public debt s225, 900, 900; the

and the public debt S225,000,0O0; the
annual expenditure is now $3.50. .0OO, 900
and the public debt about So SOC, 600, 900,
nearly half of which has been incurred
during the past ten years. This is the
serious side of the Russian situation, and
no improvement is likely to take place
in this respect until Government more
amenable to the popular will is establish.
ed.
The British islands in 1S40 had q pop.
ulation of less than 27,000,000 their
present population is $4,000, 900, very
substantial increase, especially when it is
remembered that in that period the
country llss sent almost an equal number
of emigrants to other countries. The
increase has been wholly in Great Brit
ain, the population Of which has risen
from 19,O00,OOO in 1910 to $4,000 900 at
present, while that of Ireland has fallen
in the same period from 100000 10
100000. The annual expenditure OF
Great Britain and Ireland in l84O was
$3.50, 100000 and the national debt S4,.
2O0,000,0 900. The debt has been reduced
to So, ,SOO,O 100000, and is being slowly but
steadily decreased. In 1910 the total
area of the British Empire was given at
100000 square miles, and its population
154,0O0,000 This area excluded large
tracts in Australia and North America,
which were then recognized as British
territory, but which had then no settled
government, while it included tributary
and protected States 10 India, with q
population Of 100000, and an area of
$4,000 square miles. Including these
the population of the British Empire was
114,0o0,OO0. Its present population is
252,0O0000, with an area of 8,410, 600
square miles, and if the tributary States
of India are included, the total area of
the Empire is 8,982,000 aquare miles and
its population 310,000,000. To protect
the colonial portion of this vast Empire
requires the services of $4,000 British and
100000 Indian troops. Outside of the
United Kingdom there are about O,O0O,-
900 British under the British flag, so that
the total European population of the
Empire is At 100000, which is 100000
in excess of the population in lS4O. In
Iudia alone there have been added to the
Empire 100000 square miles OF territory
and $4,000, 900 Of souls, but part of
this increase may be set down to under.
estimates of the population at previous
enumerations. After making ample
allowance for this, it is evident that the
increase of the population of the British
Empire in the past forty.five years has
not been less than 100,000,0C0. In the
same period the annual imports and ex-
ports of the United Kingdom have risen
from S50O,OO0 900 to $500, 100000. !.
Spain is the only other European
nation which makes any claims to be
admitted into the family of great Powers,
and its claims have not yet been recog-
nized. Spain has advanced in population
from 100000 to 1000 in 1S40,
and her general condition is undoubtedly
better than it was then, although the
national debt has risen to the enormous
sum of 50, 100000, 900, the largest in pro.
portion to the population of any country
in Europe. Belgium and Holland have
each increased their population by more
than q million souls since 1910, while
Sweden and Norway have added mora
than 1000, 900 to their united population.
Denmark has lost nearly half her terri.
tory, aid experienced large loss of
population, but Greece has doubled her
territory and increased her population:
threefold. -, 4
So much for Europe; on this side ofthe
Atlantic there have been changes even
more surprising. Since 1910 niue new
States and ten Territories have been
Incorporated into this Republic, -and the
population has increased from 17,0OO,0 600
to 56,OOO,O00. The growth of wealth,
Notwithstanding the losses BY the civil
war, has more than kept pace with the
growth of population. In the interval
N more than 100000 miles of railway have
been built and new West created ~iich
threatens to overshadow tbe~Uider States.
No country in world has advanced so
rapidly ia material wealth and in popu-
lation. and the full tide of prosperity
seems in no danger of being stayed;
Another period of forty-6ve years should
find this the greatest, richest and most
populous of the whole family of nations.