The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24
THE LAND OF THE DONS.


area, including the Balearic and Ca
nary islands, each of which is consid-
cred a province, is 1877, $40 square miles.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and all of the New England states
combined have an area of 1872, 065 square
miles. Spain is, therefore, a trifie larg-
er than these states. On the other
hand, Texas has an area of 262, 29O
square miles so that if Spain is So, sos
square miles larger than the states
above named, Texas is, in it's turn, a.,
$40 square miles larger than Spain.
The population of Spain is estimated to
be 1850, 234, about the same as that of
the New England and middle states
named above.
HER FOREIGN POSSESSIONS.
Besides the Canary and Balearic is
lands, Spain holds the colonies of Cuba,
area, Il. 655 miles population before the
war, 1,631,6S7. Porto Rico, area $500
square miles: population. 800, 70S. Total
area and population in America,t 45, POS
square miles and 2,43S.39 persons re-
spectively. Her possessions in Asia are:
The Philippine islands, area, 114,326
square miles; population, 100000. The
Sulu islands area, $50 square miles;
population, rs, 600; the Caroline islands
and Palaos, area, $50 square miles;
population, 36. 900. The Marianne is
lands, area, 400 square miles; popula-
ton, LIZ. Total area and population
in Asia, 1862 square miles and 7.121,
172 persons. Her possessions in Africa
are Rio de ORC and Adrar; area, 243, 900
square miles: population, 100000; Ifui
(near Cape NUM-; area, q square miles;
population, 5000; Fernando Pc, Anna
bon, Corsica, Elobey and San Juan;
area, $50 square miles; population, 30
600. Total area and population in At
RIGA, 243, 81 square miles and 1876, 900
persons. The total area of SPANS for
eign possessions is 405,39S square miles.
The total population is $685., SCI persons.
So that her foreign possessions have an
area more than twice as large as her
own and a foreign population nearly
half the size of her own. OF course, if
she loses Cuba her foreign area will be
reduced one-ninth, and her foreign pop
ulation, if the loss of garrison is con-
sidered, viii be reduced nearly one
sixth.
TWELVE MILLION SPANIARDS
CANNOT READ NOR WRITE.
Census returns show that very large
are illiterate. Nearly 1900, GOO in the
kingdom can neither read nor write In
the whole Of Spain it was found that
DuI OiOV4,4OO persons COulQ redQ ana
write, 60S.005 persons could read only
and yet Spain supports 24,529 public
and 5,576 private schools. A law max
; ing education compulsory was passed
| in 1857, but it was never en-
forced, partly for political reasons
and partly because of the wretched
pay of the teachers-$50 to 800
year being a usual fee. In
higher education Spain is not behind
carrying an enrolment of $4,000 stu
dents.
Spain gets its revenue by a system of
direct and indirect taxation, stamp
duties, government monopolies, etc
Direct taxes are imposed on landed
property, houses, live stock, commerce,
registration acts, titles of nobility,
mortgages, etc; the indirect taxes come
from foreign imports, articles of con-
sumption, tolls, bridges and ferry dues.
Her revenue for 1896 and 1897 was e3e-
711,450; her expenditures $50 456, 5s4.
She had beside this however, an extra
ordinary expenditure of e9,350 900. Her
public debt is now over 81, 600 900 900,
/ including over SS50,00O000 incurred in
Cuba.
WHAT HER PEOPLE LIVE ON.
Spain is an agricultural country. In
the early part of the century the coun-
try was owned by landed proprietors
who had acquired great tracts of land,
but in recent years these tracts have
been divided and have passed into the