The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-09
An ECONOMICAL GOVERNMENT.


States Government are I.luch less IN
proportion TO population than those OF
many other of the Leading nations OF
the world This fact is shown by
statement just published b. the De-
partrnenr of Commerce and Labor,
through its Bureau OF Statistics. show
ing the population. revenues, expendi-
tures. and Indebtedness OF the principal
countries of the world. IT shows that
while the expenditure. of the United
states, with eighty millions of people,
In $40, 000, 900, that Of the United King
dom, with forty-two millions of people.
is $Sss ,oe0, 600; that of France. with thir-
ty-nine million people. is $685., Goo, 600;
mat of Germany. with ffty-eight mil
lion people, $685.. o0e, coo; while N prac-
tfeaIIv every country aside from China
and india. with their enormous popuia-
lion. the per capita of Government ex-
penditures is greater than in the United
States.
i Even in the case of Russia. with ITS
nopulation of one hundred and forty
one million, the per capita of Govern
ment expenditure Is about the same as
that of the United States While i IS
frue that a larger proportion of public
axnenditures is borne by State and local
governments In the United States than
IN many OF the more centralized gov
ernments of Europe, these figures OF
the relative national expenditures OF
the various governments are at least
interesting at the present time.
The table puts the population OF the
United States at s9,3l2, 900, the Govern
n,ent expenditure in 1868 at s64o, sas, COO
and the per capita expenditure $751;
Tne per capita government expenditure
Of Canada is given at $3.50; the German
Empire, ss.45; Italy, s1o.s7: Austria
Hungary, sl427: Belgium. sl7.4o;
France, s17.s4; the United Kingdom.
sz. go. and Australia, 1879. Russia's
annual expenditure is put, for TIE latest
available year, at s1,116,0 a5.0O0, as
against 1914. So. 900 IN the United States;
but the fact that Russia's population
is given at one hundred and forty-one
million brings the per capita expendi-
fure to about the figure shown by the
United states,
The table OF the Bureau of Statistics
presenting these figures of population
and Government expenditures includes
all countries for which data on this
LII o,,5 Sc :. ogre eS
show for the countries in question
total population of 1.50S,0 100000, and
Government expenditures amounting to-
s.. sSo, $50, 600, with Government revenues
amounting to s7,so1. 1856. 900. The table
in question also shows in the case OF
each country the excess of revenue or
expenditure In the latest available
year, and in this particular the United
states also presents a satisfactory
showing, the excess OF revenues over ex-
nenditures being greater than that or
any other country, while in many coun-
tries the expenditures exceed the rev
enues. For the latest available year
the United States shows an excess OF
revenues over expenditures amounting
to ffty million dollars. while France
shows an excess of revenues amounting
to only $4,000; Germany, an excess OF
expenditures over revenues amounting
TO fafty-seven million dollars. and the
United Kingdom an excess of expendi-
lures over revenues amounting to one
hundred and sixty million dollars.
The table whicr follows shows the
reputation. expenditure, and per capita
expenditure in the more important
countries Of the world in the latest
available year: