NO INDEMNITY TO LIGHTEN THIS BURDEN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 7, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 10.

NO INDEMNITY TO LIGHTEN THIS BURDEN.

COUNT OKUMA, formerly Prime Minister of Japan, and now in opposition, has been discussing the finances of the empire before the associated Chambers of Commerce of Tokyo. He declared that after the disbandment of the army the national debt would be $1,250,000,000, the interest on which would amount to $75,000,000 annually, or nearly twice the revenues of the government ten years ago. Before the war the per capita share of the national debt was $6.00. This has now been increased fourfold. —Christian Advocate.