POPULATION AND DEBT.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6536, 29 December 1887, Page 4

POPULATION AND DEBT.

Lord Derby made a speech at Liverpool

on Tuesday, Nov. 1, which ia worthy of notice, because it advanced some Interen-

Ing conclusions. Spfakiog with forLy years' expdr'unce of Parliament, |he aaid that Bills nowadays were like razors that were made to soil and not fo ahove with, and he adviae'l whatever Qovernmnt, might be in power in the future to coo-

central the attention of Parliament only

on one or two measures of pn using impor* » tpnc>», end to refuse 'o be distracted by other* i ill they wer<» out of the way. Lord Derby thf>n jJanced afc two dangers ahead — '.he growth of population and the growth of iijdob'e]ness. lie looked with some alarm on the aunual increase

isrtnere.

of 4'!0,000 in the number of mouths to

be fed, and said that the difßoulty which Malthua iodicau'd utventy years ago is

Upon us ai/aia

As to national indebted

nes 0 , he suil England was not go bad as her neighbors. He 'hough 1 ' the acceleration of iho f üblia debt of the Continental nations hud been the principal %om>- in promotion Sociali*m The^arope^n governments collectively owe ovtr lour thousand millions pterling, whioh nie-Tna a yearly 'ax upon the Deoole of 160 mil lio'a. The nations of Europe, ia fac', are

bo htavi y i volved that Lird Derby hiatel

aa ptoba'-ie that at no very remote period more than one of them would repudiate — -tuttt debtjiliQge her.