COST OF GOVERNMENT.
Au ingenious Englishman has fig--11 red out the cost of an hour of government since the beginning of the century. In France the figures show an alarming tendency to increase. Under Napoleon an hour of government cost 115,000 francs; under Louis I’hilippe. 150,000 francs; under the second republic, 103,000; under Napoleon 111., 249,000; from 1870 to 1880, 307,000, on account of the raising of the average by the cost of the war with Germany, but from 1880 to 1890 the cost was 403,000 francs an hour. A French paper remarks that this seems to prove the undesirability of paying a government by the hour or by the day. Payment by the piece, according to.the work done, is the only way, it thinks.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVIII, 6 May 1899, Page 590
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125COST OF GOVERNMENT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XVIII, 6 May 1899, Page 590
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