Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-19 | Page 2 | A Land without Debt

A Land Without Debt. Happy Heligoland ! The population of this tiny but favored isle now numbering number-ing 3,500 souls is reported to be increasing; increas-ing; so is the revenue, which amount to 4,29.5. More satisfactory still, this nourishing nour-ishing possession had at the close of 1889 absolutely no liabilities beyond a sum of 10, and even that was only outstanding because the account was somehow presented pre-sented too late for payment withiu the year. Altogether, Heligoland sets an excellent example to ire neighbors, and this is the more noticeable because there was a time when it fared far otherwise. In noting with just pride that his subjects sub-jects ire "content and orderly," Governor Gov-ernor Barkly expresses a hope that the evil days of debt and political discontent, discon-tent, of which the reports of some of his predecessors drew so dismal a picture, are ended forever. Like a prudent ruler, however, he reminds the Heligolanders that the prosperity of their tight little island, depending as it does on summer visitors, is necessarily precarious, and expresses his determination to keep a mrmcient sum in reserve to meet the serious se-rious contingency of "a bad bathing sett-Bon." sett-Bon." London Telegraph.