Coalville Times | 1899-04-28 | Page 5 | Cost of Government

Coat of tlotrrnroeot. An Ingenious Kngtlshman has figured figur-ed out the cost ot nn hour of government govern-ment since tho beginning of the cen. tury. In Franco tho figure show nn alarming tendency to Increase. Undor Napoleon an hour of government cost 115.000 francs, under 1-ouls Philippe, 1(0,000; under the second republic, 103,-000; 103,-000; under Napoleon HI, 219.000, from 1870 to 1880 307,000 on account ot tbo raising of tho average by thn cost ot tho war with Germany, but from 1880 to 1890 tho rost was 403,000 francs an hour. A French paper remarks tbat this seems to prove tha undeslrablllty of paying a government by the hour or by the day Payment by the piece, aicordlng to the work done, Is tha only way It thinks.