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FINANCE
soldiers. The pre-war annual expenditure of Great Britain was nine hundred and eighty-seven million dollars ($987,000,000) — truly a large sum, but infinitesimal in comparison with the present rate of national expenditure, which is twenty-five million dollars a day ($25,000,000). The national capital wealth of Great Britain is estimated at seventy-five thousand million dollars ($75,000,000,000); and the national income, i.e. the aggregate of the income of every person in the country, is estimated at twelve thousand five hundred million dollars ($12,500,000,000). At the present rate of expenditure it is estimated that by the end of this financial year the total national indebtedness of
