This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... some 35,000,000 yen, hoping in this way to keep up the balance between the receipts and the expenditures of State. But, unfortunately, the Bill was rejected, and the Diet was subsequently dissolved. The Cabinet also resigned. In July of-the same year Mr. Matsuda Masahisa became the Minister of Finance, but the new ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... some 35,000,000 yen, hoping in this way to keep up the balance between the receipts and the expenditures of State. But, unfortunately, the Bill was rejected, and the Diet was subsequently dissolved. The Cabinet also resigned. In July of-the same year Mr. Matsuda Masahisa became the Minister of Finance, but the new Cabinet lasted only a few months, resigning before the meeting of the thirteenth session of the Diet, which had been convened to meet a few days afterward. Now, it is needless to repeat that all these financial difficulties were due to the great change wrought by the late war on the position of Japan, which necessitated the expansion of the State expenditures for various measures connected with the armament, diplomacy, education, communication, industry, etc. This expansion was so sudden and so great that immediately a large deficit was created in the revenue of the country; while at the same time great distress came to prevail among the industrial classes, owing to certain unavoidable causes. For these reasons the relief of the financial and economical distress of the country came now to assume the greatest importance. In November of 1898 the economical distress of the country was at its last stage, the greatest uneasiness prevailing among all classes. Twice had the Imperial Diet been dissolved in succession, and the national treasury was almost empty. The state of affairs evidently demanded the adoption of some thoroughgoing measures of relief; otherwise things would have reached such a pass that the post-bellum enterprises would have had to be given up before completion, the national progress and development stopped, and the political machinery of the country would have ceased to move altogether. I saw immediately, on examining the Budget for ...
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