Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — Cost of Colonies. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Colonies.

The British colonies are not always self-supporting; the British exchequer pays nearly $1,000,000 a year to the aßcotfnt of Bermuda, $400,000 for Jamaica, $112,000 for the Bahamas, $50,000 for Honduras, and $750,000 for the other West India islands. Here are nearly $2,500,000, while Canada does not cost England $20,000 a year. The British Government maintains five or six regiments in the West Indies,