Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — STEALINGS OF A YEAR. [ARTICLE]

STEALINGS OF A YEAR.

SUMMARY OF THE GREAT EMUEZELEMENTS OF IHBO. Tlie Amount Sntliclent to Run the Unitcc States Navy lor a Half-Year—Tlie Monti of April Most Urolith: in Defalcations. New York dispatch: The grand total of money embezzled from corporations, privatj firms and the L T nited States government during the year ISBJ was $8,5 »:!,- 75-i. The annual appropriations for the United States Navy Department are less than double the amount stolen, while it would meet the expenses of the War Department for three months. It is about equal to the total value of either the living animals, fresh and salt beef, lard, leather, petroleum, woods, or cheese exported from this country to Great Britain in a year. It is more than equal to the combined annual exports to Great Britianof iron, copper and sugar, and two-thirds as great as the total volume of tobacco or maize annually exported to the same country, these being the most important items of America’s export trade. The amount would be sufficient to meet the allowances to Queen Victoria and the English royal family and the royal pensions for two years. It is greater than the total annual public revenue of the Kingdom of or the principality of Bulgaria, to say nothing of the minor German principalities and duchies. It is also greater than the total annual revenue of the Republic of Guatemala, tbe united republics of Honduras, Costa Rica, ami Ban Salvador or Colombia aud Ecuador combined. The amount is also greater than the cost of governing either such important colonies as Tunis or Algeria by France. A summary by months oil the embezzlements is as follows:

January ...81,111,643 February 808,24!) March 1.181.487 April 5.890.375 May... 433,296 June 87.500

July $ 802,000 August 1.171.750 September. 003,2 Ml October.... 504.058 November.. 353,775 December.. 400,527