Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1891 — Universities of the World [ARTICLE]

Universities of the World

Among the prominent nations of tha world the United States ranks first in the number of educational institutions and students who attend them There are in this country 360 uni ersities, 4,240 professors, and 69,400 students. Norway has one university, forty-six professors and 880 students. France has one university, ISO professors and 9,300 students. Belgium has four universities, eightyeight professors and 2,400 students. Holland has four univers ties, eighty professors and 1,600 students Portugal has one university, forty professors and 1,300 students. Italy has seventeen universities, 600 professors and 11,140 students. Sweden has two universities, 173 professors and 1,010 students: Switzerland has three universities, ninety professors and 2,000 students. Russia has eight universities, 582 professors and 6,£00 students. Denmark has one university, forty professors, and 1,400 students. Austria has universities, 1,810 professors and 13,600 students. Spain has ten universities, 280 professors and 16,200 students. Germany has twenty-one universities, 1,020 professors and 35,084 students Great Britain has aleven universities, 334 professors and 13*400 students. A prominent protectionist organ prints the following as a “balance sheet on sugar”: Amount of duty taken off .JSO.COI.OCO Amount paid planters for duties 9,<X0,0C0 Balance to tbe credit of Republican legislation 851,000,000 Whereupon it iemark9: “There is nothing slow or .small about that showing.” Then the removal of the tax, which we are always told that the foreigner pays, is to the “credit of Republican legislation!” The tariff is no "burden” to the country—only the wicked freetraders say that—but the removal of the sugar tax makes a net saving to the consumer of 851,000,000! A prominent manufacturer of tinware says that the increase of prices for tin plate, caused by the passage of the McKinley law, amounted up to July Ito 87,000,000. On that date the McKinley duty took effect, and during the first year of it 3 existence it may be safely said that this McKinley tax will cost the consumer at least 815,000,000. Last year the McKinleyites set out once more to make the country prosperous by means of a high tariff, but the failures in business during the first six months of this year were f,037, against 5,446 in the same time last year. Lise a good general the cow always fights dies successfully by many dank movements.