Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — The Wealth of France. [ARTICLE]

The Wealth of France.

During the debate on the French budget M. Rouvier, the minister ol Finance adduced facts to show that France was by no means on the verge of ruin. Public wealth and prosperity, he said, had grown as well as the budget. Deposits at the banks amounted to 910 million francs, and the capital embarked in shares and other French industrial undertakings showed since 1876 an increase of 7 billion francs. The deposits in the savings banks amounted to 2 billion, 228 million francs, belonging to 6 million, 492,000 depositors. That was a sufficient answer to the gloomy picture that had been drawn of the situation.