. The modern commonwealth, 1893-1918. ,426,089* 1895-96 11,518,593 12,657,753 1,139,160* 1897-98 14,294,684 13,017,652 1,277,031 1899-00 14,482,548 14,027,587 454,960 1901-02 16,382,020 15,621,652 760,368 1903-04 16,491,486 16,422,576 68,909 1905-06 19,763,176 17,661,183 2,101,992 1907-08 19,588,842 21,278,805 1,689,963* 1909-10 21,613,150 21,045,803 S67i347 1911-12 26,955,191 25,881,487 1,073,704 1913-14 39,708,784 32,952,862 6,755,922 ^9^5-^6 44,944,341 45,708,882 6,925,055 * Signifies a deficit. Between 1893 and 1906 the growth in expenditures by thestate was steady, but no greater than was
. The modern commonwealth, 1893-1918. ,426,089* 1895-96 11,518,593 12,657,753 1,139,160* 1897-98 14,294,684 13,017,652 1,277,031 1899-00 14,482,548 14,027,587 454,960 1901-02 16,382,020 15,621,652 760,368 1903-04 16,491,486 16,422,576 68,909 1905-06 19,763,176 17,661,183 2,101,992 1907-08 19,588,842 21,278,805 1,689,963* 1909-10 21,613,150 21,045,803 S67i347 1911-12 26,955,191 25,881,487 1,073,704 1913-14 39,708,784 32,952,862 6,755,922 ^9^5-^6 44,944,341 45,708,882 6,925,055 * Signifies a deficit. Between 1893 and 1906 the growth in expenditures by thestate was steady, but no greater than was necessitated by theincrease of population and the extension of governmentalfunctions. Beginning with 1907, however, there is a verysharp increase in expenditures, which have advanced since thattime at a progressive rate, so that while it took fifteen yearsbetween 1891 and 1906 to double the state expenditures, asingle decade, from 1907 to 1916, has again seen a Is a rate of increase five times as rapid as the growth of. 1891-92 1895-96 1897-98 1899-190( 1901-02 1903-04 1905-06 1907-08 1909-10 1911-12 1915-16 STATE FINANCES 423 the population and almost twice as great as the increase in theestimated wealth of the people.^ Such an expansion as thiscalls for a somewhat close scrutiny of the expenditures in orderto ascertain what has caused this growth. Before attempting to analyze any particular expansion inIllinois state expenditures it must be pointed out that the lasttwenty years have been a period of rising prices and that themoney values in which services and commodities are expressedhave increased steadily, and in the last few years with ex-traordinary rapidity. There has therefore been a statisticalincrease in the monetary figures which express the activities ofthe state without a correspondingly great increase in these ac-tivities. This has been particularly marked in the last twoyears, since the deluge of gold which has flooded this countryas a result of th
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