Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

136 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

Expenditures for peace preservation and developmental administration, and for colonial affairs
The expenditures for peace preservation include the civil
list, expenditures for home, foreign, and judicial affairs, as
well as expenditures for other important organs of the state,
Ccovering a much wider range than the police expenditures,
which constitute the appropriations for peace preservation in
the narrowest sense. In the expenditures for developmental
administration are included the appropriations for the administration to develop material interests, i.e., for the administration of agriculture, commerce, and communications, which
represent the administration for the economic and communication affairs. In the same expenditures are also included
outlays for education, which represent the administration for
spiritual development. The expenditures for colonial affairs
show the total of appropriations for Taiwan, Chosen, Kwantung Leased Territory in China, and Karafuto. The effects
of the war on these expenditures showed an advance, as a
matter of course, in those items which were directly connected
with the events of the war, and a considerable reduction in
other items.
We shall first consider the expenditures for peace preservation. The ordinary appropriations for foreign affairs and for
other important organs of the state rose in amount, those for
home and judicial affairs diminished, while there was no
change in the civil list. The ordinary expenditures as a
whole showed a tendency to decline. The extraordinary
expenditures for foreign, home, and other important administrations of the state naturally caused a substantial rise in
extraordinary-affairs expenses. Ordinary temporary expenditures temporarily declined were greater than the rise in the
expenditures for foreign, home, and judicial affairs as well as
for other important organs of the state, so that on the whole
the figures showed a decline. Thus, the aggregate of expenditures for peace preservation fell more or less, though there
were complicated changes in details.