Oct. 5.
TuE lesson of the decrease in Customs revenue during the first nine months of the current year will surely not be lost on the Powers. With the renewal of the Boxer Indemnity service, of which the spendthrift politicians of the capital have again and again, but vainly, been warned, with low exchange and the first amortization of the Reorganization Loan, the cost of service of foreign loans has been increased by six and a half million dollars, and the Customs surplus has accordingly been decreased by three and a quarter millions. And this means that there will be no money for amortization drawings of the domestic loans of which the Customs has charge.
As regards the bondholders of foreign and domestic loans secured on the Customs, there is, of course, no cause. for any alarm. The eventual return of the charge for Boxer Indemnity, suspended for five years
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