Show tile the sp 0 1 ai nut A dolit debts somo some idea of tile the magnitude of the hebting upon the spanish people con can bo be g gained dried by a comparison with our own situation their national debt p pir r Is about pes pesetas or 94 in american money mulhall a few ears ago estimated the tha wealth of spain at about per capita perhaps by this time it could be placed at the per capita debt of it the spanish gov eminent therefore there foie Is more than 20 per cent of the per capita health i alth of the entire netlon eption the debt of the united stats government which in 1866 amounted to 2 stood in january 1898 at nit 1011 loll 1 oil pt GA including the greenbacks green backs this would be a per capita indebtedness of about 14 the per capita wealth of the unit ed cd states was in 1890 1 OSO now it la Is of course greater but even on tho the 1810 1890 basis the per capita indebtedness of the government today amoul amounts Its to only 1 per cent of the per capita wealth of tho the nation the carta capita interest charge on this ibis debt amounted in 1896 91 S to arboit 53 cents centa in rpm the annual cost of the public debt la in nearly 3 5 per capita gunton a Nag magazine azine |