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Show DEBT STATISTICS According to Speaker Blaine, ihe State and municipal debts of this country amount to a grand total more than half aa large aa the national na-tional debt. Sixteen cities of the first class, with an aggregate population popula-tion of 4 riOO.OX) -souls, have a total municipal debt ot 160,000,000; twelve of the nrrt rank with a population popu-lation of 700,000, owe $0,000,000; fifiy-threel citiea of the third ranic show a total indebtedness of $?", 000,-000, 000,-000, and 103 citiea of the fourth rank, 000,000. The total debt of all the towns and citiea in the United States ia $-370,000, 000; tho debt of ,the Stated aggrecate $5''0.000,000, and the countv debtfl $180,000,000. The national clebt ia $-2,100,000,000 in round numbers, and both classes of debt corabiued amount to $3,240,-000,000, $3,240,-000,000, which, if divided up equally among our population, would give to each man, woman and child $81 of liabilitiea, incurred for public purpose, pur-pose, or upward of $350 to each male adult. The proportion of this debt to the national wealth proportion propor-tion to tho taxable property one tenth on the inflated valuations valua-tions of the census of 1S70. Speaker Blaine predicts that at the close of the century our population will ag-igregate ag-igregate 75,000,000 people, and that the value of real and personal property pro-perty will amount to $100,000,000,-000 $100,000,000,-000 instead of $32,000,000,000, the rggregnte valuation at the laat cen- 6U3. ' |