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Show As Esoli-ii authorii- e&timateathe ttate, county and rity debts of tbi-country tbi-country at $6dS.433,OUJ, wiii-'li ti St.LouU Republican thinko i Uhi low, and that the local iudebtedns can not now be lei than $1,000,00,VX0. The same English authority tstimatef our apgregute local taxation a' 395,2SU,000. The London fconomi rtateu that the cost uf local gov-! ernoicnt in the United States i- much larger than in Great Britain, ai.d t-tributea t-tributea the fact to "the iin rn-nse muiuplication oi local office?." In view of the facta the St Loui F.-oubiU can Huygeata and alts that ths quc-j-tion of eiLK-liii onie constitutional prohibition for restraining the cz-cesseji cz-cesseji of the loeul goverutnenta bt-considered bt-considered by the state couveution about to meet in .Missouri. It Will b recollect! that Ctiarles O' Conor, during the Greeley campaign, proposed pro-posed a constitutional limitation ul indebtedness l y thn national government govern-ment as the beat method of checking the tendency to extravagance and public debt, and it may be that we hall have te resort to this devise fc ave our commuuities (roni total ( bankruptcy. I |