Show 1 1 oi 4 r CANADAS NATIONAL DEBT h 1 I I Canada seems to be In the ii wait of e ta the United States in tim tie t ae mat mati f i b ter of or scattering money The TIle fios poM pub public public Hit lic lie debt of the Dominion on March n tl I Iwas i t 1 was Within a year this has bas jr Increased SAm The Items Item of In Increase Int Increase crease Include liabilities for public Is IB Issues Isi i rt t fi sues payable parable in England some Domin Demla Dominion c ion notes and temporary loans loaM abroad 7 fr if From this aggregate te however there r ft l q must murt be deducted as total aee onsets ta in including r J k eluding slaking staking funds fund mak making makI makI I j ing the net debt on OR March Karch U 11 a total of or j r J I I t In the revenue account Canada nada I shows a considerable loss from customs 1 receipts during the first ant third of the be I year Nearly all the decrease from total I revenue of 01 last Ia t year occurred t In the lapsed ap eI of customs income exceed exceeding eed j r ing ten million dollars expenditures Ii have arisen arlen from approximately W NI HI for the first four foul months of 1 to in 1909 The main mam mai n increase Z has been in capital outlay for public Ii works railways s and canals eans DaIs These Thae items alone for the four ab absorbed absorbed 4 t lg JM or between SO 80 0 and andI b I 90 o per r cent of or the total capital capita 1 expendi expenditure i 4 turf ture compared with the outlay for the same purposes la lat t year to April SO 38 of r For railway subsidies and d bounties to industries the Canadian pj government j ai 1 out in these th four foar 5 f w months th year vear y ar Jl 0 7 16 6 compared p with f fr f r the th like period in ini 1908 i i i 1 Like the United States State the th Dominion tm of Canada possesses 8 es great natural i wealth and the debt of I LJ wont hurt Tt It is is worthy orth of notice no tire ii though that the tte whole civilized worM world orld I f it ig q getting gt deeper deeDer nto debt debt every pry day dayL j L and that our northern neighbors who r I II If It t I f in times past have been more than or 01 ordinarily ordinarily frugal are no exception to the rule I |