Show l JJ i CANADAS AS NATIONAL DEBT c c i Canada seems seem to be following In the H wak wabe of the United States Stat in the mat matter matter Is ff ter Of ef e scattering money mone The TIte gro pub public It lic lie debt of the Dominion on March Larch II fi I Jit was Within a year this has Increased ed The Stems Item of in increase Increase f crease include liabilities for public is 18 issues 4 f I sues payable in England En land some SOllIe Domin Dominion tt ion notes and temporary loans abroad jl From this aggregate however there I f must be deducted as total assets asset In Including p j eluding sinking funds fUD mak making makIng makL L ing the net debt on March larch 31 11 a total of r In the revenue account uada 4 shows a considerable low lo from customs receipts during the tM first third of the 1 year Nearly all the Ute decrease from total A t revenue of 9 lest Jut year r occurred I In the lapsed lap d of ot customs Income exceed exceeding exceedIng 1 ing ten million dollars I have arisen from approximately SW 4 for fOI the first four months month of INC to la In 1200 The Th main Increase has bas been In hi capital outlay for public ir works railways railway and aDd canals Those These i Items alone for the four tour months ab absorbed absorbed J or between Mt n BI S and ami k 90 per cent of ot the total capital expendi expenditure expenditure ture compared l with the outlay for the i I same purposes last year to April M It of For railway subsidies and andiE iE bounties to industries the Canadian J I 1 j government panl ail out in these four i I months this year compared lI with j for fr the like period in 1908 Ipos Like the United States the Dominion Dominioni DominionI i t of Canada possesses great natural 1 wealth and the debt of I 1 wont hurt It is worthy of notice I I though that thi whole civilized v world oriel j ct Is fg getting deeper into int debt ever every Pr day and aad that our neighbors rs Who I I f fl l I II I in times past have been more than or ordinarily ordinarily frugal are no exception to the rule e |