Show THE PUBLIC DEBT tile tho interest bearing debt of the united slavs has boon been reduced to that Is 1 a 1 mighty reduction from whit hat it was 8 twenty livo five years to ago go N when hen it was over find and 1 hen same of the mass sanguine and hopeful and brilliant men in till alili country declared that it was a bunion buillen too great to bo be lorna borno and roust must bo be repudiated pud ted atwould it would bo be to linow just low bow much has baa been paid on that debt in those too twenty enty civo years it must be quite tho the tin nn comfortable feature about aboul it Is that the debt of pit nix hundred still and odd millions Is 13 moro more discouraging than ihan wai ali ilia big debt twonia alvo i ears ago the firmer civo ibara agoo ago could pay on that debt with eighty flie bubels bulic ls of wheat it takes bushels now tho the planter coald coi ld pay of it avith less than two tiro bales of cotton colton it takes over three bales today to day and tho the discouraging feature Is that tho the profit to t tho ilia farmer all llos lies between the cikity uto livo and US bushels and tho the to tho planter lies tit tho two nud and tho ilia three bales of cotton thero there Is another feature about it that Is worth considering tho the amount paid on tho the debt does riot not represent tho the amount of wheat raised or tho the amount of cotton raised or tho the mount amount of work turned out by tho ilia millions of workers in tho ilia east it ft about fonts feats the sum which the western minors tiao im 0 taken from the gold and silver wines mines and turned over to ilia tender in mercies ercles at 0 those sound financiers of 0 new hew york city eastern Easl cri people like to folio loll 1011 and with them it Is a proud boast that our nation only twenty five years ago when tho the exhaustion of a mighty war was upon it n m lion hen hall half the country was absolutely dos des vo fill cfaith and patriotism which never before were equaled contemplating their debt of more than said resolutely they would pay it went to work and in filo years reduced it more than two thirds almost three fourths ioui ills at the same time those gentlemen would mould tell to a stranger that in ili tho ilia far west the people ate aio still rudo find uncouth that they have only crude camlo edons on most subjects that civilization has gone thero there only in name that it mill take years ri and eara to bring around the refinement of the east and yet but lor for those workers markers in tho the west e capt lor for tho the leaven which tho ilia product of 0 their work mork puts into the business of 0 the country their debt would not bo paid they would bo be still struggling vo with ith all their might to meet tile interest and their statesmen would be so saying ying that when the generation ot of 1301 1361 5 ought fought that war out they fulfilled their mission and tho the debt which lich K they created in tho the struggle auturo futuro generations could viell moll afford to pay that they havo have settled ilia ike great bulk of it Is due to the work ol of tile tho men ot of tho the west and they ought to remember that and they ought to think at tho the samo same time that men menalio mile could do that much must possess some ery cry sterline sterlina attributes and that their good friendship would really bo be worth more to culah ate than the friendship of 0 the men beyond the sea who mho car caro 6 not lot one cout cent for them except for volt what a they can make out ot of them |