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Show NATIONAL JUGGLERS. The Bobon Financial ew-8 nayg of the Panama canal honila that there will prohably he a ready market for them, because they are ranch more 1'-hirable 1'-hirable neeurity for public, rlepoait than the two tii,J one-half isgue; that there may he an increase ir the volume of hnnk note outRtandinn; following the withdrawal of (he twoa from the depository ae-coiinlH, ae-coiinlH, at the new threes i,re aubatituted for them. All of which speak well for the wealth of the country, hut all of which is a shame, because there ought to he no bonds issued for more than peri cent for that canal. They oupht to be of a size jf I the" ordinary greenback and they ought to be of such denominations as would suit the usual businsis transactions of the people, and they would serve a double purpose of paying off the indebtedness and then at the same time give the people the needed money to do the work which ia waitjng for inure money. For a country which realises from Held, factory and farm certainly a profit r$J,00(p 000,000 annually, to be perpetually harassed and in trouble for the need of money, is a national disgrace. dis-grace. If a merchant was dealing in ordinary supplies sup-plies and was selling at the rate of man tons daily and persisted in keeping only one delivery wagoj. all his neighbors would day he was a fool and would trade elsewhere. But that is exactly what the .v-crnmcnt .v-crnmcnt of the I'nited States has teen doing for years. It has some delivery wagons in New York which are called national banks.. The men who drive those delivery wagons are more interested in keeping their stock in good condition than they are in delivering the goods, which is a costly business t the taxpayers of the United States. Four hundred million dollars of Panama canal bcQds'at 3 per rent means 12.000.000. annually that the' people must dig up, which they must provide every year for fifty years. That will mean that they will pay once and a half for the eanal in interest inter-est before these bonds are due and then they will still owe the $400,000,000. If that is the best our government can do, it is a lasting pity. If they would pay the $400,000,000 out and out in greenbacks, green-backs, the' people of the country would take th?m with delight. That is, the government eould pay its employees and other expenses in greenbacks until un-til the whole amount of $41X1.000,000 was paid out. That would he entirely satisfactory to the eountrv, slid in the meantime from the regular revenues A I hi . government, they could, pay for the ennui in cold. It is a proposition which two men who e'ouM not read or write eould see through in a minute. Hut in that case those gentlemen in AVall street would not collect the $1)00,000.000 in this coming lift v years, and still hold the indebtedness of $400,-O0O.0IK) $400,-O0O.0IK) against the people. It is altogether an outrage. There are a great inii.v me-! who would like to be candidates for president next year. If any one of them would fix up a financial program with a little common sense mixed in it and proclaim it to the world, he would have a better chance of election than all the rest combined. |