Deseret Evening News | 1907-12-14 | Page 66 | National Credit and Military Glory

NATIONAL CREDIT AND MILITARY GLORY The TJ British which re dropped to the lowest lowet market markot level Ivl sine since Ino 1143 IUS are arll a legacy of r Pitt Ill They Jey The still stil date dt In tn largest part Tart tr the great gret struggle which crushed Nu Na a apolon polon I The Pe word wor conol pronounced In with lh the ac nt on the Ih lest syllable mean consolidate annul annuities ties U though only a 8 small putt part of the national debt d bt Is t In tItle this th form After Arter the revolution rev of if IGiS the debt stood tood at campaigns cern m a add addI 11 l lJ J S I the anti and an fad Indi Indian an wars warn I aol ami our n Rev Ite hutton But Lut n R au war debts were wr partly part paid In heat the th total Ital of 1735 woe o only olly tl SI The years year T of Moscow of Dresden of or the abdication of ot Napoleon I i I D I 1113 11 ami aUll ud ISM alone added I and the Napoleonic wars war In I total so co 0 that In 1315 the Iho debt In spite of wa was waat waat wasat at tie the Ua crushing height Ieh of In 1820 Sidney Smith wrote The Th schoolboy whips his hil hI taxed axed Up tcp p the tile youth manages Ina hU his hil taxed tle horse with a taxed laZed la o bridle in nn nna ina n na a taxed road and antl ald the dying English Englishman h man mn pouring his hi medicine which has hu h patti paid 1 7 per cent Into a spoon pon which has ha paid 14 II per ver Out cent flings himself back upon his hla chintz bed bd which has ha paid ti 22 I per cent and nt expires expire in the arms arnie I of an apothecary who 10 ha has haa paid a II I j cense cen nse of or a hundred pounds pound fur for th the privilege of putting him to death Bo So Intolerable was w the burden of ot the th successful war after lter the tle victory was 1111 won Th This war In Crimea added IHS n but bist bu annual payment had 1154 b I reduced the h gross WI total tural In Iii II 18 1 1809 to The hoer war wu and ad the In China besides expedition I Chin exacted In hi war taxes tes t gain added add to the th debt and In 1303 U It stood tood at nearly U 4 all this vast vust um sum lum being the record of ot past wars war and nd not nut of ot otan any ally an useful u expenditure xi than century the lii In For Jor il more mor H a M l HI d f t f f P clehr l S It Ii 1 r find nt in I ii d to I I II i I Itt et v t rda i i it t I 11 II I 1 i p 01 Still tle 11 II arl I t i Of f th Ih IhOr he cred Or II t oi f rt mi g i Herald lerald