Show public debt and who pays it since the close ef of the civil war the state and county debts of the southern and southwestern states have been increased from figures merely nominal to something over one hundred and fifty million dollars the increase in in the state debts alone is over one hundred and fifty million south carolina owes with municipal debts 30 2 florida owes virginia 56 north carolina 32 these thes are specimens not above the average how the debt debb affects the residents may be inferred from the comparative statement of the taxable property values of these states north carolina carolinas debt is nearly one quarter of all her taxable property Yi real and personal the debts were mainly contracted in all the states for the building and subsidizing of railways and strange as it may seem tile the railways in north carolina at a fair valuation are worth nearly as much aa as all the taxable property returned by the assessors ney they of course pay taxes in north carolina as here only on a nominal valuation say one tenth the cash value florida owes cne cilc fifth as much as she is assessed for taxes and south carolina one sixth in the latter state the tiie state and county taxes in most of the counties are as is high this year as 10 to 12 percent the highest taxes paid by any county in this tills state are those assessed on Cala caia calaveras talaveras veras about four per cent and wo we have been legislating for its relief whether these southern states are ever to pay up the principal of their debts or not is foreign to the subject we are trying t to explain they may pay ay and they may repudiate pu diate we e think most of the national debts in the world will be repudiated in the end but that end is a long way ome off meanwhile the credit of states and nations demands that the annual interest on their debts shall be promptly paid at 6 per cent per annum interest eats up the principal in 1623 16 1623 23 years at 5 per cent in 20 years at 4 per cent in 25 years at 3 per percent cent in 83 33 13 years every 1623 16 1623 23 years the debt of the united states would double if we did not pay the interest ea every very 1623 16 1623 23 years tears wo we would pay in interest as large a sum as the original debt provided we had not extinguished a part of it every 33 13 years the people of england pay to the holders of debt securities about in the shape of taxes that is they pay oft off the debt every 33 13 years but still the debt remains and the tax goes on fro from year sear boyear to rear year from age to age from century to century a perpetual mortgage on all the land houses money incomes labor and ana all the people constine con or produce but after all there is but one certain security tylon tylor for the payment of ana a national or a state debt and that is the land the personal property may in 1 I 1 be transferred elsewhere I 1 and 1 will be when the tiie debt becomes so high as to make taxes unbearable the laborers may leave for new fields as they are now leaving old europe for new america the houses may be destroyed by war or by that gradual decay which lias has left the tenantless cast castles casties lesof of feudal times in ruins the land only must remain it is therefore the only good security for a state i debt on the farmer must fall the ultimate responsibility of paying or repudiating the debt of the state his laud land is held for it firmly and fast that is why farming farn ling ying is now so poor a business at the south the taxes eastup eat cat up all the profits the farmer is in fact mortgaged to and working for the foreign i holders of miu MIR railway ay bonds the bonds were issued by men elected to legislate for the people but who sold themselves to railway builders to cr credit edit aio Mo bilier biller and contract and finance rings and who mortgaged all the lands houses goods chattels and labor of the people to moneyed in men living in new york hamburg amsterdam paris london frankfort berlin nerlin and other foreign cities the taxes wrung from the farms of south S carolina carolin a louisiana lou s lana iana florida virginia etc go to pay pa the interest on these railway bonds the railway bonds represent about one dollars worth of property for every ten dollars of their face the interest is reckoned upon their face value A railway that could have been built by honest men for cash cost in bonds all the bonds ovon over tilo the cash value of the road is BO so much stolen from the people who are taxed to pay interest on the fraudulent debt the loot is divided among the political thieves who legislated that debt into existence the tho courts that decided it constitution althe lawyers who sold themselves to the main thieves in interest the tile newspapers and dirty demagogues who defended the stealthy ste altho vile cut throats who carry elections elections by fraud and the blud geon the viler sneaks who stuff bal lot contract and finance robbers and the bondholders bond holders themselves fc who purchased two or three dollars fo for r one are a allowed a high rate of interest and who draw interest on two or three dollars for every dollar cash they paid out nothing could seem clearer than that it is the interest of every man who owns a house or an acre of land to set his face firmly against all manner of public debt but more especially against this kind which has engulfed the south BO so ruinously ly and which still threatens us here in california sacramento unton union FLOODING THE tue DESERT the sonoma bonoma cal democrat publishes some come interesting facts furnished by old captain J it smith of yuma who settled in arizona twenty nive five years ago he is of opinion that the colorado desert will eventually be a very fertile region he declares that the grossest misconception exists concerning the vegetation on the desert the soil boll is the richest in the world and on those portions overflowed by new river Biver the grass is the tallest thickest and richest he oversaw ever over saw sair one man has a mowing machine and is engaged in making hay which is of superior quality in new river biver the captain says say there is a natural ditch which it would only require a few thousand dollars to make available for the irrigation of hundreds of thousands of acres aeres of land abundance of water can be obtained from artesian wells the overflow of the colorado often spreads itself for a distance of ninety miles presenting at stages the singular spectacle of a river running up hill the desert is about fifteen feet below the level of the beds of the colorado and its waters can thus bo be carried over the desert for such portions of it as can not be reached the artesian well remains water can call be got at any depth of from twelve to twenty feet the informant was employed by the united states government to dig wells on the desert in digging the well at new sta station ti on which was four feet square after working his w way a through thirty five feet of clay h he c ako uko broke into what appeared to be the bed of an old river he came 11 across specimens of wood here he tapped a stream of water which ro rose se within one hour sixteen feet in the well and which has stood at that depth ever since it is impossible to exhaust it if this stream had been tapped by a four inc inch h main simply instead of positive nour four feet square he is of opinion that it would have sent a flowing stream tream to a height of sixty feet abou about t noon to today day mrs Mr davis wife of mr davis the druggist corner of massachusetts avenue and ath street northwest north west was delivered ot of tri trl triplets plots one boy and two girls the tho children are all living and mother and babies doing as well as could be expected dr 9 S bond tho the attending ph physician asician states that this tills is the thomase third case 0 of triplets in washington the tho past three months mont lis ils there is not another city in the tho civilized world which can show a similar record perhaps they want to washington star aug 4 mr creditor editor ineat you cited a few weeks ago as the treatment of boils bolls practiced by dr simon of lorraine germany 3 has been used in our family for many years and i never falls fails if used the finst first r two days after the soreness is felt three or four applications of camphorated camph orated alcohol alco aico liol each day scatters all inflammation in forty eight hours spirits rits of turpentine are equally effective but owing to the sensitive sensitiveness nm of many persons is objectionable while many profess to value boils bolls highly as a means of cleansing bad humors from the system I 1 prefer that the tho impurities of the blood shall be carried off t through other channels which nature has provided and never allow boils bolls to trouble me willlam william T smeley 6 act 0 magown 0 o tai zvi telegraph a pa p |