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Show 1 ' Agreements to pay are one thing. Acutal payments, as : At net if ans have found to their cost, are quite another thing, espcial- j ly in the matter of international debts. It is pleasing, therefore, to find that the biggest foreign debt owed to this country is in actual process of payment. Great Ilritain the other day sent our Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury $ 70, 000,000, an installment on the debt she owi k us. And she didn't send il in gold of which the U. S. ! now has a surplus but in Victory bonds which she bought on the open market. And the best part of it is that when she bought ' those bonds she did something to help every Gunnison man who own-, anv of the same kinds of bonds, for she did much to stabilize the piicc of them and helped to put them nearer to par. 1 litis ! we see lh.,1 even in the payment of international debts, things so ' v.-oik isround as It) help us right here at home. |