Show RUN NIKi IN DEBT it is now generally conceded by all the journals of the coultry that the treasury borrowed the last in gold for the purpose of obtaining means with which to pay its current expenses the plea that the sold reserve needed strengthening was a pretense and a fraud it served to cover scantily a bold violation ot lawand to satisfy the easily satisfied consciences of the bankers who desired to find a good investment for their surplus funds anus the first result of for revenue only of which we have or no many years ia a deficiency in the revenues hundred million dollars a year and the piling up of a new mountain of debt upon the taxpayers there are no sound reasons for believing that the ordinary revenues of tho government will equal the expenses for the next twi veara ft they abill not mr carlisto Carl islo will borrow of hundred millions more and before mr cleveland goes out of office the nation will lave a fixed annual interest charge of nine or ten million dollars fastened upon it 1 the criminal proceedings of the president and hia secretary it is alarming to consider that the brilliant financiers and eager reformers who brought tho tho government into such a plight are actually proposing to arge tie adoption of a grand project of financial reform which shall overturn the banking system devised by the great and wise republican statesmen who brought the naion safely through the civil war but even more alarming is the fact that prominent republican members of congress find the reform echeme admirable |