Show tr THE REPUBLIC a G Slowly but surely tho National debt t iTiminishiH Official statements noted in the DBMOCKATH telegraphic columns a day or two since show the entire iud iu-d terest and non inlerost bearing debt including in-cluding interest due to he fl 731183782 ry Decrease of debt during the last month 9515080 Total cash in Treasury JM50 820420 There Is a call for fl888r000 a ot three per cent bonds to bo paid on or c before the 1st of March next leaving but 4 40000000 of three per cent bonds outstanding S3 nt out-standing If the bill now pending in y tad Congress providing for prepayment A from the surplus moneys in the Treasury of a portion of interest on the outstanding four and four and a half > percent bonds should piss it will bring all our interestbearing debt within the limit of three per cent Contrasted with sd c six and a half and seven per cent interest inter-est called for on the short t terns bonds it I shows what progress the nation has made Today in tho money markets of Ise the world it could obtain a loan at better l rates than any other government in tho t 0 world Its power and credit should not r tt x d bo abused by demagogues and pothouse l tt r politicians who may be disposed to air their cries to suit the catchpenny varying i d humors of clannish shortlived parties I t |