The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-09-11
The Public Debt-Striking Illustrations.

lgVe some ILLUSTRATIONS TO show the enor
, nous proportions Of the public debt and the
burden II imposes upon The productive in
dustry Of the country. 1t ssys:
The Statement of the public debt publish
August lst. 166S, confesses that the amour,
Of that great national blessing foo,s up
$2523.534, ,4so! These figures represent an
amount Of Indebtedness that few men can
comprehend. It's immensity is barely within
the bounds of human calculation, and would
lprove appalling 10 a nation Of Ro.hschilds,
Earrings and Peabotys.
], stands upon the ruin OF the Consti,u.
tion, amid the crumbling pillars of the
American Republic, monument of radical
msrule, iucompetency, villsiDy and despot
ism. While it represents the price of our
national ruin and degradation, it is eloquent
Of national bankruptcy; intoIerahle and
eternal tsxation and o. selfish subjugalion
of the poor to the rich.
The taxgatherers. of whom it is the fer.
tile parent, are now busy in every street ;,
lane, highway, and byway in the land; and
are as disastrous TO the prosperity Of the
country as the seven plaques 10 which Pha :.
rsoh v as compelled TO succumb.
| Those Of our readers who deal in mspey
and who are in the daily habit Of inspecting
piles Of greenbacks muy be interested with
the following illustrations, which we find in
the Frankfort YeomeD:
The highest mountsin in the world is a
peak of the Hymalaya Mountsins, in India
which reaches the altitude of % f78 feet, or
little less than FIVE and half miles.
The public deb' of the United States. &C
cordiDg 10 the official statement Of the Sec
reiary Of the Treasury, amounted, on the
first Of the present month, 10 the sum OF
81 523, ,534 4SO. Now let us. for illustration,
suppose this debt 10 be one dollar bills, and
piled up before US. Doyou imagine it would
reach mountain he;shl!' Let US see:
Allow one hundred notes 10 the inch, nd
we have lis hight
TO be 25,o35 344 inches.
|or 2.l02 9i5 feet!
or 700 98l yards II!
or 39st miles ~!
or, il the notes were Of the denomin alton oil
500 each instead Of 81, we should have
pyramid OF money reaching about four miles
high! whilst The highest mountain peak in
Nar,h ,,a,i,. /M,.c, =, MI. x.
Americs,) is but II. 900, or less than 81
miles.
Still further: lie, us suppose the debt TO
be in silver instead Of notes. nd estimating
SIG to the pound, we have a weight of debt
amounting 10 just l57 .720, 9O5 pounds or
1857 cor loads (st lG O0O pounds TO the car,
which would make train of cars Sc miles
in length. allowing bot thirty feet TO the carl!
But let Us illustrate a little further; and
suppose itwere necessary to take the silver
dollars from the mint. employing porters for
that purpose. requiring each man to carry
forty pounds. In that cose il would take
1900 600 men, who standing three feet
apart, would make string about 1900 miles
long; ard marching at the rate Of three
miles an hour, il would require about forty
days for this debt.burdened army to pass
given point And the task of counting the
debt, in silver dollars, would be one OF al
most endless duration. Let US see: A
man commencing August /, 1868. and work.
ing ten hours each day and county sixty dol.
lars each minute, would accomplish the job
A. d. 4368.
But there are other illustrations Of the
magnitude Of this great national bleesing.'
which can not fail 10 arrest the attention OF
farmers, to whom the following ia addressed:
AtS2 per bushcl, the public debt repre-
cents 126I,767 .245 bushels OF wheat, or
81 1853. OF tons. TO transport this amour,
in swo.horse wagons allowing one ton each,
would require 37,s53,017 and 75.7O6 O34
horses! Give each team 80 feet space, nd
' GU have cavalcade which would encircle
the globe!
But we tire Of these Illustrations, ne we
do OF everything pertaining to radical rule.
" hich. ina brief period, has covered the
land with ruin and crowned their work with q
immortal infamy by monument Of debt
which, ike the pyramids. are more conspicu.
ous from the desoation that surrounds them! Z