As we increase in population and in wealth. as our resources are teveloped. of necessity the sources from which we draw this immense revenue will be enlarged. As the gentleman last mentioned has shown. we have added twelve million souls to our population within the past ten years. Five hundred thousand annually by immigration alone is a low estimate. The greater the number of consumers the larger the annual revenues to the Government. The practical question. then. isand we are dealing with a purely practical questionwhat shall be done with the immense revenues now accumulating and hereafter so rapidly to accumulate in our Federal Treasury I Shall they be hoarded or pessibly squandered by injudicious appropriations and subsidies. or shall they be applied to the extinguishmeu of our bonded debt?
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