text:  "Shall we persevere " he continued "in the system on which we have been acting for the last five years? Shall we in time of peace have recourse to the miserable expedient of continued loans? Shall we try issues of Exchequer bills? Shall we resort to Savings' banks?--in short to any of those expedients which _call_ them by what name you please are neither more nor less than a permanent addition to the public debt? We have a deficiency of nearly L