The Yazoo City Whig and political register., 1839-08-02
From the Grand Gulf Whig.
EXPENDITURES OF THE ADMINS
TRATfON


Those who look at the constant and enor-
nous increase Of the expenditures Of the
country for and during the last and present
administrations, must be astonished Il while
so looking, they reflect upon the startling
facts that during the years of heaviest ex-
penditure, the long standing public debt
had been discharged, no extensive internal
Improvements were under consideration,
no great measures of general utility were
prosecuted involving great oudays. The
revenues Of the country have been swept
away by high salaries, large recommendations
for small services, foolish Florida war, de-
falcatiOns, &c. &c. The first year ofa ta-
presentatfYes, from which We quote. Is
1871, a year of the administration Of Gen
eral Washington. The expenditures of that
year were $l,9l9, $50; very little, if at all,
greater than the united defalcations of
Price and Swartwout.
In the year 1914, the heaviest year of the
last war; the expenditures were $50, ,l27,-
666.
The last year of Mr.. Adams administra-
ton, 1928, the expenditures were $685.
.O4l.
The first year of Gen. Jackson's admins
tration, the expenses were less than Mr..
Adams last year, BY $685., ,55l, the amount
of that year, 1929, being $l2, $3.50, ,4sO.
1t ought to be recollected that large
part of. this sum was devoted to the extin-
guishment of the public debt.
Now let us see how the account stood in
1886, the last year Of the old Hero, when it
was standing subject with him, of congra-
tulation to the country that he had paid off
the national debt.
In that year he expended $30,6lS, ,l64,
seventeen millions and a half more than the
last year Of Mr. Adams RecolIect there
was now no national debt
But 'the sweet little fellow of the Rich
mond Enquirer, the follower beats his ssil-
lustrious predecessor, in his first year BY
about seven millions, in the second BY near
" ten.
Mr.. Van Buren, expended in 1887 S37,-
243,2l4, in 1888 $40, ,426,OO0
These statements are taken from the Off
cial reports.
The people will not listen to the stale
excuses that Congress has authorized these
large expenditures The present party has
always had majority in at least one house,
and the last President, as we all know, me-
yer hesitated to use his veto.
Some of the loco focos say the expenses
have increased in proportion to the poplla-
ticn. Now "mark how plain a tale shall put
you down"
In 1880, our population, according to the
census then taken, was 1866, ,030. The
were BIS, ,296,O4l Then, too,
We had public debt. Our population 3
now supposed to reach l6,500,O00. Are
Dur expenditures not million more in nU-
nerals, as was the case in 1902, No; they
each the enormous sum of s. $40, ,426, ,OOl.-
By round figures the alsehood Of the asser-
ion IS shewn. While our nrpopulatlOn hasin
creased to not quite -four millions, our ex.
,enditures have increased seventeen mil.
loss. While our population is as twelve
Q sixteen, our expenditures are as thirteen
. forty.
We ask our readers 70 look upon these
lnyarnished facts, and remember them.--
There i no clap-trap, no slang about this
natter. There stand the damninQ proofs,
hat testify to the folly, imprudence, Teck-
essnesss Wasie, proftIse aud unnecessary
vaste Of the present imbecile, corrupt and
oppressive dynasty viii they bs read and
AZ the polls2
John Quincy Adams, ID his letter g the
eople Of The United States, who bad en-
Tusted him with their abolition petitions,
sserts that The Immediate abolition of sla-
cry IN the District of Columbia IS utterly
npossible."