The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-16
vol. 5.-No. Is.

Elienoorough,t who was very heavily
taxed for %unproductive properly on Cap
itol Hill, one day gave out thai he had
discovered a plan 70 get rid of his taxes;
his neighbors, who had a fellow-feeling
on this subject, foeked in to find out
what his plan was; after q great deal Of
importantly, the old gentleman at last
SAID, s-weIl friends, if you must know, l
am going to DIE
Now, the Democrats have found out
that they ere going 10 die soon. and thew
are determined to get all they can while
their time lasts, and leave the Wings TO
impose the taxes, and to pay them.
But we were told the other dsy, that
the Democratic party had carried out an
its measures, and the results would con-
trast fayorably with those of the Wings.
| am glad to hear this admission. They
confess that their system of measures IS
In full and successful operation, and they
all can see the beautiful results. | will
avail myself of the occasion which is thus
presented to me, and will follow out tho
contrast a little farther.
But | must go back a little, and mean
TO inquire what has been the effect of
Wing policy on the prosperity, the char
aeter, and the credit of the country; and
then what has been the result oil the op-
positel
In this inquirysI shall deal with facts
II mean to speak from the record, and
| challenge contradiction. Then I state,
in the first place, that the average expen-
ditures of the Government, during the
four years Of Mr.. Adams Administra-
ton, was but twelve millions and a half a
year, and part of this was to cover the x
penses of an extensive system of internal
Improvements; and during the same four
years, there were paid foFty-fye millions
of the public debt, out Of twenty-five
millions of revenue. Mr.. Adams was
turned ont for hrs extravaganza, and Iso-
nofoco economy substituted. Mr.. Van
Buren, came in as a personal embodiment
of Loeofoco principles, and what was the
annual expenditure during his four yearsl
The average instead of twelve and a half
was twenty-eight millions; Tin one year
the expenditure reached tairty-sepsn midi
lions.) Twelve aud a half millions un-
der Mr.. Adams, ~twenty-eight millions
under Dir. Van Buren,; this is the differ
enee between Wing and Locofoeo policy.
With a revenue gilmore than 80 millions,
they paid not one dollar OF the public
debt, but increased it, in effect, ihirty-one
millions; the expenditures having exceed
ed the revenue during his term by that a.
mount. Mr.. Van Buren, found in the
Treasury a surplus Of 10 millions; OF
this, % millions were deposited with the
States, leaving Is millions Of available
revenue, and to this add the proceeds Of
the sale of the Government bank stock,
81 millions, making a surplus of241 mil
lions, the whole OF this, with all the reys-
nues Of the Governments, was expended
during MIR. Van Buren'S four years, and
a large debt left to the Wings upon the
accession Of General Harrison 10 the Pre-
sidency in lS4l.
When the Wings came into power,
they found in the Treasury. not a surplus
Of Is millions, as did Mr.. Van Buren,, but
they found, on the contrary, a large debt,
and the revenue run down to less than
half the amount of the expenditures. In
1910, the net revenue was but Sie,l50,-
339. When the Wings came in, they
passed the Tariff of 10. THAT tariff law
which we, in our wisdom, repealed last
winter, )and what did that law accomplish
II raised the net revenue to ~S25,746,406
Ia IS44-it restored the credit OF the ma
lion-it raised up and protected the ma
tionaI industry. and made the nation pros
porous. Ii paid of, in four years Of its
operation, (l6f2 inclusive,) "a millions
Of the public debt, and left, in 1915, a ball
ance of 6 millions in the Treasury: and
raised the revenue from IL to q millions
a year.
This Wing Administration was turned
out by frauds and deceptions Of the gross
est character. James X. Polk came in.
Bocofoco doctrine was again in the sscen-
dani. The tariff Of 1912 was repealed,
and that of 1916 substituted, Texas an
nexed. and then. as was predicted, came
war, with all It's unhappy and disastrous
consequences. Here are the fruits Of Lo-
cofoco policy. What is the condition
Of the country now? Il is worse than
it was even under the ~ruinous
reign Of Martin Van Buren,. whom the
people turned out. head and heels. Mr..
Van Buren, spent for US 26 millions a year;
and how much is James K Polk spend
ing2 God ONLY knows. Just VIA. he
pleases TO ask gor-foriy or fifty millions
a least. We have given him men and
given him money-millions upon millions
-a,te rnon
notes, loans. al he asks, aud as fast as be
asks; yet his friends here complain daily
lhat the President is mot sustained in
his patriotic ~puruoze!'' What have va
reflseI him. We rranted him ten I'll