Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-09-04
Pablo Corruption.

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tioa.of ,ar|govsransa. which tbs peopt
raraly aSse,|| says The y Q Bee because
they seldom take the trouble 8 wade
through teill1ifous statistics,
and Uncomfortable pubbfilc spaechhes. Bui
IF tIle la Nh Of the press, bysviio1 tbs
kernsl IS SEPARATED from the dry and dis
tasteful huak, tlepeople might remain In
almost total i%gguoranceof the conduct Of
Their rulers. W. will venture the asser-
zion that not II man Ill tsentwi is aware
IF The ex|tte RI and pproaiggato extraya-
gapce caafacte1izing the government for
the last sip b eight years, and does mol
dream of the wssteful and wicked squap-
daring Of llse public money FOR III worthy
and repfsbansible Objects.
In a recelt speech delivered BIZ Senator
TRuuBu1L 81 the subject, be has alselos-
d dome absolutely astounding facts con-
nected with this system Of psofuse dis
bursemeut With respect to The gov
ern11ent expenditures, for the preseptit
is sufficient 70 say that the amount at
lie dIIspsssI of The administration exceeds
one bundled thousand dollars, ~, III
other words, q sum nearly equal toaae
entire expenditure ofsthe goverpne
during thq four years Prassdentialtsrm
Of JoHss QQylscY ADhns. One. Of The
means BY which this amount has SO
prodigioosly increased is ll,e creation IF
sineenres in collecting districts. This
viii be readily understood BY q few ex-
alnplesg eiitS!a By Senator TsuBu1.l. We
quote ffro1m. BIS re,nalks.:
At Wilmington, Delaware, there was
collected il 1857 $1,000 81, How
many nei do you supposed It to,ksto
collect thar atnonlpftt. and how much do
you supposed they got for it Il took
eight aud the expense of collecting
vas $15,s4s IS. These are the better
sort 81 cases a An aapolis, IN MARY
land, there vas collected the same year
1914 25. How many inen 10 yon sup !
pose itstookt 70 collect ttlala Il took four
men, and they sere paid for their SER
vices $3.50 42At Oeraeoke, il North
Carolina, $8255Nas collected in 1857.
II took seven men, to do it. And an
economical government, under The Demo
cratic administration priding itself on
its economy, paid seven me TO collect
this So 81, tho sum Of s2.8ol 52. Al
Port Oxford, Oregon Teritory-now
you would expect something extraya-
giant over tIlsre-theie was collected
81 S., and; It took two men 70 collect II,
and they we're paid ii;os, collecting 81, 723-
Us. Gan any one Of rou make the per
centagga that vas paid to collecting The
IS So q Ibelleye II was about five hun
dred % one. oon' / you think the gov
eminent ougglttto gel rich At Monter-
ey, in California, The amount collected
il 1857 was s45 Is. Three men were
employed 70 collect ii, and paid for do
ing SO 81 $50 o. At Buffalo there was
collected in 1851 $1O,l4o5 IS, There
were ten nen etnployed=in.i collection,
and they Nerep pad SIG, 500 81. | will
not weary you BY reading this report
further Il; Is Tie official report of The
Secretary Of Me Treasury. in answer 10
! : Il. resolution ID Senate calling upon him
~ know how many employees lie had h
lie d!Herentcuslo1n houses-wliat he paid
tllem-Il1oW much was collected, &c. Il
and here i tbs fife report ifrounSevery
collection district Ill Tie United states.-
! have singled i a part Of them as ex-
anpies,
# any ons i disposed to4inqsire how
il happens thatsthe serviees5of 50 many
persons are requiiredto eollecta small
proportion ofErevenue, equal perhaps to
on t e The SUN expended IS lis col
lection, the ans wer Is Obvious Take,
for Instance the case or Oeraeoke; i
North y Carolina. Here u find that
seven men were employed 1t ID aggre
gate compensation Of 3 ,aol55z toscol
|ect s8a S. Of revenue. One nan might
lave accomplished the worlk, but there
~ more l1uagryy Democratic mouths
g &c d-7ttslx pure stesl, true Demo
rats who hlasd shouted ant beloved for
8u a't1s who falpcied they had done
be State much service, aud were CLANS
,r 1,t for rSsWards u would not do d
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