The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-09-21

:. :. Jackson Is, term !4'osS, ,4ss
a" " .TS1.t Tsn soren 2S 2S'9a1'i1s 9a1 iss
"a ." Polk: ss'9ss'i0O
a; " Fillmore 4s, ,66i 800
Such was the average Of expenditures
under previous administrations, whilst un-
der Pierce they increased in 1855 TO $780,
365,393; in 1856 to 500, ,402; whilst
in 1857, being the first year of Buchanan's
administrative, they had risen to the enor-
nous sum of over SEVENTY ONE MILLIONS
Of Dollars. But even this is thrown in the
shade by the indsputsble fact that the ap-
preparations at the last session of ron-
grsss amounted to ONE HUNDRED
MILLIONS of Dollars; and this, too, in
time of peace, aud with a falling reve-
nue., rendering it al but certain that the
PUBLIC DEBT, which on the 9Th of Dec.
last amounted to $25, ,l6l, ,154, and will be
increased this year by the addition of more
than 100000. Well may our citizens
look with astonishment and alarm at such
a condition of affairs. Contrast it with
the administrs ton of Gen. JACKSON, who,
with revenues at nc time exceeding in the
average $26,0OO,OO0, yet paid all the le-
gitimate expenditures of government, be-
sides extinguishing more than 100000, 900
Of the public debt; whilst Buchanan, with
more than tyty millions of revenue per an
mum, get INCREASES THE PUBLIC DEBT BY
AN EQUAL AMOUNT.
Nor will this result be regarded with
surprise, when we contemplate some of the
objects of expenditure to which this vast
outlay is devoted. In 1910 the pay for
messengers and other employees Of the
House Of Representatives amounted to
$42, 2,592, in 1857 1t had risen to $15e,OoO.
In 1910 the expenses Of the Presidents
ted q s2s ngH IN 1857 54q tsy gESqaS nsa aRgd
to nearly 100000. The printing for the
26th Congress cost $l9O,s64, whilst that
for the SD Congress-(fa famous for its re
peal of the Missouri Compromise )-amoun-
ted to $3,025, 1927, or more than $4,000
for each member of the Senate and House
of Representatives. A Custom House is
now in process Of erection al New Orleans,
and another at Charleston. To the former
$2,925,25s and to the latter $1,9O3,O00,
has already been appropriated. Here then
is nearly FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS,
spent on two government buildings, with
out the completion of either; whilst the
expenses OF collecting the revenue under
Buchanan is Sl,700,OOO more per annum
now, than it was four years ago. The ex-
penses for the Army, which in 1910 were
81 7,O95,267 in 1857 had increased to $1o,-
l59,150; whilst the present year will no
| Jo,ht uifpoce ~, iporoooa of 90 Ann OOO
over the latter sum. The miscellaneous
expenses Of the government-an endless
collection Of jobs and contracts-which in
1s4O were $2,575,35l, had in 1857 risen
to the enormous sum of $l9,946,ls9.
These are the evidences of Democratic
economy Intensified by probable addition
during the present year of nearly twenty
five per cent to the unparalleled amount al
ready stately to which our people, in this
time of general depression Of business, are
invited to look. This is the manner in
which Buchanan's administration exhibits
its estimate Of the constitutional duty tc
"promote the general welfare"
If these fagitious exsravagances fel
wholly, or chiefly, upon those by whom
they were incurred, there would be les'
cause for indignation. But Of the govern
ment revenues for 1857, no less snm thar
S7,433,2f7 was derived from duties on iroi
and steel, and the manufactures thereof
There were collected on manufactures o
wool, cotton, silk, fax and hemp, (man,
Of these prime articles OF necessity in evsr'
family,) the enormous amount of $27, OIL,
! s87, whilst the duties on the single articl
Of sugar amounted to no less than $l2,
S32, $50. Thus every farmer or mecani
who consumes pound of English or Swe
. ish iron or steel-every household whic
consumes the manufactured fabrics that en-
ter so largely into the general consumptio
: every individual who purchases poun
of sugar for himself or family, is made I
4 contribute portion Of his toil-worn receipt
to sustain the extravagances and favoritisr
!. of this so called Democratic Adr'inistr'
: ton. Who believes that il the tax gath,
rer were sent around TO enforce this syst
' matte extortion for the benefit of prof
y gate administration, that it would be lie
: with a corporal's guard of supporters
D either house Of Congress, or in the fr'
Statesa
We have thus, iellow.citizcns, directe
!, J; your attention 10 some Of the dement's
]. an administration which, with its blata
e professions Of Democracy on its lips, b
vet, from the first hour of its installme
T. in power down to the present momer
e. been engaged in crusade against the po
w ular will and the integrity Of represent
tive government Did no. time and spa
"a forbid, the list of grievances calling for ct
rection might be swelled 10 an ipdefini
:, extent. We might show you how .
.It sn ply an act o. justice TO Presidents Pom
Vas increased bv matters growing out OF the Mexi'