The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-09-03
EBENsBURG, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1868

tain you long. Deficiency in expenses of
reconstruction, S657, 900 second, appro-
priation for the same object. S278,000
further deficiency in Third District, and
SS7, 900 for destitute people (chiefly ne
groes) in the District Of Columbia. Then
we come to the War Department, and
we lave deficiency in the War Depart
ment of S1,90O,0O0 Then comes the
Postmaster @ Generals Office and the Quar-
termaster- Generals Office and the Post
office Department, and we have deficiency
bills in each (; and the Treasury Depart
ment, and we have a deficiency bill there;
and coming to the Collectors of Customs,
we have deficiency there and coming to
the Construction branch of the Treasury,
and we have two deficiencies there. Then
comes the Interior Department, and we
have deficiency there and then the
government of Territories, and we have a
deficiency there. Then comes the Legis-
lative Department, and we have a def
cheney of 100000 in the Senate, and
SIl5,0O0 in the House. Then we come
to a second legislative deficiency, then
Pension Office, then two DEFICIENCIES in
Public Buildings and Grounds, and lastly
deficiency on the miscellaneous BILL
| (Great laughfer.) When next any cf your
members of Congress- tell you how much
money they have appropriated for next
year, ask them to read how much they
appropriated in deficiency bills
81 Will not weary you with this detail
| Of figures any further | might speak to
! you AN hour on that subject. They would
afford you very instructive les on. You
would see great many things that you
don't see now. | don't know whether it
is woth your while TO see them. 1t GER
tainly is not unless you can correct them.
! The conclusion of this whole matter is
that we are more than 1900, 900, 900 in
debt, and that year by year the Federal
! Government collects from your pockets
more than $500, 100000. If you add
to that $500, 100000, the amount col
/ Iected by the various State Governments,
it will run up to $500, 900, 200, and that
! is more than six per cent. of The value
of all the property i'll the United States,
and more than thirty, almost fifty, per
cent, of all the earnings of labor and
capital in the country. Let me state to
/ you in sharp contrast with this Republican
! extravaganza that the whole expense of
! the four years of James Buchanan's adj
/ ministration amounted to only 1886, ,000,-
! 900. Let me state that the expenses of
the whole four years of the War Depart
ment during the Mexican war, under Jas.
| X Polk, amounted only to 100000, 900.
! Now, while we have been piling up this
gigantic line till it rises like monument
on the happiness and liberties of our peo-
! pie, even unto heaven. Whilo we were
! piling it up we were reckl lessly expanding
the currency. When pay day now begins
| to make its approach we are just as in
| dustriously occupied in contracting the
currency. Suppose a neighbor of yours
! should act upon the same principle
! Suppose he should 60 into the market in
| the spring and buy whatever he wanted,
/ and should voluntarily have the price of
whatever he wanted enhanced, and should
! promise to pay in the fall out of the pro-
ceeds of his summers labor, whether
agricultural or otherwise and suppose
when fall came, and his notes were COM
/ ing due, he should voluntarily run down
the prices of everything he had to sell, so
that it consumed his whole crop TO pay
his debt incurred in the spring, when, if
he behaved rightly and kept up the prices,
! he might pay his debts and have half his
crops for a surplus. Would you not say
ne was fool Well, that is exactly
what the Republican party has been doing
for the people of the United States =
What is the result You sec it in Maine,
and from what you see in Maine you
may Judge of what the results are in the
rest of the country. Are you prosperous!
Are you growing rich day by day, or are
you living off the proceeds of your past
labors If you are not prosperous, why
not Z? Your skies are bright, your ground
is fertile, your air is pure, your men are
industrious, your women are thrifty-why
is it that the wall of distress goes up from
all over this State of Maine, and that
poverty and wretchedness find their way
into homes where before there was nothing
but luxury and comfort Why is it that
your agricultural interests are so depressed?
/ Why is it that your taxes consume such
an enormous amount of your yearly sup
ply? Why is it that your harbors are
deserted ard your shipyards desert
waste7 Why, the answer lies before you,
so that the wayfaring man or the fool may
not err therein. You cannot build your
ships because every article that enters into
their construction is taxed so high that
the British colonies undersell you always.
You cannot employ labor, because labor
is compelled to pay these taxes, and the
bones and sinew and blood of men cannot
work and pay taxes and be neither fed
nor clothed. You cannot carry our West
ern produce to other countries, because
when we have paid our labor and taxes
and transportation there is nothing left to
send abroad. You cannot carry the
Southern produce because under Radical
reconstruction farmers have been converted
into politicians, and cotton, rice, sugar,
have ceased to be the staples. A garden
has been turned into a desert. A liberal
svstem ia the life of vour commerce. rs II