Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-11

country2 If so, why longer sustain those
men who favor policy which will weigh
down its energies with perpetual debt,
for the sole benefit of a few holders Of
bonds, when by supporting other men,
who advocate and pledge themselves to
a different policy, the same tax may be
made to rid you entirely Of the debt in a
Let me appeal to my Republican
friends to look at this matter honestly
and squarely in the face, divested Of
those ilf-nathred prejudices which party
sophistry has thrown around you, and to
look at it and act now before that policy
is fastened on you forever. If we are to
be saved from the exhausting effect of
this Republican plan it must be done
now by returning majority of the Dem
ocrats to the next Congress. IF done at
all, it must be done now ; next year it
will betoo late--for Understanding YAM
pire will thenz,be, fastened upon you,
drawing into its never gorged stomach
those hard earnings which ought to goto
the comfort of your family sa''sd ,sioT
1t seems to me, my, fellow-citizens, if
you mistake your duty upon this ques-
tion,y it must be because you will not
see it: for these statements with which
l have presented you are SO plain and
fairly understood that no man can mis-
take or misund erstand them - 60
There are still other matters connected
with the money management of the
government, which must not be forgotten
or overlooked. 1t must not be forgot
ten that we have an army of $4,000
men, in time of peace, costing us $l25,-
100000 a year, while the army of
France, with million of men, including
its pensions, cost only S6,000,O00; and
the army of Great Britain, with its mill
tary posts encircling the earth, aud with
all its pensions, costs only S72,000,O00
year. How, in the name of reason,
ask, do we manage to spend so much
money on our army. ...---...---'--..-.
Our navy costs US $25,000,OO0 for
11,0O0 men in service. The navy>~of
Great Britain costs $53,00O,00O, with
$1,000 more men in service. With only
one sixth of the number of marines in
service than Great Britain has; our navy
costs about one-half as much rs.af brs7F,
The civil service of Great Britainwith
all the pomp and expenses ofroyalty and
enormous salaries to sustain, costs SAL
100000, while our civil service, with its
Republican simplicity, costs $5l 100000
being $10,000,000 more than that Of
Great Britain. ~ l.t.7
And so we might pass through the
whole service, TO illustrate the extraYa
gance and waste of the peoples money
4 by those who now have control of it
With these facts before US, We need no
be surprised at the statement, startling
as it is, that during the last three years
of profound peace, the United. States
Government, under the rule of the party
in power, has cost the people NOR,
money than it cost through all the Ions
years combined, from Washington dow
to the end of Buchanan's administra
tion-includiDg the cost; of the war. o
1912, the Mexican7war and all the Indi
an wars. And suchs my fellow citizens
is thefact.1 Shall these things continue
VIII yon, Republican, men, who have n
interest-in politics OF party, except t
secure your own land your country
good, will you vote to prolong this stat
of things or will You vote for change.
If you desire to- have it prolonged, vot
for Judge Winans. If you desire it t,
be stopped, vote for me- e. iI'9 10 5ati0m