The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-08-20
Random ThOughts---NO. "a.
BY THE EDITOR.

lying, ana Wllitul misrepresentation! 1
think not. 1t is surely evidence ofths
weakness of cause, when its advo-
Gates resort to lying to sustain it. l
ask any man who is in the habit OF
reading Democratic newspapers, if he
does not see it asserted week after
week, that the public debt has been in
creased, instead ofdiminished, since the
close of the war? This is a lie, and
those who say SO know that they are
lying.
1t is well known that the tax has been
taken off most kind of manufactures,
and for this reason the estimated re-
duction of the debt in the future will
be much smaller than it has been here
tofore. would have been in favor of
keeping up the taxes, and paying off
the debt 'as fast as possible; but Con-
gress thought that the burden Of ftaxa-
ton should be lightened as much as
possible. You all remember that when
was Assistant Assessor, | took in the
beef, pork and mutton which you sold,
and all the coal you mined, and all the
pig iron you manufactured. When
you furnace men paid two dollars and
forty cents on every ton of iron, | as
sessed about sixty thousand dollars a
year on the iron in Jackson county.
Now all those taxes are taken off, and
our county does not pay much more than
sufficient to pay fees of Assessor and
Collector. This being the case all over
the country, accounts for the small re-
duction Of the public debt in future eS-
Inmates.
We have published elsewhere, some
figures taken by the N. Y. Tribune from
official records, showing the condition
Of the public debt on the first of this
month. Inow propose to show how it
stood last December.
In President Johnson's annual mes
sage, sent to Congress Dec 8, 1867, he
made the following statement:
"On the 3Oth of June, 1866, the pub
lie debt amounted to S2,783 ,425, ,87O;
on the 3Oth of June last it was 1869,
1919, ,2l5, showing a reduction during
fiscal year fS9l ,226,664. During the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1867, the
receipts were $500, ,634 ,0lO, and the ex-
penditures $S46, ,729, ,129, leaving an
available surplus of Sl43,004 $50 1t
is estimated that the receipts for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1868, will be
$417, l6l 1928, and that the expOpdi-
lures will reach the sum of 1898, 200,
226, leaving in the treasury surplus
of 1928 ,892,702, For the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1869, it is estimated
that the receipts will amount to 1881,
1000, and that the expenditures will
be 372, 900, 900, showing an excess OF
so, ,000in favor ofthe government. "
That is official, and is given by the
greatest enemy Congress has.
Again, we hear it asserted over and
over, that the Freedmen's Bureau costs
the people twelve millions of dollars
per annum, That this is big lie, read
the following from Gen. Howard him
self;
WAR DEPT, BUREAU OF REFUGEES,
FREEDMEN AND ABAND'D LANDS,
WASHINGTON, July II, 1868.
Hon. T. D. Ellot-Dear SIR In the
speech of the Hon. B. M. Boyer, of
Pennsylvania, June 80, 1868, printed
in The Globe July 10, there are many
statements and differences calculated to
make false impression respecting the
expenses of the Freedmen's Bureau,
BY confusing estimates with actual ex-
penditures, and by repeating both costs
and estimates, he toots up amounts
nearly four times the true sum. For
instance, he gives Gen, Howard's es-
innate of the probable expenditures for
the year ending June 80, 1867, as $11,
600, 450, and says, "this estimate is
much under the actual cost" This es-
innate was reduced to $6,944, AGO,
which amount was appropriated by
Congress. But the actual expendi-
ture for all purposes during the same
year was $2, 970, 0,45S,97 A correct ex-
hibit of the cash receipts and expenses
is given in your report of March 10,
1868. This makes the total sum ex-
pended from the organization of the
Bureau Gncluding assumed accounts of
Department of Freedmen's Affairs from
JOnury /, 1869 to Jan, |, 1868, So, ,955,
s8s, 40 This includes $500, 900 Special
Relief Fund, and $4,000 transferred
to Agricultural Bureau. All receipts
from rents of abandoned lands, sales of
crops, taxes, fines and all miscellaneous
sources, are accounted for in this exhib-
it, Allsupplies furnished by the Quar-
tOrmaster Commissary and Medical De-
partments after July /, 1868, were
charged to the Bureau and paid for out
ofthe appropriation. The supplies fur
nished previous TO that date, ,notpaid for,
were: Quartermaster' propertv. S445.