The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-09
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mum IN gold to support itand Floyd
The gabble about reducing the army te
10000 men would be on par with $
proposition to reduce the police of Chi
cago to dozen men. When Grant be
comes President the army will be Gu,
down to the lowest practical point a.
well as the cost of its support.
The navy is now costing nearly $50.
100000. That could safely be reduced
to two.thirds, and saye over $50, 600, ,OO(
more
1t has been reduced, for the next year
to less than $50, 900, 600 thanks t,
Republican Congress for this yea
the expenses will be many millions less
than last year.
The Freedmen's Bureau costs the
taxpayers ever $50, 100000 year, te
pay set OF officers to run the swindline
machine, and cart bread and bacon to {
lazy set OF niggeTs that have intelligence
enough to vote on the great question OF
government, but not sense enough te
take care of themselves.
The expense of the Freedmen's Bur
eau was last year about six cents on the
dollar of the amount here stated, and
this year about four per cent of What he
| asserts, and next year it is confidently
expected the expense will wholly cease,
or cost but a small trife. OF the 'tbread
and bacon" carted round, Two thirds of
it found Its way into the months of des-
titute and shIftless whites, and the indi
gent whites are more numerous to day
than the INDECENT blacks; and we doubt
whether even a Copperhead will venture
to affirm that they are more intelligent
than their colored fellow citizens.
''When the war broke out, the govern
ment was running at ali expense of about
$50, 1000, 900 a year. Now, in time of
peace. the revenue paid into the Treasury
amounts to about $500, 900, 900. Annu-
ally, $lS0. 900, 900 of the amount is paid
in interest on the public debt, and the
remainder IS many squandered and
stolen by the party i'll power.
Here are four falsehoods: l. The
$50, 900, 900 when the war broke out was
gold, being equivalent in purchasing
power to $40, 100000 Of greenbacks at
present; 2. lie revenue paid into the
Treasury for this i seal year will not exceed
$3.50, 900, 900, and tic amount to be ap-
propriated next year is under $4,000
600; 3 The interest on the public debt
is thirty to forty millions less than is as
serted; 4. The remainder" is neither
squandercd nor stolen, but is appropriat
cd fur the support of the army and na1Jy
civil and diplomatic service, collection OF
the revenue, maintenance of the Federal
Judiciary and Congress, Indian Depart
ment, Agricultural Bureau, river and
harbor Improvements, sea-coast defences.
lighthouses, revenue cutters, custom house
officers, new custom house and post office
buildings. overland and Pacific mai ser
vice and post Office Deficiencies, re1,Ain-
der OF the soldier bounties. and pensions
to wounded soldiers, and widows, orphans
and mothers of dead ones The pension
rolls will require over thirty millions for
the ensuing year, anl the bounties nearly
as much. These are the objects Oh which
the revenue is mainly 'ssquandered and
stolen" The whole cost of supporting
the government next year, exclusive of
interest on debt, pensions and bounties
will be considerably less, equating gold
and greenbacks, than under Buchanan S
Democratic administration, before the
Democratic rebellion created the debt,
pension lists and bounty claims.