The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-08

The United States and Great Britain.
p The New York World prepares some sta
tistics relative to the comparative burthens
borne by the people Of Great Britain and
those, of these free United States which are
surprising, and not calculated to make the
taxpayers of this Blessed Union more re-
conciled to. the burthens. imposed upon
them, !, The debt Of, the United States is
nearly s2,o00,O0O, 900 less than that Of Great
Britain. Yet we pay upon our public debt
an annual interest of s143,7 sol; while
the interest on the national debt of Great
Britain is only sl2s, sO7, 270-$l4, 974,S21
less than is paid annually by the United
States upon it's debt. sa.s<.A a..@ i5a29
As "a remarkable comparison, of economy
between the two countries, we may state
that the army of Great Britain, which num-
bers 2l3, 900 men, cost in 1867 s74 1888, s46.
This embraces every item Of military ex-
penditure pensions, half pay, transporta-
tion, Subsistence, bounties, pay, clothing,
&c. In the same year the expenses of our
army Of 10000 men were ss3, 1855, for
strictly ordinary expenses "--s9 ,457, 500
in excess Of the cost Of the British army,
three times as large as ours q ,s,ea5
Tn1the civil service the expenditures Of
our simple republican government exceed
those of Great Britain by the sum of ;$l0,-
OIL ,932-a feet unfavorable to repub-
licanism contrasted with royalty with its
pomps and pageantry. The World gives
the following table, which will be interest
ing to those rampant Republicans who are
ever proclaiming the glory of the United
States. a
.sComparative statement of some Of the expendi-
lures OF the United States and Great Britain for
d the year 1887. made up from the report of the
British Gha9celIor Ct the E1sh che and the the
sHouse Committee on Ways and Means
@ en-. United States. Great Britain.
Interest on debt.... .814a, ISL SOL $l2s 800,
Civil service........... s., HOO al,oos, OBS
War proper. SIS. Sal, 5ss @@F32 %'.T
Bounties..:. m,sss, $50 lls PCS a4sss s4e
Navy........ .........., sLoaAoll sasl25ls
Excess against the United states $500. 1854 no
= =" There are three other items of British
expenditure for which we have: no equiva-,
lent here. and there is one. item Of our ex-
penditure for which there is ne equivalent
in the British budget, 30 that Between these
no comparison can, be made. But adding
the amounts Of these namely, the expend-,
iture of the consolidated fund, the revenue
department and the packet service. to the
British budget, and the expenditure for In
dams to our own, and we have as the total
cost Of the British Government. for 1867,
1886, 1903 ,418, and as the total cost Of our
own Government for. the same year, $780,
729,125. In other words, the Government
which should be very, much the cheaper
was, 81 1926 06 the dearer." IL aaoa
It lis this waste of, public money that is
giving the great concern and the great
trouble to Radicalism. 1t is the inexcusa-
BILE addition to the public burthens Of the
Infamous machinery for the rehabilitation
of the South that perplexes them and puts,
in jeopardy their chances for triumph In
the approaching elections. The comparison
here made between this American Republic
and the. grandess and most costly ,monar-
5chy in the worldtis fatal. 1t is danining to
that Radical revolutionary party which has
failed utterly in all its attempts to admin
lister the. government. of the Union. !
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