Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-06-02

on the tlrst OF March was
Prlnclpal .."...".."......... So, ,618, ,541 1892 OF
interest est''''..'..",......".".. 45, ,491 500 08
Total ,........"...."....... $2, ,665, ,O32, 1888 70
Oash IN Treasury ....,..."... 116,235,4O7 O3
Actnal debt ...".....".."".. $2,548, ,797, ,391 O9
DEBT on lst OF April ...".... 2,525, ,196,461 "a
Increase ....."."........". $23, ,6OO, ,O29 35
Now, in Secretary Boutwell's report,
he deceives the public to the amount of
THIRTY MILLIONS. OF DOLLARS. Or,
shall we charitably say that he was
himself deceived ? IF so, then he is
an unfit man forhis place. And if his
misleading the public is intentional, he
is certainl y unfit for the post. There
is but one of two conclusions to which
we must come-either he is a fool or a
rascal. But this system of deceiving
the people in relation to the public in
dcbtedness has been persistently prac-
ticed ever since the Mongrel party
came into power. Every year, with
out exception, there has been an i'm
mense disparity between the appropri-
atoms and the actual expenses, and this
difference has always been made up by
new appropriations in the gentle name
OF deficiency bills. There has always
been head and tail to all these ap-
preparations, and the tail is sometimes
the largest. But the people are all the
time cheated, with public reference
to the head only. That is, whenever
the expenses Of the government have
been referred to, only the figures of
the appropriations are given, while
those of the enormous deficiencies are
carefully left in the background. And
this "honest" Secretary Boutwell, be-
gins his administration with the same
system Of cheating which has marked
the whole career of the party. His
very first act is an attempt to hide
$3O,O0O,OOO Of interest, so as to make
the debt show just so much smaller
than it actually is. And, that the peo-
pie may be the more thoroughly fooled,
Congress cunningly reduced the APP
Dropriations thirty millions below
Boutwell's estimates, Now, watch for
the end of the fiscal year, and see re-
peated the old dodge of bringing up
the rear Of this financial "tomfoolery"
with a prodigious deficiency bill. And
these bold rogues treat the people as
though they were all fools. They have
been able to do this through the dis
cipline of the party rule. Their pa
pers and their leaders unblushingly lie
to the people; and then all the throng
ofthe party stoutly swear to the TRUTH
of the falsehood. Ithas been held even
"disloyaT" not to lie for the party
Nay, to tell the truth about any pub
lie measure has been to "sympathize
with rebellion" for the last eight years.
Every man who has not been either a
fool or scoundrel has had to confront
this sort of persecution. And the
outlook is not much better for the i'm
mediate future. A dolt sits in the
Presidential chair, surrounded with a
Cabinet of rogues or fanatics, all back
ed by Congress infamous enough to
shame the devil himself. And, in the
midst of this woe Of our country, the
leaders of the Democratic party, in
stead of rising up to the magnitude
of the demands Of the country, are
miserably housing about, like rats in
an old barn, to see eif there is anywhere
left grain of plunder that has escap-
ed the long reign ofuniversal thievery
o, for q few active, brave and honest
men to rush to the front now, and say
to the disgusted, and almost discour-
ed, masses--"Come on, let us have an
end Of all this p The awakening off
the people will be like the shock of
earthquakes, whenever the true issues
orn bol1lu MT hafora tboy,o