The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
HOW HAS GRANT FULFILLED HIS
PLEDGES2

When General Grant wrote his letter
accepting the nomination for President,
he made the following explicit pledges:
eff elected to the office of President of the
United States, it will be my endeavor to adj
minister all the laws in good faith with view
of giving peace, quiet and protection every
where. Peace and universal pros
perity-its sequence-with economy of admin
istration, will tighten the burden of taxation.
while it constantly reduces the national debt"
How has the President kept these
pledges? No sooner was he Inaugural
ted President than affairs at the south,
which had been in a terrible state OF
turmoil during Johnson's administra-
ton, assumed a more peaceful aspect,
and have been improving in this res
pect ever since. His administration has
been noted for its efforts to administer
the laws faithfully. We have had ''peace
and universal prosperity" Although
war clouds have once or twice threaten
ed us, the affairs of the government
have been so managed as to preserve
the most friendly relations with all the
nations of the globe.
Has he lightened the burden of taxa
ton which rests so heavily upon the
people on account of the democratic re-
bellion, and has he reduced the nation
al debt? The following figures will
answer the question: From an official
statement, from the treasury depart
ment, it appears that the net gain in the
national revenues during the eighteen
months, commencing with President
Grants Inauguration, and ending with
the 1st of September, 1870, was SS7, 213,
1850. That is over efghty-seUen mil
lions have been saved to the taxpayers
ofthe country, simply by the honest and
vigorous enforcement of the revenue
laws. During the same period there
was, as we learn from the same official
source, an actual decrease in the expen-
ditures of the government, amounting
to $82, 1853, 690.S9. Add this sum to the
increase of the revenue above given
and we have a net saving to the tax
payers during the first eighteen months
of President Grants administration of
SlS0,066, S26.37 or one hundred and
eighty millions! 1t must be remember
ed, also, that in the same eighteen
months during which this vast saving
has been accomplished, a republican
Congress has stricken off taxes amount
ing to over eighty millions, and that
since the year 1866, this same Congress
has reduced internal taxation alone to
the extent of an aggregate sum of t,co
hundred and t,ocnty -eight millions! The
increase in the reduction of the public
debt during the first eighteen months
of President Grants administration
over the reduction in the previous eigh-
teen months, is officially shown to be
S16S, l5S, 64S.93, and the aggregate re-
duction during the same period to be
S169, 542, lOS.60. That is, while a saving
to the Taxpayers has been effected,
amounting to over one hundred and
eighty-seven millions the Indebtedness
of the country has been at the same
time reduced nearly one hundred and
seventy millions!
The question to be decided by the
voters of Kansas on the Sth of Novem-
Der is: Shall the republican President
and the republican Congress be rebuk-
ed for this magnificent showing, or shall
they be endorsed and continued in the
rood work? Let the people think OF
these things, and so vote as TO endorse
the party which shows such a record
for the good of the country.