Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-09-23
government, we find the following
as the sum total Of our expenditures
for the current fiscal year.


Works of Defence 1911 sol, 90
River and Harbors 3,945, 100
Post-oiiice Department.: beyond
the amt. reed from postages 5000, 900 20
Legislative, Executiv. and Judi
Sundry Civil expenses l3,f3t, ,6Ji Il
Army 90 s21 ss7 q
Navy 1880 800 %
Indian Department. 323 ,565 o.
si05 ,2l5, ,4so %
The last Democratic administra-
ton that was in full power in this
country under President Buchanan
spent for the objects embraced in
this schedule something over sew
euty millions per annum in gold--
an equivalent in paper to-day OF
eighty five millions of dollars. The
population of the country was less
than thirty millions. 1t is now for
ty millions, so that President Grant
wouid be entitled by the ratio
which has always governed expen-
penditure in this country, to spend
a third more in the administration
of the government than was re
quired under Buchanan, which
woull bring the sum total to one
hundred and fourteen millions of
dollars when in reality it is but one
hundred and five millions The de-
tails of expenditure in the two Pc
RODS will also show immensely in
favor of President Grants economy.
Under President Buchanan the army
consisted of nineteen regiments, the
maintenance of which cost for the
four years of the administration an
average of over twenty-one millions
each year-more than million dol
lars per annum in gold, or about
thirteen hundred thousand dollars
in the paper money Of to-day for
each regiment. The army at pres
ent consists of forty regiments, yet
its whole maintenance for the year
costs but twenty-1ine millions OF
| dollars, tritie over seven hundred
thousand dollars in paper money to
each regiment.
/ have selected the Army merely
because comparison in that branch
of the public service is easy and the
result palpable. The same state
meEt is true in all the other depart
ments of the Government, and il
the limits | have assigned to this
letter ermitted it, l could readily
demonstrate that under Republican
administration the national eXpeu
diture has been far more carefully
guarded, and rigid economy fan
more carefully consulted than under
preceding Democratic administra-
tions. The amounts expended have
necessarily been very large and the
temptation to extravaganza thus
greatly enhanced, hence the adhe.
renee to severe economy and strict
accountability is all the more praise
worthy and honorable.
In all TIE leading measures of the
Forty first Congress for Tightening
the burdens of the people the Dem.
ocratic party, as represented in the
Senate and House, were found stub.
bornly resisting. They voted in al
most solid phalanx against the bill
whereby the tax on tea, coffee. and
sugar was reduced, whereby large
free list was added TO the Tariff.
and whereby sixty millions of in
ternal taxes were entirely removed
They voted with equal unanimity
against the bill which proposes to
fund the public debt at four per
cent. interest, and thus immensely
decrease the annual charge upon
the people. With very few eXcep-
tions they voted against the bill
which gives to the South and West
something nearer to Il fair proper
ton of national banking capital, and
which on the specie basis makes the
banking s. stem free to all who wish
to engage in it as by right and jus
ticc it should be. 1t is not fair to
assign motives to men, and hence |
do not attempt it. i content my
self with calling attention to the
fact that the Democratic party as
represented in Congress, stands re-
corded as voting against all these
measures of relief amclio. alton, and
justice.
The Republican party is in the
tenth year of its power in the ma
ton. When Abraham Lincoln was
inaugurated as President in March,
1861, the treason of leading Demo-
Gratis had well nigh destroyed the
Government. Howell Cobb hal
blasted our credit and left bank
rupt Treasury. John Il Floyd had
SO demoralized and scattered the
army that the strongest fortresses
fell into the hands of rebels end
traitors. Isaac Z'oucey had des-
patched our war vessels on distant
errands, not leaving guns enough
in our harbors, or marines enough
in our Southern navy-yards to hold
them against the enemy. The re-
suit, therefore, of Democratic rule
was national credit ruined, army
and navy powerless for defence.
treason rampant and defiant, and the
country on the eve of fatal and final
me:nberment. At this critical
moment the Republicans came into
power. and how they have governed
the nation history will tell. The
most gigantic of rebellions has been
crushed; the great evil of slavery
has been extirpated; the national
credit has been revived and the na-
tional faith maintained, great pub
lie works have been prosecuted to
completion the continent has been
spanned with telegraphic wires; the