The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-13
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A DEMOCRATIC DOCUMENT

W = hAOo' AL PoSiLS QOCumCDD, C0rlSlen6Q
Why Taxes are high" 61s by 93s,nches
printed on one side, and ornamented
witha plentiful sprinkling of full faced
type evidently intended to produce a
stunning effect, and to practically an.
initiate the little that is left of the Re-
publican party
Astonishing as it may seem, this little
joker covers .a'period of thirty-three years
of our national history, except that it
skips light'yfover the eight years of the
Democratic rebellion simply designating
that period as Lincolu's administration.
to be omitted as period of war-and
not even naming poor johnson as at all
entitled to notice.
This is not the first effort of the De-
mocracy to blot from history the Lincoln
administration, and the. facts and Incl
dents OF the Democratic rebellion, which
made it illustrious, nor is it probable that
it will be the last. But to this formid-
able BY 9-fractions not included-one-
sided document
The Democratic period observed by 6
BY 9 commences with the administration
of Jackson and closes with that of Blu
chanan-thereby embracing an appropri
ate contrast between the true and the
modern secession Democracy, and illus
trating the gradual fall to complete de-
generacy of that once powerful and
patriotic party.
The document opens with what pur.
portsjt to be statement of the "total cost,
cost per annum, population, and cost per
capita, " of each administration, commenc-
f,,c To Al
chanan, covering period of twenty four
years of unqualified Democratic rule.
From this statement, however, the com,
mittee has excluded ali payments for
interest and reduction of the principal: of
the public debt. 4 Except during the
Mexican war, under Polk, the whole
period was one of profound peace, and,
consequently, no valid reason exists for
excluding payments for interests from
the cost column. The document, has,
however, this merit in the eyes of the
Democratic committee it makes the
columns false in fact, though to inatten-
tive observers fair in appearance. Be-
sides the omission OF interest, each of the
sums stated in the columns of "total
cost and cost per annum are in some
degree erroneous, but not in large
amounts, and we therefore accept them
as approximately correct.
Under the same headings of "total
cost {" and cost per annum," and in the
same columns, the said Democratic Com
mittee has placed what they assume tc
be the cost tof President Grants admins
trstion, as follows: .t.a-
Total cost. Cost per annum,
Grants y'r. $50, 796, $500 $40, 796, 1855 90
GRANTS y'r.. All, 255, 4T6S AL ,255. ATT SO
Now let US examine into the fairness
of this statement. The first line purports
to be the cost of Grants administration
for one year, when, in fact, the figures
relate to the fiscal year 1869, two-thirds
of which was under johnson, and only
one-third under Grant, and not more
than one sixth, or two months, admins
tered under Grants appointees. Nor
was Grants policy of economy fully in
force until the close OF the fiscal year end
ed June 80 1869. So that, in all fairness,
no portion of this period is reasonably
chargeable to the Grant administration
Besides there is an absolute error of
100000 in the figures. The sum is,
truthfully stated, $19O495, 354-95.
In the. second line as, above, and under.
the same headings, this veracious Resi-
dent Committee displays the most con
sumate ignorance or the most profound
yilliany undoubtedly the latter.
Instead of the actual ordinary expendi-
lures, excluding payments for interest
and for reduction Of the principal of the
public debt--as under the same headings
in relation to the Democratic ADMINISTERS,
tion--the Resident Committee has set
down the gross receipts of the year. to
wit: $411 ,255, 477-63 True, they have
added at the end of their line, in the
smaller type, /" including principal and
interest on the public debt,''as an avenue
of escapeishould their attempted decep-
ton under head of "total cost" be de-
tected.
For the purpose of comparison with
the Democratic period,upon precisely the
basis adopted by the Resident Committee
and including the war items, the state
ment would stand.as follows:
Total cost Grant one year, S164, 421.
714-13, instead of SAIL ,255,477 63-thus
showing the attempted deception for ono
year to be $246,833, 1853 so, and here are
the official figures to prove this:
Total ordinary expenditures
by Grant for the year 1869
70, excluding payments for
reduction of public debt. 1922. 1874 O52 ~
Deduct interest upon the
public debt, as in the case
of the Democratic Adm. 1877. 7O2 338 O5
Total cost, including war
items, and excluding inter-
est and principal paid on
puDIc oebt............... 164, 421 IA IS
A TRUE STANDARD OF COMPARISON.
AS the rebellion was wholly Demo
cratic affair, inaugurated and conducted
by Democrats, it is but just to charge that
party with its entire cost, and therefore,