Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-10-18
EXPENDITURES PER CAPITA.

i0lloWS:
EXPENDITURES PER CAPITA.
J T years. = 70 exclusive Of int and debt
$ $5:;;: :: .sss :
Average yearly for the q years, 81 r.
AS shown above, the net ordinary
expenditure per capita by Grant, on
a peace standard and gold basis
being the standard and basis applied
to Buchanan-is $l64 per capita
which is less than the alleged annual
average for the twenty.four years in
the sum of IL cents per capita:
IA cents less per capita than the average under
Van Buren,
/ cents less per capita than the average under
Polk
80 cents less per capita than Tie average under
Pierce.
So cents less per capita than the average under
Buchanan.
So much for the per capita COM
parison, the idea of which was bor-
rowed by the Resident Democratic
Committee, and fairly run into the
ground in a vain effort to find a pc
riod which would favor tho Demo
cracy.
We again recur to the gross re-
ceipts for l869-70, for the purpose of
exposing another misrepresentation
and blunder Of the Resident Com
mittee, and of showing what dispo-
sition has in fact been made of these
gross receipts. The SAIL, 255, 477,63,
which the Resident Committee pur-
posely present under false name,
are in fact the gross receipts of tho
year, and make the average gross
receipts per capita S1028.
Here this BY 8 document gets q
little befogged in it's finances. If it
really desired to state the gross
omount Of money to be accounted
for it should have added ID cents per
capita for the reduction of cash in
the Treasury, making S10.43 per
capita for the period under consider
alton, to be accounted for as follows:
Payment 4 redemption of the Democratic debt SO IL
Expenses incurred in consequence Of Democratic
I
Standard at currency value OF
Total par capits (currency) .......-........ 10 40
The current expenses in currency,
reduced to gold basis-the average
premium on gold being fer that fiscal
year % 2-10 per cent-makes the
years expenditure under Grant, as
already stated, 1.64 (gold) per capita
an expenditure less by 13 cents
per capita than the average during
the twenty-four years Of Democatic
rule, as stated in BY 9.
Again, 6 BY states that the
amount Of Federal taxes extorted
from the people by the present adj
ministration during the fiscal year
was Sill, 255, Az .G3, when the facts
arc that the taxes collected we're:
internal taxes .''''.........'.."... lS4ee9'755 40
Total taxes collected. .............. 37e43sl3O o.
Received for lands sold and from other
sources-not tdGe'.... 3l,Sl7, $40 20
Total receipts as above............ All .2s5,477 6S
In this case 6 BY 9 comes within
thirty-ono and three quarter millions
Of the truth, not nearer. This is
pretty good guessing for a Demo-
dratie committee-nearer, in pro-
portion to the amount involved, than
they generally come but it is big
mistake fer such little document.
But Democrats seldom call things
by their right names.
fHhn hnr q Of 90 re q
are notifications or multiplications
of those already noticed, and, there
fore, do not require attention.
Every sensible man will at once
see the propriety of going back
thirty-three years to get standard
Of comparison with the administra-
ton of President Grant. The term
of President Jackson is the very
latest honest Democratic administra-
ton which ever had commence
ment, and in that respect, as well as
in its energy and devotion to the
Union, the comparison with Presi-
dent Grant is appropriate. But the
enlarged area of occupied territory,
and vast multiplication Of interests
and duties in the last thirty-three |
years, renders inapplicable any con-
trast of expenditures between the |
two periods. However, it should be |
remembered that General Jackson
has been made to do duty in every
election since his day, and in their
present deplorable condition the De-
mOcracy should not be blamed for
calling on his name. Yet it was
hardly the right thing to crowd him
into the field at ths head of such q
small squad.
6 BY 9-fractions omitted for brew
ity-is no doubt relied upon as the
Democratic document, being intend
ed for the million. and issued by au-
thority. What pity it should con-
tain such plumbers, and make so poor
q comparative showing.
"wHY TAXES ARE HIGH"
Taxes are high because the De-
mocracy of the country plunged it
into fearful war; because duripg
that war the Northern Democracy
by their treason encouraged the
Drawer Southern Democracy to con-
.inue the war; because of the hun
lreds Of thousands of widows and
orphans made pensioners on the S
bounty OF tho Government by the
Democratic rebellion because under
johnson the Democracy retarded re- /
construction by every means in their Q
power; because the rebel Democracy o
n the South, encouraged by the t
Northern Democrats in Congress, t
made the maintaining of large army e
necessary to enfore the laws in fact
he Democracy have about as good
round to complain Of taxes made G
ecessary by the war as the thief Il
as to complain of the taxes levied Ia
o protect the community from his n