The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-18


dor;no which time it will cost 500 head to
DAY it-when by judicious postponement for !
tventy-fiye years il would not be ten dollars |
a head Why drive away production and
capital by this policy Of the administration
Why not add to the attractive forces of Our
political system those of an economic eys.
TEN of light taxation? Why not take off
the bsndages and let our energies have free
play, that We may spring forward IN
trammelled in the race of advancement So
that when the European struggle is over
Immigration may again take up its march
across the ocean to this land where liberty
will no, be Knocked by the everlasting
demands Of an Unsuitable tax gathering
tsskmaster. When, therefore, the republi
can platform vaunts it's one hundred ana
seventy millions paid in Gig hteen months as
in 1868 it Dragged of paying nearly billion
of debt in three years after the war; and
when the Secretary, in his September state
ment. shows our debt to be nearly two and
, half billions Tor S2.495,5 6l,0O0), with
nearly one hundred and forty millions on
| hand; with decrease since March ISL OF
eiybtv two millious-or q decrease 81 the
rate of one hundred and sixty four millions
per yesr-he simply claims credit tor
stnpendous piece of burdensone laundering,
which will forever keep our industries under
the harrow of taxation, and bar as with a
flaming wall all immigration from Europe
If this is not the claim of the republican
party, what is the meaning of their boast OF
immense debt payments? If they are TO be
Judged by what they have done as to what
they will do, aud as this is their only clearly
developed policy, we have right to infer
that unless they are the veriest demagogues
they will prove the most extortionate and
grinding of governors.
RADICAL ExTRAyAGANCE AND BLUNDERs.
Conscious of the damaging record with
res pect to past taxation, the republicans
parade their recent alleged reduction 0!
| eighty millions, and send out RON the
| Treasury comparative statements Of net re
| ceIpts and expenditures for eighteen months
| Of johnson and eighteen months OF Grant.
| They show q net increase of receipts BY
| Grant of $S7,2l3,165 60-About one-hsif OF
| which 10 customs, and the other half inter
naI revenue; and IN certain items, chiefly
war and navy, they show g less expenditure
under Grant than johnson. Now L confess
| that | am q little dubious about these Treas
ury statements | recall MIR. Dawes speech
on the reckless protligscy OF all the Cabinet
| including the Presideut-all but Attorney
| General Hosr. | recall his vain attempts tt
| obtain clear statements, so as to know what
to appropriate for the deficiencies OF the past
and the requirements of the future. L haze
| before me his lame attempt at the end OF tn,
| session to account tor-lt not excuse-th'
| prodigsls of Grants Selection. lie says th'
| Treasury made a little mistake of thirty Nv,
| millions. In referring to the dlfferenc'
between the preseb, and The last admins
lrs,ion, he says: 1T is but fair to stat
hat this Inference is found by the Treasury
| Department correcting It's own mistakes II
| heir estimates submitted to the House OF
S32, 000, 900. All these mistakes were mad
.gaiuss Themselves = Only thirty tw'
millions; that IL all, citizens and tax payers
Three or four times as much as the Ohio
State debt aud the laundering innocents-
the N istske sgsinst themselves Hesvef
neIp, Us when democratic congress inves
tigste the little bluBders made for-them
selves / am, therefore. for this and other
reasons-not forgetting Secretary Borie :
boast of saving two millions in coal alone
above Gideon Weles, who only bought
SI5O,000 worth-a little disposed to take
| Treasury statements with large allowances
or mistakes. But supposing it to be true
ha. Grant has collected more and pad out
ess than johnson, why should the whole
| repu bIIcan party csckle over it, as 1t 1t had
aid fresh egg The truth is, that the
party is as much responsible for the leglsia
i've appropriations and the executiv,
disbursements of money under johnson d
under Grant More SO. Did not their
Senate approve of Johnsons appointments ?
Did they not have a Civil Tenure bill over
hin ? Did they not have a Commissioner
of Revenue, Mr. Rollins? Did they not
have the disad vantage under johnson OF the
TWO dollars ~hiskey tax, when The failure 10
collect is alleged by reason OF SO much fraud
rom their own law. Did they hot, under
Grant release quantities Of whiskey out OF
oond by change of the law; and
when they changed radical Rollins
tor radical Delano, what gain was shert
exc pt In the change IN law, and only &
: little ess inducemeu t to fraud. It Is not SC
much what these latter two years. Remote
rom the war, show for army and nav,
penses as compared to the cost previou
TO these years and nearer the war, but tn
air com parison of Radical with Democratic
rule, IN peaceful tImes-that will be to,
ouch stone OF economy and irugallty. to
| he past three years IL has cost five hundred
aud ninety five millions of dollars expenses
or about two hundred millions per year
This does not include the interest paid OF
the dcot IN that time--four hundred mIliion'
or the principal of the debt paid. 81
that allowing two years for the return o.
peace, beginning the comparison in 1867
and com pairing it with the highest year,
1858, S74 900, the expenses of Grant
we're almost three times as much per yeal
as under the Democratic administration
During period of seventy two years, from
the beginning of the government, in 1883
, 10 1861, including the debt of the wars o
1916 and 1912, and with Mexico, and the
t purchases Of territory-we only spent seven
, Radical rule, from June, 1865. to June
1870, we spent two Thousand millions. 81
hat five years of the wild rule of the Radi-
cal war on Johnson by Congress, and tb'
, benign Radical rule of peace over the South
more resources of the nation by three
hundred millions have been absorbed thar
he whole expenses from 1889 to I>6l
Is this the party that boasts of its rspi'
strides to specie, its restoration of credit
: and its financial achievements OF debt pay
, ing and tax reducing? Had the Republican
/ party a, once abolished stamp and ircom
taxes, crushed the espionage and corruption
of the Internal revenue, RENTED the colIec
ton of the excise taxes on spirits and TO
nacco to the States reducing expenses, AM
i adjusted fairly taxation to the old STANDARD
/ of peace and Democracy, and paid the deb
slowly and surely, it would have deserved
. well Of the people Failing to do this, i
! deserves to be forever exiled from power.