Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-09-15
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u! $50 s e s;sfEs IL y Alprrsiaa TEEpass Soy
revenue from customs. ~ 9, 864,bo4n . 9,225,4S4
Miscellaneous expenses Of -
i SS;:on:, i9e!sal1s ss1s 10 S% 81. "a 3, ass .sssl
collecting Int. RsSen1e 1I,y9E,eE9 10sS76, IA
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miscellaneous expenses un- .f1sd kJI
der Interior Department 4o10,519 4,I62,4b1
Expenses of War D~epaft-.oo. ,I511n
Expenses Of Navy Depart ,sfsysgd
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pssftment ". :HS s,,1sis SOP szabs65sI
NT PsfI%snt Or e. fs1sls1s las. s. p slsa
Decrease Of expsndituEes. s2,s5s.06
Before commenting upOn this, We must
Rep1 Si nsl H sdnIni ES58: S%asse ii bS =
Republicans, with w. h. Seward, a life
long RepublicaA the pRenierp 81 that Adj
ministration- S
I'd. Thai the Democrats have not been
in Federzl power since March, 1851, and
that for over nine yesrsAeW the Repqhr
by granting IincoM saag Ssste4 b6wefH 81
by AssUM4He, al powers undI Anotew
The Senate .and House have
been all the while Republican and no
money could have been appropriated, or
.1pendedsYhHhtnsg diafcteanatipp, OF
Thus Congress, by thisIvery statement,
has run up the LCOngfess expenditures,
alone, three or four times what they were
under James Buchanan, and increased
Is months dhder Jdahebn, Ehus.i sboof
I sasa 3 sbsssssSsssSE
IndeediSt6e chief. ii NOT the nv feduO.
fion, has beeninthe expehses offhe War
and Navy Departments Whi6hJsas the
war was ended or ending il, beeameaH
the whilenecessary to decrease. The Wer
Department now ought not to expendi
fifty millions, in lieu of b eighty odd
millions here set down. tHaG Ysns,a mI i
The statement ofsthe decrease of the
expenseso of collecting the Revenuelf from
Customs is a fraud, q Mr.. Richardson
must have known, If he has ever read Mr.,
Boutwells reply5to q call from MI. Beck,
of the Appropriation Committee of the
House.
Inc next statement is
For amount Of interest paid i~gissss9ss z-naz
from Sept !, 1867, to sfna ZHi
For Mascn !, ls ~ I;s,: ns Szll'zzi'hlO aai
from March I, iS69,- to i2.eas ia1,stsi
Sept. /, sT0..8.4-.a1.El1s asAsk15s sat +
Saving 81 iut sls sasB- TT s17sooBsi.
For red1etion OF the Hnbaie did - Giiusss ,,
Debt, from Sept, IL 1857 - 5.fp I,
For reduction Of the Public f1pssss lsssail
Debt, from March 1, 1869,
TO Septsl, S70,5..fS.-.s .-us s64a,1Q
and to provide, this, in. spite of the re-
monstrances Of all the Democracy, the
Bounty Taxes have, been kept up, on iron,
wool and Woolens, leather, hides, lumber,
salt, coal provisions &C., and upon tea,
coffee and sugar, and these paynehtsha7e
been made, and taxes kept up toRmake
them-as If PUrposeg to fdisseUkA bonds
10 q preza63pA and to zsSp heb at 81 pre-
znSuDs-aIl IN tho intetest,o OF ca6itsiistasoa
The reduction of debt by the heaviest,
sort of taxes upon the people, in order4to
raise the valge Of property o -w11eh the.
people are IN debt, has been -Ahe. great
m~inistration. -
This is now the KeaViestSfnKuRcoun
IN earth, and the.peopley here p4V mere
for government than any paopla M earth
except the Turks or Persisns-6nd all
this, too, in q time of prof6d1d peace. -
Ing 0Idnbr 6OuEWt4 dQm1Ql6u "I1Ou-O1
the finances has also been doihgr6n it can
TO hide the tAxation, It has beenunneces,
sarily inficting upon he peoph; and,
what we pay In taxes, H8E6zAot gone.
half to support the goxernnept, white
over half hdOe gone tofpay bounties, or
70 create and support monapolieaeto exalt-
capital and capitalists, &c. a.
OF the double prices we pay on iron
and steel, and al The manufactures there
of, only one-half 90 to the government
b other half to iron-mongers,s patent
right steel monopolists, Co.
The tncEeasedifshot double prices We
Pay for our clothes, cur carpets, nj hats,
our shoes, go not to government butGtu-
The few who are protested fnom CONF
peting In their productionsn by extreme
tariff legislation created for them alouer
We raise annually our hundfed RIS
lions per annu1nF in taxes for. the GoveFP-
ment, We really pay SIX HUNDRED MIL
LIONS, or more, of whichthe GoFernmehtI
gets but four hundred Millions. -
The Grant-Boutwell statement of q re-
duction of th6 debt @ua eqnfesses.in fact:
That for eighteen months we have been
unnecessarily taxing forty milions o fA1uFl
man beings S169,Q00,0O0 for a few bond
holding capitalistSin Wall stfeeA 0reheA
where : = .6s& &sS1G-NstxNss,
And this taxation haaE been imposedin
behalf of iron, Woolen, carpet, lumber.
coal and salt manufacturers; so that the
$169s000sO00 Of debt paid have Cost the
taxed people $300,000,0O0 st the least
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