The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-10-06
The Economy of this Administration.

Ir1e1QS OI Ills AuulAH1Stidt1Oi, tllsil ii
was:econom' cal in the expenditure of
public money. Official facts and fig
ures show just how much truth there
is in this. The expenses of the Con-
gress for eighteen months under the
Administration of Grant have been
S1,300,000 more than they were in the
last eighteen months of Andrew
johnson term. The Post-office eX-
penses are s., 100000 more. The for
eign intercourse expenses have i1l-
creased nearly sl0O, 900. The expenses
of collecting the customs are 100000
less, but then The miscellaneous ex-'
penses, including buildings, are 81
SOC, 900 more. The cost of the United
States Courts are nearly $1,000, 900
more. The Indian department has
added to its cost $4,000. In the way
of pensions there has been added not
less than S6,000o00. A Congress and
President intent on economy would
not have made such record as this.
1t is true there has been a reduction
of $4,000, GOO in the expenses of the
War Department, but for that no
credit is to be given to Grant or to
Congress either, for it ought to have
been done years ago. Nay, instead of
ssO,0OO,OO0 it could have been brought
down to S4O,OO0O0O, with no detri-
ment to the public interests. 1t is
claimed that there has been a reduc-
ton in the principal of the public
debt of $169, 100000. Now this, ac-
cording to Secretary Boutwell's own
testimony, is not doing near as well
as the previous Administration. In
a speech made in the House of Rep
resentatives, on July 81, 1868, Hon.
George S. Boutwell, said:'
eI wish to call the attention of the
House to fact deduced by a careful
examination of statistics obtained
from the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, showing that with our re-
sources and the revenue of this coun-
try we have secured large diminu-
ton of the public debt. I confess
that, after the careful examination ]
had made, felt compelled to review
| it, to see that there was not some mis-
take in the premises or in the calcula-
ton, so astonishing is the evidence
thus furnished of the ability of the
people of the country to liquidate the
public debt. From the lst day of
April, 1865, to the lst day of January,
1868, we have paid out of the public
treasury $I,552,000,000 of money.
Upon a careful analysis of the ex-
penditures of the Government during
those two years and nine months, /
! find that the expenses of a peace es-
tablishment, including interest, pen
sions and bounties, upon the basis of
the year 1856 and 1867, when the ex-
penses of the Government were $70,-
100000 more than they are TO be the
present year, amounted to S4S5, ,000, 600
showing that we paid, over and above
those expenses, 81 ,066, 100000. On
the 1st day of April, 1866, and the 1st
day of January, 1868, would have
been added TO the public debt as
proper expenses of the war if we had
not out of the public revenue from
day to day liquidated it. If we add
to the 50, 336 100000 of public debt on
the 1st of April 1866, what we paid
for war expenses, including the inter-
est on the war debt, pensions and
bounties, between the LIST of April,
1865, and the lst of January, 1868, the
public debt, If we had not paid war
expenses out of the ordinary revenue,
would have amounted to S2,432, 0O0,-
600. In the face of this great fact,
that i'll two years and nine months, by
extraordinary taxation and extraordi-
nary efforts to be sure, we paid ST.
066 100000 of the hublic debt, are we
to assume that the people of this
country are not annually 20 make con-
siderable payments of the public debt
of the eountryi Almost one=third OF
the public debt of the country has
been paid in two years and nine
months"
So, it seems that, according to Bont-
we'll, almost one third of the public
debt, or S1,000,00O,00o, was paid in
two years and nine months of An
4 drew Johnson's5 Administration. II
this is SO, what credit does Grant de-
serve for beggarly $169, 100000 paid
in one year and half of his term p
---~Se~--
JULES FAvRE issues handbill pro.
claiming republic-Washburn tele.
graphs it at Government expense
Grant, from Long Branch, telegrapht
his recognition-andt the nations laugh
at the celerity and intrepidity of an
{ American administration in recog.
nizing at Long Branch Government
: not yet proclaimed mile from the
heart of Paris. On the other hand, 6
republic in Cuba was proclaimed two
years ago with more of dignity and
authenticity, and has heroically sus
tanned itself against Spain-but there
is no recognition of it by the Grant
Gift Enterprise-there is no token O.
approval issued from Long Branch
The negroes and the white Abolition,
lists fall down and worship this swim
ding craftsmanship! They claim
to be the party of all the intelligence
all the morality and all the patriot
ism-and those who insist upon being
as ignorant as dirt have right to con
ccQe Ine claln.-CT1STS. --tfas=H
A Few Words in Favor of the White man
In the midst of the crusade agains
the white race for the elevation O
the negro, perhaps it would not bt
amiss to cite few of the meritorioui
acts of white men, White men were
those who first discovered America
white men were those who frs
|, founded colonies in America; white
men were those who threw British
: tea into Roston harbor; white mel
we're those who first disputed thu
! right Of King George the Third tt
f rule America. white men were thos,
t who promulgated the Declaration O.
independence; white men were thos,
who fought so successfully the battles
3 of the American revolution whit,
, men were those who founded th,