New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-14

aCnnt administration Oh 'ne hiS "o ""J
safely add at least 100000 for Cancelled loans,
Judgments against the city, uncollected taxes,
&c. The Controllers report of the expenses
of the City Government is usually one of the
earliest made in January. We have now been
waiting nine months for the balance-sheet OF
the past year, but after diligent search we
are impelled to the conclusion that none has
been or will be made and our readers will
have no difficulty in deciding why.
Taking the figures, however az they are
given in the foregoing table, we find that in
the past ten years, during which the rule
of the Ring has been practically abso-
lute. the amount of money raised for the ex-
pendture of the City Government exceeds one
hundred and seventy four millions of dollars,
exclusive of the enormous amounts raised by
direct assessments on property, large proper
tion of which also goes into the pockets of
the Ring. For this shocking expenditure what
do we getf Dirty streets, pestilental tene-
ments rotten piers, yellow fever, democrat
lied police, murders every day, criminals at
large, and theft in every department of the
Corporation.
The Democratic press is eloquent upon the
waste of money by the Federal Government,
under Republican rule, and if one were to
heed them it would appear that 10 people on
the face of the earth ever was so burdened
with taxes and exactions as the suffering peo-
ple of the United States. What is the truth
The National Government provides for an army
and a navy, for the customs service, diplo-
matte intercourse, the post-ofiice, Indian rela-
tons. and so on, and apart from the interest
/ a oh nd ltpma charOpaDle
directly to the rebellion, the expenses of the
present Administration are only about SSO,OOO,-
600. OF So for each inhabitant of the Re-
public. 1t costs So a head to govern the
United States, and s2s head to
govern the City of New-York; or In
other words, Mr.. Tweed is just fourteen times
| as expensive as Gen. Grant. Does any one,
who reflects for a moment, imagine that the
actual honest cost of governing New-York is
one-third of the amount charged for iti Ten
years ago, the taxes were $9,750,O0O; the in
crease of population since then has been only
| IA Der cent, and the taxes have risen to $780,
100000. They are still rising, and will rise
every year until the Ring is destroyed. Mr..
| Tweed has indeed, for the sake of appearances,
made a slight reduction in the rate of taxation
| this year, but he has overbalanced it by an
| increased assessment he has added Ss3,0OO,OO0
10 the valuation and taken off two cents in
the hundred dollars from the rate, the result
of which is that he will probably get four or
five millions more than he got in 1862
Tammany hspires to rule the nation.
large part of the money which is raised this
year by tax will be spent in campaigning for
John T. Hoffman, who now sits in the Cover
nors chair, which he got by purchased votes,
waiting for Grants old shoes, which he ex-
poets to get in the same manner. IL the same
Ring which has robbed the City of New-York
obtained control of the Federal Treasury, the
extravaganza of its administration would be
without q parallel. 1t certainly would not be
| satisfied with less than it does in New-1ork,
and a very simple operation in arithmetic Will
show what the cost would be. If Tammany
governs us at the rate of $2S q head, the
cost of governing 100000 of people on
the same system would be $1,12O,OOO,OOO
annually, or nearly half as much as the entire
national debt This huge sum it would OF
course be impossible to raise but we may
rest satisfied that we should be taxed to the
utmost limit of our endurance, and for the
= first time in the history of America the people
, of the whole land would know what it is to
groan under the outrageous exactions of de-
bauched and thievish government.
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