The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-24

Total. .......... .ts2s 7B5, $50 t2i5, 9i2,62
Decrease OF expenditures. S2,sSs,OWO
Before commenting upon this, We must
bear in mind,
1st. That the Andrew johnson, was a
Republican Administration, created by
Republicans, with W. II. Seward, q life
long Republican, the premier OF that Ad.
ministratlon.
I'd. That the Democrats have not been
In Federal power since March, 1861, and
that for over nine years now, the Repub.
licsns have administered the Government,
by granting Lincoln unlimited powers, or
by ASSUMING all powers under Andrew
johnson. The Senate and House have
been all the while Republican and no
money could have been appropriated, or
expended, which they did net sanction, or
order.
Thus Congress, by this very statement,
has run up the Congress expenditures,
alone, three or four times what they were
under James Buchanan, and increased
them In IS months under Grant, over
IS months under Johnson, thus;
JOHNSON. GRANT.
5.GG44g7 1893 235
Indeed, the chief, II not the only rcduc
ton, has been In the expenses OF the Wa
and Navy Departments, which, as the
wal was ended, or ending, 1t became all
the while necessary TO decrease. The War
Department now ought not TO expend
fifty millions, in lieu OF the eighty odd
millions here set down.
The statement of the decrease Of the
ex penses Of collecting the Revenue from
Customs Is a fraud, az Mr.. Richardson
must have known, II he has ever read Mr..
Boutwcl's reply to a call from Mr.. Beck,
Of the Appropriation Committee of the
House.
The next fraudulent statement is the
following
For amount OF interest paid
from Sent. 1, 1867, 10
March 1, 1889. ..........s& 2il ,21l,7
For amount Of interest paid
from March l., 1869, to
Sept, /, 1870 .,,.".....,. l3. Gi,loo
Saving Of Interest. 49,. $i1,sOo,56
For reduction OF The Pubic
Debt. from Sept. l, 1861,
to March /, 1869. num- Sf,3s3AG0
For reduction OF the Public
Debt. from March 1, 1853,
TO Sept. /, iS~70..r.,.".. SlbJ,6i2,lO
and to provide this, In spite Of the re-
monstranccs Of all tho 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 payments have
been made, and taxes kept up TO make
them-as IL puyposey 10 raise U. .. bonds
10 a premium, and 10 Keep them az pre-
mtum-a In the interest OF capitalists.
The reduction of debt by the heaviest
sort Of taxes upon the people, In order to
raise the value OF property to which the
people arc In debt, has been the great
card of the Grant Boutwell, financial sd-
ministrstion.
This Is now the heaviest taxed country
on earth, and the people here pay more
for government than any people on earth
except the Turks or Persians-and oil
tbis, too, In q time Of profound peace.
The Grant Boutwell, administration Of
the finances has also been doing all 1t can
TO hide the taxation, 1t has been unncces.
sarily inlicting upon the people; and
what we pay In taxes, have not gone,
bali to support the government, while
over half haze gone 10 pay bounties, or
to create and support monopolies, TO exalt
capital and capitalists, &c.
OF the double prices we pay on iron
and steel, and all the manufactures there
og only one-half 20 to the government
The other half TO iron mongors, patent
right steel monopolists, &c.
The Increased II not double prices we
nay for Il clothes, our carpets, our hats,
o.,r chnaa M mi Ia but tO