Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-01
ANOTHER swINDLE EXPOSED.

As further proof of our charge, made
yesterday, that the Press and Herald con-
ceived its efficiency as a party organ to de-
pend upon the number and meanness of
its partisan falsehoods, we need only refer
to its article of yesterday on "The Expen-
SEES of the Administration"
In that article it has the unfairness to
compare the expenses of administering the
National Government for several years pre-
ceding the war with the extraordinary ex-
penses since the war-expenses caused by
the very party it now so willingly and
cringingly serves. The expenses before
the war, it says, were some S6e, 900, 600
while now they are S315, 000o 900.
1t follows this with the following shame
full falsehood
This wasteful extravaganza is to support rad
ical oftice-holders-a standing army-to enable
radical leaders to control elections. Let the
people consider"
In the first place, the expenditures are
not.no,0 s315, 900 900, as it asserts, but only
500, 600, 900, as the estimates of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury show. And even this
heavy expenditure shows falling off of
nearly one hundred millions of dollars from
the expenses of Johnson's Administration.
The expenditures Of that Democratic Ad-
ministration, which our contemporary
heartily supported after 1866, Were. in
1867, 1916, 000, 900; and in 1868, SS77, 900 900.
For the year ending June 3Oth, 1885, the
expenditures were reduced to 1921 OOO, 900.
This reduction of ST, 900, 900 was the fruits,
in most part, of four months of an honest
Republican administration. Now, take
the year ending the 30th of June, 1870, and
we have, according to the Secretary of the
Treasury's estimates, a further reduction
to s292, 000, 900 from the year 1869, and de-
crease of $85, 900, 900 from Johnson's ex-
penditures of 1868. We are quite willing
to meet our contemporary on its own cho-
sen battle-ground, and we propose to show
to this community that it is about as "un-
sophisticated " in this matter as in come
-others to which ii has confessed.
Now, every intelligent man knows that
the increased expenditures to which we
are now subjected is the direct result of
Democratic treason and rebellion, and we
suggest that il comes in rather bad taste for
an organ openly devoted to such princi-
piSoi 10 Noulpldiii 1T the en- penSe incurred
in striking down its traitorous arms.
red with the blood of tens of thousands
of noble men. Part of the expenditures
of which it complains, go towards sup
porting the widows and orphans whose
fathers and husbands it struck down
while in rebellion. We think the party
under which it trains, should be very
careful how it complains of such burdens,
especially when they are honestly imposed
and made as light IA an honest and eff
cient Republican administration can make
them. The Democracy not only made us
to incur the debt, but through Johnson's
extravagant, corrupt administration, gave
proof how il would, If it had the opportu-
nifty, make it more oppressive. We think
the people will understand our contempt
rary's weak devices, and see that when
II talks about our National Debt and expen-
ditures, ii plays with edged tools.