The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-08-04
Radical EconomYfn

Our readers have seen with what
pretentious boasting the RADICALS have
set up claim Of economy" for this
Administration. They take the idea
from Mr.. Secretary Boutwell,, who once
month, vainly tricks himself out, like
the daw in the fable, in borrowed fea-
theirs, aud plumes himself, before his
admirers and the country at large, upon
his ECONOMY" and the rapidity with
which he is sinking the public debt,
The theme 10 taken up, straightway, BY
all the magpies aud chatterers ia the
political aviary, and the cry of "ecOno-
my is repeated as persistently as that
of "Tom Moore, of Fleet street." The
Washington correspondents of the Bal
siuaore Gazette submits to analysis this
claim Of ECONOMY set up for this Ad-
administration by the Radicals He
shows that the expenditures of the Gov
ernmeut, in the last year Of Democratic
rule, 1860, were only s63, OPS, 7s9; while
the expenses Of the Government for the
fiscal year just closed, June. 80, 1870.
under the present. economical" Ad
sniaistration of President Graut aud
Mr.. Boutwell,, are Sl3T ,4l0,931, or
MORE THAN DOUBLE what they
were ten years ago under the Democrat.
10 Administration Of Mr.. buchanan.
Let every tax payer remember that fact
when he hears the Radicals talking about
the ECONOMY" of the present Admins.
tration. The correspondent of the Ga
setts puts the matter in the following
forcible light before the public;
"The public can form some idea of the
business Of the claim to ECONOMY set up
BY this Administration bya glance at the
Official figures just furnished BY the Secreta-
ry Of the Treasury himself Inthis instance
Figures can't lie. y
ment for the fcal year ending June 80, 1850
were S6S, 025, Tsa, while those for the fiscal
year just closed amount to tho enormous
sum Of 5000, 113, 269. If from this latter
amount be deducted the interest paid upon
the public debt (Sl2T, 7o2, $685. the cost of
collecting the internal revenue( 81 200, OO0,1
and an estimated increase on account Of
army and navy pensions of $50, 000, 600 fthe
gross amount paid pensioners the past year
being put down by the Department at S2S,.
0o0, 600 in round Numbers there will re-
main .hesam of Sl3z, 4lO, 93l as the amount
OF expenditures beyond those of the le9it-
ipsate result of the civil war Surely there
are no substantial reasons why the Govern
mental outlay should be greater, at least to
any considerable extent, now with the ex-
ception as 30 the items namedl than in 1860.
We are at profound peace with all the world,
and yet our expenditures the past year,
after dedneting every item proper to be de.
Quoted IN this connection, have been more
than double those of the year Immediately
preceding the war. II il sheer impu lencc,
therefore, in the Radical party, in the face
of these facts, TO claim credit for an eco.
nomical administration of the Government,
or for the apologist of the Radical maiori.
ties in Congress to pretend that a single
step has been taken in the direction of re
dnciag the public burdens By lessening the
public expenses. To meet these expendi.
lures S408, 1871 1872 were wruug from the
hard hands of the industrial classes The
difference between this sum and the amount
expended, namely: $ll6,7ls,l03, Bout.
well claims his great financiering abilities
in the science of finance and systematic
economy has saced to The nation and ap-
piled to.the extinguishment Of the public
debit need not saw that the legislation
of the last Congress does not mend mat |
tiers ajot-"