Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22
M1LERsBURe HOLMES County, o. THURSDAY, 22 1870


S several millions for extraordinar
S and temporary incomes, as for ea
( ample from her China War indem
D nifty, dc. Next, this income We de
9 rive from the property and busines
Of a country just escaped from
5 war which desolated and destroyed
f the business ofone- half, territorially
a of the whole United States; an,
e that of about one-fourth of its peo
f pie.
Il Again, our income is the larges
collected by any civilized State Oh
t the globe, by many millions. 1t i.
three times greater than the ordin
ary revenues of that nation, (Prus
STA which to-day holds the over
whelming and unchallenged militar,
mastery of the Continent. Next
without increasing our taxation
, that debt of the nation, which saved
this grand life of the State, will b,
extinguished, principal and interest
in perhaps less than ten more years
should we remain at peace and con
, tinue to be governed as we now are
Thus We will be delivered from one
hundred and twenty-seven and :
half millions per year of our taxa
ton, nearly one-half of our entire
annual expenses. Add to this the
reduction of the expenses of oul
lpension list, (which was last veal
$2S, ,077, 800 02), and also, the re.
duction of the bounties to the army
and other extraordinary expenses Of
the war, which will be by the death
of pensioners, DC, rapidly dimin-
ished, or cease entirely; and we
shall soon escape from full half OF
the present expenses of the govern
ment. Again, with many advantages
in favor of England, owing to greater
compactness of wealth, and popula-
ton and the like, and with a less in
terest on public debt, by one and a
half millions, yet the first year of
Gen. Grants administration cost
less than Great Britian's average
annual expenses by 49, ,191 "a.
This was so, although we collected,
as 1 have said, more revenues than
Great Britain by about 80 millions
per year.
Last. The debt of England was
augmented by her war with the Uni
ted States, from 1776 to 1884, by the
sum of e121,267,993. It was in
creased by her French war, from
1893 to 1917, about three thousand
and seven millions of dollars
($3, ,007, ,O00,0OGC. The effects of
these wars upon the resources, &c.,
of England, were such that, in the
whole period of the last fifty years,
she has reduced her debt but little
more than Gen. Grants administra-
ton has reduced ours in the last
year; and they reduced it none, sub
stantially, during the last twenty
years!
l have made these financial sug-
gestions and comparisons rather to
encourage the people of all parties,
than for partizan argument. They
are facts, both the encouragement
and the honor of which, belong, in
a large measure, to no party, but to
the people who pay these revenues.
Still, they are facts which have, in
certain views, marvellous significance
and value in indicating what claim
the Republican party has upon the
confidence and support of the peo-
pie. On the Sd of March, 1861,
that party received the country from
the hands of the Democratic party,
in the very commissions of dissolu-
ton, and article of death. What
the relations were, of our party, to
the country's deliverance from that
immense catastrophe, 1 have told.
And these, the leading facts of your
material resources, their relations,
in their magnitudes. to other ma
tions, and the methods of their ad-
ministratioh, which l have presented
last, so far as they show the rank
and character of the country noac,
and the way in which our party has
preserved, advanced and governed
it, are not only arguments to which
we are entitled in vindication of our
claims to public confidence, but they
belong to the class which make up
the only claim of rulers to the con-
fidence of the people. That people
which had such wisdom and patriot
ism as to both contrive and execute
the means by which, during these
last ten years they have rescued
their country and advanced it to
where it now is, as indicated by
these facts l have alluded to, will, /
think, be apt to have sagacity en-
ough to know how far they are in
debted to the wisdom and virtue of
the republican party for the fact
that they exist and will also have
both sagacity and gratitude enough
to know how far their existence
ought to 60 in securing to that
party the continued support and
of all the people. To
this the last great fact in our record,
/ point you to-day, Americans. Look
at your country now, in the lights
and views which these last facts and |
elements of my argument suggest.
With none of the spirit of that self
adulation which characteristics and
gives name to our Fourth of July"
oratory, and which is as irrational as
it is bad in its tastes, but with that
wisest most manly, as well as prac-
teal, of all purposes, the purpose
of apprehending the exact state of
the republic, and with the purpose
of thence infering how far it is wise
in you to continue your suffrages
and confidence toward the rulers
who are to be honored for its excel
lencies and condemned for its de-
fects, l invite you, fellow citizens,
to scrutinize your country now, in
the year of Grace 1870, as contras-
ted with that sad year 81. mark
We well her bulwarks; consider her
palaces, that We may tell" Thus
she stands before you, such as the
facts have pointed you to show
our dear country to be-such it is in
the prospect of the extinguishment
Of its public debt; such in the act
ual, as well as relative, costs of its
such i'm her capacity