Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-09

The Biggest Robbery On Record =
Over $50, OOO,O GOO Stolen Within
Twenty Eight Months by DemOcritIe
Thieves!
On the 31st day of December, 1865
the debt of New York city was S34,
407,047. This debt was mostly ere
ated by eXigencies caused by the late
war, such asraising bounty funds, etc.
Il would naturally be supposed,
when those exigencies ceased to exist,
that the debt would have been re-
duced, at least be not increased. In
stead of such a state ofthings, we find
that the debt of that swindled city has
reached the huge sum of SS4, 54l 1856,
an increase in the short space Of twen-
ty-eight months ofS50, 143, 139 !
Now the question is, what has become
of this vast sum-a sum nearly equal
to the entire national debt previous TO
the war? There has been no extra
I outlay such as the war created moth
ing but the regular every year expen-
ses necessary to keep the machinery
of the city government going, and
which the regular tax receipt, exorbi-
tant as it is, amounting to S26,OOO,OOO
annually, would more than meet.
Again we ask, what has become of
this gigantic sum? 1t has been stolen
out OF the city treasury by William
NJ. Tweed, the leader of the Democ-
racy of New York, by A. Oakley Hall,
the Democratic Mayor Of New York,
I by Controller Connolly, another lead
ing Democrat, and by hundreds of
other Democratic thieves, members of
the Tammany Ring, who ought all,
each and every man of them, he sent
to the penitentiary. Tweed boasts
that he is the wealthiest man in New
York city, with the exception Of Van
/ derbuilt, Astor and Stewart. OF
course he ought to be able to be so
wealthy, after helping to steal over
$50, 600, 200, a sum sufficient to make
five hundred men worth $1,000 0
apiece or one thousand men worth $50
coo each!
Not satisfied with stealing this inn
mense pile of money, these rascals
got up another scheme to enable them
to rob still more. They forced a bill
through the Legislature for a viaduct
railway from the upper part of New
York city down 10 the City Hall Park,
estimated to eostS70, 000, 1000. The ma
iority of the Board of Directors con-
sists of Tweed, Connolly, Mayor Hall
and other members of the forty thieves
fraternity known as the Tammany
Society. They undoubtedly expected
to have the same scale of expenditures
to prevail that was carried on in build
ing the New York Court House,
which was originally estimated to
cost less than 81, 100000 but which
In reality cost over SO, 000, 900, six
times the original estimate. Under
the same management, and in the
same way, the viaduct would be made
to cost $40, 900, 900!
Let it be known to the whole coun-
Try that the New York Times was the
only paper in that city that dared to
come out and show up the ~rascality Of
the city government, and give above
astounding information. The TTSb-
tne, having 5000 paid it yearly in
the shape of corporation advertise
ments, allowed itself to be muzzled
till it was forced by public sentiment
to make a mild denunciation OF the
robbery.
It should be borne in mind that the
Democracy have been calculating to
let.the New York Ring transfer their
operations to Washington, ifthey sue
eeeded in carrying the.next Presiden-
tial election, and in that case how the
national debt would roll up to a great
er figure than il ever before reached
By the way of contrasting the doings
of the Democracy in New York with
the doings of Republicanism in Wash
ington, we give a statement of the
decrease of the United States debt
and the increase Of the New York
city debt:
DEBT OF NEW YORK CITY, (UNDER
DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT
DEC. 81, 186s.-...------S34,4 07,047
APRIL Cd, lS7l.---..""-".SS4,541,1S
INCREASE IN IS months. $50, 134,1S9
DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES, (UNDER
REPUBLICAN MANAGEMENT
MARCH 4. ISe6......-.S2.525,457 259
AUGUST / i5T1......-..2,2S3 ,32S,S5S
DECREASE in 26 months $242, 12s,401
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