Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-09-23
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80 The National Democratic Committee has
issued an address in which the compara-
- tive cost of the administrations of Grant
and Pierce and Buchanan is shown SO
unfairly and falsely that it is worthy of
j. notice We find in the Democratic sheet
ir1 of this city the following summary of its
statements
40 INTERESTING FIGURES
-7.- The National Democratic Committee has is
sued brief tabular statement of Government
expenditures under Grants administration, as
: compared with Democratic administrations. The
81 Lincoln administration is omitted in the COM
2 parisOn, because it had the expense of the war.
The cost per capita exclusive of interest on the
public debt, according to the Pierce administra-
ton, was 81 sc according to Buchanan's,
9 50 l9 and according TO Grants, 81 &C.. In
Guiding the principal and interest of the pub
hc debt, the amount per head in population
fs offorty millions is, under Grant $40 %. The
figures further show that Grant spends per year
$780, 1885, 355, exclusive of principal and interest
on the public debt, being more than Polk, Van
Buren,, Pierce and Buchanan spent in four
= years. The total amount of taxes collected for
the last fiscal year is placed at SAL, 80, 600.
These tables are all compiled from official re-
ports submitted to and printed by Congress.
-. We propose to show that these figures are
not correct. The sheet referred to unsO
physically remarks that the cost of
Lincoln's administration is not included in
the comparison, because it had the tex
penses of the war'' to bear. 80. -er.
We'll, pray tell, are the burdens Of the
p war yet removed? Are not two-thirds of
the taxes the people no,o pay directly a
burden imposed by the Democratic rebel
lion? We will show that they are. The
g first misrepresentation of this committee
is in deducting only the interest on the pub
e. tic debt, as all the burden imposed by the
war. Let as see how this Is. We say that
If it had not been for the Democratic re-
bellion, we would not only not have our
g present public debt, but we would have no
pensions or bounties to pay to soldiers, no
national cemeteries to maintain, no in
creased expenses of Army and Navy
to provide for, no assessors and col
lectors of revenue, no whisky taxes
to enforce by an army of officers
no expenses in negotiating public
loans, and no increase of thousands of
clerks in the Departments at Washington
to keep accounts of taxes collected, pen
BiOns paid, &c. All these are expenditures
for which the Democratic party are as just
ly responsible, as the Democratic thieves of
New York city, Tweed, Hall & Co., are an
swerable for the enormously high taxes
heaped upon the people of that metropolis,
because of their gigantic robberies. If we
want, then, to make a fair comparison be-
tween the expenditures of Grants Admin
istration and that of Buchanan's, let us de-
duct the extraordinary expenditures en-
tailed by the Democrats in their unholy
q war against the Government, aud see how
the usual or ordinary expenditures COM
pare. Let us compare, for example, the
following: e.
Expenditures for the Fiscal Years 1880 and
.. -. .r. IS69-10 SD
Total pynendi-