Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-29

"A over again, in its official re-
IL mss 80 10 its back-door dispascnes
Pof'S, The Associated Press at Washing
.n.O o1s;med thai, by certain acts OF Con
.Os, 20 which it perpetually refers with tne
sost oruel minutsness Of date, chspter, sec
ton and paragraph, the taxes had been low
.red. Is this the fact 2
When the Grant administration wen. my
Office the total annual revenues OF tne 20 oA
eral Government exceeded $466, OoO,OOV PEI
annum.- Frightfully large IS TINS - sam .ss,
thsv have cont;nued 90 tetighsen the screws
:. a. .ngmsn, /. 10 over 100000, 600. Is
PAS fo,cs,;uo me tares 2 The customs dn-
~. - ~. isst year OF Johnson's admins
49,. ao, :. monnted to $164, 100000 per an
Ne@OD Thsy are now over $t94, 100000.
~. :, ,sSosi revenues were then $i9l, 000,-
Iaao-.-year.- They amounted last year to
SIs5 0o0. 900, or but little less. In 1868,
,hs Secretary Of War under President John.
sop sold war material 10 the srnonns of $45,-
900, 900 in 1870, President Grants Score
tAries obtained revenues to the amount OF
$50 600, 900 from the same questionable
source. But our exhibit Of the reveuue
does not exhenst It's value with the mailing
Of this Radical lie and fsise boast concern
ing she taxes. First Of sill observe the
workings Of the protective system, which
these statistics reveal In l850the custom.
houses imposed but $4,000, 000 Of taxes
upon the people !; in 1859, $4,000, 900 in
1870 they screwed out over $4,000, 900
| In 1850 we had no Internal revenue tsxei
70 pAy in 1860, none; even in l864-ir
1.-The middle Of the wsr-ths revenues from
this source amounted 20 but sos, 000, 900
Now, five years after the close Of the VAT
they sum up $1s5, 100000.
But perhaps the most remarkable feAtur
of she exhibit is that relating 70 the sales Q
war material. The details of these score
sahes Of public property have never bee
given to the public, but euough has trans
pired 20 hK on them q strong suspicion Q
corruption and ftAEd. There Is at least on
tstehce upon which TO ereaud she -prt
sun pston9thAt IMMENSE stores of public prC
perty have bbeu sold AtsA greet saorife,
pUsobaaed by nsin sers of the tlosorioas an
cotrnPt military ring, eadfes0fd 10 The GO
eminent at prodigieas profit. And thel
cau bs but hs.ls doubt that the entire lot ),
public property thus sold by the War an
Navy Departments for some two hundre
and fifty and odd millions, and which pr
baby cost, in the shape of war bonds sti
5 outstanding sHd unpaid, over one thousAI
6 millions, was sold oorruptly in order to
! corruptly Purchased az ain by the same di
= honest officers of the Government Ell
: why attempt 80 conceal the sales from Il
. public under the unmeAuing title of'repa
q pse1its," and keep them out Of the Seer
6 ssry's report, which every body read
Z only TO coyertly introduce them into q
5 Treasuret's report, which nobody reads
With regard TO tho postal revenues,
would seem that in spite of the fact th
= where ten years ago but nine millions we
S annually received from postage, now min
loi teen millions are received, the Postofies
II psrtment cannot be made to pay for itse
The expenditures in 1870 were twenty-fo
millions. The deficit in that year amour
ed 70 five millions But this year il "
: prove TO be still more. According to t
estimates of expenditure transmitted by ,
Department to Congress last winter, I
post office de6oit for 1871 will amount TO
less than nineteen millionsi In other wor
while the revenues are expected TO smor
to twenty millions, the expenditures .
b. estimated ct thirty eight millions
1t is almost impossible 10 rise to the co
prehension of sums so large as those
- which the present revenues and expen
y lures of the Federal Government have
y be exhibited. A stream of treasure &C
tinualv flows in and ont of the Unit
,u States Treasury VAST enough to float or drs
u all the industries of the country. III
- stream is tapped at every conceivable poi
" and forty thousand corrupt officials thri
1" upon the tremendous drain which this p
~ version of the revenues occasions in the I
e sources of the country.
No nation, however vigorous aud enc
VI yetic, can long sustain so exhsusting pl
Ia cess, and reform must come speedily
u never. Men are needed at the head of alta
We whose personal history and party principI
." hall pledge them 20 the work of reduci
ne this colossal system OF taxation and waste
las economical Dimensions and until such m
~ a-e elected 70 oFcc and vhe-c shall th
'e- be found outside of the young aud vigoro
er Democrac7 of he West?-ths people mI
IN ba content 10 bear in silence toe ruino
ar burden nudrr which their industrial ert
w. yiss are nov stuffed and orushed.-C Ii
NJ enquirer, Aug. Is.