The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-14
sos, $3.50, Sill IA STOLEN.

perpetratedan outrage by legislation
whereby the Democratic City of New
York was swindled out of several
millions of dollars. When a Demo
cratic Legislature restored the city
government into the hands of the
people where it belonged, such dis
honest Democrats as could get into
Office followed the example set by
Republicans, and probably swindled
the taxpayers still further. Ii this
proves anything, it proves that it is
dangerous to the welfare of the
people f%orany party to hold absolute
power, OF to retain control of gov
eminent for Il series ofyears without
change. We have learned this to
our sorrow from the history of ma
tiOnal affairs. Radicals, however,
read their party papers and hear OF
no corruption or stealing save that
alleged to have been perpetrated in
the city Of New York. We Of Ne
vada and other States have no direct
interest in the affairs of New York
City, but in national affairs We have
the deepest interest, for we are taxed
for every dollar that is stolen or mis-
appropriated. rs we'll as that legiti-
mately expended, by the General
Government. We are taxed for the
powder used bya Government barge
in firing one hundred guns in New
York harbor on Saturday last in
honor of a partisan victory in a dis
tant State. And here let Us suppose
a case !: Suppose the gallant General
McCook Ia Democrat) should be
elected Goyernorof Ohio onthe 10th
proximo. and the Democratic COM
mander of some Federal war ship
should fire one hundred guns in
honor of the event in the harbor Of
Boston ? What would our Republic
cal readers think of it? Suppose
james r. Doolittle shouldbe elected
Democratic Governor of Wisconsin
on the It'll of November, and the
Democratic commander of Fort Al
catraz should shock the nerves Of
Republican San Francisco with one
hundred guns in honor of the event?
Could q greater insult be offered? Is
our navy TO be turned into a politi-
cal mob by the Radical party?
But We started out to say some
thing OF stealing. Grants Secretary
of the Treasury, Boutwell,, reported
the debt of the United States on the
1st ofJuly, 1871, at s., 353, III ,332 %;
on the same date Grants Treasurer,
Spinner, reported the debtat 5 2,243,-
5o0,S 21 0o-or one hundred and nine
millions, six hundred and thirty
thousand, five hundred and eleven
dollars and fourteen cents less than
that reported by Boutwell,. Some
Journals ask which is right We
think the more pertinent question is,
What has Boutwell, done with the
sos, $50, 511 14?' Both questions
are important to taxpayers. Radi-
cal partisans will pass this matter
over lightly, but can even Radicals
afford to submit to or encourage
by their votes such gigantic robbie
ries? The Chicago Tribune, one Of
the Oldest, ablast and most infuen-
tial Republican journalist in the West,
breaches the subject of the impeach-
ment of Boutwell, I; not for this stu
pendous robbery alone. but because
he is, as the Tribune shows, paying
eleven per cent. interest on the new
lean (about the success of which the
Republican papers have had so much
to say. instead of five per cent, as
the law provides. He is not only
doing this, but he is actually in
creasing the public debt, IN open
violation of law. The plan adopted
by the Administration to play into
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