The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-16
MBIAN AND DEMOCRAT, BLOoMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY PA
Financial.


"The aggregate of the appropriation
made by this bill (the appropriation
bill Is about half million In excess of
what, in my opinion, 1t ought to be,
under the present condition OF the treas.
ury, but in view of the late hour last
night at which 1t was received, and the
unusual length of the present session,
/ accept II as the least Of the two evils,
and without intending to be considered
as committed to all its details.
JNo. w. GEARY.
There could be no better argument
used by the Democracy during the com.
ing campaign for the election of State
officers than this concluding extract
1t exhibits too plainly an extravaganza
and waste of the public money, which
If longer continued, must end in bank
ruptcy and reputation. The expendi-
ture of half million, each year, more
than is necessary for the administration
of government, is an announcement
which should arrest the attention OF
every tax payer, and lead him to in
quire If there was not some remedy for
this prodigalty, some stimulant for the
weakness and imbecility in executive
functions, which are unable to check the
excessive outlay. An imbecility and
want of spirit, which stumbles in the
plain path of duty, and, conjuring up
imaginary greater evils, dodges any re-
sponsibility by accepting what is face.
tiously termed "the least of two evils"
We have decided curiosity to know
that which his Excellency has left in
the twilight of doubt, namely, this
"greater evil" of which the useless
and excessive waste of hdlf million Is
the least. 50 wild and reckless has
been the indiscriminate appropriation
of money during the ADMINISTRATION of
Geary, with Radical Legislature at
his command, that half million Is a
small matter, and the least of the good
Governors little evils.
AS a remedy for this difficulty, and as
check upon this useless expenditure
and waste, we suggest to every tax
payer, whose hard earned dollars must
needs go to supply these demands, to
go to the polls at the next election and
deposit his vote for General WILLIAM
MCCANDLEss, the nominee of the State
Democratic Convention at Harrisburg.
His initiation into the duties of the Off.
Ger of Auditor General will be the COM
mencement of new era in Pennsy Iva
MIA finances, and will be guarantee
that their will be no further appropria-
ton or expenditure of half a million
dollars in excess of what it ought to be,
the result of corrupt legislative appro.
priation and defective executive ability.
The accounts of the disbursing officers
of the State must pass through the
hands and under the careful scrutiny of
one whose innate honesty and integrity
would revolt at wrong, and whose sym.
pathies and afiinities would be entirely
averse to any compact with the vam-
pires who for many years have been
sucking the life blood of our State
Treasury.
This is a question of dollars and cents,
of bread and meat, of clothes and shoes,
of toll and labor, and sweat and care,
and the decision of it is whether each
one shall enjoy the fruits Of his own
labor. and the earnings of his toll, or
whether he shall still contribute to sup
port the herd of idle, worthless and
greedy partisans who fatten upon the
spoils of legislative plunder, and laugh
at the simplicity and veidancy of the
people who give them power. VoTE
FOR MISUNDERSTANDING Demo.
crak.