New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-08

that the government is more economically
administered than it has ever been hereto
fore He claims credit for the skilI WIN
which he managed your finances. now l
charge fellOw-cirizens, that millions Oh your
money is uselessIy expended by this admin
istration. in the conduct of your pubic
affairs. 1 charge that millions OF your
money is unlawfully expended by the sec
retary Of the Treasury. You VIII see oH-
ferent statements have studied all these
made by the different 0thcers OF
the government, until / confess see trey
can make up any sort of statement lton
their figures But / shall not under |
fake to analyze their statements to-day. |
| will say to you, however, that |
the expenditures Of your government IN |
1860 the last year previous to the war, |
were in round numbers nearly S6OiOUU,OVU',l i
Bv this mean the net ordinary expendI-
lures. And then l say to you that the ex-
penditures last year-the net ordinary ex-
$157, ,0OO,OOO or more than
two and a half times. / can not go into |
the detail but hold in my hand the report |
of the Register Of the Treasury giving the
expeuditures of the government from the
time of its foundation down to the end OF
fine last fiscal year. And in this statement
is included. the expense of the government
under different heads-fOr the navy, for
the army and for the civil list, foreign
intercourse, the Indians, etc, But there
is left out of it all that Is paid on ac-
count of the public debt-all that is paid
on account of the interest that is taken out.
Now Mr.. Boutwell, says, ''we will give
you very different statement and il l
had time to aualyze it could show you
how incorrectly that statement Is made up.
For instance, he reports the expenditures
of the War Department IN his oIhclal re-
port in one place at only $50, ,0DOOOO, but ne
4 40 ic hiU
sum to- leave out. How do you tE!nk he
managed to leave that out? He did not
take into account the S8,0OO,OOO the war
Department received for the sale of arms
which went to France. The War Depart
ment got that money and expended IT,
When he made up his statement he dld not
take that into account Hardly to be over
looked, would you think-$S, ,OOO OOO! Well,.
another thing-When he made up his ac-
count of the ordinary expenses of the gov
ernment for the last year, he did not put
put them down correctly, when he wants to
reduce the expenditures to show that the
Government Is economically managed. he
says a good many of the expenses OF the
War Department are not ordinary ex-
penses; and why Now, what has the war,
which ended seven years ago, to do with
the War Department now3 1t ought not
TO have anything to do with it. He deduets
$4,000 600 on account Of the expenses
which he SAYS do not belong to the War De
partment because they have arisen in con-
seuuence of the war. He might just as well
deduct the whole $35, 100000 that cOnsti-
tutes all the expenses Of the army we have
now as to put it down to the credit OF the
war which ended seven years ago. 80 L
want to warn you, my friends, when yOu see
this statement, which was made first in the
House of Representatives by MIR. Dawes,
that it is a table made up in the Treasury
Department, which undertakes to show that
the expenses. now are less than they were
before the war; and that is not correct
statement. 1t is not a fair statement, and
it is put forth to blind and mlslead the peo-
Die, l charge, my friends, that the Repub-
iiean organization at Washington has fallen
into the hands of men who are not carrying
out what you recognize as Republican prin-
ciples; that they are holding out false colors
to deceive you. If that is true, you do not
wantIto be misled by them.
Now, will give yOu another instance,
and / will take this case where the proof Is
conclusive, and no man can deny it. Now,
my Republican friend, are you not in favor
Of abOlishing. the franking privilege! L
mean, now, my Grant Republican friend.
If Won are not, you are not a good Grant
man, because the Philadelphia convention
said it was in favor of abolishing the frank
ing privilege. Now, if the leaders at Wash
ingtOn are for it, why don't they do 1t |!
They have had an opportunity OF abolish
ing the franking privilege why did they
not do it? Are they sincere in. these pro
fessions, or are they holding them out to
Inislead you After the Philadelphia CON
ventiOn had met and renOminated General
Grant there was a bill passed the House of
Representatives to abolish the franking
privilege. 1t came into the. Senate, but 1t
did not pass. Why not Because the cen
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| Republican organization. Why did they
| not pass it They had the power. Simply
because they are not good Republicans, or
else you are not good Republicans. Winch
! is itl -
Now my friends, have l shown you
| enough without OBTAINING you longer IN
reference to a particular case ! Have l
shown you enough as to the civil service
| as 10 the disregard o.. law by the Secretary
! of the Navy, as to the action Of the Post
master General, and as TO the conduct OF
| the Secretary of the Treasury! -.
There is one thing more | ought to say in
regard to him. Have l said enough to sat
| isfy you that this state Of things ought not
| to continue, or do you propose to continue
! itl Well, perhaps some one will say II
| am not for those PARTICULAR things, but, on
| the whole, the country is prosperous we
| are getting good price for our produce;
! our merchants are doing well, and general
! prosperity prevails, and think, on the
| whole, the government must be- managed
well enough Now it is true, and | rejoice
that it is true, that general prosperity OBJ
! tains in our country
We have fruitful seasons, yet we owe our
prosperity to the Providence above us, to
| the genial showers, the fertile soil and the
| climate in which We live, and we prosper,
| through the energy of our people and the
! blessing of God, in spite of the robbers OF
the government. Cheers, But we would
| have much more if we could save ourselves
| from the burdens of taxation put upon us
We would prosper much better. They say
I we are sOreheads, complaining OF Genera
| Grant because we could not get office. Now
/ tried to pass a law, so far as l am con
cerned, three years ago, that would punish
any Senator or Representative that would
undertake to recommend anybody to office
So that my head is not very sore on thai
subject
But tell you our heads are sore, and Oul
pockets are empty, and our backs are lamt
ia tOiling upon these fields, and raising Ou
products of wheat and corn, and oats, Ou
beef and our pork, and contributing a larg'
part of the proceeds of it to fatten thest
men that are plUnderiDg us of millions o
dollars every year. | have told you how
i much, although in your prosperity you d.
not stop to count the cost Did you eve
think Of it that when you sold your whea
and your corn and invested the money il
blankets to cover your children during th,
winter that fifty per cent of the price yol
paid went into the treasuryOf the govern
inent Of the United States, to be squaudere'
in the way have stated And yet it i
true. You paid last year on. your wool anC
woolens alone more than S33,000,000. DiC
you ever think of it, that when you bough
a wagon, or piow, or anything else, int
the construction of which iron or steel en-