The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-09-26

'those who have made a careful study of
''the facts that one fourth of the ae0enoe of
'sthe United States IS annually lost IN the
"cozzection, and for large part of that
Gloss system of the service which is ia
"tally unsound may reasonably be held
Irresponsible"
Mr.. Curtis commenting upon this por
ton Of the report, says: "It will be OBJ.
"served that the Commission do not say
"that fourth of the revenue is lost.
"What they do say is that of loss which
careful students compute to be one fourth
"may he justly attributed to an evil sys-
item of the civil service, which they had
already stated not to be peculiar to the
Republican Party nor to this Admins.
''tration, but which this Administration,
"first of all, was endeavoring to reform,
"as the mere fact of the report itself
SHOWED. It is to be regretted that in
"cise as practicable the commission failed
"to explain this statement more in detail.
'"They were intent only upon showing the
"bad results of system which extended
''over period of forty years, and which
chad been adopted by every Administra-
"tion of all parties-results which, had it
sheen their object to make a partisan
pamphlet, they would have shown had
"been vigorously corrected under the Ad-
ADMINISTRATION of Gen. Grant"
Further than this, Mr.. Curtis says, the
computations to which the report of the
Civil Service Commission refers, were
made during the administration of An
drew Johnson, and that they could not be
truthtully made under that of Gen.
Grant.
A few figures in regard to the Admin.
istrations of Johnson and Grant, and
showing the practical reform in the hon
esty and economy of the latter, may be
given in this connection. After reduc.
ton in the tariff of nearly $30,O0O,OOo
year, Grants first two years showed a
gain of 5000, 900 over the last two of
johnson. The aggregate annual reduc-
tion of taxes under Grant has been $780,
100000 or $136. 100000, yet his Alminis-
tration paid into the Treasury last year
$S5 100000 more than in the last year of
Johnson. Johnson's Administration paid
about $13,00O,OO0 of the public debt.
Grants Administration had paid on the
ist of July, 1872. $334,OOO,OOO. The debt
n ham he oE q
423 per me nth.
A lie will not prevail against these fig
ures. Senator Trumbull may go "howling
around" about corruption, and all such
Democratic rags as the Union may have
the lie on every shred, but the figures
presented above have not been, nor can
they ever be disproved.
Now then, as a report has gone out
among the Democrats of Kenosha County
that Mr.. Curtis, "an ardent supporter Of
Grant" said that "one-fourth of the reYe.
nue. of the United States is annually lost
in the collection" will the editor Of the
Union correct that report? And, as it
appears that the loss in the revenue was
not loss of money actually collected
and stolen on its way to the Treasury, but
a loss of money due under the laws and
unsolicited; and further, that the report
of the Civil Service Commission was
based on calculations made under the Ad-
ministration of Johnson, will cur neigh
Dor state in his next issue that he misrep-
resented this matter, or that he I'm der
took to give Information to his readers
upon a subject about which he knew
nothing