The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-21

and governed with justice. Nhetner
these impressions were reasonable or
utopian, and whether, now that he is
President, the young lieutenant is not. re-
CARELESS of patronage, giving the Indian
the benefit of them, we of Pennsylvania
may learn from Felix Brunot, William
Welsh, and George II. Stuart. If the
assurances of these gentlemen will not
satisfy our doubts, we may appeal to the
many religious denominations whose agents,
designated in compliance with the Presi-
dents request, are to be found on almost
every reservation, and who are training
thousands of adult Indians in the arts of
husbandry and housewifery. What adj
mirable arguments for Grants reelection
were the appeals in Philadelphia and New
York of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail for
schools for the children of their tribes and
churches for their people. Grants
Indian policy IL success which must
lead to the abolition at an early day
of the Indian Bureau, with all its pat
ronage and corruptions, and the absorption
into the political people of the country of
the scattered remains Of the once savage
tribes who occupied it. In offering this
assurance, am not obliyious of the fact
that Cochise and his band OF lawless
Apaches, who will not respect the treaties
made by the chiefs of their tribes, are by
their outrages counting condign punish
ment. But this does not initiate against
my assertion, unless the existence of the
gang of which Mara and Dougherty have
been the sanguinary agents proves that
American civilization is Q failure.
On the 4th of March, 1869, when Grant
was inaugurated, there were in the employ
Of the Office of Internal Revenue G, 277 per-
sons, and the cost of assessing, and collect
ing this branch of the revenue for the pre-
ceediDg twelve months had been 81, 592,-
477.72. Has he az President attempted to
retain the power the continuance of this
branch of the service would give him ?
Neither Sumner nor Schurz has had the
effronterv to charge him with this, for in
each annual message he has expressed his
desire for the rapid reduction of internal
taxes, and the earliest practicable abolition
of the whole system of TAXATION which re-
quires the collector and assessor to dog the
steps ofthe citizen. Treating with derisionthe
teachings of those who would maintain this
burdensome and inquisitoral system oftaxes.
in order to relieve the foreigner who would
compete in our markets with the produc-
tons of our own labor from paying any
thing for the privilege, he has persistently
urged the maintenance of duties on foreign
manufactures and the repeal of internal
taxes. Fortunately the majority of Con-
greas has been in accord with him on this
point, and the internal tax system totters
to its fall. have no hesitation in predict
ing that it will be abolished before the ex-
piration of General Grants second term.
On the LIST of january, 1872, or in less
than three years from his Inauguration, the
number of employees in the service had
been reduced from 6 PIT to 2 1884 and, by
the act of June last, this number will be
reduced fifty per cent. between the LIST of
October and the close of the year.
Administration has held its employees is
proven by many pregnant facts. Thus un-
der MIR. johnson, a spirit tax of 81 per gal
Ion yielded but $40, 900, 900; while under
Grant and Boutwell, taxes amounting to 65
cents per gallon yielded s42 900, 900 per
annum. have not the figures at hand but
| am confident of the correctness of this
statement. But a more general demonstra-
ton of the fidelity with which the rev.
enues of the government have been collected
and applied is found in the fact that, COIN
c;dently with the repeal ofso many produce
tive internal taxes and the transfer to the
free list of tea, coffee, spices, gums.
and many other articles, the duties
on which took from the people
about s50,000,00O per annum, our ma
tional currency and our bonds have steadily
appreciated in value, and our debt has been
reduced at the rate of 500, 900 per
annum. 1t is now about three years and
five months since President Grant was
inaugurated, and in that brief period of his
faithful administration has reduced our
annual interest account 500 ,000,0 900, of
which 100000, 900 was extinguished by
the payment Of bonds, and s., 100000 by
the exchange Of six per cent. bonds for
those bearing but five per cent. These
astonishing results prove the unexampled
prosperity of the country, and admonish
us to avoid change. How they must
impress the statesmen and capitalists
of other countries may be inferred
from remark submitted to Par
lament by Mr.. Gladstone, Chancel-
lor Of the Exchequer, on the I'd OF June,
1871. 1t had been proposed to relieve the
overburdened laborers Of the British
Islands by reducing the duties on tea, cof-
fee and sugar, Mr.. Gladstone opposed the
measure, and, appealing to the patriotism
Of the people, made an exhibit OF the rapid
ity with which the national debt and the
consequent interest account were being re-
duced. This exhibit, for a comparison to
which he challenged the annals of The world,
was as follows: "Having, therefore, shown
that there are excellent reasons why, taking
the nation in corporate capacity as a
whole, we should go on paying off the
national debt, and having also shown that
there are good and substantial reasons why
we should not wholly relieve the working
classes from taxation, should now like, il
the House will allow me, to say few
words on another aspect OF the subject, on
which have collected some statistics,
which, am persuaded, will be found to be
not without interest, and the effect of
which will be to exhibit the most re-
markable evidence of national prosperity
which the world ever saw. For this
purpose take three periods in the pres
ent century-1s25, 1850, and 1s70-1--
and apply certain tests of public prosperity
to these different periods. The total amount
of funded and unfunded debt was IN 1925,
fs09, 1871 .46S in 1850, e7s7 OPS, 1852, and in
1901, e737 400, 237. The total payments
for interest, etc. of debt, including termina-
BILE annuities, were, in 1925, only ten years
| n flor fha xuor xpoo QUAR- Gao ONE 900. -,