Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-07-17
Prom the n y Tribune " Dec @, Org
"Mr. BOutWell's Policy"

The Secretary of the Treasury has O right 20
congratulate the country uu the reduction 90 tho
national debt hy more than one hundred aud
inefy mi LIONS ul dollars. involving q reduction
It It's annual burden hy mlre than ten million
dollars during the twcnt,-unc nnnth~ shat Cen
raj Grant ha- becn President nud himself keeper
4 the strong hix. Carners Hiry say. W htt ul
{. hey did not pay DC; om NO. country hnocs
ieHcr. Had President Hs leuient o. wni-kcy
nieres and other revenue dclrtuders as Andrew
johnson ruled during these twenty une months,
Sith cabinet more anxious tO di-hur-e and ex-
end than to save and pay, me d'h lcDnid hare
zen al last one biiHdred gliiaHs more ihae u IS
10 dag. Had the last cxeeuusc really desired a
mptd reduction ui the debt, Ve might have pad
A. much in lsG7-0s As in l-Gl-10 The present
administration has right &, Dc proud % IT,
financial record and the country which d es
,ut and never old believe national debt a ma
iunal h.e-~ing-i- proudly glad that IT, rulers
nave made such record.
In the Tribuae Of July Q. ls72 we dnd under
he caption - A few more figures, these among
,ther ayerments
We wish 10 find out whether or not Grants
administration has been economical and - DO
his we must select proper objects VI comparison"
Now let the periods Of time, as well as objects
# comparison, be nlte1 By the reader Within
his intervening pcrild Of year and a half, the
Citations Of the Trlnae and General Grant, or
IN other words, Of Mr. Greeley and General
Grant. and il report is true Of Mr. Greeley aud
President Johnson. have greatly changed. II
figures don't lie, it is evident that they are
fen, or at least sometimes, used for purposes Of
deception
Now we find that the cost Of the Foriicth
Congress. frun June 80, 1867. % June 30. 1863,
q ..N... D. L.. a Ia. Al.
Forty first Congress, from June 30, 1863, To June
80, 1874, was ~ 2230i2. 30
The Tri5tne's next comparison Of expenses is
IN the Executive Department, under Johnson's
and Grants administrations respectively
"Yst We find that the last two Years Il john
-nn~ administration consumed ~ $50 22n. while
he first twp eur- Of Grants run up L, sis, 1O9.-
l72 The latter doe. not include two millions ex-
ended tor compiling the census returns. The
Judiciary, tn, increased their EXPENSE from 81,
$50 IN ls67 90, to IS .03l 262 in ls69-7l."
After these, the Tribune makes similar com
PARSONS relating to other branches Of national
expenditures. all, Of course, to the prejudice of
General Grants administmti m, as compared with
President JohHsoH's and winds up in this wise
" But we will not weary the reader with de-
mils. We make the hrmd statement that there
is nothing in the official reports uf ,vcrnnent
expenditures from 1867 o. the latest issue, 10
eiuntenanoe, IN the slightest degree. the bmst
~ superior economy which j. 50 boldly mnde hy
the partztns of General Grant Let us hear no
more, then, OF this false pretense Of economy as
an argument for second term of personal gov
ernment.'
The periods Of time to which the above COM
parisons refer, one in the Til5uqc OF a year and
half ago, and one Of the present month, are den-
teal, il we add 10 J1hnsln's term four months.
to July, 1869, and to Grants from December.
1870, to July, 1871, to complete the respective
financial years,
In December 1870, the Trijuae thought the
national debt one hundred millions less under the
administration Of General Grant for twenty.ore
months than It would have been under Jnhnson's
continued that time. But now it appears by
this oracle Of impartial journalism. that Grants
administration is much more extravagant than
was Juhnsons. In December. 1870. the - ad.
ministration had reason 70 he proud of its inan.
eial record !" hut now, by the same authority, we
are assured there is nothing to countenance, in
the slightest degree, the boast of superior econ
omy which is 50 boldly made by the partizans of
General Grant"
Bat this is only one of the many of the Tri-
bune's turnahouts within the past year or two.
The reader of that impartial journal will find in
itnext to nothing right in General Grant, or in
Republicanism itself worthy his approval, and
nothing in Horace Greeley or the Democratic
party to condemn,