Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-06-20

Two per cent, and the main fabric OF our
Government has theoretically remained
substantially in statU quo, public eTpendi-
lures display the following unsxAmPled in
crease
Civil list 10 1861 ...... $6,Of40A 50
civil list In 1871 .,.,,.... -....... ls,7oO,77S 40
Increase zee. .....sSl2, 6so,7S7 b5
Foreign intercourse in Is61.... s,l47,fS6 %
Foreign intercourse In lS7l".,.,- l,604,S75 81
LnoFsAHs ........ ..,..,.""....-..S456, $50 80
Miscellaneous expenses in Is61- SO, O26,524 70
MiiesllRuoous expenses in ISL. 4O,llo,761 30
Increase ,.............. OsO,SSS IL
Military services In ls60...." .... $40, 4T2203 p
Military services 10 lSTO......... 1868, 675 40
1854 IS
naval establishment 10 IsdO...- al ,5l4,649 IS
Naval establishment in 1870 So also, 229 81
,26S,5sO o.
Indian relations in 1S6t.......... S2,S65, 4sl Il
Indian relations in ISL. ......- ,A3S, 997 "A
,56lBI6 p
Pensions in 1s62..... ............... s5s,17O ~
Pensions IN 1871 ,................. S4443, S94 IS
Increase ......... ,Ssl ,724 a
Total annual sIpsndi lures, as
above specified, Of prior sd-
mintrAtions.... Sb4, 952, s5T u
Total annual expenditures, as
above specified, Of the present
GdminiStration. lSl,ISS, 1l3 ~
Total increase of annual
penditures AS shove specified,
Of she present administration
IN l-o,oSS' 90 ~
An increase Of expenditure is shown in
those items Eloue of near one hundred and
twenty per cent. contrasting an increase in
population OF but twenty-five per cent, with
An increase Of taxation burdens upon pop
ulGson Of near one hundred and twenty per
cent, as one Of the exemplhcstions of the
public economy OF Radical craftsmanship.
On the basis OF the census Of 1860 it has
been estimated that the gross value of the
annual product of the people amounted to q
fraction over three billions. In ten years,
say, in round numbers, thirty billions. OF
tina. total il appears by the sscsrtsiued re
ceipts of the Administration party that they
have taken from the people in sctuAl cash,
,Wo-thlrds by taxation, the residue by loans,
from 1861 10 1871, the appalling sum OF
$l0,S03, 1907 ,sll 81, or during the last pre-
ceding ten years the equivalent of thirty
three and ons-third per cent or full one
third part Of the gross estimated value oil
the entire annual product Of the people, on
the basis Of the census Of 1850; and during
the las. preceding six years from 1865
TO ISL, the sum Of So, 1872, SS0,296 And
Of that total treasure they have expended
from 1861 TO 1871, $40, 1855 ,02S,9l7 Sc; and
from 1865, 10 1871, the sum of 5,5S7 ,6l0,.
2O2 30; leaving the people still burdened on
the ist day Of July, lS7 |, with 9 monstrous
AscertAined gold debt of 1885, 1892, SO,
inoumbuTed with an annual gold bearing
interest of not less than $l25, 900, 900. The
enigma of what additional unoountsd mil
lions have been furtively realized and clan
dsstinely expended remains buried in the
sibylline books, An occasional leaf from
which stArtles the droWsy inconsistencies
of the public mind. And what bounds shall
be set to the unknown prohigscy of Gov.
eminent which, insensible 10 the voice Of
duty, under The screw Of resolution Of the
House, then, and only then, without blush
discloses the fact that public property had
been actually sold and the proceeds thereof
actually expended BY ii 10 the amount Of
$lO5, 6Sl SOS SO in excess Of appropriations
and expenditures authorized by law?
Such figures as are in the familiar use of
the party in power have heretofore always
been laid up ia the upper armament Of
purely speculative problems. They are
now taken down and brought into ordinary
service in an Intellectual effort to comply with
the anxious demand of the country for some
approximate measurement of the stupendu-
o us masses Of the peoples treasure, which,
iaring Radical rule, have been annually
leSped up by the tAx.gstherer, and been by
lin carried off and poured into the IN
natural and reeking siy of prostitused power
But so unaccuStomed is the popular mind 10
ums Of such magnitude, in their height and
epihi so vague, illusivs, and trAnscen dental
o the common exercises Of the popular IN |
Outstanding, the guilty authors and bene6- |
iariea Of public and private rapAcitY and |
ational grand larceny find therein not only |
mask for their crimes, but the very means |
herewith further 10 practice them with in.
olent IMMUNITY. We are easily deceived by |
hose in whom we confide. The infrmity ia
n the heart, not in the understanding But
here ia an extremity Of presumption upon
opular credulty which al length tssrs of
be mask and reveals the imposter. The
popular understanding is capable Of every
hing that Ia great. It is sublime in its
fearful in its judgments. It's
isRlity kindled, its energy reused, its vast
90 Of thought rolling in one wave, impelled
y one gale, may sweep over the cookie boat
Z per6dious Administration and leave not
wreck bel ind.