The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-18
THURSDAY, SEPT. --Is. ls7s.
From the Columbus Journal.l
Democratic Blessings.

Screeds about taxation and the public
debt are now beginning to appear in the
Democratic press. This is the usual time
for that kind of literature to circulate.
As the dog-days wane, and the fall can
vass draws on apace, the Democratic
mind invariably becomes agitated in ref
erence to public burdens. But there is
one feature of this subject which is uni
formly overlooked, and that is the part
the Democratic party has taken in the
creation of those burdens. We are re-
minded that the public debt has been
vastly increased since the Republicans
came into power, but the fact that Its IN
crease was due to a pro-slavery war, begun
and carried on by Democrats, is care fully
kept out Of sight
We submit, however, that whenever the
Democracy begin to rave about the debt,
it is decidedly in order to recall their re-
sponsibility therefor Nineteen twenti-
etbs, at least, of this burden is chargeable
to the enjoyment of that indispensable
luxury the Democratic party. Two-thirds
of all the expenditure for National pur-
poses has been entailed upon the country
by the efforts of Democrats to destroy it.
To be more explicit, we pay interest
amounting every year to over o hundred
millions on debt created by Democratic
insurrection. We pay, per annum, over
thirty millions in pensions to widows and
orphans made such by that insurrection
and to soldiers MANNED in quelling it.
The claims of States for aid afforded, and
of loyal citizens for property appropriated
to public use, in crushing the rebellion
are also still tax upon the National ex-
chequer These and other items that
might be mentioned are all extraordinary
expenses resulting from armed resistance
to the Constitution and the laws by Dem
ocrats who were then and are now in
good standing with their party.
There is another feature of this subject
which may be properly referred to in this
connection. In all that Democrats have
said about war expenditures, war taxes
and the waMdebt, we do not remember
that any of them have told US how much
the war really cost. Perhaps they do not
care to be precise in reckoning up the
consequences which the folly of Demo
Gratis, to give it no worse name resulted
in. Among those consequences are the
sacrifice of half a million lives, the with
drawal of two millions of men from the
pursuits of peace, and the diffusion oil
untold misery and suffering throughout
the land. In comparison with these
things the waste of money caused by the
rebellion was insignificant, but it is only
the money sacrifice that troubles the
Democratic mind How much, then, did
the war cost, altogether, in money? Ac-
cording to the most authentic calculations
the entire expenditure and debt occa-
q stoned by the war, down to the present
time amounts to but little if any less
than nine thousand millions. Such has been
the enormous waste of treasure caused
by an insurrection gotten up by Demo
Gratis, carried on by Democrats, and sym
pathized with by Democrats from its in
iquitous beginning until its inglorious
end. And yet we are told that the Dem
ocracy is the great reform party, the great
regenerating agency that is to purify
politics, establish economy in govern
ment, and protect the nation from ex.
travagancel Heaven save the mark! II
there is no other publication, no other
protection, no other economy than that
which must come through such instru
mentality, our case is hopeless, and we
shall continue to plod along in the old
ways. The country can stand great
deal rather than place in power party
which has caused it an expenditure o.
nine thousand millions in single decade