Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-03-13
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, No one has wearied over tire story
OF Radical extravaganza more than We
! have but for all that the tiresome story
must be told aud continue to be told.
Radicalism means extravaganza and
corruption. no matter where it may be
found. It knows no North, 10 South
no East and no West, but is universal
In its operations. The moment it
comes into power that moment begins
a career of fraud, corruption and ty-
ranny upon scale that is limited only
| by the field of its operations.
With the history of radical rule by
! the home government III North Carroll
IA our readers are perfectly famii-
| lar. With the extent Of radical eXtrav-
| agance under radical rule where its
! jurisdiction extended over the whole
! country they are perhaps not SO farlil-
lar, and it may not be improbable to
lay before them a few facts and figures
| concerning it, this morning, for which
we are indebted to the speech of Mr..
| BECK, of Kentucky, delivered in the
House of Representatives on Friday
last
AIr. BECK in the course of his re-
marks said
No, gentlemen, the whole TACT is this:
There stand yollr figures, uDdeniable,
that your collections have run up in
seven years to 50, 74S, 600, 900. and yorlr
expenditures have been s., 227 600, coo,
as the official reports show, indepen-
dent of your postoffice collections from
the people and all your outside mat
ters, which have amounted to hun
dreds of millions. And they show this
further, that without paying any of
the sinking fund, and without any of
payment OF the principal Of the public
debt, notwithstanding all Your con-
trasts Of figures, your own official
tables show that since March, 1869.
when General Grant came into power,
the ordinary expenditures of this Gov
ernment, including only the interest
on the public debt, have been 81 ,6OO,-
100000, or $50, 900. 900 more than all
the ordinary expenditures of the Gov
eminent of the United States from
1890 to 1861, inclusive, embracing the
war of ]S12'15 the Mexican war, all
tie Indian wars, and all pensions,
combined. And the actual stealings
during this administration have been
quite as much as was necessary to sup
port the administrations Of Washing
ton, Adams and Jefferson for the TWEEN
ty years they were at the head of the
Government. Since General Grant
came into power $495, 900 have been
paid to three men at the port of New
York. Here are the official figures,
given by the Secretary ofthe Treasury.
Your collector, naval officer, and sur
veyor Of the port have received
nearly 100000 since General Grant
came into power, although during that
time each one was drawing q salary
higher than that paid to a Senator in
the Senate of the United States You
pay seventy-four Senators at $1,000
year, or 1910, 600, that being the total
pay of all the Senators of the United
States. Yet these three officials in the
city OF New York, whose business it is
to run primary elections, to pack con-
ventions, to have ballot-boxes stuffed,
and to do the dirty work of the Admin
istration, have drawn more since this
Administration came into power than
would pay the salaries of all the Sena-
tors of the United States for i, year
and half. You may put that into
your pipe. and smoke it, too. Laugh
teri While spies and informers get
as much moro es aG inducement to
perform like services.
Sir, it is SO at Boston ; tits SO at
Philadelphia it is so at all the large
ports Of the country. But I do not in !
tend to go into further discussion of
that matter at present. We shall de- |
velop bsfore long such frauds, sucl |
such pecalat1ons, under |
the auspices of the Government against |
the great leading merchants of the
country as will make the honest men of |
the republican party stand aghast. i