The daily gazette., 1875-04-20
Tie Cost of Government.

1t will scarcely be credited by the !,
people of this country that the expenses |
OF supporting the acknowledgements I!
in 1874 were almost as good as those of /,
England. Yet such is the fact. If
expenses Of Great Britain during the ,
past year were S31l $40, 900. Those of |
the United States i'll the same perio :
$3.50, 23o, ,7U0. The difference in our
fayordoes.no reachS90, ,O0o, 900. \ ct En-
gland has an immense civil list to keep
up, the Royal Family are costly, and
each year there are visitors from for.
cign crowned heads, with their follow
ers which eat hole in the public fund
of large dimensions. Besides, Great
Britain has large army and navy.
That nation has one hundred and thir-
ty thousand men and officers 10 pay,
feed and clot:.e. The United States
| have twenty-four thousand officers and
men on the pay list. England pays
for her one hundred and thirty thous-
and soldiers Of all ranks $65, 900, 900
per year. The United States are taxed
S42 ,313, ,92T Tor the twenty-feur thous-
andmen. 1t costs five dollars per head per
year TO support the soldiers of Esgland.
In the United States the cost is over
seventeen dollars per soldier per year.
The British navy has two hundred and
forty ships in commission, and sixty
thousand officers, seamen and marines
on the payroll. That roll amounts to
SOL 900, 900 per annum. We have for
ty vessels in commission, and the com
plement of officers and men is twelve
thousand The disproportion between
the expenses of the two sea services is
startling and shows why the cost of
maintaining the government of this ma
tion should be nearly as great as that
of England.
The receipts from all sources of Eng
} land during the fiscal year 1874 were
. 1886, 800 ,235 expenses during the same
, period, S352, 1870, $50. Since and including
the year ending April !, 1859, there have
been but four years in which there was
II deficiency of revenue, and these were
+ years marked by the war in China and
AbySsna. The income tax has been
changed fourteen times in thirty years.
1t Is now three e-fourths of one per cent.
One year ago taxes to the amount of
S25.OU0,00O per annum were repealed and
another reduction is talked of to take
!. place in 1876. From 1862 to 1874 the
annual reduction of taxes in excess OF
E lncerasc and iii addition to the tax list
and rates aggregated Sl00, 600 600 and vet
: the revenue has suffered diminution
, England draws her revenue from a flew
f articles. The postal service of England
. yields yearly profit to the Government
OF Sl0,oOO,OO0. In this country there is
> a deficiency of more than S6,oO0,00O per
+ annum. There are no good reasons why
l. the expenses of this Government should
5 so nearly parallel those of GreaL Brit
II am. We have no royal leecheS to feed
L no titled drones to keep in idleness and
l. luxury. We have small army smalle,
navy. No such leaks as these afford
chances Tor the peoples money to es.
- cape from the treasury. A Republic
should have an inexpensive government
f. That IS the meaning of the system under
winch we live. When, therefore, the
Of governmental expenses of this country
mount upon the same plane with thos,
5. of such Il nation as England, there i.
evidences of abuses which the pcopl,
should not fail to take into serious con
sideration. Times.
e The Bcccher case has now occupje,
= siXty-eight actual working DAYS. ey
amined slXty-two witnesses, put tw,
T. hundred and sixteen documents i,
20 evidence, and had six adjournments.
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ia the valves of which open and shut seventy o
V eighty times per minute. II an alcoholi
slimllant be taken into the blood the pInn,
works much faster and this unnatural sncp,
wears out the vital machinery. All the intoxj