The daily gazette., 1875-04-19
WILMINGTON. DEE. APRIL 10. 1877
The Washingion Scandal.
\ PROPAGATE GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL
wAsTE-THE PEOPLE TAXED TO
PAY FOR IT.


PAY FOR IT.
Our own city government, managed
as it il by Republicans. without due
regard to economy, is bad enough now;
bnt what it might have been had our
Legislature been also controlled by Rad
icals elected through the aid of negro
suffrage, it is impossible to say. We
may infer what those in our City Coun-
ell would have done had n Radical Leg
lslature been elected and withdrawn the
wholesome restraint which the Demo-
Gratis sought the State to maintain over
our debt, by what has been done in
Washington. the capital of the country,
under the sanction Of the President, his
Cabinet and the great leaders of the
Republican party. We may add, too,
under the sanction and perhaps inspira-
ton of Delaware Republican politicians,
for such Messrs. Fisher and Harrington
are here acknowledged to be, both in our
party and that of our opponents. We
are in fact lead to these remarks by
rial columns of Forney's Sunday Chronicle
of yesterday, published in Washington,
and we call the attention of our readers
to it in another column. When such a
Journal expresses its astonishment at
what its party has been guilty Of, our
people may be sure that the waste and
extravaganza becomes Il real scandal, of
which the most callous will be ashamed.
1t quotes official figures and there can
be no doubt as to their accuracy. In
addition we may add that the Board of
Health of the District expended 800 900 a
year. The five Health Commissioners,
OF when one is colored, each receive
$1,000 year and expenses. In Will
mington $1,000 is all that the Board of
Health is permitted to expend, and it
finds that sufficient. Washington has
population Of l3l 900, and the cost for
maintaing the offices of the District At
torney and U. S. Marshal is Sl29, ,6S5 %,
more than the cost in the eight other
States combined, by s., ,s90O5. This is a
shameless and criminal waste; and we
have no doubt the expenditures of the
General Government have been con.
Quoted in like scandalous manner.
The population of Delaware approx
mates 10000, and the State expendi
tures. deducting the $4,000 voted to the
Centennial, is only S2S,000, $l00,O0(
less than it cost to run two offices alon,
IN Washington under Radical economy
What do our people think of that
What would be the consequence if
little OF Dela'rare'S economy tUere applist
to the manner Of conducting the Unite,
States Government? Can any one doub
there would result the saving of at leas
Sl0O,O0O,O00 year as we have heretofor
asserted IN numerous articles could b
done? We think not. This is q uucs
ton which deeply concerns the people
and none more than the bondholder
For with real estate at its present To-
rate and gold at lis, there is a terribl
risk. We cannot hold this position yer
long Economy must be used or resoI
to terrible evils may be tho result.
foreign war or even quarrel with nj
oiher nation requiring preparation f,
war in our present condition might prov
the straw to the camels back" "
have no time to lose. TIE nation nlu.
get back to economical rule under sal
and wise statesmanship; or be compel
ed to submit to the worst evils.