The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-01


TIRES, ana 1t daSunced heir gple as BAN
IF Isendsayoredst 10 subshgate The people Of
4 the whole Uni6nand bind them ito the car
i OF party domination by 81 governmental SUI
4 Deryisfon of Federal elections and by sqnan-
dering the public treasure through doVern-
ments agents. to bribe, corrupt OF ,coercc
1 voters. y ii ~ S-s4 =. Z.
- II has concentrated unnecessary power. IN
the Federal Government, and denied TO the
people the proper exercise OF home luie
4 and local self-goYerrHsnt.
I It has forgotten that Governments his
created for the good OF the governed, anu
! that offices do not belong to the omce-aoia-
ers, but are held in trust for the people;
and it has administered the government III
the interest Of persons, OF tamilles, anu coz
rupt combinations called rings, - :
intoxicated by the acquisition Of power,
il has become debauched by it's enjoyment,
and Abandoned itself to excuses OF govern
mental extrayaeance and profigacy. ."s&
In every department of the Government
the expenditures are as appalling as thes are
unnecessary; the civil lists have been eH-
/ tended and armies Of office-holders created,
to be sustained and supported by an unpar-
alleled taxation. L II. 80 siiss5t'> -.
Z. rHr nEp1.oRABI.E CONDITION OF TTE' COUNTRY
to-day is but the outgTowth OF the extrava:
sance and administrator OF tne parry
now in mower. Commerce does not only
iononish INT Is almost annihilated, and for
! eip,i bottoms transport the products OF the
tITnited States abroad; agricultural COM
munities are depressed and struggling toeX-
ist underline low prices which mock their
toll: factories and mills are comparatively
t idle, and their artisans are claHorlng Tor
:. EMPLOYMENT and for bread, while the I'M
: nrecedented and numberless failures all over
+ theE country Indicate that the mercantile
classes are threatened with ruin, .'.',.,.;
I Can it; be questioned that this condition OF
things il the natural and inevitable result OF
/ the inability OF the people to bear the bur
tbens of n taxation which requires them to
deliver over to the Government so large a
:: proportion OF the fair gains of their capital
and labor, and from want OF confidence IN
/ the financial condition OF the country ana
! the vacilating, uncertain, and unwlse pom.
CIV which has controlled its financial affairs
T. No proof is needed to establish the cor
rnption which has "honeycombed the Of
:.
waste. and fraud.' It is admitted by the
confessions OF the party and its nominee, in
the platform OF the one, and in the letter Oh
p accordance Of the other But if proofs were
: needed of the bitter humiliation to which
the Deople of the United States have been
subjected BY the party in power the I'M
happy records OF tho country would abun-
dainty supply them, ...,.,.... H.. :,
, ""' CABINET OFFICER INPEACHED ..,..
: for petty speculation in office, and only saved
from punishment by plea which did not
Il deny his guilt. a. foreign minister escaping
arrest for obtaining money, under false pre-
fences by hiding behind the shield OF diplo-
!, matte position. 4 Nice-PreSident impli-
| Gated i'm the swindlinS operations OF railway
: gamblers and spectators, and an inmate OF
!, the Executive mansion indicted for conspi-
ring to deiraud the Treasury, and only
! snatched from the disgrace OF conviction by
, the refusal OF the Executive to permit the
evidence OF his guilt to be used. ~ f.;tf..
The expenditures OF the Government
shock all ideas OF republican simplicity and
economy. and comparison OF the relative
expenditures under Wing and Democratic
administrations with those under Republican
administrations, making full allowance for
the increased population OF the country, eX-
poses degree of extravaganza now, as
compared with the earlier and more yir-
tuous day OF the republic, which must star
tie and alarm the people. To go back no
further than. 1852, the ordinary expenses OF
the Government, exclusive OF pensions and
the interest on the public debt, from 1852 to
. 1860. both inclusive, amounted to S511 ,290,-
, S04. Al: the same expenses from 1867 to 1916,
both inclusive, reached the enormous sum
!, of S1,376,S 06, 120.20; difference, SS65,5l D.
:. O15.13. The expenditures for the year 1860
were $3.50, 952.39, and for the year 1876
SAP, O73, 632. O5-making difference OF $685.
III, 670.66 while the expenditures OF the
, single year 1868 aggregated the sum OF $685.
1872, 701.33. %fi3l.,| :.
An inspection Of the blue books exhibits
the fact that the number Of employees OF the
Government, borne upon the civil lists OF
the United States, has more than doubled in
the same period, being increased from 49,
049 in the year 1861 to 94,119 in the year
1875, forming grand army OF non-pro-
ducers exceeding more than three-fold the
regular army of the United States, to'be sup
ported IN ease by an inordinate taxation le-
We'd upon the laborng masses. "-.
The extent OF
TIE VOLUME OF TAXATION IMPOSED
by the Federal Government upon the. peo-
, pic of this country, and its frightiul increase
during Republican administrations, an in
crease largely independent OF the sums ne
ceSsary to prosecute the late war, but How
J ing from extravaganza and waste, would al
most exceed belief if not sustained by &C.
trlal statistics.
The taxation of 1850, under Wing adj
) minstration, was in gold 100000 00; that
) OF 1860, under Democratic administration,
SEC, 100000 in gold in round numbers;
while that OF 1870, under Republican adj
: ADMINISTRATION, reached the sum OF S450,000,-
, 900, being more than eleven times greater
than the AVIATION Of 1850, and nearly eight
times as Ss.eat as the taxation OF 1860.
. The population OF the United States in
i 1850 was q little oyer twenty-three millions
in 1860, thirty-one and i half millions in
round numbers; and in 1870, thirty-eight
and a half millions in round numbers. The
Federal tax OF 1850 reached the sum OF
SLIP for each inhabitant OF the country
the tax OF 1860 the sum OF $1.91, and the tax
of 1870 the sum OF S11,67 for each man, .wo-
man, and child in the land, being nearly
: seven times greater than the tax Of 1850, and
more than six times greater than the tax OF
1860 per capita, and this independent OF
State and municipal taxation. n,- ,-... VII i.
-hsi. Ia THESE VAST SUNS ~ "a ;fE
annually distracted from the pockets OF the
people, and the productive values Of the
country, to be expended by the. corrupt
, horde OF office holders to perpetuate their
hold on mower Il Democratic House OF Re