The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-20

nominees, however respecLhDle, are tue
product of Grantism. 1t is said of Ger.
tain spider that it will, after
being wounded unto death, live
long while to protect its pro-
geny. 1t will make a cocoon while
dying, for its eggs, and in losing power
will give il to her future brood. This Is
figure illustrating Grsntism and its
progeny. Both are now running Repub.
licanism.. The same men turn the civil
service crank; the same men control the
organization. The same levies on officers
for political assessments are made; the
same prescription of opponents. the same
howl at the South, the same discomfort
and soldering, and the same shirt un-
washed OF lis blood and dirt. Cheers.
There is one and one only hope
of reform. 1t is expressed by
an eminent Massachusetts man.
who comes to our party from the
opposition with the remark, as his pro-
found conviction, that the worst Demo-
cratic nominee is safer than the best Re-
pub!icanl [Cheers
Wherein does the Hayes programme
differ from Grantism. Only IN the pro-
fesslon? Not at all; Grant professed all
the same. In the practice? That is TO
be triedsand the same eggs remain IN
the old nest. Some amateur once looked
at the great picture Of Raphael
where Satan was represented. he said:
"If it is not the Devil it is some damned
thing or other" In defending Grantism
or the Republican platform, our oppo-
nents embrace too much at once and TO
do that is, proverbiaIly a bad hold!
What substantial reform have Demo-
Gratis to show as reason for being trust
ed. Our first duty was to retrench; our
second was TO retrench, and our third was
to retrench. We succeeded but in part.
You know the reason why only one-half
of our attempted savings were successful.
We had an army of office holders to
compete with In 1869 the Grant office
holders numbered over fifty thousand;
since then, along with the in
crease of expenditures, these office
holders have nearly doubled. They num-
bered $500. In 1875, according to the
register, they numbered 94,ll9; forty
thousand increase IN six years, or an
average of 1000 year. Such an IN
crease required the pruning knife.
During Grants eigb. years the net
ordinary expenses were cut down, after
our utmost energy, four millions year;
or about one per cent annually, yet in
one year we cut them down thirty mil
lions.
Do you want the items? Do you want
to know how, from the beginning on the
West Point and Diplomatic bill, we were
driven from post to pillar and pillar to
post, until at last, in shere wear
riness, the Senate acquiesced in
granting to the people reduction
of one half their administrative estimates
OF sixty millions: How were these
savings accomplished? BY the aid otthc
Departments? Yes, but only one item Of
five millions was recommended by TAFT,
Secretary of War, less than the Belknap
estimate, but afterwards that was raised
under Indian pretexts and other demands
for soldiery not so exigent laughter;
when it . remembered that taXe' q
all kinds in this country have since 1860,
ran, up from $4.90 to SlS.9l per head;
when it is remembered that tour and
a halt billions in eleven years or one
seventh OF our entire values, has been
the aggregate federal tax, and that three
billions more are to be added Tor local
taxes, what human economist can ade-
quately rate the wastage and robbery
of defenseless people bv ma
teasant trustees Cheers. Let Da-
vid A. Wells and Others
cipher about Over-production, about
labor-saving machines, about fires in
Boston and Chicago, about bad currency
and worse tariffs; let them sum up the
prohigacy of a grabbing gang who have
robbed labor to enrich a few; yet at last
they must reach the conclusion that the
scandalous tax eXcesScS, eating up the
incomes of the people and leaving little
to live on, are the capital delinquency
and fraud OF our time. Laughter
! Do YOU understand that our honest
House began with an administrative
estimate of over two hundred millions,
and insisted on sixty-four millions com
ing Oft aud that when driven from their
strongholds by a stubborn and extrava-
CANT Senate, they at last conceded to us
nearly thirty millions?
l like to be exact for these reductions
represent nine months of labor; but we
were repaid for the labor by the result.
Here are the figures: The estimates OF
| the departments for the year were S2O3,-
099, ,025 the bills as reported by the
Committee on Appropriations amounted
to $l37, ,233l35, the bills as passed the
Senate, Sl5S 269 59S; the bills as enacted
into law, $l47,7l9,O74, against appropria-
tIons for last year of Sl77,6G3, 1921, beng
reduction of S29,944253. In other
words, by the reduction of the federal
taxes the Republican estimates called on
each average laborer for sixteen days
labor, while the Democratic work would
have reduced it to IL days! Cheers.
Here the speaker went over the re-
| trenchment bills IN detail.
From 1865 to 1876 US Mr.. Wells estim-
ates. six billions, or one-sixth OF all our
values, has been seized TO make govern
ment an expensive luxury.
To make these reductions of taxation
! there was no mere guessing as to what
was needed in different departments. We
! inaugurated examinations Some thirty
! odd committees began To pry INTO ABUSES.
| For this, as the peoples agents, they were
roundlv abused. Oh! how it scandallzed
the land and the Centennial year. Why
not. like the artist who painted the grief
OF Iphegeni. over the death OF Again
ennon, make the scene more emphatic by
drawing curtain over il! Why show
our sores to the world, when liberty was
the theme of oratory and song, and a
h.srir-I Nc-rs was the epoch OF its
rri-n. Bat We had to show 1t. "Oh! it
would cost" they said. So it did, only
one hundred and twenty-five thousand;
but we more than saved that amount in
renewed health. and sn increased ex-
chequer. There were railroad jobs
and back interest; there we're
bankers frauds and misuse OF govern
ment money; there were false accounts,
which are not only snsbOmnstion unto
the Lord, but unto tie people; there
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