The daily gazette., 1876-09-04

are closed or working on short time.
Our seaports are idle, commerce has
declined, and agriculture suffers for
though crops are abundant the prices
realized for grain are so low that the
farmer can scarcely make bare living
This continual drain of taxation has
impoverished the people and now we
find that capital can not realize its pro.
per profit and labor lacks employment.
There must be change or we will
grow even poorer. Each Department
of our Government must be conduct.
ed with that rigid economy which
characterized Democratic administra-
tions previous to the war. Then the
Indian department was run on $3, 600.
600 per year; now, when the number
of Indians Is much less the appropria'
tion is 81, 900, 600. The Postal Depart
ment was formerly self-sustaining:
now the appropriation is $50, 900, 600
$8, 600, 900 dollars over and above the
receipts of the department. In the
Navy Department $3.50, 100000 were
spent during the war and during Grants
administration, with no war to con-
duct $200, ,000, 900 more have been ex,
pended not considering the amounts
received for debris sold. And even with
all this expenditure the navy, accor,
ding to the statement of Admiral Por-
ter. who is at the head of the naval
service, is in worse condition than it
was before the war. What has be-
come of all the money that was expen-
fded? Instead of being appropriated to
legitimate purposes, it was wasted on
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the testimony taken by the last Con.
gress, the Cattells, of Philadelphia, re.
ceived 100000 for their influence in
getting contracts. Orvillc Grant, the
Presidents brother, was employed by
a Baltimore firm to obtain contracts
for furnishing timber for ship knees.
He purchased the knees here in Della
are for SO piece, and they were de-
livered at the various navy yards for
$28 and $50 each. Money was also ex
pended Just before elections in employ
ing men in the navy yards for political
purposes and over 81 10000 per year
has been expended for this pursose
alone.
The Department of Justice was for.
merly run on a few thousands year
but of late the app. operations have
amounted to SO, 100000, This money
was used by Attorney General Will
liams in employing Marshals and DEP
uty Marshals throughout the country,
particularly in the South, to arrest and
intimidate men in order to prevent
them from voting the Democratic tick
ct
The expenditures of the last fifteen
years have been at least $50, 10000, ,00C
more per year than they ought to have
been, and yet no attempt was made to
cut them down, until last winter, when
the Democratic House of Representa-.
tives made sweeping reductions.W Wher
the appropriation bills, in their reduc'
ed form, came before the Senate, they
, were attacked by Republican Senator.
who said that the "Rebel House
would impair the efficiency of the
Government, and that The Department
would notbe able toget along. Butthey
will get along just as well as they did
before. Taxation and expenditures
can be still further reduced and 1t is
to be hoped that Gov. Tilden. when
elected, will set his face. as a flint,
against extravaganza in any of the dc
partmeDts, for theymust all be brought
back to the rigid economy of former
years.
The honorable Senator next alluded
at length, to the second issue of tn,
campaign-the Bloody yShirt'-whicl
had been Haunted to the breeze b,
!. the Republicans, He said tha
Southern" outrages were committed
oftener by the blacks than the whites
and that outrages were as frequent il
the Northern as in the Southern Statel
He showed conclusively how the out
rage mill was ground faster and fastel
as the Southern States, one by one
took their places in the Democratic
column. and the bloody shirt was
shaken more fiercely than ever in order
to arouse feelings of sectional hate
and prejudice throughout the North.
He sternly denounced the warlike
order of Don Cameron, Secretary OF
War, who, aided by the President,
was determined to use the military
power to prevent the success of the
Democracy in the south.
The religious issue was also touched
upon by the speaker who showed how
the Democratic House by the adoption
of the Blaine amendment, disarmed
their opponents and prevented them
from making successful appeals to the
religious prej1dices of the people dur
ing the campaign. But the Republi-
can Senate attacked the amendment,
and referred it to the Judiciary COM
mittee, who virtually killed it by
reporting it with an amendment which
utterly destroyed its purpose and ex.
tent. 1t was attacked by Mortar and
Edmunds, who loudly proclaimed for
religious freedom, but the speaker
told them that while the religious
world was seeking unity, the poli>
ticians were seeking to array theChris-
tian brotherhood against each other.
The same spirit would drag down the
cross and cruelty the Son of God
afresh to accomplish their purposes.
They hope to frighten the people by
the shadow of the Pope of Rome, but
we in Delaware will not be scared, but
will endeavor in the future, as in the
past 10 allow all people to worship
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