Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-14
Confederate Economy.

y mental picture of the present
state of affairs at Washington shows
the vaults of the Treasury in the
background, with a choice array of
ex-Contederate breaking many and
yawning holes through the walls,
while a few Northern Democrats are
anxiously trying to putty up 4 few
minute leaks which they think they
have discovered in other parts Of the
selfsame walls. ''Tlke care of the
pennies and allow ex-Contedcrates to
grab tie dollars" is the apparent
motto Of the party in power in the
House. What they seem to want to
do is to carry out the programme
sketched in the following paragraphs.
BY abolishing the office of General
of the Army, the pay and all the al
lowance Gen. Sherman can be saved.
The amount thus gained, multiplied
one-hundredth- fold, can then be used
to compensate the owners Of the hams
consumed by the army that made
that famous march from Atlanta to
the sea. a few more millions added
to this sum would reimburse the
Southern States Tor the money they
spent for the cannons and amunitions
of war wantonly and ma!iciously
captured by Sherman during his
campaigns.
Sheridan is, of course, an expensive
luxury. BY dispensing with him and
his staff, a saving can be made that
will enable the Government to make
up Il little losses that the Shenandoah
Valley may have suffered from his
brutal perSistency in fighting for the
Union when the inhabitants of the
Valley were fighting against it. The
restitution would require, it is true,
much more money than the stoppage
of the Lieutenant-GensraPs pay
would save, but the difference can be
made up by the levying tax on
something exclusively used in the
North.
Our pension-roll requires many
millions of dollars every year. 1t
supports number OF crippled veter-
ans who offend a tastidious Conted-
crate taste by limplng around on
crutches, or wearing stumps Of arms
in sings, or lying on sick-beds, or
coughing blood from lungs that hold
Confederate bullets. The repeal of
all laws granting pensions to Union
soldiers and soldiers widows would
enable the House to pay the persons
who crippled and killed our veterans
for the powder and lead consumed
i'll that holy work. The sale of Il new
series of bonds would enable it, too,
to create new pension-list, south OF
Mason and Dixon's line. Every per
son whose name figured Oh it would
be obliged, of course, to take an oath
that he or she had been steadily dis
loyal to the United States during the
war.
BY scattering all the vessels in the
navy, by presenting all the cannon
Of the army to southern cities to be
used us the material for statues of
Confederate heroes, by abolishiug all
the machinery of tax-collection at the
S >uth, by trebling the taxes Of the
North, by cutting down the salaries
Of all non-Democralic members of
Congress. by repeating all law pro
viding for the maintenance of the
Diplomatic Corps, and issuing few
thousand millions OF bonds, enough
money can be got to pay off the Con
tedcrate debt, refund the cotton tax,
build the Southern Pacific Railway.
give Jeff Davi an annuity of $780,
600 in grateful recognition Of his
services, meet the crop of Southern
claims, ard pay for the emancipa'ed
slaves, except in those sovereign States
which prefer to re-establish slavery.
In these, the masters vii of course
he authorized to catch their niggers'
children born since enamel patton by
the aid and the KIP nse of this great
and glorious Union. "The gray's on
deck again." sure enough; how do
the wearers OF the blue like this state
of aflairs?- LHicoyo Tribu"e.