The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
Total ,s52, $50 sl29 s59, ,12S

Indians ............-........ 2ssO,12l 5,966, ,556
Miscellaneous ............. 27,977,s7S 66,95S,37S
Total s52, $50 s129 95g l2s
Increase in 1S76.-......... 71,O03,17S
These figures are official. They are taken
from the sworn statements of Mr.. Morton's
party friends in Washington. They can not
be questioned. The truth of these figures
convicts, Mr.. Morton of being deliberate
falsiier. And to prove that this is not
partisan judgment, will quote from no less
a source than one of the most prominent
organs of Mr.. Hayes. In recent editorial
on the same treasury statement, which Mr..
Morton twisted and tortured into his service,
the New York Tribune is compelled to admit:
The actual increase of expenses, not caused
by war, was from Sligo per capita in 1859 to
less than 1888 per capita in 1870. This in
crease can not be wholly justified. This
treasury statement is not by any means fiat,
tering to the Republican party in other re-
spects; for, after deducting all the items
which can with reason be regarded as caused
by the war, there remsin expenditures of
$40, ,321, ,73S for the Civil Service, and $47, ,218
1884 for the army and navy. Now, the expendi-
lures in 1870 were For Civil Service, Indians
included, $30969, ,099.s4, and for the army
and navy, S27, 1895, ,S52.55. At this point the
Democratic disputant will pause, and with
great solemnity inquire if the Republican
party has stolen the difference between
S31, 100000 and SIC, ,0O0, 900, or the difference
between $2S 900 and SAT 100000. The
conclusion to which these figures are thus
apt to lead is not one beneficial to Republican
prospects. There has been gross extrava-
gance in the conduct of the Government.
The Republican who attempts to deny it
only forfeits the confidence of intelligent
voters. The same article admits that the
cost of the civil service alone under Grant
averaged SIT, 500, 1922, compared with $780,
292,75S in 1861; and the cost of our army
and navy under Grant averages $52 ,056,-
293.02, compared with $S5 ,23S, ,193 81 up to
1861. So that according to these admissions
after the most careful exclusion of every ex-
penditure caused by the war there is still an
annual excess of $66 000, 900 which Grantism
cost the country. Else how would it have
been possible for the last House of Repre-
sentatIyes to reduce in one single session the
expenses of the government for one year
alone nearly $30,000000? can certainly
not see how the feeblest intellect can dis
pute such facts as are contained in the fol-
lowing stubborn figures. They show in de-
tail what Democratic House did for re.
trenchment and reform, and what a Republi-
can Senate did against them:
Estimates of the departments for
1S77. O99U US 4S
Amount as passed 1eS 260S S9S 63
Law for the year 1S76-'7..-........ 147,7i9,0H 50
Law for the year 1875 '76......... l77,6 327 II
These figures speak with emphasis. They
say to Senator Morton that he is convicted
of deliberate lying. They say this "rebel"
House would have saved the country ten
millions more but for the Republican Sem
ate. They say that while nearly every es-
innate of tie Grant administration was
largely reduced, the only one which this
"rebel" Congress did not reduce cent
was that for pensions. They say that when
Grants Senate reluctantly voted for these
measures of retrenchment, it reluctantly
voted that every charge OF Republican ex-
travagance and profigacy was true. They
say that when Grants administration finally
agreed to these reductions, it admitted that
it had spent at least thirty millions of dol
lars annually more than it should. There
is no escape from this. When, on motion
of Democratic House, Grants Senate
voted for and Grants Cabinet agreed to
carry on the Government with thirty mil
lions of dollars less than had been spent
last year, they solemnly declared that this
amount of money was previously wasted,
| and when they did this they confessed to
/ the charge of incompetence, extravaganza
and corruption preferred by the Democracy.
And when Senator Morton states that the
Government is "more cheaply conducted
outside of the burdens of the war than in
| 1861" he states transparent lie, and when
he denies that Grants administration has
been more corrupt and profigate than any
| known in the history of this republic, if not
| of the Anglo-Saxon race, he denies that
which every reader of history knows to be
| true.