The New York herald., 1876-10-04

States, church and pulpit have fallen under heavy
reprobation. do not deny that tho body OF national
officials and public has furnished it's quota OF IN
quity; | do not deny that joboers, brbstakers, de-
auliers and hypocrites have In some cases brought
disgrace the republican party; but do deny tho
Wholesale charges Of corruption and profigacy poured
the present administration and its supporters
They gross exaggeratons and lbels country
and countrymsn. Here is q statement OF these
charges as understood abroad read from Lon
don Standard, champion OF monarchy, of course
and dsbeliever IN republics:-"The results OF repub
can experiment IN the United states arc the cor
rupion Of public life. extinction OF public spirit the
oppression of the minority, the disgust OF honorable
with politics and the transfer Of government into
tho hands OF corrupt, unscrupuous and ignorant men,
FACTS
To judge OF the act OF those who have filled both
hcmspheres with these noxious rumos let US look At
the Treasury books and whether officials have
lately been more or less honest than formerly Here
is official statement made tho 10Th Of last June
II shows the amounts received and paid out by each
Executive department oi the government for the last
iorsy years, and the amount lost or embezzed by
officials oi every kind aud grade. read only the
Losses giving The loss each 81 900 during periods OF
iour years each. Tho Post Once Department Is scpa-
raely stated and take first all the other departments
collectively.
From January anu I s ls Jackson being rr'. IS
rom anusy sss 10 is Van Barea being
Ai Is. On each ay s. Harrison
IyIs5 fs.idsn the sseh 81 600 10 81
S% DENT .I the loss son on each $1,000 ws. 81
ny sss, and s o.
From n'S 1f'ns s 70 sas @ Sa being
rS% july sEs 1897 s's1 to- July buchanan being
ro% ss los 70 Juy Prc:
rfo% Jay 10. % IS sA'a 70 july 1850 being
ain the loss On u1 i1'l sn being Pres.
dent, The loss on each 81 GOO was 40
f,sm July s s sseb 10 81 @ as
rHE POST
In tho Post once Department the loss under Mr..
Pierce was So o. il $1,000; under NIB Mr. Buchanan
81 C' os IN 81 ooa Under General Grant, during his
@ W. end Gny o e ~ Sns
fifty threc cents. The postal order system has been
only recently ana @ ono ~ oonnos can 90
been handled sent and received by postal
order with loss Of only forty cents IN :l, each
integrity? Compare tho expenditures OF the gov
ernnent in 1875 with those OF 1850 In 1880 they
1875, estimating only 40. 900 900 people, they
81 10 for each person. estimating $4,000 600, 81 60
thirty cents as the case may be- But il viii bo said
these only current expenses they do not count In
millions Of interest on the debt and tho pensions
and war expenses.
Here is list OF deauters during thirty years pre-
yious 10 1860 One hundred and forty names appear,
and tho they took is $40 092, 600 Several OF
them appropriated hundreds OF thousands EACH These
things happened IN what are now called purer better
days Do they look II men officials used TO be
always HONESTY Do they look as II honesty has
cbbed OF lateY Do they look If rapacity,
spoliation and plunder are ravaging tho puDnc
scrvlccs DO not suppose bygono delinquen-
the past excuse crimes now Far from It, Such u
thought is unworthy and stupid No wrong can DO
paliated because the same wrong has been done by
others but the charge that oclal depravl.y
creased OF late beyond anything known beIorc-that
just now have sunk lower than any OF those who
went before u.s. tho only TO test the truth Is
to look at II squarely and sharply. DO you sec the
allegel. corruption around your Arc the post
Is there ex,ravagant expenditure in thcmf Is
the Collector Internal Revenue hero rogue, and do
he or his deputies emit ezzc and steal? Did you over
know a case Of official dishonesty brought to the
knowledge OF tho President on which he did not lay
prompt and unsparing hand7 Show such case,
and YOU viii srow me something never heard OF.
Tell me Of administration or political party moro
ready than the administration and the party now IN
power to expose and punish its own supporters for
posed offences and you will point pago In American
history have never read
about the shocking decentralization OF the admnstra
and Congress, and the extIavagance OF appropra.
lesson this regard which beg you TO lay TO heart
The present democratic House OF Representa-
session. and now hundreds Of the very men,
some with newspapers and some without, who
covered ana assert with equal confidence and cite tho
facts prove that the appropriations where the DEM
necessary. and that the reductions wero dnwise,
unpatriotic and hurtfu to the public interest
sERMoys STONES.
II has been said therc are IN stones-thero
are in the stones which have been hurled At
Grant his administration; and when lhe passion
ate dscords aud selfish hates and rvaries acd hollow
pretensions OF to-day dead, these stones will be
gathered TO raise = monument to one OF the truesr
no case Of fraud en%s and
knowing With shame and sorrow that individ-
uals holding Official @ trusts Is have , been guilty Of
likely profit by being given into the keeping OF those
who in neld and forum have been on the bad side in
the vital trials OF tho last twenty ycarsy IL there
nothing more deserving OF consideration than the
filthy dongs Of lew disgraced indvidualsf Shall wo
look ut the docket OF the police court to learn the
movements Of a State or Of na.iona Shall judge
community bv the pickpockeis who infcst isi
| RKrxALIxG SPECIAL PAYMENTS
| Took MT md soc "
The public has been raised till We have nego
tlated bonds bearing only four ana naIi per cent
six per cent. Here saving OF interest and taxes
worth celebrating. VIII the party which has preached
repudiation and imitation be likely 10 improve on thisf
Legislative aud administrative action has been taken
make every dollar OF paper IN the pockets OF tho
The democrats voted against the act denounced IL and
| in the branch OF Congress in which they had tho
dates and their platform indorse this action. win
/ democratic ascendancy hasten specie payments and
the restoration Of business solid, lasting basis
DEMOCRATS SOLID on souTHERH CLAIMS
/ Southern claims, estimated at upward OF
81 0oo 900 o0o are coming IRON every region on
which the Union army camped. or marched, Or fought
| cannot remember which the vote of dem
ocra. in Congress has been cast against bin to pay
Southern claim; as rule such bills have always
received the solid democratic Many such claims,
being within the law, get through both houses; some
rot through which should not and whom the President
discovers such a one no vetoes n Is democratic
President likely TO veto such billsY
tax on cotton shall be paid back. They ask 1t In thirty
wear bonds to five per cent interest In gold, the
principal and which at the end Of the time
would amount TO s170 o0O, 900. They say cotton is
product the earth and should have been taxed
Petroleum product Of the earth too Of the Northern
Garth that taxed all its forms and stages and
| nobody proposes refund the millions IL paid Yet
| bills are pending 10 take the cotton tax ont OF the
treasury II to tho cotton States. Would you
! select n democratic President 10 veto such bills?
House bill proposes to refund the Southern portion
OF the direct levied all the states In 1861 Tho
Southern share was 81, 500, 900; the North paid
SIT 000 600 But proposes TO reimburse North
| crn States How would 4 democratic President treat
this matter?
REPUBLICAN DEEDS
In ten years toward $500 000, 900 Of the debt has
been paid nearly $50 900 900 The annual in
terest reduced nearly $50 000 The annual
taxes havo been reduced $262 900 COO Since the war
| the annual expenditures where tho democrats found
them, have been reduced s27, ,o00 0oo