The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-17

But estimating the population in 1873 at
$4,000 900, which is little enough accord
ing 10 the best inform alton | can obtain.
the expenses were 81 90 for each inhabi-
tant. This would make the expenditures
oil the government in 1875, leaving out
those growing out OF the rebellion, as COM
pared with the expenditures Of 1850, 35
cents less per capita, and proves conclu-
sIvely that the government is more cheaply
conducted. outside of the burden entailed
by the war, than il was in 1860.
Amidst the clamor we hear on every side
against an enormous debt, heavy taxes, the
oppression OF industry, and the deranged
currency, 1t Is we'll to remember that all
the evils are of Democratic origin that
they have been created by Democratic
crimes and blunders for which that party
should be held responsible. The Democrat
lc party made the rebellion, and the rebell-
ion made the debt, the heavy taxes, green
backs, and national banks necessity; and
If IT Is TRUE,
as We are constantly told, that public and
private decentralization and long train of
evils are the inevitable consequences Of a
civil war, it Is the very insolence OF false
hood to hold the Republican party respon-
sible for them.
1t requires grea; audacity for the Confed-
crate Democracy TO say to US: "You did
not suppress our rebellion as cheaply as you
ought to have done. You did not manage
the public debt, taxation, and other mat
tiers growing out of our treason, as we'll as
| you ought TO have done, therefore We pro-
pose to take the settlement of the conse-
quences Of our crimes and blunders in our
own hands"
1t is possible that the rebellion could
have been put down at less cost The rebels
say 1t could, and that We ought TO have
whipped them at One-half the expense and
they are profoundly indignant at our wan,
OF economy and skill in performing the
operation. 1t is an old saying that the hair
of the dog is good for the bite, and We are
now asked to turn off the loyal physicians
and call in the rebel doctor to prescribe for
the wounds inflicted by the rebellion, and
TO believe that treason, slavery, reputation,
and ignorance are the very best schools for
reform.
| They have retrenched expenses by refus-
ing to appropriate the money necessary 10
carry on the government efficiently. The
| pubic buildings commenced and necessary
| TO the public service, are left without sui-
cient appropriation to finish them. This
means TO abandon them and lose what has
been expended, or to largely increase the
| appropriation next year when the election il
over. The government property at the dif-
| ferent navy yards and naval stations is esti-
mated to be worth $4,000. 900, and from its
nature requires annual expenditures for re-
pairs and 10 keep it in serviceable condition.
The amount necessary for this purpose was
estimated by the navy department at 81 >
/ t,,,s ,l
pirate anything, and the Senate, after long
conference, obtained an allowance of only
| 100000 This retrenchment results in
absolute loss 1t is the duty of Congress to
make appropriations from year to year to |
pay the judgments rendered by the Court Of
Claims. The amount required this year is |
100000 and the House refused to appro- |
pirate a dollar. This is retrenchment by |
repudiation. In private life a man having |
the means and refusing to pay his debts is
not regarded as economical, but as rascally. |
In almost every instance where appropria- |
tions are reduced it is at the expense OF sal |
ries already low enough, fixed by Demo- |
cratic Congresses before the war, or to the |
injury Of the public service, greatly Grip |
| pling it, and if not remedied by deficiency |
bills next winter, in many respects destroy
ing it,
In reviewing the action of the House in |
regard to appropriations, and what they |
| call retrenchment, no man can resist the |
| impression that it has been taken in total |
| disregard of the public interest Nothing |
| has been done because it ought to be done,
or the public interest demanded it, but as
| far as We can see In every case for political |
capital or profit.
To create the impression OF retrenchment |
and economy it repudiated public debts,
stintcd and crippled the army and navy,
left unfinished public works, left navy ards |
to get out Of repair and become useless,
withheld from courts the means necessary to |
enforce the laws, and reduced salaries to
starving rates. Looking at the House from
| its legislation, We should say that it is as
unfriendly to the government as We know
| the BODY Of its members to have been few
years ago. The administration of any
President will be in the main what the
party which elected him makes it, III he
breaks away from his party, the chances
are that he will be broken down. In gov
eminent of parties like ours, the President
must have his party. The men to whom
he owes his election, who have defended him
from assaults, to whom he must look for
support in the future, will ordinarily
CONTROL HIS ACTION,
and he will do nothing offensive to them
The success OF Mr.. Tilden will mean the
success of the Confederate Democracy. He
would owe his election chiefly to the South,
and from that section would come the men
Of stern will and purpose, demanding and
| receiving the recognition of their policy.
The late rebels would swarm in the Cabi-
net, run the departments, command the
army and navy, represent the government at
foreign courts, and find ten thousand ways
to punish the loyal men of the nation for
their humiliation and defeat.
To understand what Democratic ad-
ministration would be, exam n. the posi-
tion and controlling elements OF that party.
The man who expects that hungry cormor-
ants, long deferred e1pectants, gangrened
instigator5 of rebellion, the Northern SYM
pathizers who trod the narrow isthmus be-
tween open treason and resistance to the
government fighting for its life, the slave
drivers who have lost their occupation, and
that innumerable caravan of dead beats
and adventures who compose so largely the
active list of the Democratic party to be-
come the reformers of the land, must be in
deed the
MOST HELPLESs OF IDIOTS.
With majority of nearly two-thirds in
the House they have wholly failed for eight
mont hs to produce any plan, scheme of re-
lief, or policy upon the subject of currency,
banking, tariff, or any other economic ques-
rion. While abusing everything that ex-
lists, they produce nothing, can suggest
nothing They have displayed imbecility,
incapacity, and stupidity of thought and
conception heretofore unknown in the his
tory of parties. They have shown strong
predictions for the detective business, but
have done nothing to elevate its character
or remove the suspicion that naturally at
taches to it. Utterly unable to build them
selves up, they seek to pull others down.
The composition of the present house OF
representatives at Washington illustrates the |
strength and organization of the Demo-
cratic party. The Southern members con- :
stitute the body and brains of the party, ,
shape its action and control whatever pol ,
icy it has. They are the head and body of |
the animal, and the Northern Democracy I
constitutes the tail, and our acquaintance
with all the quadrupeds teach us that the
body wags the tail, and
NOT THE TAIL
the body, and We have seen this winter that
the Northern Democracy are a. subservient ,
to the South n they we're at any time before ,
the war. The interests and passions of the
South will in future, as in the long and ,
bloody past, control the action of the Dem
ocratic party. Among the Democratic
members OF the House there are "a persons ,