The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-24

dC fo,OoO,OOO, HHIcII Is HCIle enough dc-
cording to the best information I can OBJ
tain, the expenses were $1.6O for each in
habitant. This would make the expendi-
lures OF the Government in 1875, leav-
ing out those growing out Of the Rebel
lion, as compared with the expenditures of
1860, 35 cents less per capita, and proves
conclusively that the Government is more
cheaply conducted outside of the burden
entailed by the war, than it was in 1860.
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE?
Amidst the elamor we hear on every
side against an enormous debt, heavy tax
es, the depression of industry, and the
deranged currency, it is well to remember
that all these evils are of Democratic Or
igin; that they have been created by
Democratic crimes and blunders for
which the party should be held response
bic. The Democratic party made the
Rebellion and the Rebellion made the
debt, heavy taxes, greenbacks and Nation
al banks necessity; and if it is true, as
we are constantly told, that public and
private demoralizaton and long train of
evils are the inevitable consequences of
civil war, it is the very insoence of false
hood to hold the Republican party re-
sponsible for them.
AUDACITY REQUIRED.
1t requires great audacity for the Con-
federate 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 9TH
er matters growing out of our treason, as
we'll as you ought to have done, therefore
we propose to take the settlement of the
consequences Of our crimes and blunders
into our own hands,"
1t is possible the Rebellion could have
been put down at less cost. The rebels
say it could; that we ought to have whip
ped them at one half the expense; and
they are profoundly indignant at our
want of economy and skill in performing
the operation.
HAIR OF THE DOG.
It 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
and call in the Rebel doctors to prescribe
for the wounds inflicted by the Rebellion;
and to believe that treason, slavery, repu-
diation, violence, and ignorance are the
very best schools for reform.
WHAT is CALLED RETRENCHMENT.
They have retrenched expenses by re-
fusing to appropriate the money necessa-
ry to carry on the Government efficiently.
The public buildings commenced, and
necessary to the public service, aIe left
without sufficient appropriation to finish
them. This means to abandon them and
lose what has been expended, or to large
ly increase the appropriation next year,
when the election is over The Govern
ment property at the different navy-yards
and naval stations is estimated to be
worth $4,000, and from its nature re-
quires annual expenditures for repairs
and to keep it in serviceable condition.
The amount necessary for this purpose
was estimated by the Navy Department
at $l,OOO,OOO, but the House refused to
appropriate anything, and the Senate, af-
ter 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 rem.
dered by the Court of Claims. The
amount required this year is $2,OOO,OOO,
and the House refused to appropriate a
dollar. This is retrenchment by repudia-
ton. In private life man having the
means and refusing to pay his debts is
not regarded as economical, but as rascal
ly In almost every instance where APP
preparations are reduced it is at the
expense OF salaries already low enough,
fixed by Democratic Congresses before
the War, or to the injury of the public
service, greatly crippling it, and, if not
remedied by the deficiency bills next win
ter, in many respects destroying 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 demand
ed it, but as far as we can see in every
case for political capital or profit.
To create the impression of retrench-
ment and economy it repudiated public
debts, stinted and crippled the army and
navy, left unfinished public works, left
navy-yards to get out of repair and be,
come useless, withheld from courts the
means necessary to enforce the laws, and
reduced salaries to starving rates. Look,
ing 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
AN ADMINISTRATION WHAT THE PARTY
MAKES 1T.
The administration of any President
will be in the main what the party which
elected him makes it. If he breaks away
from his party, the chances are that he
will be broken down. In a Government
OF parties like ours the President must
have his party The men to whom he
owes his election, who have defended him
from assaults, 10 whom he must look fol
support in the future, will ordinarily con
troll his action, and he will do nothing Of
fensive to them. The success of Mr.
Tilden will mean the success of the Con
federate Democracy He would owe his
election chiefly to the South, and from
that section would come men of stern
will and purpose demanding and receiv
ing the recognition of their policy. The
late Rebels would swarm in the Cabinet
run the departments, command the army
and navy, represent the Government al
foreign courts, and find ten thousand ways
to punish the loyal men of the nation for
, their humiliation and defeat.
To understand what Democratic q |
ministration would be, examine the posi-
ton and controlling elements of that
party. The man who expects that hungry
cormorants, long deferred expectants, gan
grened instigators of Rebellion, the
Northern sympathizers who trod the mar
row isthmus between open treason and
resistance to the Government fighting fol
its life, the slave-drivers who have lost
their occupation, and that innumerable
J caravan of dead-beats and adventurers
who compose so largely the active list OF
the Democratic party, to become the re
formers of the land, must be indeed the
most hopeless of idiots
HOW THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Is MADE UP.
] With majority OF nearly twothirds
in the House, they have wholly failed fol
eight months to produce any plan, scheme
of relief, or policy, upon the subject of
currency, banking, tariff. or any Other