The daily gazette., 1878-12-12
From the n. Y. Sun.
The Army and Navy Expendi-
lures Of Hayes, Madison, and
Polk.

lures Oh Ihnyess MnOhsOm, anu
Polk.
The Fraudulent President and the de
fdctO Sece ary of the Treasury inform
the country that for q period of three
years their expenditures for military a d
naval purposes will amount to total of
Sl55, 124OO0. 1 hey give the details as
follows: For the military last year, $32,-
$4,000; for this p esent year, $50 600,
600; for the next year, $37, 7,U42,0
This makes an aggregate of Sl0S, 1856, 900
1 ior army purposes, including forts arse
nails, and the like. For the navy last
year, sl7,365, 900; for this present year
$l5,0O0,OJ0; Tor the next year, $1I I,463,
O01. This makes all aggregate of $40,
92s,000 for naval purposes, aud TO al Of
$l55, 900 as above stated for both
brancnes of the service during three
years.
1t would be absurd TO compare these
expenditures for the army anu navy dur
ing three years of the war oi the Iebs lion.
That war is oil exceptional epoch; but
we have had two wars with whose mill
iary naval cost it ia be pertinent
aud profitable 10 contrast the outlays
above sta Ell. We rter TO the war
with England and the ar with Mexico
The expense of the former fell chi fly.
upon the years 1872, 1913 AID 1914, and
the cost of the latter was wholly incurred
in the years 1876, lS47 aud 1915.
In the wai wi h England our regular
army was respeci able i'll siz , a d the
Gov ernment employed large numb, rs OF
volunteers and mil ia. Our forces met
H.. In tut a
tories, and at III ee or four poin remote
from each her in Canada. They EN-
cuuutered the flower of the British troops
and their Indian lies, soinc lines in
very bloody battles, 4 ON New Orleans
| to Detroit, and all along the lake borders
and from Maine TO Virginia on the AT.
/ Ian ic coast. We lost upward of 10000
men xiii Il IN battle.
In many particulars hos lit Is on the
! land were tnen enormously expensive
| Our sea and lake coast was ralaged by
British cruisers, compel ed 10 lay out
treat sums on Notifications, from tue st.
Johns 10 lie Sabine, aud along the Ca
madam lines. Transports by land
was difficult ana Gear. The West
where mos Of the engagements occurred.
was "A wilderness, nearly destitutr OF
roads. II cost moe then TO ct a com
plny of inian ry from Albany o Lundy's
, Lane, or from Lake Erie to the field Ol
| 1ippecauoe, than it now costs to trans
port regiment artillery over the same
< ound. Our manufactures were IN
! their, nfanc, the embargo id nun-ill
tercourse policies Of jefferson and Madi-
son, aud now the British flee $, cut of
European supplies; the currency OF the
nation sunk to 40 and 80 per cent. below
par For tn Sc reasons the Government
was iocred 20 pay extremely high price.
for amos eveiylhin. it had to buy
Indeed, the Federalsts denounced lii,
Administration Of Madison, not only fo
commencing the war, but for the expen
sly- rates at which il was prose cuted.
Our navy wa, small in comparison will
som- II the EuIop, an nave, hut ii wa
OF lair SIZE, most y fitted up during til,
Wal. 1t was va laut aud efficient and il!
bnllia achiev meilts shed impeTishabl, n,
lusire upon our ilag. II won famous vic
tories on LAX; Erie, On OntaIio, au,
Champia n. II was busy in defendin,
our LarOUis on the sea o4rd. Ii met th,
enemy OH the Atlantlc and Pacific, in TN
!
coast of France aud the e, asst OF Brazil
and even in the Bri ish Channel, ana J
generally conquered him We capture,
% Bil ish Vessels OF war, mouHtlIg So
cannon; We took 1850 merchantmen
arlylhg o,OoU guns, many of them tichl
lddeh. We drove ashore aud shin
rocked 20 yess Is Of war, mountlr
about 800 guns. We made prisoners q
more than 10000 seamen. The teyerit
OF the contest is further shown by the fac
that the British captured from us rs vee
sells OF war, mounting $50 guns, and l,
4O7 merchantmen and 20,95l s.'amen.
This war bore tn usual harvest Of ma
/ eal and mill AIRY heroes. OF the former
, Decatur, Hull, Berry, Lawrence, an
, Macdonough s one eeonspicu0uslI. Oftb
later, ia, kson and Harrison becam
President; Scott and Cass ran unsuccess
5 fully for that office, while Col. Dick .lohu
SON was rewarded with the Vice Pres
dency Tor claiming that with his ow
hand be killed the famous Indian Chic
| Tecumsen at the battle Of the Thames.
This, then, was a large War. Now Il
us see what 1t cost.
In 1872 the Madison Admil,istratio
spent for military objects, including fort
and everything pertaining to land one
ations, 81 SIT 900; in 1913, Sl9, $50, ,0O'
III 1914, $50 100000, making an aggr,
n gate OF SOL, ,767 900; and in 1912 it spel
{ for all naval oljects, including Runbc a
in and around harbols, $3.50, 600
1873, $6,4OO.OO0; in 1914, $7,300,O 90
e making an aggregate of $l7.859, 600, al
e a total for b tn branches of the service
Il $69, 426,OO for the three years ofths wa
IL We need not compare these expend
Il lures in de'all with those Of the Fraud
v lent Administration. Suffice it to say
/ Is spending more than tw c, as much {
the army, and nearly three times as mu,
, on the navy, IN three years, as it CO
Madison's Admin stration to wage a thr
1t years. war, on the land and on the Sc
q against the colossal power of Great Br
a ian.
II The war w.th Mexico commenced es