Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-10
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
WHAT Mr.. BLACKBURN FINDS THE
RECORD TO BE.
WINDOWS Mendacity-A Careful Analysis
Of the Cost of Running the Government
by the Two Parties-Astounding Results
OF Republican Profigacy-Radical Lies
Exposed.

Dy the Two Notwithstanding Results
of Republican Profigacy-Radical Lies
Exposed.
Washington Post.
Getting hold of the Republican compaign
document" known as WINDOWS interview, a
Post reporter called on Mr.. Blackburn to
learn what tie result of his investigations
had been.
Reporter-Have you read the so-called
"Windom interview published in the New
York Times and since circulated by the Cor
ham-Hale committee?
Mr. Blackburn-Yes, carefully. It is of a
piece with similar campaign misrepresenta-
lions with which the Republican Congress
slonal committee is trying to deceive the peo-
pie.
Reporter-What action, if any, will the
Congressional Democratic committee take in
reference to this and similar efforts of the
Republicans to cry down the reputation of
the Democratic party for economy?
Mr.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Window is only
following out plan adopted by his party in
Its death struggle to break the force of the
savings actually effected by the Democratic
House, and he, like his co-laborers, endeav-
ors to mislead the uninitiated in various
ways. For example, he refuses to take note
of the actual decrease of expenditures under
Democratic rule, and whilst he cannot deny
also the great reductions in the appropria-
tons which the Democratic House has eff
fected, be endeavors to explain it away by
saying that these reductions were made ''by
denying appropriations indispensable to the
public service; by postponing necessary pub
lie works; by repudiating national obliga-
tons; by withholding large sums for de-
ticiency bills" All these charges are known
to be entirely untrue, but it seems TO be an
understood thing all along the Republican
line that something must be done to explain
away Democratic economy.
Reporter-Whati is the comparative record
of the Democratic and Republican parties
as to economy in conducting the govern
ment?
Mr.. Blackburn The Official figures will
verify what has become a matter of house
hold knowledge, that the record of the Dem
ocratic party is one of economy, and the rec.
ord of the Republican party one of extrava-
gance and corruption. Economy with the
Demos attic party is of no recent origin, and
as was to be expected, as soon as the Democ-
racy obtained control of the House of Rep
resentatives, it forced upon the Republican
Administration and Senate reductions of
great magnitude, both in appropriations and
expenditures. Before discussing recent saw
ings effected by the Democratic House, let
US examine the actual expenditures from the
commencement of our government down to
the last year when the Republican party had
control of both houses of Congress. The
net ordinary expenditures of the Gov
eminent, exclusive of the public debt
principal, premiums and interest
and exclusive also of pensions-being
only expense for the army, navy, Indians
and miscellaneous civil, from the fiscal year
1883 to the fiscal year ended 1876, can be
easily found in the reports of the secretary
of the treasury: For the war period from
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1862, to the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1866, both inclu-
sive, more than one year after the close of
the war, covering period of five years, the
net ordinary expenditures above named
amounted to $3.50, 929, 581.64.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
Now, in order to make comparison which
even the Republican chairman of a Senate
committee cannot with all his acquired
AA"O"AoAeo~ VI ASu1CS successfully r0IuL0, we
will eliminate this war period from our cal
culatlon. This being done, we find that,
from the commencement of the govern
ment to the beginning of the
war, that is, from the fiscal
year ended March 4, 1889. down to and in
Guiding the fiscal year ended June 80, 1861,
both inclusive, covering period of more
than seventy-three years, the net ordinary
expenditures of the government for the pur-
pose above stated amounted to $1,5O6, 1885,
l5l.l5. Now, the net ordinary expendit-
ures of the government for the same pur-
poses for the last ten years of unbroken Re-
publican rule, beginning with the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1867, more than one year af
ter the war, and including the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1876, amounted to ST. $685.,
9l7,13787; thus showing an excess of ex-
penditures of $22,19099672 against the
Republican party. Or, to state it plainly,
the net ordinary expenditures of
the government, exclusive of
the public debt, principal, pre-
NUNS and interest, and exclusive also of
pensions, for a period of ten years, begin
ming more than one year after the conclusion
of the war, were more than $22,OOO,OOO in
excess of the expenditures of the govern
ment for seventy-three years next antedating
the accession of the Republican party to
power.
REPUBLICAN ExTRAvAGANCE.