The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-15
INCREASED THE EXPENDITURES oE OUR
couEpNMENT

GOV
From 1900 to 1900 the expenditures of
the United States were less than $4,ooo-
600 annually. From 1900 to 1910 they
were less than 100000. vi course IN
the. event of war the expenditures are
greatly increased, but there is one remark
able fact connected with this, which is
th at when the war was ended and the peo-
pie have returned in peace and quiet to
their accustomed avocations, these expen-
ditures are never reduced to what they
were before the war. For instance, though
the expenses of the Government were but
S., 800, 900 in 1871, during the war OF 1872
X they rose to S. s, ooo,o 900, and were new
er afterwards reduced to less than $II,-
900 900 annually after peace was declared
In 1875 they were $40 100000. In 1890
and II during the Seminole war they rose
to 100000. They were never alter
wards less than SIS 100000.
In IS45 they were $27 100000. During
the Mexican war in 1907 they rose to
$40. 600. 900, and from that time to 1860
they gradually rose to So, 100000.
During the late war our national expen-
ditures were enlarged to fabulous amounts
until 1865 they amounted to $I,297,555,-
224.4I. The averave annual expenditure
during the war from 1865 inclusive, was
over 500, 100000. Since the war they
have gradually decreased, until the esti-
mated expenditures of the fiscal year end
ing the 20 of last June were $2ooooo,ooo,
itself an amount too vast to be comprehen-
ded by the human mind.
Well may the thoughtful citizen en-
quire, how is it possible to expend annu-
ally this fabulous amount of money, over
100000 day for every working day in
the year.
NV friends, the debt of our country is
| in round numbers about $1,000, 900, ooo
| Til is in the shape of bonds, drawing 4,
| Al, and per cent interest, payable semi
| annually, and this interest is paid prompt
ly in cash out of the treasury, amounting
! to Sos, ooo, 900. The government pays $780,
900, 900 in pensions annually to the wound.
| ed and disabled soldiers of the late war,
and a few thousands to the octogenarians
at the South of the war of 1872. 10000
post-offices in the United States, and these
with the route agents, and the Post Office
Department at Washington, cost the Gov
eminent annually $4,000, 900. An army
of :, 600 men and officers is maintained at
an annual expense Of $27 100000, or more
than 81 900 to the man. The public build
ings throughout the United States, our
light houses and coast surveys, our armo
ries and arsenals, forts and Notifications,
selling and collecting revenue from the
sales of public lands, our hospital and
charitable institutions, and our United
States Courts, all aggregate an annual ex-
penditure of $2I 900, 900. The Senate and
House ofRepresentatives in Congress, the
President and his Cabinet with all their
attaches, of whom there are several thous-
ands, (there being 5000 clerks in the
Treasury Department alone at Washing
ton, and about 10000 others in Washing
ton and throughout the United States, J
the Governors and judges of our nine ter
ritories, the salaries of this District, Cir
cult and Supreme Court Judges, and of the
United States Marshals. aggregate an an
nual expenditure of $4,000, 900. Our
Navy, which has but few ships, and they
of little use, costs us $I5,ooo,ooo annually.
Improving the rivers and harbors of the
| United States costs us this year Sc, Ooo,-
600. The Indians in our territories cost
us 100000. The printing Office at Wash
ington, the largest in the world employing
nearly 800 men and women, is an annu
al expense of ST., SOC, 900. Our consuls and
ministers at foreign courts costs us ST ,ooo,-
600 annually. West Point Academy, and
the Naval School at Annapolis are sustain
ed at an annual expense of $4,000
But my friends, apologizing for
BEwILDERING YOU
with this array of figures, must submit
for your reflection one other item of ex-
pense, which beg you to remember; and
that is, that out of all these many millions
of money annually appropriated to sup
port the Government, there are only $oo,-
600 expended directly in behalf of the
cause of Agriculture; that cause which
feeds a nation of 10000, 900 of people, and
in which more than half the entire popu.
lation are directly interested There is
room for progress here, but that progress
. has begun, and if the agriculturists of the
, United States are only true to themselves
this appropriation will annually increase
until it is commensurate with the interest
for whose benefit it is given.
Now, my friends, as you readily under.
stand where all this immense amount OF
money goes to annually, but presume
, you are not prepared to say exactly where
it all comes from. | might generalize ar
assertion, and say, it every cent comes
from the pockets of the people, averaging
an annual tax of at least So upon every
man, woman and child, black and white
in the United States. If such an excise
: were levied directly upon the people, ii
would result in revolution, but the many
insidious methods by which it is imposed
prevent the victims from discovering the
point at which they should begin to vince
For instance, whiskey, yes,
wHIsKEY
alone, pays to the Government a revenn,
of $5o,oooooo annually. Each gallon paws
a tax OF 90 cents and there are nearly CO.
100000 gallons distilled annually in the
UnitedStates. In Louisville, Cincinnati and
St Louis there are distlleries that paw 2
tax of from $4,000 to $1,000 every week
Other fermented liquors are a source o.
| $40 900, 900 revenue.
Surely this ocean of Intoxicating LIQUOR,