The Portland daily press., 1879-09-01
Lewiston Journal.
"Depreciation of Values. "
MIR. PILLsBURY AT AUBURN


Total disbursements for 1878 were 81, 430,G32.-
81. OF this S25 900 was paid on the public debt;
1912 O44 interest debt; $50 479 to the SINKING
fund.- and S24 S46 soldiers pensions, total S4o2,-
3691' which. Of course is due to the war. Deduct
ing these items and it leaves S948 262 as the ord
nary expenses Of 1873 instead of $3.50 O35 in 1896
an increase of S659, 227, or nearly three hundred
Der cent-Mr. Pllsbury at Auburn August 14th,
as reported in the Gazette
MIR. pILLsBURY AT sAccARAPPA.
The total disbursements in 1856 were S4S6 100,
the ordinary expenditures being only S2o8 BIZ
IL the ordinary expenses being 1913, 036.76 an in
crease over 1856 of $5o4 o6o.s4, or nearly two
hundred per cent outside of all war expenses what
eyer-Mr Pillsbury at Saccarapra, August 9th,
as reported in the Argus
Mr. Pillsbury stated at Auburn that the dis
bursements of the State in 1878 were 81 ,43O.-
632.91 and that the increase of expenses
over 1856 was $659,227, or three hundred per
cent.
Mr.. Pillsbury stated at Saccarappa two
weeks later, that the total disbursements OF
the State in 1878 were 81 ,273, 1861, and that
the increase of ordinary expenses over 1896
Such rapid depreciation of values" in only
two weeks time we never before heard Of one
hundred per cent. reduction in thirteen days!
If there were four weeks OF the campaign re-
naming, at this rate of depreciation Mr..
Pillsbury would be obliged to take OIL at least
a hundred and fifty per cent more.
But what reliance can be placed on the tig-
ures of political leader, when he charges
that the expenditures for 1878 were 81 ,430 ,632-
81 with the report of the State Treasurer be-
fore him, reading (page b as follows;
EXPENDITURES
Amount of payments during the year oo-o >,
Cash in the treasury December 31st
1S7S......... $50. - ..'..'. Slo''zoo.@o
s1,43o 632. 81
And who, on having the mis-statement pub
licly pointed out, neglects to give any expla-
nation of his wrong figures, although in his
next speech he quietly amends his statement
by reducing his figures $157 ,256. And to-day
MIR. Pillsbury's Auburn speech, which he now
so quietly amends, is being distributed over
the State by the fusionists.
Then again, what can be said OF any man
who represents that the Ordinary expenses"
of the State in 1878 were S793,O36.76, when he
knows that over 100000 of this amount
against SIT 900 in 1866 were in no sense ''ordl-
nary State expenses" but taxes laid TO the eX-
tent of $226, 1861 on the property OF the
State, and to the extent of S13S, SO7 .56 on say
ings banks, which were distributed to
schools, thus reducing municipal expenditures
for schools to this extent; while $3S 1897 .S3 adj
ditional were the amounts distributed to towns
to aid free High Schools, 5000 was simply the
railroad tax distributed to towns, and $4,770
the shore rents Of Indian lands collected and
paid over to the Indians. Deducting these
amounts, we find that the ordinary expenses
of the State for 1878, did not exceed $3S0,000,
(really only $3.50, 000), instead of S948,262 as
first charged, or S793,036 as last charged by Mr..
Pillsbury.