Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-09-08

sureties, and judgements enforced. system
of rigid accountability for public moneys has
been applied, without fear or favor, with results
that never before have been realized by any
administration.
The disbursement of this money by public
officers at home and abroad has been made for
which it was appropriated by congress-, abso-
lutely without loss or defalcation SO far as
known to the government.
During the administration of James Buchanan
the loss by defalcation of public officers in the
collection and disbursements of the public
Pierce's administration it was $780, during
Polks administration it was $4.09; during Jack
sons administration it was $7.52; during Van
Buren's administration it was $11.71. Mark
the contrast with Republican administrations:
In Lncoln's time, embracing the recklessness
caused by war, it was 70 cents. For six years
of Grants administration it was 81 cents. In
Hayes administration THUS far-assuming that
all amounts In dispute are lost--the loss on
$1,000 would be SO small that the smallest coin
in the country would make it good three times.
It has been but one-third of cent on 81 1000 of
the amount involved.
Again, this administration has effected
striking reduction of the expenses of those
branches of the public service over which the
executive has complete control. The appropri-
alton for the collection of the customs revenue
is permanent one, entirely dependent for the
amount of its expenditure upon the treasury
department. While the revenues of the coun-
try have enormously increased, the expenditures
have been largely diminished. The expense of
collecting over $188, 100000 customs duties
during the last fiscal year was only three and
one tenth per cent, while the expense of col
lecting $53,000,O00 in 1860, during President
Buchanan's time, was six and two-tenths per
cent. on the amount colected-just double.
On the first of July last there was returned
to the treasury $2,O00,000 of money that
had been saved out of the appropriation for tn
collection OF the customs revenue: and in the
expenses for refunding the loan. for which an
appropriation of one-half of one per cent. is
made, the treasury department. returned to the
treasury, on the 1st of July last, 81 900, 900
saved. The secretary of the navy has returned
to the treasury very large sums, saved by a
careful and honest administration of that de-
partmcnt. There was carried to the surplus
fund on the 30th of June, 1880, SO, ,434. .4l6,
ments for that year and remaining unexpended.
Does any one believe that Democratic admin
istration could have attained these results
And what has been the result of Republican
administration under President Hayes upon the
general business interests of the country? We
have witnessed, and are now enjoying, the
greatest revival of business of modern times.
We have leaped forward from period of ex-
treme distress to one of great prosperity. Our
exports during the last fiscal year reached the
enormous sum of 1886. 1000, 900, being an in
crease since 1875 of over 1920 1000, 900. Our
imports during the last fiscal year we're $685.
100000, being an increase since 1875 Of $135,
100000, and making an aggregate foreign COM
merce Of the last year of over 81, 500, ,O0O, 900.
Every nation contributes to our comfort. From
every land and from every sea, and from every
part of our country, we gather the productions
of their labor to supply our daily wants. Our
manufactures in all branches have increased, so
that not only do we supply the domestic mar
kets with nearly all the articles essential to hu-
man life, but we export in great quantities the
productions of the workshop and the farm.
The secretary next demolished the pre-
lenses of the Democrats to having great.
ly reduced the appropriations of congress
and the government expenditures, quot.
ing the official figures Of such appropria.
tions, the same as given in these columns
some days ago. He then took up the
Democratic cry Of fraud" and t1rnec
it back upon that party with telling
force, going over the whole Infamous
record Of rebellion, of election frauds
and of the Tilden cipher dispatch in
fanny, and concluding with n picture O.
what would probably result from putting
I the DemOcrotif na1tv into nowor