The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-08
WILFUL AND WICKED WASTE.

CRATIC AND REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION
coNTRAsTRD.
The wasteful expenditures of the Repuo-
lican party eliminated in Grants second
term. They were checked by the organiza'
ton of q Democratic House of Represen-
tatives in December, 1875. Since that date
reduction has been the rule.
If we contrast the administration OF one
year before the war with the last year OF
Republican administration, taking out all
expenditures relating to the public debt,
principal, interest, and premiums, and eX'
GLIDING pensions, taking only the net ordi-
nary expenditures, we find that Democratic
administration for the year ending June
80, 1878, cost SCI ,5S1 ,4j6, whilst, Repub-
lican administration, for the year ending
June 30, 1874, cost S165,OS0,57O, a differ
ence in favor of the Democrats of SlO3,-
40S,114. If we compare ten years before
the war, with ten years since the war, the
same great discrepancy isfound. Estimate
entirely the war period, from 1862 to 1866,
and we find that the whole cost of govern
ment administration for ordinary expens-
es for a whole period of seventy
three years from the foundation Of
the government up to June 30, 1861,
cost the people s1,5O6,726,151, while the
last ten years of Republican rule, proceed
ing the coming into power of a Democratic
house of representatives, and beginning
with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867,
the total amount of ordinary expenditures
was 81, 52s,917,197, or in other words, the
Republican party in ten years, commencing
with the year after the close of the war, ex-
pended more money for the net ordinary
expenses Of the government exclusive of
the public debt, principal, interest, pre-
miums, and pensions, by SEE ,190,99G, than
had been expended in the seventy-two
years preceding the advent Of the Repub-
lican party into power, being the whole ex-
istence of the government. Taking the
same expenses for ten years of Democratic
rule before the war, beginning with the
fiscal year ending June 80 1852, and ending
June 80, 1861, both inclusive, the total ex-
penses were $572,S72,2 60. The same ex-
penses were in ten years of Republican
rule, from the fiscal year ending June 30,
1876, s1,52S,917,191 Thus we find the
cost of Republican expenditures were $685.
044,S77.35 more than the amount expend-
ed during ten years of Democratic rule, an
increase of more than 40 per cent.
Comparing ten years before 1861
with ten years after 1867, we find
the average per annum OF these
expenses during the ten years
of Republican rule was $l50,612,6l4,
whilst the same items of ordinary expenses,
during ten years of Democratic rule, aver
age but $57,2s7, 226 So that the increase
during decade of Republican rule is
nearly three times as large as for the last de-
cade OF Democratic rule. Taking the cen
sus of 1860 and 1870 as basis, we find
that the cost of administering the gov.
eminent per capita during the ten years Of
Republican rule w.s 1906, while under
Democratic rule in a decade it was but
$ls.26 per capita, or an increase Of III
per cent. against the Republican party.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS By THE
SYSTEM OF EXTRAVAGANZA.
This is the policy of liberal appropria-
tons which the Republican platform Of
1880 recommends and supports. 1t means
a continuation and preparation Of these
enormous ordinary expenses of the govern.
ment and consequent taxation Of the peo.
pie to support and sustain them. These
taxes must come ultimately from labor.
They are the result of the imposition Of
taxes on the things which come into daily
consumption and lives of the people and Of
burdens most grievous and onerous. Of
course we do not feel their full weight, but
nevertheless they press US in some direc.
ton and we feel their results in our daily
lives. To the poor man whose salt and
other necessaries of life are taxed they
mean additional hours of labor, depriva
ton of time for recreation and mental i'm
provement; they mean fewer comforts for
the household, inability to send the chill.
to school, want Of respectable clothing, and
want Of healthy and invigorating TODD to