National Republican., 1880-08-19
FALSE IDEAS EXPENSIVE.

HALoh lucas IAANHANh"
There are true ideas of government and
there are false ideas of government The
true ideas lead to prosperity, peace, prog
ress, plenty and perfection of society. The
false ideas lead 10 discomfort, disaster, dis
content, decay and destruction. There are
two parties in this country-one represent.
ing the true ideas, which bring develop
ment, and the other representing tho oppo-
site ideas, which bring only damnation
Both parties have history, and what each
can 60 and ascertain tho difference between
them and how the welfare of tho laboring
men has been affected by their doings.
Let us open page of the record and see
how we stand. We have just had great
war. 1t was fought to settle the one single
question whether this country should be
ruled by true ideas or false ideas-that was
all. Some of us got notion that il was
bettor to have true ideas prevail than false
ones, and we elected ABRAHAM LINCOLN
to carry on the government. The party of
false ideas rebelled, aud so the true and
false measured strength on that one issue
and had q tremendous fight: COP and truth
against SATAN and error. We all know
this, whether we live north of MASON and
D1xoN's line or south of it.
1t cost something to maintain the cause
of true government in this great conflict
1t cost mental anguish; the giving up of
the brightest boys, the dearest husbands,
the fathers of deienseless and dependent
children; the sacrifice Of home, the break
ing up Of families; tears, agony and the
pangs of very hell. 1t cost physical an
guish; weariness, hunger, disease, wounds,
sickness in hospitals, iu swnmps, in prisons,
without the care of mothers and wives,
without the consultations of home or hope
1t cost all of mortal agony that man can
suffer in this vale of tears, and to hundreds
upon hundreds of thousands guilty of no
crime but love of country and devotion to
the eternal cause of truth. These expenses
can never be computed-thcy are beyond
calculation or estimate.
And it cost money. Look Mt the figures
Debt funded and unfunded caused by
the war-Unted States..........s2 81 500 900 900
Do. Confederate Statcs..............., l4UOOOUU01
Cash raised by United States through
taxation and paid for war expenses. 250000OOO
Amount paid for pensions since close
Amount paid by states as bounty to
Amount paid as state and town aid TO
families Of soldiers. .....;:;.;......... 100000
Amount paid as private aid by socie-
Ties and individuals north and south 100000
Amount paid for pauperism caused by
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Losses TO commerce during the war. 5OOOOOOO
Destruction Of private property by both
armies during the war.............. 100000
Increase OF civil expenses since the
war, not including interest. ......... 2OOOO0CO1
Amountspent In litigation and settling
bankrupt estates caused by the war
and in prosecution Of war claims. 2OOOOOoOO
Total burden Of war in money. .s5 100000
The average interest on this sum has
been more than five per cent per annum
for the last fifteen years and amounts TO
not less than $300,0O0000 every year, and
this is just so much annual burden levied
on labor over and above what it would
have been had there been no war, without
counting any loss on account of the death
of soldiers, whose labor has been lost to
their families and to society for the whole
ASAiNAhAhE DNllOu VI lllClI nuNuINl lives,
Apportioned among the laboring men who
have families to support, and without pay
ing dollar on tue principal and in fifteen
years it has been an average of more than
5000 to each head of family-all sponged
out Of the bones and sinews of labor, and to
be sponged out Of them for years to come
to meet the expenses of securing right and
true ideas Of government, as against false
and untrue ideas.
An election is now coming on, and the
party of false ideas the party which caused
the infamous war and levied this enormous
burden upon the labor of the country, steps
to the front and proposes that the laborers
shall turn out the party of true ideas and
put them in, and this right in the face of
the fact that we are annually paying more
for what their false notions have cost the
country than il costs for schools, churches,
highways, charities and the regular munici.
pal expenses of towns, counties and states.
rs though it makes no difference to the
voters of the country whether their govern.
ment is in the hands Of the party which
burdeped them to destroy the true or In
the hands of the party which fought to put
down the false. Is it possible that after
enduring all the pcrils, privotions suffer-
ings and expenses of the accursed war for
the sake Of having our government admin
istered on true principles, we are going to
abandon all and put the administration
into the hands which were false when they
had the power? Not much The case is
too PLAN. There is right party and a
wrong one. The record shows which de-
serves and which failed in the trial hour,
and we want no more trials.
CAMPAIGN CARTOONS.
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