Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-10

Congress, absolutely without loss or dofaloa
tion SO far as known TO the Government.
| During tho Administration Of James nu
ohanan, tho loss by defalcatiODs OF public ON
Gers In the collection and disbursement of the
public Is moneys was S3;sl on every ti090; dur
ing Polks Administration II was ft.0S; during
yackson's Administration IL was S7.52; during
Van Buron's Administration II was Sill
Mark tho contrast with Republican Admins
trntions:
In Lncon's timc, embracing the reckless
ness caused by war, IL was scventy-slx cents
For six years OF Grants Administration It wa,
thirty-four cents. In Hayes Administrator
thus far-assuming that all amounts I'm dispute
are lost-the loss on $1,000 would be SO smul
that the smallest coin OF the country woulC
make 1t good three times. IL has been but
one-thlrd of a cent on $1,000 OF the amount in
volyed.
This Administration has effected striking
reduction of the expenses OF those branches
OF the public service over which the BXocu
tive has complete control The expense OF
collecting over SlSS,000,0JO customs during the
last fiscal year was only 3-l0 per cent, while
during President Buchanan's time, was 2-1C
per cent, on the amount colleoted-Just
double. There was carried to the surplus
fund, ON the dDth OF June, 1880 81, ,i34, ,4l6, mon
ey appropriated for the different depart
monts for that year and remaining uncxp pend
ed. Does any one believe that Democratic
administration could have attained these re-
sultsY
And what has boon the result of Republican
administration under President Hayes upon
|
We have witnessed, and are now enjoying, the
greatest revival of business of modern times
We have lenped forward from period of ex.
trome distress to one great prosperity. Our
exports during the last fiscal year reached the
enormous sum of 1856, OOO0OO, being an in.
crease since 1876 of over <2OOOOOOO. Our
imports during the last fiscal year were
fBBS,O0000O, being an increase since 1875 OF
$l8,UOOOOO, and making an aggregate for
! Sl,5OUOO0,OOO. In the great branches of
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., manufactures and min
ingNwe are now taking our rank as the
| leading Nation. With plenty OF money as
| good ns gold, with plenty OF work for oil who
are willing to work, with cheap capital, we
have now superadded the most hounteous
world. Think of wheat crops of 450,0J0O0O
! bushels yoar, and corn crops of about 1,s00,-
100000 year, and everything else in proper
tiOn. For these high prices have been realized.
our Government debt, formerly largely held
abroad is now almost exclusively held at
home; the mortgages upon our lands and
| farms have been reduced to one-third their
amount In 1875; the balance of trade is so
| largely in our favor that foreign countries, no
longer able to send back our securities, are
compelled to ship gold. The building OF rail-
| rOads keeps pace with our general prosperity.
have been reduced moro than one-half. In a
| word, the rough road has been Travelled and
the smooth one is now before us.
Our National prosperity has excited the at
| tentiOn of all European Nations, and has set
| IN motion again the stream of immigrants,
whose labor has added so greatly 10 our
!
arrived during the last fiscal year was 455, ,405,
! against III, ,S26 in 1870. During the month of
June last, l2,5BI immigrants reached our shore,
and since March |, to the latest date of which
we have reports, the number is about 32S, 900,
or more than enough to form a State.
we can fairly claim that the renewal of bus-
| ness Is the natural result of the policy of the
| Republican party. II Is true that Providence
! gave us bounteous crops, but these came aft
! er resumption was secure, and after we had
| laid the foundation of honest money and di-
| Nersihed industry, which enabled us to i'm
| prove the blessings OF Providence Certain it
| is, that we owe no part of our prosperity to
the Democratic party.
In 1873, the last year in which the Republi-
cans had a majority in both Houses, the ap-
propriations made for the fiscal year 1876 were
S147,7l404O. At the next session the Demo-
Gratis controlled the House, and, by refusing
to appropriate for some of the most necessary
expenses of the Government, reduced the APP
preparations to $l24, ,0lO and the following
year, in order to coeroe the President by
failure to pass the army bill and to provide for
other necessary expenses, they reduced the
appropriations to SS356,9S3; but at the fol-
lowing session, to make good these deticlen-
cies and to repair the faults committed, they
appropriated $l72,0l6,SO9, being $25,O00,O00
more than was appropriated in 1876; and in
1880 they appropriated $l62, ,404,647; and for
1881 they have appropriated Sl@, Il82l2, or
Sz,O0O,OOO more than the appropriations made
the last year the Republicans controlled tue
House. The appropriations made for the cur
rent fiscal year by Democratic Congress, in q
time when the currency is upon the specie
standard, are as large as in the year 1873, made
by Republican Congress when our currency
was ut n discount of twelve per cent, and
when the Government was paying large war
claims.
The Democrats can point to no law passed
during their time which even purports to bring
reliet to the people, TO lessen the burdens of
taxation, or to advance the public interests.
And now, in $780, they want n change; not q
change in the Democratic House or Senate,
but change in the Executive branch of the
Government, SO that all branches of the Gov
ernment will be practically under their power
and control. 1t is known very well that with
i'll period of four years the election of n
Democratic President would probably convert
the Supreme Court into citadel of the princi-
pies and policy of the Democratic party, and
change the National tendencies of that great
tribunal into a machine to cripple the Govern
ment in its power to protect the rights of the
freedmen by the adoption of the narrow no
tionS of State rights, which governed the DEM
ocratic party before the war.
And who are they who propose this radical
change in our Government? 1t is the same
Democratic party that in 1860 sought to over
throw the Government, governed by the self
same men or their lineal descendants, and the
same elements which controlled the policy of
the Administration of james Buchanan. Who
control that party now2 The basis, the gov
erning power, of that party is in the solid
South. That segment of the party will furnish
106 members of Congress and thirty-two
Senators, and, by their numerical majority
over their Democratic associates, will dictate
the policy and laws of our Government.
The bone and sinew, the heart and brains, of
the North are now, rs then, with the Republi-
Cdu IndU seCtlOn WnlCn furnishes the
capital, the commerce, the trade, the enter
prise, the vital energy to our system, is to be
subordinated to section which still clings to
the idea that this is not Nation, but a con-
federacy, that its powers are dependent for
enforcement upon the narrow and provincial
ideas OF Insignificant States. This is the
change they propose, This Is the revolution
they would bring about.
What reasons do they give, what motives
do they assign, as the basis of such q revolu-
tionp
Senator Pendleton says they want a chance
TO examine the books OF the Treasury Depart
ment. The books of the Treasury are now,
and have been for years, under the surveil-
lance of the Democratic majority of the
House. Committees of both houses have ex-
plored the recesses of thai, department. ex-
amined Its books, compared the figures, and
what have they found? They claim that in
1870 great discrepancies were shown in the
statements of the public accounts; but these
discrepancies, after full and fair examina-
ton, have been fully explained as the neces-
sary result of keeping two sets of books in
diherent offices of the Government, which
embracing different items, from their nature,
must differ on given day, in some cases. TO
the amount of millions of dollars but when
these discrepancies are examined, and the ele-
ments which enter into one and do not enter
into the other are explained and compared,
the books are found to be correct in every par
ticular
Mr.. Tilden says they want change in order
to condemn what he alleges was the fraud of
1877. But this pretended fraud consists simply
In the fact that, the Electoral Commssi IN,
tribunal which they aided TO organize, and
whose judgment they agreed to abide, decided
differently from what they expected. They
forced the adoption Of this comm lssion as a
means TO exclude votes duly returned from
some of the Southern States. They failed in
this, and from that time they have cried out
g fraud, fraud" The fraud that existed in
the election of 1875 was the fraud, violence
and intimidation Practieed by the Democratic
party in at least five of the Southern States
but in such a bungling way in Louisiana that
II was promptly corrected by the returning
officers Of that State In South Carolina and |
Florida the actual vote cast, as well as the lc-
gal vote, was in favor of the Republican Elect |
ors, They, attempted in Oregon where the
people had without question voted for the |
Hayes Electors, by narrow technioalities to |
exclude the Republican Electors and to Tecog-
nlzo the Democratic Electors, and large sums |
p money were confessedly paid to accomplish
Shis fraud.
But, fellow-cltzens, this cry Is now the
sheerest hypocrisy, If the Democratic party |
believed In 1t why was not Mr.. Tilden renomE |
natedl Then the people could have tried the |
alleged fraud. But the fraud praotlced by the |
Democratic party in the South is a continuing
lrhud-two years ago, last year and this year |
oontlnued openly with a grim humor, and |
Justified by the dominant opinion South and |
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