The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-25

take stock in payment OF materials,
tc, ms or tine furnished. Drives
for our either wou.d also be thus supplied,
and needed resoI IS for our afternoon teams
would be most handsomely patronized
WhS,eN,r be the plan, let us at airy rate
have county roads. ct the SUBJECT be agi,a-
ted, az we have ati .ated the various railroad
schemes, the new Jail building, the opera
house, etc, and they will come of n surely,
WHERE TnE PEOPLES MONEY GOES
1t is not Inappropriate at times for the
people TO make inquiry as to what becomes
o. their mercy, The government every
year demands millions of dollars from the
hald earnings Of the people for its support
aud to pay the interest on its debt, and il
is natural /. Iiry Cannot the expenses
of the government be lessened? ?" We
know that the fed ,ral government does not
levy direct tax Of any kind upon the pco-
pie, bat it does in a most insidious and
deco, We WY, for all that, require of the
people deal Of money every year. What
becomes Nit all is what tho people desire
to know. The following recent dispatch
from Washington city will give an idea of
tie way vast deal of tho revenue is used.
This dispatch say; 1.-THE White House
has been, or rather, is now being sub; ected
TO conn etc ovcrhauling 1t is being
painted throughout, and the plumbing
work, wk,ch has been very defective, is be-
Ing re-srranssd SO as to prevent rewer gas
from escaping hride the house. An eleva-
tor is being put IN the private part of the
house in aosordsnee with the appropriations
made last sss6on When the matter of
putting tho elevator N the White Hou.e
was broSsht 10 the attontion of the house
by .tho appropriation committee the ex-
pectatioa ws that President Garfields
mother ueu & spent most of the time with
her son while occupying the executive
ma. on, and, as sho was old and feeble it
would be, in the opinion, OF the committee, a
graceful act 70 havo an elevator put into
the house, 20 that not only she, but the
other ladies could get f'om the first to the
second floor without being repaired to u J,
the stairs" Now it is tho Guty of tie
government TO keep the presidents man.
son in repair and well supplied with all the
co'enel ,es of the age. We deny how
ever that it is In any wise, incumbent upon
the government to spend the peoples
morey for the Qualification Of every within
and architectural fancy Of every president
who may SO into the White House to live.
Another dispateh Of recent date says the
White II. zee 10 TO no rel FINISHED Why, in
the nsms Of common ssnse and reason ?
Is Mr. Arfhur 30 fastidious, so astaetcal
In his taste, - utterly too utter that the
furniture that vss good enough, stylish
enough sisssat enough for his predecessor
is not good, stylish nor elegant enough for
him? Ii Will sBbt the government no in
considerable sun of money to make these
changes me- .ionsd in the telegram We
quo,e, and 10 rofarnisA the White House.
a few months before Mr.. Hayes leG tho
White House he spent--if We rememl or
atight-tho - 4 of 500 800 for China din
ner set made 10 order in Paris. That din
ntr set, We presume, will have to be
at ASIDE, aud sold at auction as second
h. ID croetery, to DO replaced with
another set sr,er Mr.. Arthurs
taste. Wa know Il at the go,ernmea mus,
have funds with which to pay tie necessary
current expenses, . pay the interest on its
bonded debt, and to prov de a sink ing fund
for The ultimate redemption of ts bonds
We know, too that this must e, cry ' ,ar be
a large sum, and therefore We say, that the
hurhon may b. as liz! rs ross b. on III
T. 2ple, the current expenses Of all the de-
pa'tments Of the government ST ould be cut
down to the very lowest notch consistent
with thSf eifis. JLt admin sti alton. Ours is
iroc governs -, Q democratic form OF
gov, nmsnt, end therefore SIMPLIFY, the
want Of cctsRtstion, should mark lis
every feature. We hsve no cou to keep 10
its psmp aud display aid we have
no need 81 immense palaces and
princcly furnishings for our rulers. The
PRESIDENT il paid . salary o. $50,JOO per an
nun thai hsm.y live in th.t style and
comfort in keeping with his eIa. ed posi-.
ton and that he may be enabled to enter
tain tho foreign d.i ,al,,swho my be in
Washington in becoming manner, but the
people have no moneJto spare to ga.
any presidents caprice in the ma; ,cr ofsL.
ditions to the white House and new furni-
tuo every now ara t,ien Aswe have be-
foe said the psop.s are not directly taxed.
ifth0y wes they would know how much
was wrusg from them every year by the
ttho gsthersrs, the custom house and in.
ternol rsven no oheia,J, Every hat that is
worn, every article of clothing that
the 100000 people of these
United ststss wear is faxed
and Enormously too The blankets IN g,
people eovr with in uiu.or to keep tn, m
warm are tszed so tie,r cost $ double what
1t ought TO be. Every necessity Of lifs /.
mado to cort us from twenty-five TO one
hundred per cent. more than il ought to
have cost ne, and for WHAT That there
may he money in the federal treasury for
usclcs, and eItrnvagnnt expenditure, and
that the lsv manufacturers ofthis country
may grow Saorbitantly rich. Il isupon the
people that thi, iniquioIs burthcn of pro.
lection falls, and upon the poorer classes