The sun., 1891-06-25
Judgment Invoked,

The Democracy will invoke this year. and
again next year, the judgment OF the Amer
lean people respecting the monstrous rec
ord OF the Billion Dollar. force-and-fr
| Congress, aud concerning the doings Of
those who werc responsible for the wastcful
misuse OF public moneys chargeable to that
now discredlted body.
| A billion dollars Is a vast sum. and n mere
recital OF what could be accomplished with
it shows the wrong done the people, from
whose pockets every cent was taken.
Counting at the rate of 200 minute. for
twelve hours every day. hot work in tho
heated season, it would take G94i days. or
about nineteen years, to count billion.
A billion dollars in silver dollar pieces fall
ing on the ground with twliSht's dews.
would cover about $50 acres, or considerably
more than half square mile.
billion silver dollars stacked up in a
column would make pile 1853 miles high.
A billion dollars would ply tho salaries OF
10000 Presidents OF the United States; and If
in dollar bills laid in line. they would form
belt about III, 500 III les long. going around
tho earth nearly five times or reaching half
way to the moon.
A billion dollars In paper would make, as
wo ar, told, II spun together in one large
sheet and then cut up into pieces OF the
proper size dresses for nearly 1000, 900
women, or more than 100000 children.
A billion dollars would pay for tho cduca-
ton OF 25) 900 children from the kindergarten
course through college.
Tho weight OF the average man Is 1876
pounds; hence it would take On army of
more than $4,000 Average men to turn the
scales against IL billion silver dollars.
The entire immigration 10 America. from
the day that COLUMBUS first set foot in tho
New World until the present. is supposed to
am ouut to 25,OoO0OO. Counting every new
conner, therefore, since 1892, the last United
States Congress appropriated OF tho peoples
money forty dollars for each one OF them.
The total number Of woes for President
cast by all American electors since the estab.
lishment OF the republic amounts to about
75,Oo),OoO The late Congress appropriated tho
equivalent OF thirteen dollars for each such
vote. or ninety dollars for each voter now.
Such is the record OF tho last Congress
regarded from that point OF view which
permits OF comparison by way of illustra-
tion; and it will not require any maps,
charts. tariff schedules, or economic trea-
tiscs to make tho subject clear. Neither can
there be any difference OF opinion concern
ing this misuse Of public money by the Re-
publican majority in the last Congress. since
ull men can appreciate tho use to which
these fruits Of the peoples industry and en-
terprlse have been put.
The Democracy has stood for years upon
the broad. patriotic. and never-narrowing
platform Of frugaity In the public expend-
ture, appropriations for needful public pur-
poses only. and an economical use of the
peoples money at all times. On that clear
ard winning issue. wherever. whenever, and
by whomsoever made. the forces OF the
party have never been overthrown. They
cannot be overthrown in 1892 It was
SAMUEL J. TILDEN who. in his second an
nual message to the New York Legislature,
on Jau. "a. 1876, declared:
"Such taxation is In itself monstrous
evil; and Its incidents aggravate its direct
injury. When governments take from the
people for Official expenditure nearly all
the surplus earnings OF individuals, science
and skill in the art of taxation become
necessary to preserve and enlarge tho rev.
enue to gid the iufliction OF the taxpayer"