Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-07-03
JUDGMENT INVOKED.

year, and again next year, the Judg-
ment of the American people respect
ing the monstrous record of the Bill
lion Dollar. force-and-fraud Congress,
and concerning the doings of those
who were responsible for the wasteful
misuse of public moneys chargeable
to that now discredited body.
A billion dollars is vast sum, and u
mere recital OF what could be accom-
plished with it shows the wrong done
the people, from whose pocket every
cent was taken.
Counting at the rate of 200 min
ute, for twelve hours every day, hot
work in the heated season, it would
take 6,944 days, or about nineteen
years, to count billion.
A billion dollars in silver dollar
pieces falling on the ground with twi-
lights dews, would cover about $50
acres, or considerably more than half
a square mile.
A billion silver dollars stacked up
in a column, would make pile 1,753
miles high.
A billion dollars would pay the sala-
ries of 10000 Presidents of the United
States; and if in dollar bills laid in
line they would form a belt about
114,500 miles long, going around the
earth nearly five times, or reaching
half way to the moon.
\ billion dollars in paper would
make, as we are told, if spun together
in one large sheet and then cut up in
to pieces of the proper sizes, dresses
for nearly 100000 women, or more
than 2,0OO,0 900 children.
A billion dollars would pay for the
education of 10000 children from the
kindergarten course through college
The weight of the average man is
1876 pounds hence it would take an
army of more than $4,000 average
men to turn the scales against bill
lion silver dollars.
The entire immigration to America,
from the day that Columbus first set
foot in the New World until the pres
ent, is supposed to amount to
25,000,0 900. Counting every newcomer,
therefore, since 1892, the last United
States Congress appropriated of the
peoples money forty dollars for each
one of them.
The total number of votes for Pres
ident cast by all American electors
since the establishment of the repub-
lie, amounts to about 100000. The
late Congress appropriated the equiv
alent of thirteen dollars for each such
vote, or ninety dollars for each voter
now.
Such is the record of the last Con
gress regarded from that point OF
view which permits Of comparison by
way of illustration and it will not re-
quire any maps, charts, tariff SEIZED
ules, or economic treatises to make
the subject clear. Neither can there
be any difference Of opinion concern
ing this misuse of public money by the
Republican majority in the last Con
gress, since all men can appreciate the
use to which these fruits of the peo-
pies industry and enterprise have
been put.
The Democracy has stood for years
upon the broad, patriotic and never
narrowing platform Of frugality in the
public expenditure, appropriations for
needful public purposes only, and an
economical use of the peoples money
at all times. On that clear and win
ming issue, wherever, whenever, and
by whomsoever made, the forces of
| the party have never been overthrow.
They cannot be overthrow in 1892.
1t was Samuel j. Tilden, who, in his
second annual message to the New
York Legislature, on January "a, 1876,
declared:
Such taxation is in itself a mon
strous evil and its incidents aggra-
vate its direct injury. When Govern
ments take from the people for official
expenditure nearly all the surplus
earnings of individuals, science and
skill in the art of taxation become nee
essary to preserve and enlarge the rev
enue, to gild the infliction Of the tax
payer. "-Nep York Sun.