The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
< VANISHING SURPLUS
CARLISLE ARRAICNS REPUBLI-
 CAN ExTRAVACANCE

The Enormous Rate at Which Public Ex- pendituros Have Increased-An Enor- nous Deficit in tho Near Future-Ex- travagance Caused by High Tarif Tax ation.
 Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, contrib utes to the February number of the Fo- Salnl an able article, entitled "The Van ishing Surplus" The facts and figures set forth in this article deserve the care full attention of the people, as indicating the unparalleled recklessness in expendi- lures to which our extravagant tariff taxation leads
 Senator Carlisle combats this extrava- gance in taxation and in expenditure by laying down the broad principle that, SAll other things being equal, that is the best government which exacts the least tribute from it's citizens or subjects. He further says: "One of the principal ob- jects of all good government is to pro mote the material welfare of it's people by protecting them in the honest accu mutation and peaceable enjoyment of property. and this cannot be fully ac- complished by any government which takes from thcG, in the form of taxation or otherwise, more than is necessary to discharge it's just obli- gations and to defray the expense of an economical administration Of public affairs. The public peace may be preserved, the rights of persons may be scrupulously respected, and ann pie remedies may be afforded for all injuries in fiicted upon the citizen by pri- vate individuals; but all this will not make the people prosperous, or permit them to be so, if the Government itself robs one rart of them for the purpose of distributing tho sFoils to another part Generosity is a commendable virtue, but justice is a greater ono It is the con firmed and neurable habit of the party now ill power to dispose of the public money in a waSteful and eXtravagant manner, and there is no reason to sup pose that it will cease to pursue this course until the treasury is exhausted What was two years ago the richest public treasury in the world will be sub stantially bankrupt long before the term of the present administration shall ex pire. and then, perhaps, even the eXecu- tive officers of the Government, who now delight in creating deficiencies to be supplied by additional appropriations, will be willing to assist in devising some plan by which expenditures can be cur tailed.
 The present high carnival of extrava gant tariff taxation and still more ex- travagant expenditures leads to results, as pointed Cut by Mir. Carlisle, which are most amazing. He shows that while our population is now about sixteen times as great as in 1590, the expenditures of the Government, not counting payments upon the interest and principal of the pubic debt, are more than 130 times as great. The figures are as follows, eXclud- ing payments on the debt:
 Popula- Expendi- 79o...................... 3,929,2l4 s 1919. 92 lS90 0.....................e2 4SV540 26l 637, ,g0i In 1910 the ordinary expenditures were equal to only B cents per capita of the population. "In 1890, eighty years after ward, the population was less than nine times as great as it was then, but the ordinary expenditures were more then forty-eight times as great, and amounted to S4 10 per capita. From 1850 to lS40, including the period of the Seminole war, the population increased 32. 67 per cent. and the expenditures increased so DOT cent; from lS40 to 1850, during which time the Mexican war was commenced and prosecuted to successful termin- aton, the population increased 35 S7 per cent. and the expenditures increased 53 per cent, but from 1880 to 1890, pe- rod of profound peace, population in creased "A 57 per cent. and expenditures increased 55 per cent. The ordinary ex- penditures of the current fiscal yeaS 1891, will be at least 12 per cent. greater than in 1890, although population, as shown by the recent census, is increas- Ing at the rate of less than 21a per cent per annum.s
 How expenditures have increased un- der the Republican protectionist admin Istrations of tho past thirty years may Do seen from the following figures, which again do not include public-debt pay mentS:
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