The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-02
Total. .295 pay 81, 121 900


OF the general officers the south has
eight and Of the cavalry, artillery and
infantry officers sha has seventeen and
the total pay is $4,000.
The next army grade including captains
and commissioned officers below captains
MAKES up the number ,24j; pay, 50, 241 :
600 Of whom the south has 1O2 and the
total pay is $1S3,0O0.
In the navy there are flag officers:
Number 225; pay 100000.
OF whom the south has fourteen and
their pay amounts to $4,000.
This table Is made up to cover only the
higher officers in all departments The
legions Of subalterns are nearly all from
north of the line. Indeed whenever Il
southern member OF congress gets place
for q southern man or woman it is such
a marked event that 1t gets into the news
papers.
This record gives to the north 1877
heads Of departments and commissioned
officers, ana only 173 to the south 1t
gives to the north $5,5000OO and to the
south less than half million in salaries
per annum.
This is but a sample Of the way In which
our paternal government treats the south
This accounts for only six millions out of
nearly billion that is spent. or the rest
we get nothing to speak Of, outside Of the
pay to postmasterS, members Of congress
and revenue collectors. One hundred
and fifty million dollars goes to
northern pensions and several millions
to northern cemeteries OF course, Mr..
Harrison will say that he would have
given more places to the south but he
couldn't find white men in the southern
republican party that We're fitted to hold
them. That is the reason, | reckon, why
he gaye some of the best offices to the
negroes; but there was no law against
his appointing conservative democrats
There are plenty Of them waiting and
willing. How in the world are we ever
to catch up unless we have q finger In
the pie! How are we ever to become
national patriots on quarter ratious? Sam
Jones says there is no use in trying to CON
vert sinner on an empty stomach and
just so you can't make patriots out of
paupers That is why nearly all the rich
folks up north are republicans. They are
paid to be. They have for thirty years
been fattening on government contracts.
q 4ink Of the immense supplies for tho
trmy and navy. Think of the armories
nd the guns and ammunition and horses
I'D mules and wagons andtentS and cloth
T. Think of the ships and all the mate
ri that it takes to build and equip them.
Ut it takes to build and equip them.
Ink Of all the printing and paper and
elhlopes and stamps and mail sacks and
Tuiture for the pOStotiice department..
Ink of all the seeds and flowers for the
agNltural department, and the making
OF u the books in all the de-
partnts--who does it all? Who
| getsu the pay for 1t? Did anybody
ever ar Of a southern factory getting an
orderpr anything? We can't even fur
nlsh iron for their guns, nor the cot
ton dung for their tents, nor the mules
FOR tntrmy wagons. We can't furnish |
pitcfl, and turpentine without giving
the jon nd nearly all the profits to IL
Observation-Disclosures l think the agricul-
tural dertment might buy some of our
Waterne seed. About half the rich |
men yOueet I'D north are i'm some way |
interested a. government contract and |
half the II ones are drawing pensions
Ii Is SlaU game, and the south is |
not in it.
Eight hrted and fifty millions ammo
priated BYE congress. and the entire
south neve,ot mora than onafiftotb
part Oh IL! Iey have got nearly all the
money no" keep on getting it. They
leu us I,tss "cuss and discuss and pay
taAes-li;tC A lumber man told me
that northern lon owned nine-tenths or
al 'ne plno >er land IN Georgia, and