The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-18

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do consistently with running the gov
eminent. Both of us do that. 1t is just
as we'll known by one side
as it is by the other, and
that is the reason why the Judge wants
to compare the good side of his Congress
with the possibly bad side of ours; and
then he wants to subtract the river and
harbor bill out of the operation besides.
Laughter and applause.] You know,
when he comes to his second SEES
sion this election will be over, and what
he has not put into the appropriations
this year, he will next, and he cannot
come out proportionally any better than
we did.
Now, I want to tell you where / get
these figures that l have been giving you
There are two men who really
Know What Figures Are
in Washington, and they are the two
clerks of the committee4-the one, the
House clerk, and the other, the Senate
clerk, and they are moro interested in
the figures than they are in politics, too.
Both of these men will tell you that these
figures are correct: $463, 900, 900 for us,
S507, 900, 900 for them; and they had to
cheat Chicago out of two millions and
half to do that Applause.
[ do not at all wonder that this country
was startled when it discovered that our
appropriations were Thousand millions;
it was the signal at once of great expen-
diture and of great country. The last
thing that we Americans realize, in spite
of all our Boosting, is the tremendous
size of this country.
Now it so happens that the term
appropriation is not synonymous with
expenditures; that we may appropriate
for a certain purpose a certain sum OF
money; but it does not follow that that
money is expended. For example, when
we appropriated for the Postal Service,
we Republicans appropriated ST., OO0 0Oo,
and everybody was so thoroughly agreed
that it passed the House in three-quarters
Of an hour, because everybody knew that
our postal facilities had got to be at
tended to, that people would not have
any nonsense about the arrival of their
letters; and this year that appropriation
was raised to $50, 900, 900; raised because
: the country had become larger.
Every time q new town is
established, every time new railroad is
; built, every time a railroad is extended,
money must be put in for postal facili-
: ties for the American people, but we do
not spend $780, 900, or to speak more
,, exactly we get sixty million OF more
back. so that our absolute expenditure is
only the difference.
Now the expenditures of this country
are not half billion dollars per annum
they are about $345, 100000 per annum,
nor. on the other hand are we bankrupt
or in any way near that. These Dem
. ocratic brethren have been endeavorlng
to get us both ways. They said we were
extravagant and we were going to bank
rnpt the country. That was when they
were talking economy. Then they
turned to us the next day and said
to us, 'sWc have got too much revenue
we have taken the duty off wool, off OF
tin plate, off of lead ore, because we
have got too much revenue so thai
they
Played on Both of Those Strings
. usually only one day apart in the music
Laughter.
r We have an income of 1854, 100000 il
q round numbers, which leaves us balance
p of 100000; hut of that expenditure
SITS, 100000 grew out of the war. 1t IL
L composed of pensions, OF war debt, ant
Q of expenditures caused by the war
: Twenty millions more are mere readings
q appearing on both sides of the account
8 SO that in reality our expenditures fol
D the purposes which existed prior to 1866
S are only about $3.50, 100000, and, d1videe
, among our people, it makes only $2.3(
per individual, only a little more than i
n was before the war; and the government
1 does for it's people twice what was done
/ by the government of the United States
e prior to 1860
3 | am glad to fi.d this so. for my part
/ because | find in it another proof, or
/ rather, another detail in the great belize
n which | entertain, that this world ii
;, growing better, stronger, richer, mor'
O free frowl the evils of over-taxation, AM
d more prosperous, as every day goes by
: Applause.
The Democracy have also given u
e their ideas of the tariff, and what a Sc
il of ideas it is! Here is a House with IA
e Democratic majority, capable Of formu
l. lating and passing any bill that the.
e wanted to pass! What have they done
They passed bill for free wool, in orde
J. to capture the Massachusetts, manufac
j. turer; they have passed bill for ire
n binding Irvine, which is finished pro
S duct and not a raw material, as the,
J claim the wool to be, in order to captur
r the farmer; they have taken off, or at
J., tempted to take off, the duty on cottol
d packing, cotton ties and cotton machin
n cry in order to capture and retain, o
d rather to retain, as they have already cal
e tured him, the Southern planter.
e Now, there is uot single principl
h that can be tracked through their sys
g tenn of bills. They have only passed
s. half dozen of them. The Mckinley bill
O they declare to be the sum of abomina
e tons; and yet they go into
,, This Presidential Campaign
c without showing us what they mean t
l. substitute for it. They have never fol
" mulated a bill, they have never been abb
4 to agree upon bill, and they go befor
/ the American people with absolutel
Il nothing from which that people can dt
r. termine what these mems intentions are
do not purpose in the least to discus
the details of the tariff; do not purpos
in the least to reply to this wonderful
10 fund of information which has been late
n " poured upon the world about cord1
!, roy and alpaca, and all sorts of thing
y which the people who talk about ther
do not wear. Great laughter and al
is plause. Those things will be attende
j. to in detail as time goes by, but the que'
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