Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-07
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TsPEoIAL oRREsPosDENCE OF THE MoNITob.
Washin gton, Sept. 80, 1895

about as silly thing as lot of grown
men could be guilty of, when con
sidered in connection with the actual
facts, known to all those who are
conversant with the situation, and
easily accessible to everybody. During
the month of September the receipts
of the government were slightly in
excess of the expenditures, but that
does not mean, as some ill-informed
democrats are saying, that the re-
ceipts of the government have grown
to be as large as it's expenditures.
Not at all. The explanation instead
of being favorable to the administra-
ton, is decidedly the contrary. The
heaviest payments of the govern
ment are made early in the quarters
beginning July 1,Oct,1, January 1, and
April 1, consequently the smallest ex-
penditures are for the last months of
the quarters September, De-
cember and March. This is so to a
large extent under all administrations
but it has been particularly SO under
the present, because of the system of
Withholding payments during the last
half of the quarters for the purpose of
misleading the country as to the state
of the public finances, which has been
such marked feature of the Cleve-
land regime. Last April the receipts,
under this system, exceeded the ex-
penditures. 1t was the same in June,
the excess for that month being about
$4,000 more than for September, and
will doubtless be the same for De-
cember; but all the while that annual
deficit has been steadily climbing, and
it will continue to climb until the re-
passes the legislation necessary to in
crease the revenues of the govern
ment, through revision of the dem
ocratic tariff law, which democratic
Treasury officials openly acknowledge
will never provide all the money
needed to run the government.
When you wish to know the actual
condition of the U. S. Treasury do not
take the figures specially jugglej for
any single month, but take them for
an entire year. For instance, on Aug.
81, last, the democratic tariff law had
been in effect for one year. Now,
what sort of a showing was made
during that year? Here are the fig
ures made by democratic officials:
The total receipts were 1926, 061 ,022.
and the total expenditures 1858, O26,-
332. Now very simple example of
subtraction will show that the deficit
for the year was 500, 1865, $40, sum
nearly to what was received from that
foreign syndicate for the last issue of
bonds. This isn't partisan politics,
but statement of cold, hard facts.
That these facts demonstrate the in
capacity of the democratic party to
successfully administer the affairs of
the government is true, but that it is
only so much the worse for the dem
ocratic party, which is responsible for
these disagreeable facts.
Speaking of bond issues, any one
can easily ascertain by comparison of
the available cash in the Treasury just
before the first bond issue with tt e
amount of available cash on hand to-
day that the three bond issues, while
ostensibly made to replenish the gold
reserve, were in reality made to OBJ
tain the money to meet the deficit in
the receipts of the Treasury brought
nj hxT6
and attempts to put the country upon
a free trade basis. It is no exaggera
ton to say that had the democrats
when they came into power officially
announced their.intention to let the
Mckinley tariff alone, there would
have been no bond issues and no
panic.
Every day something turns up to
accentuate the desperate condition of
Senator German and his ticket. The
latest is the refusal of his registration
officers to allow number Of republi-
cans who own homes, valued all the
way from 81 900 to 80, 900, in Maryland,
but do business in Washington, to re-
SioUOI III GIdU SldUS. a U0SG case Will
be taken to the courts but as German
controls the courts largely there isn't
much hope of accomplishing anything
further than on record.
There is a general sentiment of
sympathy for Ireland in the United
States. A large majority of our peo-
pie would be delighted to see all her