Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-23

SPECTATORS mat put Mckinney III OIL
flee. Here is the official record, and it
is very bad showing for any admin
istration to give the people in justitica-
ton of its retention in power.
The treasury deficit in three years of Nc
Kinley is:
1897 .S18 054 600
1898 3S,04S, OOU
1899 Observation-Disclosures. SSS97 OOU
The Government revenues by wears dur.
ing Mckinley's administration, have beea:
1871 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SS4I ,I2l,Oly
1873 1873 ..........,.....-..... 402, 32l ,00U
Total 81 oeo 25s 600
The administration has spent during its
term these vast sums:
1879 1872 $500. 10, 0oo
1893 ..'...........s....: $780,. Cos, 093, 900
Deficit for three years .....,. 144.978O00
In the revenue received are included
$3.50, 100000 from bonds, Pacific rail-
roads and war revenue. which are
extraordinary revenues. Lacking
these. the deficit would have reached
$532,97S,00o, sum greater than for
any three years during the life of the
-NeeACAi N-ANN ~ tiAN \lN1l WILL.
The total debt in 1896 was 81, 769,-
940,323. Now it is $1,991, 927 1913. Our
annual interest has increased by
$4,409, 43S. In 1896 our public debt was
S25 per capita. Now it is $40 per
capita
There is not much comfort in this
showing, and had it been a Democratic
administration that brought such a
financial climax upon the country the
Republicans would have riven the
country asunder in their denuncia-
tons. If three years of Republican
misgovernment can effect such stupen-
dous results, its capacity for further
mischief in five more years will be
perceived by generation to come in
the burdens placed upon their necks.
The Ship Bounty Robbery.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, is now the chair
man of the committee on merchant ma
rine in the House Thus all things
work for the good of the country-to
wit, the trusts. Hopkins, of Illinois.
showed signs Of opposition to the
Hanna-Payne subsidy scheme. and,
says the Kansas City Times: For this
opposition the boss demanded his head
from the cuckoo Speaker of the House
and the command has been obeyed :"
This marine bounty bill" continues
the Times, sis as bald a holdup of the
tax payers as was ever perpetrated
since the Republican party became the
champion of class legislation and the
promoter of public robbery. 1t proposes
to put into the pockets of the Standard
Oil Trust, which is running lines of
American-registered tank steamers to
European and South American ports,
and to lot of other owners of second
and third class ocean vessels. and to
the Cramps and other members of the
ship-building combine, mileage and
tonnage bounty of several million dol
lars year, and aggregating, during the
period the Hanna-Payne bill is made
operative, about 100000 under
pretense of building up an American
merchant marine
ENtTN TURNER, every merchant,
tradesman, mechanic, real estate own
er and professional man and wage
Garner in the land will be forced to pay
this bla.kmail TO the syndicated ship
owners, who have ordered their politi-
cal agents in Washington to consum-
mate this scheme of legaliZed piracy.
''All that is needed to build up our
merchant marine to a degree of ex-
pansion, commensurate with the ship
ping needs of our exporting merchants
and manufacturers. is to repeal the
archaic and obstructive navigation
laws which the Republicans years ago
placed upon our statute books, there
by playing into the hands of foreign
shipping interests. and permit Ameri-
cans TO buy ships wherever they can
buy them cheapest, and sail them I'M
der the American flag. But this IA
tional and business-like development
will never be promoted SO long as the
party of blunder now in power has
charge of the law-making and execu-
tive functions of the Federal govern
ment.