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PUBLIC DEBT AND EXPEN DI


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TURES.


/ There has been no ubiect uTon which
such studied and persev verlng efforts have been
made to deceive the people. as in reference
! TO the amount of Tue public debt when the
! W higs came INTO power on the fourth ol
! March, 1911, aud the expenditures of the
government since that period And unfor-
tunately for the clear asceTlainment of the
truth, although when correctly put down,
figures cannot lie.n yet by throwing them
into wrong position, they may be made to
tell faSehoods of the first magnitude. Ii is
10 be regretted, too. that some of the officers
OF the Treasury Department including Mr.
Spencer, the late Secretary OF that D. part
ment, have lent themselves by tie manaer
OF STATING the public accounts, to the vile puT-
pose OF making falsehood look like truth,
tor the purpose Of diminishing the odium
Jaaly belonging to the Administration w hich
they helped 10 overthrow, and bringing the
Wings, their allies in tnat ever glorious
campaign OF 1910 as far as possible into dis
credit. Let Us look into the matter.


FIRST as to1he expenditures ofthe Govern.
ment since March, 1871 La response to a
resolution adopted at the last session of Con
9ress, calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury for a statement showing the a.
mount OF appropriations for each year, from
the 9Th OF March 1920, 10 the 4th of March
1913, exclusive Of the public debt Mr.. Spen-
Ger made a Report sludiously falsifyng :he
real facts OF the case.-He sent in, not a
statement showing the appropriations for
each year, as he was directed 10 do, but one
showing The AMOUNT embraced iaa tie ap-
preparation balls Of each gear, and embra-
ciag the expenditures of other years; there.
by creating impressions against the Wings.
which ne knew to be at war with the facts and
furnishing ammunition to the unScrupuious
or the ignorant portion oil the Locotoco pres
ses and orators. OF which they have eagerly
agailed themselves, to charge upon the
Wings falSlfcation of their pledge to re-
trench the expenditures OF the Government
which, as these men know, or ought to
know. they have, beyond all former exam
pie, faithfully and triumphantly redeemed.
For example, Mr.. Spencer, in his Report
states that the appropri atoms from March
4th, 1912, to March 4lh, l843, were 946
$50, 500. True, but he knew, though he
did not state the fact, shat these appropria
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The appropriations for 1912 were $40, 400,
29O-those for l643 and to The 30th June,
1914, a period of ghteen months, were on
Iv S24. .669, ,I85-0r al The rate Of a60ut
eighteen millions Of dollars a gear! But,
las the n. Y Commercial Adverser re-
marks,) the Secretary disingen substl-
tuted the word an tor the word for IN las
reading ofthe resolution of Congress, and by
putting these two sums together and adding
! 10 them the Post Office appropriations, here
/ r 1, Al Iss7rt - ip41aE nj he
makes the immense sum of S46,359,500,
which is forthwith heraded abroad upon the
vinos of the wind as the amount OF Wing
expenditares! Such Infamous attempts to
deceive the people upon subJect IN when
they are SO deeply interested, and IN refer
ence to which they are so justly sensitive,
cannot be Characterized by too harsh term.
| II the Report Of the Secretary had placed
the facts stated in their true aspect before the
country, i would have been seen, that the
appropriations for the year ending the 4th
OF March l843, were only 5t9,465, 5,290;
and that, forthe succeeding eighteen months,
ending Oh the 30ih of jane 1874, the apPro-
piiations were only S24 669, lo5, less than
eighteen and a half millions OF dollars Per
annun. And we ask Is not thaS ulnm-
phant redemption of the Wing pledge to cut
down the expenses of the Government Ii
is five millions of dollars less than the ex-
pendilures were in the last year qf Mr.. Van
Bnren'S term. when, by withholding apPro-
priations, he had succeeded in making a
much bener exhibil, By many millions Of
dollars. than he bad done in either of the
the preceding years of his administration.
Let US compaie the results Duling Van
Buren's four years the amount of appropria
lions made bv Congress was Sl33, ,26j
Wings in l64l


{ including cal


led session S28. SIP


For 1912. pos.


Office aud all "a 557, l91
For l643 & 1874,


estimating the


last six months


of lS4l to be


the same first 36,000,000 SIS. .S20.G6s
Dlferense IN faror Of the u higs, $fI.62666,


Ii that be not "retrenchment, why lhel
The people should certainly dismiss thf
Wings, aud 90 back again TO the economi


