Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — A COSTLY PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

A COSTLY PRESIDENT.

HARRISONISM a very expensive INSTITUTION. rhe Present Administration Has Annually Cost the People Nearly One Dollar par Head More than Did the Administration of Mr. Cleveland. The Costliest President. The Harrison administration is the oostliest the oountry has ever had, according to the St. Louis Republic. It has cost the people of the country $7 a head, or $35 a family, annually, as against an average annual cost of only $6.12 for Cleveland and $6.43 for the Garfleld-Arthur administration. Even When compared with the Garfleld-Arthur administration, whloh was by no means as economical as It might have been, the cost of Harrison appears in its true light as unprecedented. Here are official figures giving the total average annual expenditure, including sinking fund and postal service, and the average expenditure per capita under two Republican administrations; , .. Per Capita. Per Year. Garfleld-Arthur *6.43 *349,611,000 Harrison 7,01 449,463,1u3 Here Is an inorease for Harrison over the last preceding Republican administration amounting to 58 cents per capita per year, or a round $100,000,000 a year. We give the figures of inorease for

every head of population because some Republicans endeavor to evade responsibility for Harrison’s extravagance by saying “this is a growing country." The figures per capita show that his expenditures have increased much above the increase in population. He has made an increase of 9 per cent, over the per capita expenditures and of oyer 30 per cent, over the total expenditures of the Garfield-Arthur administration. That Is, he costs, the people 9 per cent, a head more than Garfield and Arthur cost them, and In the total per year this increase' makes $100,000,000, or nearly a third of the total sum expended annually by Garfield and Arthur. We have made this comparison of two Republican administrations that Republicans may the better understand how costly are Harrison’s inoompetency and radicalism. Here is a similar comparison for three administrations: Per Capita. Per Year. Garfleld-Arthur *6.43 *349,611,000 Cleveland 6.15 363,634,000 Harrison..... 7.01 449,463,000 The reader will see here a great increase In Harrison’s average annual expenditures over those of both the Cleveland and the Garfleld-Arthur administrations. He will notice also that while Arthur’s per capita expenditure is considerably above Cleveland’s, Harrison’s Is mueh higher than Arthur’s. The plea that the increase of Harrison’s total is due to Increase of population being thus disposed of, no defense remains for Harrison. Hfe stands confessed on his record the costliest as well as the smallest President the oountry ever had.