Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — The Facts About It. [ARTICLE]

The Facts About It.

Our Democratic and AngloMugwump contemporaries are making or trying to make a great deal of the alleged fact that the appropriations of the late Republican. Congress amounted to more than five hundred millions of dollars for each two years of its existence. As a matter of truth a considerable share of this money was appropriated to. pay up arrears of the former Democratic administration. But, setting that aside, there is not a pretext, or hint or intimation by democrats, or anybody else, that any of the money thus appropriated has been stolen, or is to be expended dishonestly. The great bulk of it goes out in wages so mechanics, soldiers, sailors, penioners, and so forth, makes comfort in families of the poor and keeps money circulating among business men m the South and North. One of the largest appropriations was made for the muchneeded improvements in Galveston harbor, the important seaport of a state which gives something like 200,000 democratic majority. ... And the bulk of- this money, thus circulated among wage earners, is collected through custom houses, from men and women who are rich enough to wear ftnpoited clothes, indulge in imported jewelry and fill their houses with European bric-a-brac. Such is the truth about “The Billion.” — New York Press.