Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — Democratic Financfering. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Financfering.

The net ordinary expenses of the* United States government were reduced under republican administrations from slol 21 per ospita of the population in 1868 down to $5.98 in 1893, a decrease of almost one-half. During theL first year of the present democratic administration there was an increase of more than 2$ per cent in expenses, from $5,28 in l8»2 to $6.87 per capita in 1892. This hardly savors of the economy that was preached by the democrats during;' the campaign of 1892. Turning to the net ordinary receipts of the governmeut, we find that they were $10.97 per capita in 1868 and were reduced to $5.43 per capita in 1592 under republican administrations a decrease of more than 50 per cent But last year during only one year of a democratic administration, they had increased more than 25 per cent from $5.43 in 1892 to $691 per capita in 1193. During* one year of threatened firee ttade, under a democratic administration, there has been an increase of $L 39 for every man, woman and child in the country in the net ordinary expenses of the government, and an increase of $2.48 per capita in the receipts collected from every individual