Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1895 — Some Large Figures. [ARTICLE]

Some Large Figures.

Pittsburg Dispatch Congressman Coombs has collected a concise statement of the various items which make up the interesting aggregate of the total cost of. the late civil war, so far as the United Slates Government itself is concerned. The total represents the stupendous sum of six thousand th ree hu n dred mill ions. Th epe n s ion account foots up seventeen hundred millions, or more than the institution was worth to those who exploited unpaid labor. All other expenditures of the national government, since the war closed in 1865, make, according to the Coombs table, the surprising totalofovertwelvcthousandmillkHfs of dollars, or about one-fifth of the total wealth of the country. The blacksmith who heads a bolt is all right, but the politician who does it is politically killed. ‘ ■ ■■