Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1873 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

DEMOCRATIC FINANCES IN NEW YORK. 'The most startling thing in finances is the report of Comptroller Green, of. New York City. A summary given by the Associatcd Press shows the expenses of the city tor the last year to have been $96,000,000, or about one hundred dollars per cap. ita for every man, —woman —and child in the city. The New York Tribune has employed a skillful accountant to go over the figures of the report, and he makes the actual expenditures foot up $52,500,000. This is $55 per head to the whole population. The difference of $44,000,000 between- the- summary of the Associated Press operator and that of the Tribune accountant is suggestive of the incomprehensible nature of the accounts themselves. New York has always been a Democratic city, and its taxpayers only bestirred themselves to throw off the' Democratic Jmke when it became evident that the municipality was fast being driven to actual bankruptcy. By well nigh a superhuman effort Tweed was overthrown. But even Tweed, whose name had become the synonym of robbery, never ran the expenses of the city government above $30,000,000 per annum. It seems almost impossible that the Tribune's summary can be correct. It is too stupendous for belief; but, unfortunately, former monthly statements of the increase • of the city bonded debt bear out the annual report, as wuutra. - • Statement of April 1.... 191,032,458 12 Statement of May 1...106,777,854 28 Statement of June 1; 107,889,012 74 Statement of July 1. 109,239.060 24 Here is an increase of $18,000,000 in four months, or at the rate of $54,000,000 per annum. It will be remembered, that the “reform” movement, which resulted in the downfall of Tweed, was shortly afterward pronounced no reform at all, and it was predicted that the new regime would result in no relief to the tax payers. The Del mocracy still control the New York City goyernment; it has merely exchanged the chiefs of Tammany for new instruments of robbery and plunder. Ever since that corrupt party was driven from national authority it seems to have fastened its poisonous fangs upon New York City with redoubled greed and avarice. It

even inaugurates national political campaigns as a cover for its continued grasp upon the Eastern metropolis of the country. Of this nature was the campaign of 1868, when there was no earthly hope of the election of Seymour and Blair. But a contest was maintained in all the States of the Union that New York might be saved to the plundering ravages of the chiefs of the Democratic party. Having failed to destroy the Nations. Government by conniving at its surrender to the heads of the rebellion, it settled down like the locusts of Egypt upon the great city of the Empire State. New York merchants complain of “hard times; well they may, when every man, woman and child of the population is taxed $55 per annum to support a corrupt party which has been driven from power in the nation and in most of the States. The report of Comptroller Green shows a state of affairs in New York which is a disgrace to that city.— lnter-Ocean. EXPENSE OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. In striking contrast to th# disgraceful exhibit of the financial affairs of New York City, as shown by the report of Comptroller Green, are some comparative figures erf governmental expenditures respectively by the Republican and Democratic parties, collated by a contemporary. Bojh show the rapacity for the spoils of office which has long distinguished the Democratic party; both demonstrate . the irresponsible character of the Democratic party whenever and wherever invested with power. We’ quote fi’om the Philadelphia North American: x Referring to Mr. Secretary Guthrie’s report on the finances, 1854-5, we And that the total expenditures were as follows: For the year ending June 30. 1855.... $66,209,922 04 For the year ending June 30,1858, according to the report of Mr. Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury 82,585,667 76 Increase in expenditures in three year5,515,370,-745 72 ♦ * * It is easy enoagh to find the difference between Republican and Democratic economy. Tkns: . Increase of expenditures in three years under Pierce and 8uchanan515,375,745 Decrease in three yeats under Grant 8,417,679 Difference in favor of Republican •ru1e523,793,424 No party rule can be perfect, because humanity is fallible. No government c:m be conducted without more or less mistakes and frauds, because all governments must be managed by men. But the rule of the Republican party has been singularly free from both mistakes and frauds, while the rule of the Democratic parly was, in the nation, both corrupt and treasonable, and in New York city it is illustrating its last days by piling up mountains of debt which, if continued a few years, must, sink the municipality in bankruptcy.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.