Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — When Dollars Looked Big. [ARTICLE]

When Dollars Looked Big.

In one of the magazines lately Idsued) there was an account of the method of running the government wherein, the author asserted that'the annual receipts and expenditures of the national treasury were sometimes as high as $109,000,000. The writer had evidently never heard of the “Billion Dollar Congresses." When this article was shown to one of the senatorfe from Illinois he remarked that It reminded him ot a man who lived In a Connecticut town in the early ’6os. It appears that when IJncoln was a candidate for re-election the Republicans made every effort to get the support of this man, hat irt vain. Finally one ot them asked him why it was that he would not support Lincoln. “I’ll never vote for a Republican as long as I live " was the emphatic answer. “Why, they’re ruining the country. Takd Lincoln himself. Why, ho’s spent more’n $75,000 already trying to put this war down, and he ain’t stopped yet."—Washington Stay.