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PROCLAIM THE TRUTH!
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
OF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
LET US HAVE PEACE!
OFFICIAL FIGURES.
Facts beyond Question!
Reduction of Debt and Taxation!!
Immense Reduction of the Army!!!
National Debt, Net, August 1865,
$2,757,000,000
“ “ “ July 1st, 1868,
2,505,000,000
Absolute reduction of Debt, in less than three years,$252,000,000
Or at the rate of
over Seven Million per month.
REDEUCTION OF TAXATION SINCE JULY, 1866,
167 MILLION DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
1865.
1868.
1868.
ANNUAL EXPENSES OF THE ARMY.
1865,
1867-8,
Army Appropriations for 1868-9, 33,000,000.00
ANNUAL EXPENSES OF THE NAVY.
1865,
1867-8,
Navy Appropriations for 1868-9, 17,300,000
REDUCTION OF THE ARMY.
1865.MILLION OF MEN.
1868, September Whole number of enlisted men, 47,613. Reduction in three years, 952,387 men.
1865 CONTRASTED WITH 1868.
1865. Total cash in the Treasury,
1865. Debts
over due and unliquidated,
1868, June. Total cash in Treasury,
1868, June. Debts
over due and unsettled. None.
These facts are obtained from Official sources. They may be denied but they cannot de disproved, and they never have been in any particular.