The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-20
CATCHING on, AT LAST.


emily authentic news from Washington
that the cabinet, on Saturday, facing
an approaching session of the holders
of the national purse-strings, went
over the estimates Of the various de-
partments and soberly arrived at the
conclusion that they must be reduced.
We are assured that especial attention
was given to the matter of eXpendf-
lures The president enjoined the
strictest economy upon all the depart
ments, and we are told that Speaker
Reed will give the president his hearty
and wefghty support. We will be bet
ter able to tell the taste of this pudding
when the strings are cut. We recall
some observations on economy made
by the president in his inaugural, and
we recall that he had no hesitancy in
approving the sundry civil bill, with
it's fifty-odd millions of plumber, as
soon as it was presented to him, set
ting aside the pocket veto President
Cleveland gave the grab. With this
idea firmly set in every congressman's
noddle that his denomination and re-
election will depend upon the size of
the appropriation he can get for his
district, we shall wait Tor economy in
fact instead of taking it in promise.
And it is high time that the admin
istration began to look after the
spending. Since McKinleyism was in
itiated in 1890 the whole attention has
been given to getting revenue and none
to economy in spending it. This policy
very soon turned a surplus of a couple
of hundred millions into a deficit of
nearly $40, 900, 900, in spite of the conffsca-
ton of some $50, 900 900 in the bank re-
demption fund. During the years of
the expulsion the whole cry has been
for more revenue; lack of it was the
cause of the panic, of bond issues and
of hard times. Constant cry for reve-
nue. and not a word for less spending.
To get revenue sufficient to prevent
deficits was the proclaimed object of
has passed, and still the deficit will not
down. From Aug. 1 to the end of the
first week of this month the shortage
was $2O,656,SS5, against 81, 1853, 4S7 for
the same period in 1896 and 81, 994, 7O3 in
1895.
With this habitual zeal in spending
and the especial purpose of a revenue
bill to enable congress to continue in
diligence in it, this changed attitude of
the administration is the strongest
confirmation of the prediction that the
Dingley act would be "a tariff for def
cts only It is an admission that it
will fail to provide revenue sufficient to
permit the past scale of expenditures
to be kept up, and that the administra-
ton must begin to cut it's garment &C
cCrding to the cloth. If this is done,
there will be no trouble. If it had been
done in and since 1890, we would have
had no trouble, and a large portion of
the loss of confidence, that helped pro-
long and intensity the panic of 1893,
would not have occurred. The net Or
binary expenditures need only be re-
duced to what they were in 1889, $433
per capita, to restore a surplus even
should the Dingley act produce no
more revenue than did the German act
in 1895, $4.49 per capita. If expendi-
lures are reduced to what they were
in 1889, S433 per capita, they could be
paid out of the receipts of the worst
year of the Mckinley act, 1894, when
the per capita was $4.36, and leave
a small surplus. 1t should not be very
difficult to compel even a Republican
congress to do that.
While thousands of idle men walk the
streets of the large cities looking for work
farmers in the rural districts are experience
ing difficulty in securing reliable help.-Al-
bert Lea Enterprise
Sho! You don't say? Thousands of idle
men," and the Advance Agents show in full
blast; Republican prosperity restored. Demo-
cratic hard times banished, and still
thousands of idle men,.
Why shouldn't the Republican party of Min
nesota meet with defeat in 1898? It has
hell-Anoka Union.
Get down on your knees, you old sinner,
and pray forgiveness for the help you gave
it in making that awful record.
Politics must be considered very close in
Ohio, as President Mckinley will go all the
way from Washington to Canton to vote.
What a farce, and at what an expense to the
country will that one vote be.-Waseca Radi-
cal.