Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-13

| If the bodies reported discovered in
the wilds of North Siberia are those
Of Andre, which seems most probable,
! it marks but one more sacrifice in the
| interest of science. And there are
others to come Mans thirst for
! knowledge is unquenchable and his
courage in gratifying it dauntless.
THE FKIGHTFUL COST OF IMPERIAL
ISM.
! Yesterdays Register in a dispatch
| from its Washington correspondent
contained some startling figures re-
garding the cost of the imperial policy
| forced upon the present administration
by its Wall street hackers and owners.
Startling is the proper word to use
! in connection with this presentation
of the expenditures of this Congress
altogether aside from the cost of the
warm launching the government on
the imperial policy, And it is a fact
that unless a radical and immediate
reversal of that policy is accomplished,
never will this nation return to peace
footing so far as expenditures are con-
cerned In the future under the present
policy our regular annual routine eX-
penditures will at least fully equal our
expenditures during the year of war
with Spain! In other words they will
reach, if not surpass, the half-billion
mark annually. Secretary Cages esti-
mate for the ensuing year 1899 was
$579, 900, 900, to which must be added
the twenty million~dollar indemnity
we must pay Spain for taking a revo-
luton in the Philippines offsh hands,
and other additions to the estimates,
making a total of S617, 900, 000-the cost
of entering upon a career of imperial
ien,! The second yoor Of nancinn Mr.
Gage estimates will cost $541 100000,
which is almost certain to be swollen
by items not now foreseen if we are
to continue our war with the Filipinos.
Instead of costing $25,000,000 annually
our military establishment will cost at
least $150,000 900 annually, or six times
as much as just before the Spanish war
and this, of course, does not include
expenditures to be made to bring our
| equipment of arms and especially our
artillery up to the requirements Of
great modern armies. Thus the United
States at one bound jumps from the
nation eXpending the least amount for
it's military establishment in the world
to the nation expanding the most!
The administration of Mr.. Mckinley
| dominated as it is entirely by the
Hanna-Elkins clique of Wall street
spectators, who propose to make their
millions out of Expansion" at the ex-
pense of the American people, will be
| the first administration since the civil
war to cost the people more than two
! billions of dollars ($2, 900, 900, 000)!
| Never again, unless there is, as we
have said, a speedy reversal of our
| present policy, will the expenditures
| vi LHlS SoON CT AlIHCl1C lcNll bClCW NAH a
billion dollars annually, while they are
more Likely to reach $600,000,000 an
nually. The expenditures of the Cleve-
| land administration, despite its great
! bond issues to maintain the gold
standard, were but about half those of
the existing regime of expansion
INN q lion, Tho IF
lion dollar congresses began with the
Harrison administration following and
we'll illustrates the difference between
the leaders of the two great parties
in this Countrywide honest economy
of Democratic and the profligacy of
Republican administrations. This al
ference between the administrations OF
the two parties since the birth of the
Republican party and always will be
the distinction becoming more and
more marked-so long as the leaders OF
the two parties continue to be domi-
mated as at present-the one set by the
money power exclusively and the 9th
er by the voice of the plain American
people,
1t is doubtful if the American people
to-day realize the full burden of ex,
pansion, just about beginning to bt
felt. They will realize it, however
when the full burden is put upon then
as it is borne by the enslaved people
of the military nations of Europe
whom we are about to surpass in ex
penditures for military purposes
Nearly ten dollars per capita, includ
ing every man, woman and child in thu
United States, or $50 per head for ev
cry breadwinner of family of five il
a frightful annual drain upon the earn
ings of the American people-Ameri
can labor.
: The deficiency for the fiscal year
1899, is estimated by Mr.. Cannon, O