The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-03-08
REPUBLICAN PROFLIGAcY.

the caption Made the Money
Fly" gives the following facts
concerning the doings of the last
Congress. 1t is interesting read
ing:
The Fifty-ffth Congress is a
mere recollection, but its bound
less extravaganza will remain a
burden upon the people forever.
Not so much the money it voted
away as the new order of things
which it established, and which
will necessitate increasing appro-
priations to maintain. The sum
OF the appropriations by the Fifty
fifth Congress reaches the enOr
nous total of 81, $40, $40. 578
That is the number of dollars the
first two years of President Nc
Kinley's administration has cost
the people, which is about $780,
600, 900 more than any previous
Congress voted out Of the treasury,
including the Congresses which
convened during the civil war.
But the above figures do not re-
present all the burdens that the
last Congress put upon the people.
An issue of $4,000, 900 of bonds
was made. which should be added
to the total burden, making the
actual expenditures 81, no, $40. :
j78. Had Hanna succeeded in
getting his ship subsidy bill
through, and had the Nicaragua
canal rider not been thrown off
the appropriation would have
amounted to over 81, 900, ,O00, 900,
or quite 81, 900, ,0OO,O more than
by any previous Congress since
the birth of the republic.
But there is still another thing
for the people to lace. The re-
venues Of the country are insult
fcient to meet these appropriations.
BY July l next the deficit will be
nearly, if not quite. 5000, ,OO0, 900.
including the 500, 900, 900 ion
Spain's Philippine war. Con
gress made no provisions for this
deficit, so the new Congress viii
have to be called in special session
: to increase the internal and wal
| revenue taxes, or the government
/ will have to issue bonds. 1t I,
not likely that the President woulC
convene Congress for that purpos,
alone, for under the bond issu,
law of last year he has authority
to issue 5000, 900, 900 more bond.
e and 800, 900, 900 of treasur,
L notes. That gives him $500, 900,
y 600 new money, but il would h
an increase OF the public debt tina
. much, and consequently add an
+ other permanent burden to tn
people. The indications are tha
y the cost of tie war in the Philip
n pines will be- largely in excess o
d all calculations and provision
5 for it. The appropriation for tn
army Is about $4,000, 600 below
: what the esti late was last Decem
Der before Il was known that tin
, Philippine army and Dewey's fee
$ would have to he 50 heavily rein
forced. OF course the administra
o ton should be credited with the a.
tual cost of the SpaniSh-Ameri
; can war bat the bond issue GOV
cred that, leaving all the balanc
: as the cost OF the initial steps to
g ward a colonial empire. If tn
people like the empire business an,
=, consequent taxes to keep it up
they should make mp their mind
that they want William Mckinle
for president, not only for one, bu
for several more terms.
). Mr. andrew Carnegie mas reye::--.
+ announced publicly that it his belle
that no man should hoard money an,
3 die rich He insists that every maj
a should be the administrator Of his owl
J. wealth. and dispose Of it before he dies
e In evidence Of the sincerity OF this he