Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-02
DEFICIENT REVENUE.

With any sort of economy the rev.
enue Of the past year should have been
| sufficient to meet the expenditures
Not that the protective tariff has
proved success, but the war tax and
the Union Pacific Railroad sale have
provided vast sums which have been
squandered.
In showing that the deficit this year
Is out of all proportion to the necessl-
ties of the case, the Boston Post says:
"What does this mean? 1t means
that the 5000, 600 popular loan and
the 500, 600 900 from special war taxes
have not been enough to meet the cost
of the war and the eXtravagances of
the Republican Congress. And as for
the future, it means that, unless the
party in power makes reform In Its
policy, we shall have to keep on pny-
Ing war taxes in order to meet current
expenses and borrow more money Of
the people to pay for foreign con-
quests"
1t is needless for the Post to suggest
the possibility that the party In power
will make reform in its policy" With
such men us Alger, Plat, Hanna and
the like in control of the Republican
party no sort OF reform need be hoped
for.
But the "object lesson given the peo-
pie by the Hanna-M Mckinley syndicate
will work reform not In the Repub-
lican party, but among the honest
WIT f,r 1,o vxt,.N pan fpy,fU
the seriousness of the situation and
hurl from power the men who are
piling up national debt and increasing
national taxation.
Republican organs are busy making
excuses and devising plans with which
to fool the people, But this work will
prove futile, for the deficit cannot be
ignored and the extravaganza which
produced 1t can neither be excused nor
explained away.-Exchange.
That Deficit.
Careful analysis of the treasury re-
port shows that the past year has been
characterized by an expenditure on
the part Of the Mckinley administra-
NAOh ny VI any year
in the history of the republic. Of
course, the Republican officials en-
deavor to break the force of the indict-
ment brought against them by their
own figures and allege that the great
expense was occasioned by the war
with Spain. The New York Journal
refuses to take this view of the situa-
Il ffnn nd 49,
follows:
las a matter of fact, the war with
Spain has not caused the deficit. On
the contrary, If there had been no war
and no war taxes the deficit would have
been larger aud would have startled
the country. Republican extravaganza
has been hidden by the war.
..The cost of the war is shown thus:
Navy SspsFa@snt sSSSs
Total ..........s2 1904, 100000 $151,0 900
Subtract from 1924, OOO, 600 the cost
of both departments in 1898, and you
have
Cost Of the war. J. ~. $l43. 900 900
"To meet the cost of the war Con-
gress voted extra taxes and a bond
debt. The returns from these extra
taxes are seen In the following table:
| Increase In tobacco tax.......... SIS. OOO, 900
Increase In spirit tax. ......... 7,OO0,O0
Increase In beer and ale tax. 40.000,0 600
Misceilaneous internal revenue. 100000
Total ..................... .Sll2, 900 900
| Sales Of Pacific Railroad bonds. l2,OOO,OOO
Sales of war bonds. ............ 175 900 600
Total Increase revenue over
1893 .:;;.................. s2es. ooo.o 600
Expenses of the war............ 143,0O0OOO
| Extra revenue not used for war
Il purposes $lot,OOU,COO
"Thus 1t will be seen that SO far from
the war having caused the deficit 1t
actually produced an extra revenue of
$156, 0OO, 600, and yet the total deficit
for the year is $SSs75, 900"
Observe, the deficit reported over all
revenue is $SS,S75,0O0. Add this to the
extra revenue of $156,0OO,OOO and the
total deficit is $244OO0,OOO. Surely the
American people will hold Mckinley
and his party strictly to account for
this monumental debt piled upon their
shoulders by the most extravagant adj
ministration that ever ruled to ruin at
Washington.
Swift War Brings Speedy Peace.
1t is not condoning the injustice and
iniquity of the Philippine campaign of
conquest to say that more troops and
a competent commander should be dis
patched to Manila forthwith. II the
campaign is to continue-and 1t is idle
to look for suspension of hostilities-
1t should at least be pushed to speedy
conclusion. Under existing conditions
we are not only infiicting wrong and
injustice upon the Filipinos, but we
are sacrificing American soldiers to no
purpose whatever. The sacrifice should
end, and there is but one way to end 1t.
Force the fighting. Send enough troops
to Luzon to sweep the island from end
to end. Send $4,000 men If necessary;
send 100000 IL necessary; send 100000
II necessary, and send with them Nell
son A. Miles, the senior major general
of the army, whose place Is in the
field instead Of in Washington. The
object of war is peace. In mercy to
the Filipinos and to our own soldiers
let us wage swift war in Luzon that
we may have speedy peace. The an
nexation question will have to watt
Chicago Chronicle.
| kentucky's Democracy.
Republican small-fry politicians are
yelling joyful over the long drawn-out