Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-30

A@ G0SE III AnG
appropriations, to which T have 70
Tered, but notably in the multipli-
sation OF new officers and the in
srease of existing Offices.
AT ID time when the people are pay
ing extraordinary taxes to meet the
expenses of the war with the Fill
pinos, and other expenses of our co..
tonial dependencies, h recent re-
publican congress mustered in more
than two full brigades of new fed
eraI ofice-holders, and increased the
salaries of nearly a regiment of 9TH
err officials now on the payroll. That
congress, only a few weeks since,
closed it's first session, and with the
approval of President Mckinley In
creased the appropriations, exclusive
of Spanish war expenses, by $24,624,-
s41.4S ove the amount appropriated
for the last fiscal year.
/ hold in my hand an official table,
comprising '523 printed pages, disclos-
ing the details of the shameless loot
ing of the national treasury. This ex-
hibit, among other things, shows that
the net increase of new Offices, spe-
cificaliy created by the last repub-
"dS Sy@AOg CdL1 kuA
annual salaries amounting to $685.
O15.77. The exhibit also shows a net
increase of $2,641, 647 "a, annually, to
pay the salaries of new officers out of
lump" appropriations. 1t further
shows that S133, 529.75 has been added
to the annual tax burdens to meet
fhe obligations imposed by raising the
salaries of 479 federal officials already
in Office.
In other words, my fellow-citizens,
h Mckinley administration has just
appropriated S5,36s, 1886 to pay the
yearly expenses of new Offices Great
ed and of salaries increased.
Comment upon this stupendous
waste of public money is unnecessary
1t would seem hat the time had come
when the people must interpose to
protect our ravished treasury.
Mr.. Chairman, I now desire to sub
NIT a comparative statement of ex-
penditures, which also conclusively
establish the extravaganza of the Me-
kinleys administration. This exhibit
deals with expenditures only ,which,af
ter all,is perhaps the best test, because
all appropriations are lot expended.
I submit a comparison of the last
three years of the administration of
President Cleveland with the first
three years of the administration of
President Mckinley. This statement
includes every dollar of governmental
expense with the exception of the es-
timated expenses consequent upon
the war with Spain and with the Fill
pinos.
The total money actually expended
by the government for the three fiscal
years ending June 80, 1896, amounted
to $1,31O,462, S39.1O. The total expendI-
lures for the last three fiscal years
ending June 80, 1900, were $1,394, 1922
1892. In other words, the first three
years of the administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley cost the tax payers
; $S4, 1929, 549.12 more in money actually
expended than the last three years
of the administration of President
Cleveland. This is an object lesson
which should not fail to have an i'm,
pressive effect upon the people of the
country; for 1 reiterate the statement
that this ~stupendous increase of eN
penditures under this administration
is entirely exclusive of war expendi
lures. The plea may be offered
that the increase is due to the growth
of business and the expansion of ter
ritory. This view is a mistaken one
because these mighty totals do no.
include a single item of expenditure
connected with the administration o
AFFAIRS IN our colonial dependencies
Cuba, which = now under the contro
of army, during the last calendar
year paid into her own treasury SIG,
346,015.17, and of this vast sum S14,Os5,
6o5.32 has been charged up by thu
representatives of this government TO
the cost OF administration there. o
course this exhibit as to Cuba in
cludes only the money which founC
its way into the treasury of that is
land. / do not know how much, i
any, was stolen in transit. 1t appears
however, hat our officials there hav,
Inundated the republic before tn
world by the acknowledged theft o
$131, 600 up to this date, which hai
been made goed~t the Cubans by al
appropriation from our own treasury
i have not included the income ant
expenditures of either Porto Rico o.
the Philippine islands. In the com
parison submitted, as between tn,
cost of this administration and tina
of Mr.. Cleveland, / have, as heretofor,
stated, not included expenditures OIL
account of our colonies. / have limit
ed the comparison to three years, be
cause this administration has not We
concluded a four-year period, but n
the present rate of expenditure thu
four-year term of President McKin
Icy will cost the people considerabl,
more than one hundred millions o
dollars in excess of the cost of thu
last administration of Presiden
Clevland. The extravaganza of tn,
republican national administration il
further demonstrated by the per cap
tia expenditure which was only $6.09iI
1896. but in excess of S6.1S in 1900
How long the people will continue t.
tolerate the exactions of the repub
lican treasury spectators remains t.
he seen. Our people are long suffer
ing. it is true, but the time is not IA
distant when a revolution in public
sentiment will retire to private lif'
ALI representatives, whatever may b,
h party NAME, who have w%antonl,
souandered the public money, an,
thus proven faithless to their trusts
THE INCOME TAX.
The demand for an income tax |
not only just and righteous, but il
entire accord with the policy of thi
Republic until the recent decision o
the supreme court declaring its un
eonstitutionality. That decision re
versed the decision and precedent
of that august tribunal for a century
and the country shares the apprehen
sion of Mr.. Justice Brown
republican judge, in his dissenting