The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-06
THEN AND NOW.

The Congress which closed March 4th,
appropriated 81 SOC. 900. even after
Senator Carter talked the river and har-
Dor Job TO death
The total appropriations of Congress in
the year that Jefferson was insugurated
aggregated $13, 0O0. 900, or $2.45 per capita.
The total appropriations for the ensuing
two years is $3.50, 900, 900. or about $40 per
capita. The New York World. from
which these figures are taken adds:
"The American family of five on inau-
guration day. 1901, paid s12.25 per year to
support the General Government The
American family OF five on Inauguration
day, 1901, pays close upon $50 per year
for the same purpose.
The cost of the imposing ceremonial at
Washington exceeds 81 900, 600. The sum
is equal to one-third of The total expendi-
lures of the United States Government
for all purposes for the year that saw
Jefferson inaugurated.
by the census OF 1900 the total popula-
ton Of the United States was 5,305, 92a,
aud within a year of Jefferson's inaugu-
TdLlOU tue SJduilU5 army Oh Il pcdtt iOot-
ing was fixed at one regiment of artillery
and two Of MISUNDERSTANDING e men all
told. Writingq toeSpeaker Macon on May
II. 1901. President Jefferson enumerated
the following as among the established
points of his policy:
]. Levees are done away.
9. The diplomatic establishment in Eu-
rope will be reduced to three Ministers.
3. The army is undergoing chaste, re-
formation.
4. The. navy will be reduced to the le
gal establishment by the last Of this
month.
D. Agencies in every department will
be revised ~
g. We shall push you to the uttermost
in economizng.
Exactly one hundred years ago today
Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated Presi-
dent of the United States. John Davis.
an English traveller who witnessed the
event and describes it in his book OF
Travels in the United States" says:
His dress was, of plain cloth. and he
rode ON horseback to the Capitol without
single guard. or even servant in his
train. dismounted without assistance and
hitched the bride of his horse to the
PALISADES.
Jefferson. in his inaugural address OF
leo years ago spoke of our being kindly
separated by nature aud a wide ocean
from the DISCRIMINATING havoc OF one
quarter OF the GLOBE and OF our pos
sessing chosen country, with room
enough for our descendants to the hum
drcth and thousandth generation. Me
Kinley in his inaugural today will proudly
refer instead to the fact that we arc no
ocean" from the entanglements OF world
policies and the contingencies OF war on
the Other side Of the world.
Moreover, after enumerating the many
and great natural advantages which the
young. Republic of 1901 enjoyed, Jefferson
remarked in his inaugural that only enc
thing more was needed to make up
happy and prosperous people, namely
~ wise and frugal government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one
another. which shall leave them other
wise free to regulate their own pursuits
CT industrvland Improvement, and shall
not take from the mouth OF labor the
bread it has earned. This is the sum Of
good government.
Such were the ideas OF the President
inaugurated exactly century ago They
are emphaticallv not the ideas OF tho
President inaugurated today March 4.
1851, and March 4. 1901, stand in American
history for two fundamentally differe Mt
conceptions of government. The first
stands for the Republic, the second for
the Empire"