Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-11
A Greet and GROWING Country
[St. Louis Globe -Democrat.l

| lsl. Louis en1OCrat,
/ A few years ago their was an out
cry among the democratic papers OF
the country because the republican
| congress of that day had, in its two
years of life, made appropriations
] which passed the $1,000 100000 mark.
| There will be some more talk along
| that line now because the congress
which has just expired has appropriate
ed more than 100000 in the two
4 years. The exact allotment of money
| for national expenditures in the recent
two years was s1.554.10S.514.. This
! was more than 100000 900 in excess
of the amount set apart by the congress
| of 1S99--1901, the immediate prede-
cessor of the one which has just expir-
| ed The democratic politicians in con-
gress and the democratic newspapers
of the country think there is partisan
capital for them in this increase of
appropriations They are doing some
talking in that strain now, and they
pretend that they will do more of 1t
in the national campaign of 1904. The
chances are that the democrats will
| keep quiet in 1904 about the expendi-
lures of the recent congress. They
will have excellent reasons for drop
ping that subject
Over S50.000.000 of the 500, 600, 900
excess of the recent congress over its
predecessor was due to the appropria-
ton of that amount for the Panama
canal. That Is an item in the expen-
ditures which the American people
will enthusiastically applaud. More
than Sl5,o00,000 of the extra appropria-
zion was given to the postal department
These two items alone account for
about two-thirds of the excess in the
expenditure provided for by the recent
congress. The country will praise the
republicans instead OF censuring them
for this wise disposition of the public
moneys. The isthnian canal is one
OF the imperative necessities OF the
times. The American people have been
talking about it for over half century
They knew it would cost heavily, but
they were and are willing to pay the
cost. The extra money which has been
set apart for the use of the postal
department meets demand created by
the growth of population and business
and the extension of rural free deliv-
cry. Anybody who combats either of
these appropriations will encounter the
active hostility of large majority Of
the people of the United States.
Here are some of the specific rea-
sons why the democrats will say moth
ing in the canvass of 1904, about the
increased expenditures provided for by
the congress which has just expired. |
There are general reasons also why
that party will keep quiet on that
point. The country is growing rapidly |
in population, and business activities |
Between the election of the Fifty-sixth !
congress in 1898, and the expiration of |
the Fifty-seventh on. March 4, 1903, |
more than 100000 We're added to the |
inhabitants of the country The coun-
try's annual clearances We're increased |
in this time to the extent of thousands |
of millions of dollars, the exact differ
ence between the clearings of 1898 and |
those of 1902 being $52.000,000,000. The
scope of the governments activities
necessarily broadens with the coun-
try'S growth in inhabitants, trade and
wealth. The papers which are making
between the governments
now and those of Cleve-
lands first and second term forget that
the country's wealth and business have
grown in the interval in an unmeas- |
urably greater ratio than have the gov
ernment's disbursements. If the demo-
Gratis condemn the republicans for
spending more money now in govern
mental affairs than was spent in the
panic days of Cleveland's second term
they will also have TO blame the re-
publicans for bringing the prosperity
and the vast increase in trade and
ha,, i
which have made the increased govern
nent outlay necessary and which, at
the same time, have frightened its bur-
dens on the people. To this complexion
the whole matter of the increased ex-
penditures must come at last.
Large yields per animal mean less
cost in making them.