Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-27

tional policy of the country as form
 ulated by it's first president and never,
 in my judgment, wisely departed from
 ito invite friendly relations with all
 nations while avoiding entangllng ali
 anoes with any. Such policy means
 the cultivation of peace instead of the | qualification of war, and the minding
 of our own business in lieu of spectac-
 ular intermingling with the affairs of other nations. It means strict ob- servance of the principles of interna- tioEal law and condemns the doctrine that a great state. by reason of it's strength. may rightfully appropriate | the sovereignty or territory of a small state OF account of its weakness. It i means for other American states that | we claim no rights and will assume
 no functions save those of a friend | and of an ally and defender as against | European aggreSsions. It means that i We repudiate the role of American con | unental policeman; that We refuse to act as debt collector for foreign states , or their citizens; that We respect tue i independent sovereignty of each Amer 1 ican stats and its right to preserve or i Ger and otherwise regulate it's own in ternal affairs in it's own way; and that any intervention in its affairs by us i is limited to the single office of en- abling it's people to work their own political ard national destiny for them selves free from the coercion of any , European state.
 Reform in Governmental Expenditures ! Twenty-eight years have passed since the Democratic party of the | State of New York. in convention as sembled, recommended to the Nation ! al Democracy the nomination of Sam | uel J. Tllden as it's candidate for the presidency. and declared it to be | their settled conviction that a return 10 the constitutional principles. frugal l expenses and administrative purity of the founders of the republic in the first and most imperious duty of the times the commanding issue now before the ] people of the Union" This strong ] expression was called forth by the na- tional expenditures for the year 1875, { which amounted to S274 900 ,0O0-a sit uation which, in the opinion of a ma Jority of cur people, justified an i'm | pe.ative demand for reform in the ad-- mln.stration of public affairs. AS the expenditures of the last fiscal year amounted 10 the enormous total of JS2.O00,O00 it is evident that a thor ough investigation of the public serv- 1 lCe and the immediate abandonment ! of useless and extravagant expendi- lures are more necessary now than they were then. This astounding in- crease is out of all proportion to the increase of our population, and finds no excuse from whatever aspect We view the situation The National Democratic platform declares that large reductions can easily be made ii the annual expenditures of the gov ernment without impairing the eff cIency of any granch Of the public sery- ice" Can there be any doubt of the acnracy of this statement? Between inc expenditures Of the year 1886, amounting to s242. 900 900, and those Of the last fiscal year-the seventh af- ter Grover Cleveland to be president aggregating S5S2 900, 900. there is a
 difference so great as to excite alarm
 in the breasts of all thoughtful men Even excluding the sum of S50,000, 900
 paid fer the Panama canal rights and
 to the state Of Panama, the expendi-
 lures of the last fiscal year exceeded
 the sum of s532 900, being more
 than double the expenditures of tho
 government for all purposes during
 the first Year of MT. Cleveland's acmin-
 istratiOn.
 ' The expenses of the first four years
 succeeding the last Democratic admin
 lstraticn amounted to the enormous
 average Of s511 ,0OO.0GO per year. This
 large expenditure was due to a consid-
 era5le extent to the cost of the Span
 ish-American war, which occurred dur
 Ing that period; but the termination of ! that war brought no relief to the treas
 ury, for the average annual expendi- ! lures of the government during the
 30. 1904. were about S519,O00, ,O00
 reached during like period, since the | close of the Ciyl war.
 ] This draft upon the revenues of the country has had the effect which might have been anticipated, and now We have presented the reverse of the
 situation. which led to the famous ob- 1 scrvation. Tt IS a condition, and not a
 theory which confronts us;" for, al
 though the present incumbent found
 at the close of the first fiscal year,
 during which he assumed control ol
 the administration, 9 surplus of re- { ceipts over expenditures of more than
 S91, 900 900, there was an excess of ex- | peloitures over receipts at the close , of the last fiscal year of s42, ,000, 900, anu the official monthly reports made by the treasury department show that
 the expenditures arc continuously and
 rapidly increasing while the receipts
 are diminishing.
 Tn th.s connection it is interesting to note the recent administrative or ders forbidding government officers I from making public any statement of estimates on which future appTopria- ] lions are fO he based