The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-03

accepting the nomination of the Demo-
cratic party for the vice presidency:
Hon. John sharp Williams, Chairman,
and other Members of the Com
mittee:
Dear Sirs-In accordance with Gus
tom, and my promise when notified by
your committee at White Sulphur
Springs on Aug. II of my nomination
for the Office of vice president. 1 sub
NIT the following observations upon
some of the questions now before the
country.
Time Propitious For Change.
The times are propitious for the re-
instatement of the Democratic party
in control of the government. The pub
lie mind is being disillusioned of the
pretension Of the Republican party, so
long and so aIrog2ntly made, that tn
material prosperity of the country de-
ponds upon its own ascendancy.
Thoughtful and patriotic people are be
coming more, and more distrustful Of
the heady and personal element OF the
present administration, and are more
than willing to see it replaced by one
that better recognizes constitutional
and other lawful restraints They de-
lnand that the present wasteful eXtPav-
agance in the expenditure of the money.
drawn by taxation from the industry Of
the people shall cease, and that econ
omy and honesty in the public service
shall be again regarded as virtues in
the high places Of the government.
Expenses of Government
The expenditures per capita of the
government are increasing at an alarm
ing rate. When the present administra-
ton went into power there was a
large surplus. but Notwithstanding the
enormous taxation, the revenues there
from are not now adequate to meet the
demands made by reckless apprOpria-
tons The revenues fell short during
the last fiscal year over sac, 000, 000 Dur
ing the first sixty days of this fiscal
year the expenditures exceeded the re-
ceipts by $4,000, 900. and if this rate
should continue the deficit for the
present fiscal year would be in
the neighborhood of $140.000,0OO. This
needless deficit is due TO the extrava-
gance of. the administration and can
only be mot by imposing additional
taxes or selling bonds, thereby increas-
ing the interest bearing debt of the
government. Which course will the
Republicans adopt? The cost Of gov
eminent during the fiscal year was S714
per capita, which means that the aver
Bge tax paid in some form or another
by every family of five persons toward
the support of the national administra-
ton Of public affairs was over S25,
which, in the case of wage -earners, is a
considerable percentage Of the entire
earnings for the year. No more money
should be taken from the people by tax
alton, direct or indirect, than is neces-
sary for the needs of a government
economically administered.
Shown by the Figures.
To show the rapid growth of the
cost of government it is only necessary
"a give the total expenditures I'm the
Nast fiscal year Of the following admin
1strations:
Buchanan, 1S6O-ssS, coo. 900; per capital
$2.O1.
Cleveland. 1Ss2rs214, 100000; per capt.
"a. $5.29.
Roosevelt. 19O4-s5S2, 600, 900; per CAPT
"a, STA.
In answer to criticisms upon the size
and expense of maintaining the army.
the president has said that the number
of soldiers now is no greater per capita
than in former times. But an army
then was necessary to protect settlers
fram the Indians and to do other police
duty in the unsettled portions of the
Country-conditions which do not now
exist. The army, however, has greatly
increased in cost, much faster relative
" than it has in numbers. The ex-
penditures were:
Under Buchanan I'm 1850. SIG. 500 600.
- Under Hayes in 1880, $3S, 900. 600
N Under Roosevelt in 1904, S1I5. 100000.
= We ali hail as the harbinger of the
new era in the commerce of the world
the inception Of the great work Of
building the canal that is to join the
4 40 Gre sn#
action Of the present administration
which inflicted a wound upon our ma
tional honor by its disregard of the
rights Of a weaker nation in order To
gain doubtful credit for energy in
forwarding that great enterprise. The
territory Of a neighbpring republic
with which we are at peace. is seized
by a band of revolutionists, prot cted bv
The guns of the United States navy and
erected into a state over night which
the president promptly recognized as
an independent nation. A gross offense
against a friendly republic which II
was helpless to resent.
Imperialism.
These and many other unwarranted
things that belong more to an empire
than a republic have occurred under the
administration and brought deep con-
Germ and alarm 10 thoughtful and
patriotic minds. They must be re-
garded as the first fruits of imperial
ism, and show how fast we are drift
ing toward absolutism and centralized
power. The effect of the imDerialistic
policy Of the Republican party on our
foreign affairs is in opposition to the
teachings Of the founders Of the repub-
TIC, and so impressed was Washington
with the Importance of keeping aloof
IRON the affairs Of other nations that
in ms farewell address he warned his
countryInen especially against foreign
entangAng alliances. IMPERIALISM is
hurtful and abhorrent in d free gov
eminent and subversive of free institu-
lions. The policy of imperialism-if il
can be said to have a policy-is ALWAYS
dangerous to liberty Its mowers arc
first exercised in far-Off territory and
on conquered people. but once adon+ed
for acquired and distant possessions
il becomes, sooner or later, the rule of
the home government Liberty ami
free government have always been Sc
cured at the cost Of great sacrifices
but history teaches us that both can
be easily lost without the knowledge of
the people.
The Tariff.
our federal constitution has appro-
priatcd to the exclusive use of the gem
eral government the power OF indirect
taxation, covered by the popular des-