The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-10-07

dustry of the people, shall cease, and
that economy and honesty in the public
service shall be again regarded as Vir-
tues in the high places of the govern
uent.
Expenses of Government.
The expenditures per capita of the gov
eminent are increasing at an alarming
rate. When the present administration
plus, but Notwithstanding the enormous
taxation, the revenues therefrom are not
now adequate to meet the demands made
by reckless appropriations. The revenues
fell short during the last fiscal year of
over SAC, 00O,OG0 In the first six days OF
this fiscal year the expenditures exceeded
the receipts by $4,000 600, and If this rate
Of excess should continue, the deficit for
the present fiscal year would be in the
neighborhood of $40 10000. This needless
deficit is due to the extravaganza of the
administration. and can only be met by
imposing additional taxes or selling
bonds, thereby increasing the interest
course will the republicans adopt? The
cost of government during the fiscal year
was $714 per capita, which means that
another by every family of five persons
toward the support of the national ad-
ministration Of public affairs was over
is a considerable percentage Of their en-
money should be taken from the people
by taxation, direct or indirect, than is
necessary for the needs of government
economically administered. To show the
sapd growth of the cost of government,
1t Is only &c s to give the tota t ex
following administrations: Buchanan, 1860,
Sc; 900, 900; per capita, $2.01, Cleveland, 1892,
SSa5, Oo0, cog; per capita 10 Y Roosevelt,
1904, 1852, 100000; per capita, SA
The Army.
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 I
in former times. But aA army then n, was
dams and to do other police duty in the
unsettled portion of the country-condi-
tions which do not now. exist. The army, |
he wever, has greatly increased in cost
much faster, relatively, than 1t has in |
numbers. The expenses were: Under Blu
nhanan. in 1860, $16,5oo 600; under Hayes
n 1880, SIS, Ooo,0O0; under Roosevelt In 1904,
The Panama Canal.
We all hail as the harbinger of the new
ira in the commerce of the world the in
;epton Of the great work of building the
"a nal that is to join the two great oce.ns; /
out we deprecate the action of the pes
mt administration, which injected
wound upon our national honor by its dis
egard OF the rights Of a weaker ytsS n.ation,
mercy in forwarding that great enter
rise. Territory OF neighooring repab-
ic, with which le we We, are at peace, was
/
et ted by the guns of the United States
avy, and erected into state overnight,
Which the president promptly recognized
s an independent nation. A gross offense
& inst a friendly republic which 1t was
elplesS to resent. {
imperialism.
These and many other unwarranted
lings that belong more to an empire than
republic, have occurred under the pres
mt administration and brought deep ,
oncern and alarm to thoughtful and pa
.iotic minds They must be regarded as
ne fist fruits of Imperialism, and Show |
ow fast we are drifting towards abso- ]
ltism and centralized power. The effect c
the imper .alistic tendency Of the repub- &
can party upon our foreign affairs IS In I
pposition to the teachings of the found
$ of the republic, and so impressed was
'ashington with the Importance of Keep
g aloof from the affairs of other ma
armed his countrymen especially against
,reign entangling alliances. Imperialism
hurtful and abhorrent In a free gov \
and subversive of free institu-
ons. The policy of imperialism--if it
IN De said to have a policy-is always
vigorous to liberty. Its powers are first
,"rcised in far of territory and on con-
red and distant possessions, it be-
mes, sooner or later, the rule of the
,me government. Liberty and free gov
rment have always been secured at the
t of great sacrifices. but history
/. ches us that bot can be easily lost
thout the knowlet ge or the people.
The Tariff. n
Our federal constitution has appropri- "
ed to the exclusive use of the general
vernment the power. of indirect taxa q
IN, covered by the popular designation ~
tariff duties" In excluding the states
ON this domain OF taxation there is an D
piled and wise partition of the taxing II
wer between the ates and the federal
vernment Except In the exigencies OF
III, the taxing power has been exercised n
congress largely In the direction of
e imposition of duties upon imports. o
, one expects to change this arrange IA
INT, which has proven so convenient to =
E general governm mt and so conclusive g
the interests of the states whose re- -
ri to other sources of revenue Is left "
Indirect taxation, however | Il
INVENT, needs, by reason OF its ind,- o.
,tness, to be watchfully guarded lest :,
uses should attach themselves unknown Ct
the people. w
hat many of the existing tariff rates y, y
, excessive, and enable powerful com 4
laNons to extort u just and oppressive Va
butte from the people, can not be con- :"
verted. The tart is undoubtedly too W