Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-09-15

which does not go directly to food
supply. The center of the
| center of the manufacturing industry
| in 1900 was near the middle OF
Ohio, and it is moving westward at
the rate of about 80 miles in every
| decade; and this movement is iuva.
riably accompanied by a marked in
| crease in the value of farm lands.
The American manufacturer
never could have placed this nation
at the head of the manufacturing ma
tions of the world II he had not had
behind him. securing him every vori-
ETY. of raw material the eAhaustless
resources of the American farm,
on the other hand. the debt
| of the farmers to the manufacturer
Is equally heavy, and the future of
American agriculture is bound up in
the future of American manufactures.
The two Industries have become, un-
der the economic policy of our govern
mont, so closely interviewer. so mu-
| tually nterdependent that neither
can hope to maintain itself at the
high water mark of progress without
the other
so 1t Is as between the capitalist
and the wage-worker Here and there
may be an unequal sharing as be-
tween the two in the benefits that
have come by protection: but benefits
have come to both; and a reversal
in policy would mean damage TO both
and while the damage would be
| heavy to all. 1t would be heaviest.
and 1t would be fall soonest, upon
those who are paid in the form of
wages each week or each month for
| that weeks or that months work
| - . II is not creditable to MS as
"A nation that our great export and
import trade should be well nigh ex.
cluslyely in the hands of foreigners.
| II is difficult to know II our opponents
are really sincere ih their demands for
the reduction of the army If insincere
there Is no need for comment. II sin
| core, what shall we say in speaking to
rational persons of an appeal to re-
| duce an army of sixty thousand men
| which is taking care of the interests
of over eighty million people? The
army Is now relatively smaller than
i
| when on CHE peace establishment
there were "A little less than four mil.
lions Of population: smaller than 1t
was in the peaceful days of Jefferson
when there were fifty-one hundred
soldiers to five million. three hund
red thousand people. There is now
one soldier to every 1400 peo
pie in this country-less than one
tenth of one per cent We cannot be
asked seriously to argue as to the
amount of possible tyranny contained
in these figures. The army as tits
now Is as small as 1t can possibly be
and serve its puspose as an effective
nucleus for the organization. equip
ment, and supply of volunteer army
in time of need II is now used. az
never before. for aiding in the up
building of the organized militia o
the country. The War Department IL
engaged in a systematic effort Il
strengthen and develop the Nationa
Guard in the several States: as wit
ness among other instances, the
great manoeuvers at Manassas. which
have just closed II our opponents
should come into power they could
not reduce our army below its pres
ent size without greatly impairing It's
efficiency and abandoning part OF the
National duty. In short. in this mat
ter II our opponents should come into
power they would either have tC
treat this particular promise If the
year 1904 as they now treat the prom
l Il.aNr IL.
Is, as possessing no binding force;
or else they would have to embark
on policy which would be ludicrous
at the moment, and fraught with
grave danger to the National honor
in the future.
our opponents contend that the
Government is now administered ex
travagently and that whereas there
was "A surplus of $4,000, 900 in 1906
100000 in the year that has JUS
closed.
This deficit Is imaginary and Is
obtained by including in the ordinary
current expenses the sum of fifty mil
lions, which was paid for the righl
of way Of the Panama canal out Of
the accumulated surplus in the Treas
ury Comparing the current or ordi
nary expenditures for the two years
there was surplus of nearly eighty
millions for the year 1900. and OF on
ly a little more than eight millions
for the year that has just closed Bui
this diminution OF the annual surplus
was brought about designedly by the
abolition of the war taxes In the In
tcryal between the two dates The
acts Of March 2, 1901 and April IL
1909, cut down the internal revenue
taxes to an amount estimated at one
hundred and FIVE million a year. In
other words. the reduction of tax
alton has been considerably greater
than the reduction in the annual sur
plus -
The prime reason why the
expenses of the Government have In
creased of recent years is to be found
In the fact that the people, after ma
ture thought, have deemed 1t wise tc
nave certain new forms of work fol
the public undertaken by the public