The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-15

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the English we're enabled to rctort.
wherefore are you Americans shoot
Ing Filipinos?'
The Republican administration in
the Philippines was then taken up and
discussed at length.
Republican Extravaganza.
Touching upon the growth of gov.
ernmcnt expenditures, Mr.. Olney
said:
Under the last Cleveland admins
tration, the running expenses OF the
national government somewhat ex-
ceeded Si,000,000 day--they are now
about Sl.500,000 per day, and. at the
present rate OF increase, will soon
reach $2,000000. Four years Of Roosc
welt will cost us In round numbers 81.
G00.000000, or s200.000.000 more than
four years Of Mckinley, and nearly
| 900000000 more than the last four
years of Cleveland. In ten years our
population has increased about II
| per cent, while for the same period
our national expenditures. including
outlays for the Panama canal and the
st. Louis exposition, have increased
nearly Ga per cent, or nearly four
times as much. In the same decade
our war department expenses have III.
creased by more than 122 per cent,
and our navy department expenses by
more than 225 per cent, rate of in
crease which, judged by the popula-
ton test. would cali for population
of 115,000,000 instead of S0,000,000.
Since the last Cleveland administra-
ton, while population has increased
about IL per cent. national eNpendi-
lures have increased about 60 per
cent-expcnses. that is, have been ad-.
vanced about five times as fast as
population.
Comparison With Other Countries.
Nor is there any comfort TO be dc
rived from inquiring what other great
nations are expending. The expenses
of our national administration for
1908 were approximately $Gi0,000 600
of which s2S,500.Oo0 represents inter
est on the national debt. and which
covers the cost of regular army of
$4,000 men But during the same
period the expenses of Imperial Ger
many, with her standing army of 600
600 men, were about s55s, 900, 900
debt of about S2iO,000.o00, and her
standing army of some G00.00o men,
we're about s70b. 100000 those CT
Great Britain, just emerging from tho
costly Boer war with an interest debt
of sl31. 100000. and having navy
equal in strength to that of any other
two powers. and standing army of
some 100000 men. were about 5000
O00.0oo There is no question that the
amount we are now annually spending
on the army and navy, exclusive of
pensions. represents practically one
third OF the total yearly expenses Of
the general government, the bills Ct
the war department for the fiscal wear
1904 aggregating over $l15,o0o 900,
and those for the navy department
over s102, 100000,
1.-TWO conclusions thus become IN
eyitable, first, that under Republican
auspices the American people are t.
ing saddled with immense expcldi-
lures for purely military purposes
and second. that, in view of what Il
got for the money. our national gov |
is much the most expensive |
in the world. Its extravaganza, how
ever unjustifiable and however resent |
full of 1t we have a right TO be, ought |
not TO surprise us, and is indeed but |
the natural and logical outcome OF
the career of the Republican party |
since the civil war. and of the chief
of that career. In the |
first place. IT has been in power so
long. without interruption or serious
check, that IT would have TO be ac-
something superhuman II
large expenditure had not become
rule Of action and confirmed habit.
The corruption in official depart
ments of the government was then
discussed. as was the announcement
Of lawlessness by the Republicans.
What Democracy Means.
Mr.. Olney closed by pointing out the
evils which >the Republican party
stands for and contrasting them with
what the Democratic party stands for,