The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-03

them in the home market.
70 protective tariff is due the large
surplus that has accumulated in the
treasury, which is being deposited
without interest in favored national
banks. Nov, surplus ses &C iadivid-
ual or perhaps corporation is very
desirable thing, but surplus OF over
one hundred millione, Of government
money, drawn and kept from the
avenues Of trade, and inviting extgav-
agapoe and fraud In administration
10 Almost dangerous menace TO popu.
iar government. If you paid this tax
directly, So you do your State and
county taxes, you would feel tho
sting OF this iniquitous system. AS
it is, yoa pay it in every tool you
use, in every article you wesr, al che
rate Of ten dollars per capita for
every man, woman and child in the
United States. Think Of this. This
States proportionate part Of this tax
would be about eleven millions per
annum, enough to pay for every de.
tail OF the State government for Il
period Of at least Is years, not in
Guiding county expenses, and simi-
lar proportion is collected in every
other State of the Union. The re-
publican party protects tho trusts by
extorting from t6ei- forsign competi-
tors exorbitant tariff rates. and the
trusts in their turn protect the repub.
lican party by contributing largely to
it's vote subsidizing fund. Banks hav-
ing the surplus deposited with them
do not pay the government interest,
but they pay interest to the republi-
can party in campaign contributions.
This excess of funds in the treasury
encourages extravaganza and official
dishonesty. or tends that way. The
last year of Mr.. Cleveland's admins
trati0n cost this government $448 49,
622, whilo the last congressional an.
preparation Of Mr.. Roosevelt's admin
istration, seven years later. reached
the enormous sum Of $781 ,172 1916, or
more than 20 per cent. in excess OF
the lest year Of democratic rule; and
this amount does not include $5O,OO0,- :
O00 appropriated to the Panama canal.
During President Harriscn's tenure
Of office he deplored an aceumulating
surplus as dangerous to. good govern
menG. and he was exercised to find O.
way TO get rid Of IL.
Not 90 with che present administro-
tion. Its imperial policy affords an
opportunity for shoveling it out By
the cart load amongst an alien peo-
pie who pay not dollar Of the tax.
Pets OF tho administration are sent to
Hawaii and the Philippine Islande and
paid salaries Fivalin. that Of the pres-
ident himself. TL governor of the
Philippines receives $4,000 per an.
mum, the commissioners $I6, 9GG11, JUS
tices Of the supreme court $I2, 600,
circuit judges $1,000 and district
judges Sc, 600.
In our colonial possessions $500, 600
we're spent last year in stamping out
cholera, and yet in the Philippines,
the centre of the trouble, the revenues
ere scarcely sufficient to pay munich
pal expenses. By decree OF the pres.
ident, who, by the way, does his own
legislating when it suits him, the
civil engineer Of the Panama canal
gets Q salary Of S25, 600 per annum.
During the last fiscal year 8,415 new
Offices were created at an additional
cost OF $5, ,43l 1865, rnost Of them
cbargeable to our imperial policy"
Il is estimated chat We have paid
ont to date $500, 600, 900 to getsand
retain control OF our island .pos.
aessions, while the balance Of trade
in our favor is nominal. What Sobli-
CATION, moral or otherwise, rests on
us to keep up this extsevaganes 2. We
are not related to these people by
consanguinity or affinity. The pros.
poets Of commercial advantages are
not even o remote possibility. Then
Why are we their ,aelf-eonstituted
guardians 3 I The question: ia asked
what dieposition could we make Of
the Philippines. In answering this l.
feel very much like ezclaiming with
the fellow who yoked himself up with
0 wild steer, "Stop us darn fools r.
NV first policy toward tham would he
to turn them loose, establishing Hith
them such relations as we have With
Cuba, and taking their obligation, Tor
such amount es they honestly owe us.
This would relieae us OF further ex-
penseIi in trying tfj maintain o govern.
ment there and preserve peace ons the
IF our people as o whole are
welded to tile idea OF holding them
at any cost, I would suggest ss a
means Of remuneration that the doors
there be opened 70 Chinese immi.
grants, sD energetic, people, who will
build uE agricultural and commercial
interests. Some Of the best Informed
meh with whom / have talked, men
who have lived there, tell me that The
Chinaman is one Of the most indus
trious, while the Filipino!is the most
and thriftless Of our inhabi-
tants there. If, then, IL is comner:
cial greed that b aotnasing us, Why
not make the most Of il 2 81.
u Now as to PENSIONS. This govern.
ment paid out during the last fiscal
year $13e, 800, 700 for pensions, and
this mammoth amount is little more /
than Q campaign fund. President
Roosevelt, acting in his Legislative ca. |
pacity, not an uncommon role for him, |