Albuquerque evening citizen., 1906-07-05
National Growth and
Government Expense
Globe-Democrat.

There was the slightest need for Chairman
Tawney of the house appropriations committee make
any apology for the money allotment which congress
in the session just ended 1t set apart $SS0O0O0O0
for the governments demands during the fiscal year
which began with July 1, 1906. On the face of the fig
ures this looks like big 1t is the largest appro-
pration ever made in single session of congress in
time of peace The Spanish and the Philippine in
surrection of 1s9S-99 necessitaed somewhat larger
outlay than this but only few millions larger
erai items however which do not figure in the budgets
of ordinary years have helped swell this total The
Panama canal appropriation s42.5OOOOO, the 10000
600 under the statehood and the $5000000 donation
for the sufferers in San Francisco outlays which
usually be foreseen, except that for the canal
nobody will grudge that expenditure any than
he will those for statehood for San Francisco
When fifteen years ago, Speaker Reed tauned
at creating billion dollar congress- he retored that
this is a billion dollar country" In session of
Speaker Cannons congress the outgo for the
ment is only little s1O0.O0O,OOO less than that
for the two years in Speaker Reeds early days if
anybody should Uncle Joe about this big increase
he could square himself readily could say that
between 1891 1906 the country increased 20000000
in population and s45,oOOoOOOoO in wealth The Span
ish war has come in the interval That has broad
ened the nations area has than doubled the
dimensions of its army navy In the interval, also
the armies and the naves of other great country
in the world enlarged from 10 to so cent
This would compel the United States TO increase It's
own military and naval arm even If the area and the
interests defended had not expanded in this per-
iod All this Uncle Joe could make plain to any critic
| New demands, most of them legitimate, have made
an in the of the government inevitable
We not the governments machinery in 1906 or
the scale 1891 Many things have taken place in thu
fifteen TO justify the expansion in the outlay
Nor is there the faintest to suppose that the
people suffering through any Increase in taxation
The SAP 600 treasury deficit in 1904 and the $4,000
600 deficit in 1906 have been displaced by $24OO00O
treasury surplus 1906 For the fiscal year 1907, jus
begun the surplus is likely to be larger While th
governments outgo is increasing through the enlarge
ment of the counrys activities its income is growing
still faster Every of the countrys great interests
lis increasing at a much higher ratio than is the in
crease in the of the government. The volume o
the counrys manufactures is double that of 1882 whe
Reed first became speaker. immigration in the inter
val has nearly triped Our expectation of manufac
lures has more than quadruped We have passed Grea
Britain in coal production in that decade and half an
have thus taken the first place in that industry In pi
iron production in the fiscal year 1906 have beate
England, Germany and France in combination. Gu
42O00000 of merchandise exports in Reeds early day
have expanded TO $l,600,000,000 in Cannons The coun
try is making money faster than it did then The gen
era level of prosperity is much higher 1t is easy fo
the people pay little for the cost of the gov
, eminent than they did decade and half ago The
have money do it with, the burden is light
j er instead of heavier The $22 cash for each maj
woman and child in the United States when Reed frs
took office has been increased to $33 today In th
S face of these facts Uncle Joe counter his
t mics for his SSSOO0OOOO appropriation by saying "
o this be extravaganza, make the most of TT