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party is the party of extravaganza,
while the Democratic party is the par
tv Of economy. The figures prove it
beyond peradyenture. Republican
extravagance grows with what it feeds
on, aud upon that issue alone we
ought to sweep the country The
only way to secure economy is to turn
the Republicans out and put the Dem
ocrats in.
a Washington dispatch to the st.
Louis Republic says:
Senator Culberson found opportunity to
make an address In the senate on the
finances of the country under President
Roosevelt The statement showed that,
exclusive of the Panama appropriation,
the increase of expenditures in 1904 over
1903 was $S5, 496, 995; in 1905 over 1904. $780,
1856 z33; in 1906 over 1905, ST., 90S, S36.
1t does not stand to reason that the
American people will deliberately in
dorse such amazing waste of the pub
lie money. The big stick policy comes
high, and the figures will set the tax
payers OF the land to thinking, and
after they have digested the totals
they will conclude that we are paying
too much for the whistle and will pro-
coed to fire the Republicans, who have
proved themselves utterly incapable OF
..cutting appropriations to the bone"
The Rio de Janeiro Conference.
Congress appropriated 100000 to pay
the expenses of Mr.. Secretary OF State
Elihu Root and his suit to the Rio de
Janeiro conference, and the govern
ment sent them down in great style in
battleship All of which should
greatly impress our Central and South
American neighbors as to our gran
deur and prowess. They are unfortu-
nately none too fond of us. In fact,
they entertain deep seated suspicion
| that we are preparing to swallow them
a la the anaconda, just as we swallow
| ed Hawaii. Panama, Porto Rico, Guam
| and the Philippines. 1t is to be hoped
that Mr.. Root and his battleship will
remove these suspicious and cause
| those peoples to look upon us with
friendlier optic. What the secretary
| of state ought to do is plain enough
Instead of wasting his breath ex-
pounding the Monroe doctrine and en-
| larging upon its beauties he should
bend every energy to establish better
| trade relations with the republics to
the southwark We intend to maintain
/ the Monroe doctrine at all hazards, not
so much for the benefit of these other
republics. but for our own benefit, or
course they are benefciaries OF it-ln
/ fact. could not have existed six
months but for it ana could not exist
now If we should notify the world
1 that we you'll no longer Uphold 1T
| but nevertheless we forced it into the
| code of International law because we
needed it for our own protection in
| 1923. While we Go not need II so much
/ now. we will continue to maintain 1t
as d matter of pride and principle.
/ Consequently the Central and South
American republics will continue to
be sheltered by it whether they SO de-
I sire or not.
What we most need now is a broader
] market for our surplus proQucls, anu II
we acted with the wisdom we ought to
exercise we would have the bulk of the
trade with every nation to the south OF
US. They are our near neighbors. and
| ought to be our friends. Nothing but
| continuance of the unwise and unjust
| policy of the Republican party can pre-
| vent our capturing most of this trade.
! We make things they want in great
abundance, and they produce many
| things that we cannot produce. Why,
| then. not exchange these articlesf The
| barrier Is the idiotic code Of laws ere
| ated by Republicans, If Mr.. Secretary
| Root Will do anything to remove that
| barrier the 100000 and the cost of the
] battleship's trip will not have been
| spent in vain. but If he does not i'm
| prove our trade relations it is sheer
| waste of money.
3. n. +.
| Colonel Lumpkin. who was running
| against Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman for a