The Detroit times., 1908-09-01
BRYAN EATS SALT
WITH JOHNSON
IN ST. PAUL
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT AT FAIR GROUNDS
SCORES THE REPUBLICAN PAR
TY FOR IT'S ExTRAvAGANcE.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. 3l.-Poitl'
cal peace reigns supreme. Bryan and
Johnson met today and all differences
were amicably adjusted.
A large crowd gathered at the sta
ton to greet the Democratic pres
idential candidate and his party.
Among the first TO greet Mr.. Bryan
was Gov. Johnson. The candidate for
president and the candidate for COVER
nor breakfasted at the Minnesota
club together and discussed the Taft
angles of the campaign.
This afternoon Bryan spoke at the
Minnesota state fair. before several
thousand people. In his speech Mr..
Bryan took the Republican party to
task for its extravagances. He charac.
terized the fifty-first congress as the
"billion-dollar congress" and said that
the extravaganza OF that congress was
especially noticeable in the army and
navy departments.
Mr.. Bryan spoke as follows:
The Democratic platform makes Re-
publican extravaganza one OF the Is
sues OF the present campaign. The
subject and naturally so: to have prom
| tsed economy would have been a mock
cry. and to have defended the appro-
| priations made by the last congress
first congress was commonly called the
billion dollar congress" The appro-
priations made by that congress COW
cred two years and amounted for the
first time TO a billion 8H5fars. or Ave
hundred million dollars a year. The
extravaganza OF that congress contrib
uted to the overwhelming victory won
by the Democrats in the campaign of
1890. The last congress. however. has
made a new record in extravaganza. in
spite OF a deficit of more than sixty
millions In the last fiscal year. the APP
propriations made during the last ses-
sion amount TO more than billion
dollars. or twice as much as the ap-
preparations OF single session OF the
fifty lrst congress. The increase over
the year before was ninety million dol
lars, showing growth In expenditures
far in excess OF the growth or the pop
ulation.
Heavy Army and Navy Expenses.
The expenses of the navy are also
about three times what they were a
decade age The Increase In the np-
preparations for the army and navy
alone are 12o.000.00o, IA year in excess
| of what they were In 1897. The i'm
| perialistic policy. for which the Repub-
| iican party II responsible, is the only
excuse for this enormous and increas-
ing drain upon the taxpayers. Our
| platform also calls attention to the fact
that $4,000 new offices have been ere
year, against an increase of 10000 new
| Offices with salaries amounting to S.
| 600. 900 in the Cleveland and Mckinley
| Administrations.
| Why Is II that the Republican party
| Is so much more extravagant than the
| Democratic party in the expenditure
| of public money? There are two roa-
| sons
| First: Because Republican leaders
are more intimately associated with the
| tax eaters than with the taxpayers.
4 Is.aH ar In ga
| taught the doctrine that taxation Is an
| unailoyed good. They have tried 10
+ cultivate public opinion to support
| the idea that tariff taxes, even when
| not needed for revenue. are direct
| advantage to the protected interests
| and an indirect advantage to the whole
| country.
The Democratic party is In a position
| to bring n reform In the matter OF ex-
penditure. II believes that tax is
| defensibie only when necessary and
| that Il should be reduced to the low
est limits consistent with good gov
| ernment