Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-01


mark. For the fiscal year 1855, whom
the country was in the throes of bit
ter, bloody and expensive civil war,
the expenditures aggregated the enor-
nous total Of si,309.G56,44 OF which
sum $1,000. $50, 400 was for the main
tdnance OF tho army"
Training his fire on the administra-
ton. Mr.. Fitzgerald continued:
After the war with Spain. under the
presidency OF Theodore Roosevelt, the
cost of maintaining the government for
the four following years was 10 per
cent greater than during the same
period when the war was waged. ENi-
IDENTIFY. Mr. Speaker some things are
expensive and come high
SOME COMPARISONS.
'1'nder a further comparison Mr.
Fitzgerald said;
Under Cleveland the per capita
appropriations for the army for four
years were S135; for the navy Si54;
for fortlfcationH, 20 cents; the average
per capita for the three years for such
service, $500.
Under Roosevelt in his second ad-
mnistration the per capita appropria-
tions for the army for the four-year
period are $780, more than two and
one-half times the amount under
Cleveland: for the navy S49l, more
than three times Nne dilouHl uiue'
Cleveland; for fortihcatlons 81 cents,
more than 90 per cent Increase over
Cleveland: and the average per capita
cost for the three services under
Roosevelt $3.50, two and one fourth
times as great as under Cleveland.
After entering into more detailed set
of comparisons at large. comprising
figures from Great Britain's fiscal
records Mr.. Fitzgerald continued.
.l,, eli
not permeated the recesses OF the
white House nor found even tenn
porary Judgment In the active brain
of the president No other conclusion
can satisfactorily be reached, for upon
no other theory is IL conceivable that
the administration would have sub
mitted estimates. as has been repeated
~ pointed out during the session, at
least Sl2S,000, 900 in excess of the
revenues estimated for the coming
fiscal wear. Since these estimates were
submitted to Congress the country has
been afflicted with a panic. The bus
mess and industrial depression Is
growing rather than lessening. Yet in
the plethora of messages to Congress
from the chief executive there has not
been single warning to safeguard
the interests OF the people by resolute-
" repelling all attempts to raid the
treas
Indeed. when the history of the
treasury liz impartlally and truthfully
written, rs II will be some day, the
wielder OF the big stick will be pictured
in heroic size at the head of the those
who. openly encouraged or secretelN
abetted by him. have successfully rified
the peoples strong box
MI Fitzgerald had this to say of the
promised tariff revision:
For the present fiscal year the re-
ceipts will fall s61 100000 below the
estimnte The industrial situation Is
not improving and the approach of 4
national election will not be a stimuli
ant to business: the promise of reNis-
ion of the tariff by its friends will
tend further to acceutuate constant
Nv growing Industrial depression An
impartial review of all the facts es-
tablishes firmly the conviction that
the repeated warnings Of the gentle
man from Minnesota Mi Tawney)
that there will be a deficit OF $3.50 0o0,-
900 in the coming fiscal year is con-
servative rather than extravaganza
HOLDS REPUBLICANS RESPON-
SIBLE.
In conclusion Mr.. Fitzgerald said:
THE Republican party is responsible
for the results OF this session, Respon-
sibility cannot be shifted from the
house to the senate nor from the Con-
eress to the executive. The Republican
party is in control of all these, and ~
called upon to answer for its actions.
The Democracy is willing to submit
the issue to the intelligence of the Am
erican people and to abide the result
OF their judgement.