The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
WILL CUT LOOSE
IN HIS MESSAGE
President Roosevelt to Strike
Straight From the
Shoulder.
NATION NEEDS THE TRUTH
PRESIDENT WILL ENDEAVOR TO
TELL 1T IN HIS LAST APPEAL
TO LAW MAKERS-YEAR'S Ex-
PENSE ESTIMATES MADE.

| ing the verdict of the American people /
at the polls next month, President
Roosevelt is hard at work on the last
annual message he will send to con-
gress. The final tone of the paper
will be determined, of course, by the
results in November, but much of the
laborious work can be done now as
we'll as after the election.
| Unofficial intimation is conveyed
! that this last annual message of the
| presidents will in many respects be
| the most memorable state paper
which has ever animated from Mr..
Roosevelt. Plain speaking, it is de-
clared, will characterize the docu-
ment. There are many things the
president has long wanted to say in
a message, but divers considerations
have deferred him. One of these con-
| siderations was that he was anxious
to avoid doing or saying anything
that would prove an obstacle to the
election of republican as his success
sor. The possibility of more serious
ly disturbing business also has kept
him silent on some subjects.
He is profoundly convinced that the
nation needs to be told the truth about
some things concerning which it is
now in error. The telling of some
of these truths might have been TAX
en- as campaign material by the demo
Gratis. The telling of others might
have served as pretext for big bust
ness" to still further tie up the indus
trial and financial situation. But next
|
will have been chosen and political
considerations need no longer make
| him silent. Also he will be within
, three months of the end of his term
and business could not well profess to
fear a man within three months OF
yielding the sceptre.
III Information is whispered about
therefore, that the president intends
to "cut loose" and the message he
sends to congress in December ought
to make mighty interesting reading
The president can hardly hope thai
| many new projects of legislation will
be undertaken between the first Mon
day in December and March 4; bu,
he will be we'll satisfied to set III
| some sign-posts that will point the
way to legislation in the future
The various executive department,
3 of the government are engaged jus
now in preparing their estimates o
l. expenditures for the fiscal year begin
q ming July / next, and the pairing knit,
l. is the instrument most in demand
From the white house the order wen
q n dnn ~
Il must be cut to the BONE" and from
the department heads it perculatet
down to the bureau and division
t. chiefs, thereby causing much agony O
II soul and perturbation of mind.
If there is one thing more than an
other in which bureau and division
- chiefs 'evel It is making estimates
They never are disturbed by such triv
ial facts as that a dollar contains on,
. hundred cents. Indeed, the existenc,
A of such things as cents are wholly I'm
), known to them-when 1t comes t,
spending the peoples money. 4
thousand dollars is the smallest uni
If In which they can think; and, say
J. maybe they are not the generous
J. souls when it comes to scatterin,
IS around the thousand-dollar bills.
is The result is that before depart
s. ment head sends his estimates t
ii Congress he always has to lop few
rilli dollars off the amounts aske,
% for by his subordinates. Then tn
'e House appropriations committee get
IL busy and lops off a few million do
lars more.
Despite this double looping, tn
- governments expenditures keep pill
q, ing up at a rate calculated to stagge
the man to whom million dollars
AZ means something more than two word
TX of seven words each. Just now tn
70 deficit in the Treasury is being in
II creased at the rate of two or thre
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