The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
4 Sl0O,OOO,OOO DEFICIT
Is What Will Face Taft Admins
tratiOn When Business Begins.
UNCLE SAM SHORT OF MONEY

II Is Billion Dollar Sessions Instead
of Billion Dollar Congresses Now.
The Tariff TO Be Revised" by Its
Friends, Who Have No Regard for
the Pockets of the Masses. A
Bond Issue Is Seriously Talked of.
WASHINGTON, D. Cat the be-
ginning of this session of congress
and Just prior to it, it was the talk
that Uncle Sam was so short of mon
av that there would have to be re-
treuchment in the way of appropria-
+fOns all along the line. It was not
only the usual watchdog of the treas
urv that growled, but the president
Of the United States down-or up,
according to the point OF view-to
the whole force and phalanx of
American craftsmanship were vieing
with each other in preaching econo-
my with the peoples money. Be
cause why? Uncle Sam was really
short of money; a deficit was right
here then. The deficit at the begin
ming of the session last December
was in the neighborhood of $50, 000,-
coo. Listen to the way they have
reduced it.
At the end of the present session
of congress, on the 4th Of March,
when President Taft and the new adj
ministrati0n comes in, there will be
a deficit of just about S100,000,0O0,
twice what it was last fall, and the
appropriations this year are larger
than they have been in any previous
year in the history of the govern
ment All this, in face Of the de-
felt, in face of the Roosevelt panic
90 last year, which is not over yet,
and in face Of the greatly reduced
revenues from imports.
What is to be the end of it? A
bond issue is being seriously talked
about, and it is considered by many
that to issue something like $780,
GOO in bonds will be an early duty of
the Taft administration.
The tariff is going to be revised"
but let no man be deceived; it is to
be revised by it's friends, and We
all know who those friends are and
how much regard they have for the
pockets of the masses of the people
and the federal treasury. The pOck-
cts which it is intended to fill are the
pockets of the big trusts who need
protection, else they will not be able
to rob us all. But, remember, every
dollar of protection" is a dollar
taken out of, not put into, the United
States treasury. In other words, we
can expect little in the way of rails
ing revenue for the government from
a protective" tariff.
A protective tariff is meant to
raise revenue and does raise it, but
it raises it for the manufacturer and
the manufacturer stockholders, not
for the government Golfers. Of
course, with a deficit confronting
them, the tariff revisers must put
a tax on certain commodities like
coffee, which is a revenue and not
a protective tariff, and which, by the
way, will come from the pockets of
nearly all the people. There could
scarcely be more equitable tax
than that on coffee, if the tax we are
now paying to the steel trust, the
sugar trust, the wooden manufact-
urers' trust, and all the other high
Waymen were taken off or lowered
so there would be some imports and
consequently some revenue to the
government.
There is scarcely an appropriation
bill which is not increased this year.
The total amount appropriated at the
last session of congress was $1,00S,-
&9G534. That was a record-breaker.
Men used to throw fits at the idea
of a billiOn-dollar congress. But
congress in one session appropriated