The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-04

which followed the financial panic Of
1907. the revenue from customs and
other sources has decreased to such
an extent that the expenditures for
the current fiscal year will exceed the
receipts by $1OO,OOO,OOO. It is impera-
tive that such a deficit shall not con-
tinue, and the trainers Of the tariff
bill must Of course have in mind the
total revenues likely to be produced by
1t and so arrange the duties as to Sc
cure an adequate income. Should 1t be
impossible to do so by import duties
| new kinds of taxation must be adopt
ed. and among these l recommend a
graduated Inheritance tax as correc'
In principle and as certain and easy Of
collection.
Government Economy Urged.
The obligation on the part of those
responsible for the expenditures made
to carry on the government to be as
economical as possible and to make
the burden Of taxation as light as pos
sible is plain and should be affirmed in
every declaration Of government pol
| Icy. This Is especially true when we
are face to face with heavy deficit.
But when the desire to win the popu-
lar approval leads to the cutting off Of
the government effective and to en-
able it to accomplish its proper objects
the result is as much to be condemned
as the waste of government funds In
| unnecessary expenditure.
In the department of agriculture the
use Of scientific experiments on large
| scale and the spread of information
derived from them for the improve
ment of general agriculture must go
on.
The Importance of supervising bust
ness Of great railways and industrial
combinations and the necessary inves-
litigation and prosecution of unlawful
business methods are another neces-
sary tax upon government which did
not exist half century ago.
Proper Forms Of Expenditure.
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shall secure the conservation of our
resources so far as they may be with
in the Jurisdiction of the federal gov
eminent, including the most important
work of saving and restoring our for
ests, and the great improvement of wa
| terways are all proper government
functions which must involve large
expenditure If properly performed.
While some Of them, like the reclama-
| ton of arid lands, are made to pay
| for themselves, others are of such an
| indirect benefit that this cannot be eX-
pected Of them. A permanent i'm
provement, like the Panama canal,
should be treated as distinct enter
prise and should be paid for by the
proceeds of bonds, the issue Of which
will distribute it's cost between the
present and future generations in ac-
cordance with the benefits derived. 1t
| may well be submitted to the serious
consideration of congress whether the
deepening and control of the channel
of a great river system like that of the
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mite and practical plans for the enter
prise have been approved and deter
mined upon should not be provided for
| in the same way.
Then, too. there are expenditures Of
government absolutely necessary if our
country is to maintain its proper place
among the nations of the world and is
| to exercise it's proper influence in de-
tense of its own trade interests in the
maintenance of traditional American
| policy against the colonization of Eu-
ropean monarchies in this hemisphere
: and in the promotion of peace and in
| ternatiOnal morality. / refer to the
cost of maintaining a proper army, a
proper navy and suitable Notifications
upon the mainland of the United
| States and in its dependencies.
The Army and Navy.
We should have an army so organ
lied and so differed as to be capable
in time of emergency in cooperation
with the national militia and under
the provisions of proper national
volunteer law rapidly to expand into
a force sufficient to resist all probable
invasion from abroad and to furnish a
respectable expeditionary force. II nee
essary, in the maintenance Of our ira
ditional American policy which bears
the name Of President Monroe.
Our Notifications are yet In state
of only partial completeness, and the
lumber Of men to man them is insufu-
dent. In a few years, however, the
Usual annual appropriations for our
roast defenses, both on the mainland
and in the dependencies, will make
them sufficient to resist all direct at
tack, and by that time we may hope
that the men to man them will be pro-
yided as a necessary adjunct. The
distance of our shores from Europe
and Asia. of course. reduces the ne
cessity for maintaining under arms
great army, but it does not take away
the requirement Of mere prudence
that we should have an army SUM-
cientlv large and so constituted as to
form a nucleus out of which suitable
force can quickly grow.
What has been said OF the army
NAV be affirmed in even a more EN-
nhatic way of the navy. A MODERN