Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-03
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1909
COSTOF REPUBLICAN JINGOISM

That the Republican party cares
nothing for the people who pay the
taxes-for those who do the work which
produces the revenue which cares for
Uncle Sans government, is evidenced by
the manner in which they dispose of the
peoples money in congress. 1t is the
peoples mouey. 1t is tru, that their
representatives spend it-but that is no
sign that they should throw it away or
dispose of it as if it were mere chattel.
Even Republican senators-thosa who
are alive to the situation and GIN soc
the breakers ahead, are recognizing the
seriousness of the present time and cal
ling for a hart-the same call that the
Democratic representatives have been
sounding for months past. Extrava-
gance will not dot never did--it will
wreck a person, u firm, corporation or
Il state or nation.
Senator Hale. Il Republican whose Re-
publicanism is of the first water, in the
debate on the naval appropriation bill in
the senate based an impressive if futile
warming OH the repid increase in the
military expenditures of the government
at ;L.time when its revenues are steadily
falling. Last year, when there was u
treasury deficit of $50, 600, O0O, for the
navy alone congress appropriated $122,-
600, 900 in one year. This year, when
the deficit promises to reach $l35, 100000,
congress is about to appropriate for the
navy $.37, OJl00J, iii increase of $l5,-
OOO, 900.
Next year, Senator Hale predicts; the
navy will cost $3.50, 900, 600 and III f911'
probably $500, 900, OOO This MEANS"
he concludes, that it will soon be the
unacceptable duty of congress either to
borrow money or greatly to increase the
taxes" '''
Of course, the jingoes will resent
Senator Hale's carping economy. For
in pointing out the plain consequences
of needless extraxaag;ance the chairman
of the senate committee on naval affairs
was doing what Mf Roosevelt has de-
scribed as ''hampering MS in the. up
building of the NAVY and acting against
the real ADVOCATES ofrthe navy" Did
he not admit that it was mighty hard
work. last year. to prevent the
authorization Of four of the new
battleships, cause to. which Mr.. Roose-
Welt devoted pages Of burning rhetoric
in special message to congress. full of
mysterious hints of foreign complica-
tions? I'D -
Indeed, has not the senate itself,i n
loading the bill with an amendment i'd
wishing the equal division of the fleet be-
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific,
played into the hands of the iingoes and
the, enemies of the naval economy?
The eight years of president Roose-
welt have witnessed series of mount
ing expenditures for the navy. For
that period tho appropriations will
amOnnt to $3.50, 0OO, 900, as compared
with SiOl 100000, for the preceding
eight years, including the extraordinary
expenses of the war with Spain. The
year Mr. Roosevelt became president
the navy cost 500, 600, 900; the year he
leaves Office the cost has risen to $l37,.
600, 900, practically double.
With the continuous agitation at the
White House for more and bigger bat
tleships the country has suffered from
succession of violent attacks of jingoe-
ism. accompanied by cunningty foment-
81 war rumors, and the inheritance lef t
to it is top-heavy navy and a depleted
treasury. Joseph OBSERVER