The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-04-29
THIS is NOT BUSINESS.


In the May number of Success" ap-
pears a most instructive article en-
titled "Uncle Sam in Blunderland,'
which should be read by every one in
terested in good government, or who
feels the pinching Of these hard times.
1t deals with the system of accounting
pursued by the government, which
system Is similar to the one of England
abandoned seventy three years ago,
and which Westminster discarded last
fall Such system invites graft and
dishonesty, carelessness and waste,
and j. productive Of increased ex-
penditures. Everyone who under
stands bookkeeping knows this,
yet, the Republican party will not
permit it to be changed and clings to
it as tenaciously as to the tariff. An
attempt was made after the Civil War
to improve it, but failed; reformation
was. again tried in the eighties, but
without success; and even Roosevelt
appointed commission to investigate
it, without any good result No in
ventory IL kept OF our investments,
nothing to show whether they are good
or bad, all of which the Republican
party knows and will not correct, and
quoting from the article i'm Success:
yet today we are losing more
money than ever; we are talking of
fhan hnn
borrowed at any time since 1864; and
even Aldrich, the arch-representa-
tive of that faction at the Capitol
which most of us don't like, says that
we are doing so badly that he himself
could save us $300,00O,000 year If we
would give him chance"
This is big money and it is not bus
mess to waste it. 1t comes hard for
us to pay taxes, and on the average
each man who is a voter or the head
of family il paying $4,000 year to,
run this government though he does not
know it. The saving of this sum of
money ($30O,OOO,OOO,) would mean the
saving OF at least $4,000 q year to the
head of each family and every cent
counts now. In addition, if by the
proper management of affairs this
money would not be wasted, then the
tariff could 60, it would not then be re-
quired to raise revenue, as ityields now
only about $3O0,O0OOOO a year to get
which we pay to the trusts So, 100, 000,-
O00.
But tie Republican party, recognize
ing and knowing these conditions,
will not change them. From the party
of the plain people it has become the
servant of the monopolies it has built
up by robbing us indirectly for fifty
years, and il has recently become 80
braz1A that il now proposes to rob u
directly BY means Of ship subsidy.
The arrogant manner i'm which 1t acts
i'm protecting the trusts, Is similar to
that of the Southern Democrats i'm
their protection of slavery. God grant
that it will meet with the same end;
and it should, for in its character and
spirit it is the same as the Democratic
party Of fifty years ago.
From 1900 to 1860 in a Presidential
election the Democrats we're beaten
but twice; from 1860 to 1910 the Re
pu5licans have been beaten but twice.
One of each of these defeats of both
parties, was the result of factionalism.
The Wings elected Taylor in 1S4S be-
cause of the candidacy of Van Buren,,
which lost the Democrats the vote of
New York; Blaine was defeated by a
faction of his own party in 1884. The
Democratic defeat i'm 1910 followed
the panic of 1887, and the election Of
Cleveland in 1892 was the result Of
the hard times of 1890.
Give the best party an inch and it
will take an ell; entrust it with power
too long and it will become despotic.
From the guardian of the constitution,
the Southern Democrats controlling
the policies of their party, became the
protectors of slavery. Believing or
pretending to believe, that high
revenue duties were necessary in q
state Of war, and promising that they
should not outlast it, exigencies, the
Republican party has now adopted
the tariff al it, God, and never touches
i'll but To raise IL. Those men in the
Republican ranks who dO not believe
in the tariff are ruled out OF the party,
as the Democrats who did not believe
i'm slavery were in 1860. This high
handed policy Of the leaders OF the
Democratic party In 1860, drove those
in its ranks, differing from them into
the Republican party and the result
was war. The high-handed policy OF
the Republican party is, at present,
driving those men who do not believe
in the tariff into the Democratic party.
What will the result be
we believe IL will BE- war, not now
ever upon men, but upon the tariff,
the archstone of the Republican faith,
which win result Ira lts overthrow, as
Mia the war against slavery And
nothing viii bring this more quickly
than the business sense OF this Coun-
try. When the people realize, a. we