The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-20
SPENDING 100000 A DAY
THAT VAST SUM REQUIRED TO
KEEP GOVERNMENT A-GoING.
More Than TwO-Thirds of 1t Goes to
Pay the Cost of War and Pre-
parations For War.

paFatiOnS For War.
The United States government is
spending more than $4,000, 900 day
for every working day of the year.
That is what annual appropriations
of $1,000, 100000 mean. And ex-
Guiding the postal service more than
two-thirds of this money goes to pay
the cost of war and of preparation
for war
Ninety years ago Sydney Smith, in
an article printed in the Edinburg
Review, warned the American people
what military meant in terms of tax
alton:
David Porter and Stephen Deca-
tur are very brave men, but they will
prove an unspeakable misfortune to
their country if they infame Jona-
than into a love of naval glory and
inspire him with any other love of
war than that which is founded up
on determination not to submit to
serious insult and injury.
1--WE can inform Jonathan what
are the inevitable consequences OF
being too fond of glory; taxes upon
every article which enters into the
mouth or covers the back or is placed
under the foot; taxes upon every
thing which it is pleasant to see,
hear, smell or taste; taxes upon
warmth, light and locomotion; taxes
upon everything on earth and the
waters under the earth; on every
thing that comes from abroad or is
grown at home; taxes on the raw
material; taxes on every fresh value
that is added to it by the industry of
man; taxes on the sauce which PAM
pers mans appetite and the drug that
restores him to health; on the err
mine which decorates the Judge and
the rope which hangs the criminal;
on the poor mans salt and the rich
mans spice; on the brass nails of
the coffin and the ribbons of the
bride; at bed or board, couchant or
levant, we must pay. The school boy
whips his taxed top, the beardless
youth manages his taxed horse with
a taxed bride on a taxed road. and
the dying Englishman, pouring his
medicine which has paid Z per cent.
into spoon that has paid Is per
cent, filings himself back upon his
chintz bed which has paid % per
cent and expires in the arms OF an
apothecary who has paid license
of hundred pounds for the privi-
lege of putting him to death. His
whole property is then Immediately
taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Be
sides the probate, large fees are de-
manded for bdrying him in the chan
eel; his virtues are handed down to
posterity on the taxed marble, and
he is then gathered to his fathers
to be taxed no more.
I'm addition to all this the habit
of dealing with large sums will make
the government avaricious and pro-
fuse, and the system itself will in
fallibly generate the base vermin Of
spies and informers and a still more
pestilent race of political tools and
retainers of the meanest and most
odious description, while the prodig-
ious patronage which the collecting
of this splendid revenue will throw
into the hands of government will
invest it with so vast an influence
and hold out such means and tempta-
lions to corruption as all the virtue
and public spirit, even of republi-
cans, will be unable to resist. =
1t was no fanciful picture that the
brilliant English essayist sketched.
The prophecy of 1920 is abundantly
fulfilled in 1910 under a government
whose expenditures of $3,00O,O00 a
day as Representative Samuel w.
Mccall told the World, are increas-
ing three times as fast as our popu-
lation.'
AS the scholarly Massachusetts,
statesman said further ut matters
little who pays the taxes in the first
instance; the burden of $4,000, O00,-
600 expended in four years will rest
heavily upon society, and it will rest
most heavily upon those least able
to bear it."
Back to Tilden's platform, RE
trenchment and Reform. New
York World
BOTH HOUSES PASS INCOME TAX.