New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-05-04
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS
Trayenner, "Writer and !. Thinker, :
Gives Us the Facts as They
Really Exist.

Especial correspondent of this news
paper.
Washington, April 80. A deficit of
nearly two million dollars for the first
twenty-five days of April!
A deficit of more than eighteen
million dollars so far this fiscal year!
A deficit of $3.50, O57, 1897 SO since June
80, 1907!
These are features of Taft "cut-to-
the-quick" economy, about which so
much is heard everywhere save in
Washington.
Here are more striking illustrations
Of a Republican Cuisines administra-
tion:n
Marble baths for senator's!
Automobiles to carry them 1OOrods
from their Offices to the Capitol!
Touring cars for the President,
Vice President and 'sUncle Joel"
White House receptions which
''rival the glory of Napoleon's court" .
at one of which, according to the
Washington Post, "a dazzling ravine
of gold blazed before the Visions
Another group of characteristic
''cut-to-the-quick'' economies includes:
More than $4,000 for appolinaris
water for the senator's.
Thousands of dollars to keep the
senator's in vaseline, castor oil, olive
oil, bromo quinine, hair tonic, costly
perfumes. glycerine, bergamot, nail
brushes, clothes brushes, travelling
expenses in attending funerals, etc.,
etc.
Then we come to this item which
stands by itself:
The addition in the last eight years
of 1925 federal officeholders to the
payrolls of the republic, at an increase
of expense to the people of more than
seventy million dollars.
How does this riotous extravaganza
effect the treasury? is asked. These
figures tell US:
Since June 30, 1907, the total balance
in the general fund has dropped from
1912, 06l ,445.47 to 1872, 1908, 557.61 With
an average daily deficit eating its
way into this remaining eight-two
million dollars, but short time car
elapse before the government will
have to sell more bonds to secure more
funds to meet more extravagances
j Bond issues are added to the nationa
i debt.
How does all this concern the aver
age citizen? This is how:
The per capita appropriation by
Congress jumped from S6 in 1890 tc
S12. 40 in 1909. Since the government
raises the bulk of it's revenue at the
custom houses and internal revenue
offices, you, Mr.. Reader, are paying
for Republican extravaganza in in.
! creased prices.
There is no use of your correspon.
dent reporting further on the proposed
| investig alton of the sugar underwigh.
ing frauds or the alleged illegal sale
OF rich PHILIPPINE sugar lands to the
sugar trust. The trust has shown it.
self powerful enough to prevent a
probe by Congress. Just how it was
able to protect itself from an investi.
cation the writer does not pretend tc
know. All that is known is that nine
resolutions providing for probe O.
this thieving trust have been intro
duced in this Congress, and everyone
of them has been chloroformed. The
brother of President Taft was The
attorney for the sugar trust, and At
|torney General Wickersham was for
mer law partner of this brother
/ The attorney general says the sugar
4 trust should not be investigated, ani
the President sustains this view.
1--WE expect that the customs re
n GENTS will fall off from now or, 8, 60 81