The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-05-05
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS.
Tavenner, Writer and Thinker, "
Gives Us the Facts as They
Really Exist.

IsCdiil LAicts
81 Tavern '.
Washington, April 30.-A deficit OF
four million dollars for the first twen-
y-Six days of April!
A deficit of more than nineteen
million dollars so far this fiscal year!
\ deficit of Sl9O,057, $3.50 since
June 80, 1907!
These are features of Taft Quito
,he-Quick economy, about which SO
much is heard everywhere save in
Washington.
Here are more illustrations of Re-
publican cuisines" administration:
Marble baths for senator's!
Autos to carry them 100 rods be-
tween their offices and Capitol!
Touring cars for the President,
Vice.preSident and "Uncle Joe."
White House receptions which
rival the glory of Napoleon's court, "
4, one of which, according to the
Washington Post, "a dazzling ravine
oi gold blazed before the vision. F"
Another group of "cut-to-the-
quick" economies includes:
More than $500 for appolinaris
water for the senators.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
II keep the senators in vaseline, cas-
tor oil, olive oil, bronze quinine, hair
tonic, costly perfumes, glycerine,
hrgamot, hair brushes, clothes
brushes. travelling expenses in attend
ing funerals, ETC., etc.
Then We come to this item which
stands by itself;
The addition in the last eight years
II ~, 225 federal officeholders to the
payrollS of the republic, at an in
crease of expense to the people of
more than seventy million dollars.
This item helps to explain why it is
costing the Taft administration more
than twice as much to run the gov
eynment than it did Cleveland.
How does this riotous extravaganza
effect the treasury? is asked. These
figures tell US:
Since June 80, 1907, the total bal
ance in the general fund has dropped
irom S70,06l, 445.47 to $S2,0O3,-
N,.6l, With an average daily de-
iicit eating its way into this remain
ing eighV-two million dollars, but,a
short time can elapse before the gov.
ernment will have to sell more bonds
10 secure more money to meet more
eNtravaganceS. Outstanding bond
issues are national debts.
How does all this concern the aver.
age citizen? This is how:
The per capita appropriation by
Congress jumped from S. in 1890 tC
ST. 10 in 1909. Since the govern
ment raises the bulk of its revenue al
the custom houses and internal re-
Venue offices, you, Mr.. Reader, are
paying for Republican extravagances
in Increased prices.
There iSno use of your correspond
ent reporting further on the proposed
investigation of the sugar underweigh
ing frauds, or the alleged illegal salt
of rich Philippine sugar lands to thu
sugar trust. The trust has shown it
self powerful enough to prevent ;
probe by Congress. Just how it wa
able 10 protect itself from an investi
cation the writer does not pretend t.
know. All that is known is that min,
resolutions providing for probe o
this thieving trust have been intro
duced in this Congress, and everyone
of them has been chloroformed. TIL,
brother of President Taft was the at
torney for the sugar trust, and Attor
ney-General Wickersham was for
mer a law partner of this brother
The attorney general says the suga
trust should not be investigated, ant
the President Sustains this view.
I'VE expect that the customs re
ceipts will fall off from now on" salt
high official of the treasury to tn,
writer. "The recent increase in tn,
customs receipts was largely if no
wholly due to the interruption o
business while the tariff bill was il
d Al l.