The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-03
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Tavenner, Writer and Thinker, ]" Gives Us the Facts As They Really
 Exist
Ry Clyde H. Tavenner.>

Special Washington Correspondent of
 the Farmer.) si Washington, Sept 3.-Spending near ly s2oo.o00 day more than it took in, the government closed the month of August with a deficit approximating $5,00o,00o which is indicative of a defi- cit of $6O, ,O0o,o GOO for this fiscal year, as against a deficit of s19, ,4S0, ,752. 43 for the last fiscal year.
 This deficit was due to two principal causes:
 First: The unparalleled extravagance of the standpat faction of the Repub- lican party, which lis in control of the Second: Failure of the Payne-AIdrieh tariff law to produce sufficient reve- nue to meet the expenses of the gov ernment.
 Excess of expenditures over receipts is not new in the history of the party now in power. For three or four years now the government has been closing it's books each night facing a big deficit in the days business. But the average American does not know this, While there would be no justi- fication for stating in this dispatch that the big press associations mis- state the facts. there is ample justffi- cation for saying that the facts are so stated that the average man does not understand them
 For instance, the statement of the treasury issued at the close of business
 
 penditures over receipts for July and the first 27 days of August, 1910, amounted to $14. .431, ,727.34,' or an aver age deficit of $288, 634 54 for each bank ing day in that period. No one could possibly so understand the situation, however, from the reports carried by the big press associations, which in variabIy give the administration side of the government finances.
 If a business firm should spend more money than H took in, day after day, w af off and year after year; it is but natural to assume that the stockholders would demand new arrangement Yet the men in charge of the government have for years been able to overspend the receipts without having been called to account by the public. This can. be the average man is not by any means aware of the actual situation.
 WHAT THB FIGURES SHOW. How are these daily deficits made up? The amount of the deficit is taken from the general fund. How does money get into the general fund It comes from the people. Figures best tell the story of what these daily (BaIance in General Fund at Close of
 Year.O
 1907 sa72. .o61. .445.47
 1908, 245, III, ,347.73
 1909, 126, ,375, ,428 10
 1910, 106. .894, ,67567
 Aug. 29, 1910 85, ,696, 035.42
 HOW T. R. COULD BE USEFUL MT. Roosevelt has stated over and over again that it is his ambition, so far as it within his power lies, to as sist the people to purify politics.
 There is but one way the people can exert influence to purify politics-by voting right. If MT. Roosevelt wishes to give information to the people that will really enable them to do this, why does he not tell them frankly whether in his opinion Aldrich and Cannon and the men who vote and cooperate with them-are friends or enemies of the Republic? Surely he knows whether they are or not, after having co-operated with them as long as he has!
 THE 1910 CAMPAIGN BOOK. Every Democratic worker in the country should have a, copy of the 1910 Democratic campaign book, which is