Barton County democrat., 1910-04-15
An Expensive Government.

Dut that the present admlnlStra'
tiOn is one of the most expensive
we have ever had. The expendi-
lures exceed the receipts by al
most one half million dollars a
day. This may be all right for
the government but one would
hardly consider that person a good
business man who would continue
to spend more than he was tax
ing in. However, this has been
the policy of the Taft admins
tratiOn for the fiscal year which
began July l, 1909, 45 millions
more have been spent than have
been received; since the beginning
OF the fiscal year July l, 1908,
there was about 273 million dollar
in the general fund; today there
is about 81 million, showing that
there has been a great deal more
spent than received. Along this
line it might be well to study the
appropriations. In 1890 it took
800 million dollars, in 1900 it took
500 million dollars, but in 1909 it
jumped to HOO million. This is
certainly a great increase in the
amount of appropriations and
shows that We have a very extra
VACANT set of officers. In figur-
ing up the per capita cost of rum
ming the government. We find
that in 1890 it jumped to Sc for
every man, woman and child in
the United States; in 1900 it was
So, but in 1909 it had reached
$12.4O. These figures may sound
unreasonable, but they are au-
thentic and show how badly the
people were fooled when they
elected the present Taft admins
tratiOn.
The recent fight in the House
Of Representatives has terminal
ed as the democrats predicted.
The democrats have always con-
tended that high tariff was a men
ace to the country; that the Payne.
Aldrich- Cannon combination abSo-
lutely controlled the House of Rep
reSentativeS and the Senate. These
men have been the leaders of the
republican party. An element
that has called itself inSurgent re-
publlcans, progressive republicans
and a few other names claims to
have been fighting this crowd,
however, their votes show that
thev only did it to get elected to
office. To prove this statement,
one needs but to read the action
Of the insurgents during the re-
cent speaker contest; when Rep
reSentative Norris, Of Nebraska,
introduced a resolution to elect
the rules committee and by the
efforts of the democrats succeed
ed in getting the motion through
the house it was hailed as a great
msurgent victory; however, there
were but AZ insurgent votes the
balance Of 1913 votes were demo
Gratis. This insurgent crowd has
always claimed to be against Can
non, yet hardly had the reSOlu-
ton of Mr.. Norris been passed
when Representative BurlesOn, Of
Texas, introduced a resolution de
cIaring the office of speaker va.
cant; it was put to a vote and
with but six exceptions the In
surgent republicans voted for Can
non for speaker, showing that
4 when the republican party needs
their votes it can depend on thC
msurgent element helping them
\ lot of inSurgent congreSSmer
have been going over the country
telling the people that if they ha'
a chance they would vote agains
: Cannon, but hardly had they
|. chance when they lined up TO.
him. This shows the incOnsist
ency of the republican party AM
all good independent voters IN tt
s republican party should not ALLOW
/ themselves to be fooled any long
t er. 1t might also be well to men
: ton that the democrats shOul
take a stand for those principle
s which they believe to be right an
e not try to ally themselves wit
e any faction of the republica
: Tarty for if they do either fat
l. ton will turn them down rathe
r .han see democratic victory.
v Kate O'Hare on Socialism.