The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-01-19
ton for Armament.-His Reck-
less Waste Felt in
All Directions.

washington to deliver al address at
the Cooper Union meeting of the New
York Peace society.
That is. part answer to your ques-
ton as to the cause of the rapid and
enormous increase in the cost of the
federal government" he continued.
when we emerged from the four
years of the Civil war-the bloodiest
and costliest strife of modern times
the national debt or that account was
only three billions. So you see the
seven and a half years of Roosevelt
ism in a time Of profound peace and
of prodigious Industrial and business
activity, in spite Of the nan and his
ways, cost the people of the United
States almost as much in treasure for
war purposes as did the Civil war.
"Ours is now a billion dollar gov
eminent, the only one in the world
and the only n the world has aver
known. 1t became a billion dollar gov
eminent under the regime of Theo-
dore Roosevelt with his imperialistic
ideas and his new nationalism, which,
although %enunciated by him only re.
Gently, nevertheless was put into prac-
tice by him before he left the White
House.
Great Present Problem.
The most serious problem that con-
fronts the craftsmanship of the coun-
try at present is to cut down the tx
penses of the national government.
Roosevelt GENERALIZATION and Roose-
welt mtlitarlsm are so interlocked-
the two always go together-that they
were almost inextricable. 1t will re-
quire a high order of craftsmanship
to untangle them and get us back on
the old ground. / doubt that my Dem
ocratic brethren who are to control
the next house will be able to make
much Roadway.
"Of the billion dollars the Ameri-
can people pay annually for the sup
port alone of their federal government,
more than seven hundred and ten mil
lions are spent for wars we have had
or wars we are preparing for.
I'm other words, more than II per
cent of the revenues collected annual
ly by the government is paid out on
the military account in all forms
pensions, the army, the navy, fortifi-
cations, etc.
"The pension roll, which now costs
something more than $3.50, 600, 1000, is
bound to decrease substantially in a
short time. So we will not consider
that as a factor of very great import
ance.
Before the Spanish war, when the
army was nearly a third it's present
size, it's average annual cost for eight
years was less than 1924, 900, 900. In
1903, under the second year of Roose-
velt's first administration, it's cost shot
up suddenly to nearly $4,000 900.
The average annual cost for the eight
yea period from 1903 to 1910 was
something over $S3, 100000.
"Under Rooseveltism, the navy's
cost shows, an even bigger and more
eight-year period it jumped from al
average Of $27,500,00 to $102, 400. 900.
= RooseveIt's Ambition.
Probably a remark Roosevelt once
made to me in the White House when
DO was urging enormous a%ppropria-
tons for new ships will throw light on
his methods and his motives. l have
never repeated it before for publica-
tion, but it would just as well come
out now as at any time.
""Tawney,' said the president when
insisting upon the withdrawal of my
opposition to one of his pet naval
/. measures, before I cult the presidency
want it said that l built the biggest
warship the world had yer known up
to that time
HE displayed the same ~extravagant
actions about the army, and especially
Notifications. Why, he actually want
led to build an artificial island on
Manila bay as a complement to the
lCorregidor defeRses, at the cost of
kAr was to be built in water 80 feet
deep. When Mr.. Roosevelt left the
White House the total cost of our mil.
itary and the army and navy was three
million dollars greater than that of
france, with q standing army of half
"a million men and a navy with a larg-
Ter personnel than ours, and only forty
sk millions less than Great Britain,
which has the biggest navy in the
world aad an army Of between three
and four hundred thousand.
"The enlisted strength of cur army
1t that time was less than 10000, with
about 10000 men in the navy. Roose-
welt as president forced more retire
Iments from the army and navy than
.probably anyone. During the terms Of
all hia predecessors combined, except
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