Tombstone epitaph., 1912-10-20
REPUBLICANS
 EXTRAVAGANCE.
Government Cost More Than
 Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD
Startling Figures Which Show Ths. the Cost Of Our National Existence and the Nigh Cost Of Living Mvst Be Reduced.

Under & proper downward revision of the Republican tariff schedules the people of the United States would save S2.0o0, 100000 each year. or over s1o0 per family on manufactured goods alone.
 President Taft's veioes of the wool tarir bill and the steel tarin measure passed by a Democratic house COST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ABOUT ss5o,oOO.O00 PER ANNUM.
 The cost of conducting the federal government MORE THAN DOUBLED between the close Of President Cleve- lands second administration (Demo- cratic) and the beginning of President i Roosevelt's second administration (Re- | publicanl.
 As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHED- JULES the people of the United States pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN 1 WEIGHT PER CENT on food and ordinary household articles used in the home by every family. rich and poor.
 The total cost of running the federal government in 1860 was s55 900. 900.
 The amount appropriated at a single session of the Sixty-first congress for the fiscal year 1911-sl .027 .133. .446.44- was more than double the amount .e54 .4s6, 05513-appropriated for the fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses- sions of the FIfty-fourth congress. the last congress of the second Cleveland ! administration.
 Only eight years elapsed between the close Of the second administration of President Cleveland and the beginning Of the second administration of Presi- dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap- propriated during the four years of the latter - s3.s42. .2O3, 3,5T15-was more than double that appropriated in the four years Mir Cleveland was at the helm-viz. s1.s71.59 ,S57.47.
 For 1910, the last fiscal year provid- ed for in congress under President Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap- propriations .044. .401 ,s57.12 - was reached.
 President Taft's estimate-to the laat sesslon oI congress for government support for the fiscal year was S1 ,040,- S4s,026.55.
 In other words. governmental e1. penses for the FOUR YEARS of PresI- dent Cleveland's administration (Dem- ocratic) were only ss30S61 ,551 s2 more than President Taft's (Republican) es- timate of the amount necessary to GOV, CT the expenses of ONE YEAR of President Taft's administration
 Congressman John J. Fitzgerald of New York, a Democrat and chairman of the committee on appropriations. ir addressing the house Aug 26. 1912. on the subject of appropriations said. Thoughtful men have watched with alarm the rapid increase in the cost of government in the United States" He further said that two causes seem re. I .sponsible for many present evils: "One. the UNFAIR AND UNJUST SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which an undue share of income by those whose circumstances in life are not considered more than reasonably con- | laws for the support of our govern ment; the other. the diniculty or inabil. ity to readtust our system of taxation and to remove many taxes from the necessaries of life. so long as the GOV EMINENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY | CONDUCTED. or the instrumental ties provided for the conduct of the public service are either inefficient or are not utilized so as to render the most effective and comprehensive re- suits"
 Mir. Fitzgerald then called attention l to the fact that the Democratic party pledged itself if intrusted with power 10 do two things-REDUCE TARIFF | DUTIES AND REFERENCE PUB ] LIC EXPENDITURES by eliminating waste in administration and the aboli- 1 ton of useless. inexcusable offices.