The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-10-11
REPUBLICANS
EXTRAVAGANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD
Startling Figures Which Show That
the Cost Of Our National Existence
and the High Cost of Living Must
Be Reduced.

BE Reduced.
Under q proper downward revision
Of the Republican tariff schedules the
people Of the United States would save
$4,000, 100000 each year, or over 800
per family on manufactured goods
alone.
President Taft's vetoes of the wool
tariff bill and the steel tariff measure
passed by a Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT $65O,OOO,OOO PER
ANNUM.
The cost of conducting the federal
government MORE THAN DOUBLED
between the close of President Cleve-
lands second administration Demo
c%ratic) and the beginning Of President
~Roosevelt's second administration Gre
Dublican).
AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHED-
ULEs the people of the United States
pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN
TY-EIGHT 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 $50, 900, 900.
The amount appropriated at a single
session of the Siyty-hrst congress FOR
the fiscal year 1911-$1, 027, 1873, 446. a
was more than double the amount
1854, 496, O55 .13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses.
sions Of the Ffty-fourth congress, the
last congress of the second Cleveland
administration.
Only eight years elapsed between thr
close of the second administration o.
President Cleveland and the beginning
Of the second administration Of Presi
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap
propriated during the four years of thC
latter - $3,S42,2 O3, 577. 15-was more
than double that appropriated in thu
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at thu
helm-viz, $1,S71,59 ,S57.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid
ed for in congress under Presiden
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in az
preparations - 81, O44,4O1, S57.12 - va
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the las
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1,040
Gas, 026.55.
In other words, governmental e,
penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Pres
dent Cleveland's administration Den
ocratic) were only $SSO,861 ,551.92 nor
than President Taft's (Republican) e
innate of the amount necessary to CO.
er the expenses Of ONE YEAR
President Taft's administration.
Congressman John J.. Fitzgerald {
New York, a Democrat and chairma
of the committee on appropriations, 1
addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912, o
the subject of appropriations sal
Thoughtful men have watched wit
alarm the rapid increase in the cost
government in the United States" +
further said that two causes seem r
t sponsible for many present evils:
zone, the UNFAIR AND UNJUS
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by whiC
an undue share of income by thoi
u whose circumstances in life are n,
considered more than reasonably col
Portable Is taken through our custom
laws for the support Of our COVER
ment; the other, the difficulty or lnab
ity to readjust our system of taxatiC
and to remove many taxes from Il
n~ecessaries of life, so long as the GO
ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANZA
CONDUCTED, or the instrumental
ties provided for the conduct of Il
e public service are either inefficient
are not utilized 80 as to render t
most effective and comprehensive !
z suits"
Mr.. Fitzgerald then called attenti,
to the fact that the Democratic par
: pledged itself II intrusted with pow
to do two thlngs-REDUCE TARII
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PU
Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminate
IS waste in administration and the abe
ton Of useless. ~inexcusable offices.