The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-10-11
REPUBLICANS
EXTRAVACANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD,

Startling Figures Which Show That III,
Cost of Our National Existence ane
the High Cost of Living Must 3.
Reduced.
Under a proper downward revision
: OF the Republican tariff schedules m,
people of the United States would save
S2.OOO,O6O,0O0 each year, or over s1OC
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 $G5O,OO0OOO PER
+ ANNUNt
The cost of conducting the federal
government MORE THAN DOUBLED
between the close of President Cleve.
iands second administration Demo
crahc) and the beginning of~President
hoosevelts second administration Re-
publican).
AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SEIZED
OLES the people of the United States
pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN.
TY-EIGHT PER CENT on food md
ordinary household articles used In the
nome by every family, rich and.poor.
The total cost Of running the federal
government In 1850 was $4,000. 600.
Ihe amount appropriated at a single
session of the Sixty-first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1, O27, 13y, 446.4 a.
was more than double the amount
S9o4, 496, O55.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses-
slons OF the Fifty-fourth congress. the
last congress OF the second Cleveland |
administration.
only eight years elapsed between the
close or the second administration of |
PRESIDENT Cleveland and the beginning
OF the second administration of Presi-
1ent Roosevelt and yet the amount<ap-
proprlated during the four years of the
latter r. $3,S42. 2O3, 577.15- was more
.han double that appropriated in the
[our years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
lelm-viz. $1,S71. 900 s57.47.
FOR 1910, the last fiscal year provided
'or In congress under President Roose-
7eit' the h1ghwater mark In approprta-
ions 81 ,044, 4O1 ,S57.12-was reached.
President Tafts estimate to the last
eSslon OF congress for government
support for the fiscal year was S1.O4O.- 1
4S,026.55.
In other words, governmental e$-
lenses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi.
cent Cleveland's administration Dem 7
cratic) were only $3.50, sci ,551.9 more
nan president Taft's Republlcan esti- [
nate or the amount necessary to cover
he expenses Of ONE YEAR OF Presi-
ent Taft's administration.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald of T
lew York, Democrat and chairman
the committee on appropriations. In q
the house Aug. 90, 1912, on
he subject of appropriations said.
thoughtful men have watched with Y
Iarm the rapid Increase in the cost OF
overnment in the United States" He .
lrther said that two causes seem re.
1onsible for many present evils: i.
one, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST a
OF TAXATION by which
undue share Of income by those "
hose circumstances In life are not
more than reasonably com.
rtable Is taken through our customs Ii
WIS for the support of our govern
ent; the other, the difficulty or inabil- L
to readjust our system OF taxation
ld to remove many taxes from the 5
'ceSsaries of life, so long as the GOV
RNMENT is EXTRAVAGANZA r
ONDUCTED, or the instrumentau-
IS provided for the conduct of the
lblic service are either inefficient or 81
e not utilized so as to render the
ost effective and comprehensive re- b
It's"
Mr.. Fitzgerald then called attention A
the fact that the Democratic party
edged itself IL lntrusted with power
do two things-REDUCE TARIFF "a
JTIES AND RETREECH PUB
G EXPENDITURES by eliminating
lste In administration and the abou- -
n OF useless inaxcuSahta aHoo.