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Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29

the money has TO he appropriated for
specific purposes before it can be ex-
pended. and if this were not done be-
fore the beginning Of the fiscal year
the machinery of government would
stop unless emergency provision could
be made.
How Estimates Are Made.
The estimates" are prepared by the
executive departments of which each
member OF the cabinet is head The
cabinet officers get the estimates" IN
their respective departments from their
chiefs Of bureaus and then combine
them as the estimates" for the depart
ment. The estimates" from all de-
partments are then sent to the secre-
tary Of the treasury TO be submitted
to congress. and they then become TIE
"estimates" for the cost of running the
entire government during the next fis-
cal year. Up0n these figures congress
makes the greater part if its apprOpria-
tions, amounting to more than $1,000
100000 annually.
Until 1908 a more or less lax method
OF making estimates for the annual
appropriations obtained throughout the
government. The figures sent to con
gress each year. instead Of showing
indications Of a careful pruning all
along the line. showed there was a
disposition among the departments to
vie with each other in getting as large
appropriations as possible without con
sidering whether or not the money de-
handed could be ageOusly ex-
pended during the coming year. There
was no Standardization Of supplies, and
the various departments were paying
varying prices for the same article.
What President Taft Did.
AS soon as President Taft took Office
khis system ceased. At the outset Pres
ident Taft impressed upon his cabinet
hHlciais the absolute necessity Of econ
omy and efficiency in their depart
ments. He admonished them that not
3 dollar beyond what was necessary to |
ron the government efficiently in their
including a fair margin
For progress, which Is a part OF efilcien-
~ In the program OF President Taft,
should be asked OF congress. The ef-
l8ct was immediate. Every depart
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
Drops Dead lYhile SPEAKING.

F. c. Moore, 4 wealthy New Yorker
residing at Laurel House, in Lake
wood, ~ j., dropped dead while he
was speaking at the dedication ser
vices OF the new y. NJ. c. A. hall, d..
mated by w A. jameson. All Lale
wood society was present, and for a
time there was great excitement.
men who had been employed to take
the places Of striking employees. These
men have been working at the South
ern Pacific shops in San Antonio ever
since the shopmen's strike began sew
eral months ago. They were from
northern and western states.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29

The Presidents Position.
AT the present time the Democratic
house of representatives is endeavor-
ing to end the usefulness of the econ
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29

b
ment began work at once to invest-
gate its own expenditures and to de-
wise ways and means of curtailing ex-
travagances. The result was that con
/ gress received the lowest estimates it
had seen in years. This was followed
by a reduction in appropriations to cor
respond always allowing for the nat
ural growth Of the governments ac-
tivlties. which represented a net saw
ing to the taxpayers of the country.
President Taft was not. however.
satisfied that all had been done that
could be done. He realized that the
departments Of the government, like
individuals. are naturally prone to be
proud of their own achievements and
by reason OF their familiarity with
their own endeavors often insisted
that their work was more important
than the work Of the other depart
ments, relatively speaking In order
to correct that evil he asked congress
to give him 100000 for a commission
of disinterested experts 10 investigate
and report on the business of the gov
ernment. with view to further econ
omy and efficiency. Thus came into
official being the commission Of that
name.
This commission, among other duties.
was directed to prepare the receipts
and expenditures Of the government
on "badGet" basis. which is the sys-
tenn followed by practically all the
leading nations Of the world except the
United States. Under this system it is
possible for the humblest citizen to
analyze the finances of the government
at any time and to lay his finger upon
the responsible political party in the
event Of extravaganza or of stinginess. !
The system under which appropria- |
tiOns for the government OF the Unit |
ed States have been made has even de-
fed the experts in their endeavors to |
unravel the tangled sheins Of expendi- |
lures. so that it is a fair statement to
say that no citizen of this country up
TO the present time has ever thorough
" understood where his taxes were ex-
pended.
The Presidents Position.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
GIVE US A TRIAL.

GIVE US A TRIAL.
We do city work at city prices.
Drop US a postal and we will be
glad to call for work and deliver
it. Work always done at the time
wanted.
HERE ARE A FEW OF OUR PRICES
Suits cleaned and pressed soc
Pants zoe
Mems Suits secured & pressed S1.l5
Pants 4Oc
Overcoats cleaned soc
Overcoats secured sI.OO
We also do dyeing on Ladies
and Mems clothes.
Fine ready-made clothing
for sale.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
The PRESIDENTS
|. ECONOMY RECORD
Taft Insists That Government Be
! Run on Sound Business Basis.
! HIS PROGRESSIVE POLICY

/, His Personal Efforts to Reduce Cost of
Efficient Service Bring Results-5usi-
:; ness Methods Appied-Economy and
Efficiency Commission Fought by
! Democrats.
' President Taft more than any of his
predecessors in the White House has
given strict attention to placing the
government upon a business basis as
regards its receipts and expenditures.
Economy and efficiency became one of
the cardinal policies of his administra-
tiOn as soon as he entered upon the
presidency, and it was well for the
country that this was so. for his ad-
ministratiOn inherited a deficit in the
treasury of $5S,OOO,O0O, which has now
been transformed into a surplus of
s30,000,000. The average citizen and
taxpayer will be interested in this
fact, because the problem which con-
tronted the president at the outset. al
though upon a gigantic scale, was
Similar to that of the ordinary shop
keeper or business man, farmer or
wage Garner or even housewife who
is called upon to make both ends
meet either in business or in the
home.
By law the secretary of the treasury
is called upon every year to submit to
congress in December the Estimates"
Of governmental expenditures for the
next fiscal year, beginning the follow
ing July l. As congress has TO DrO-
vide the money to run the government,
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
CONVICT ASKS $4,000

Hurt In Prison, He Wants State to
Pay.
Thomas ]. Mccarthy filed a claim
of $4,000 against the state of New YORK
in Albany
While confined in Clinton prison and
working in the carpenter shop he had
the middle finger of his left hand cut
off by a circular saw, which he alleged
was defective. Upon this he bases his
claim.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29

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Flnds $1,000; eets ST Reward

For returning a handbag containing
nearly $4,000 in bills, which an aged
Kittery woman had lost in South Ber-
wick. Me, Charles E. Chapman. a
conductor on the Atlantic Shore Line
railroad, received a reward of 81. The
handbag was found in the aisle OF one
of Chapman's cars.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29
Special! SlgGiaI!! SlGGiaI!II!

We have opened a Ladies and
Gents Tailoring Parlor. We do
all kind Of altering on Ladies and
Gents clothes.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29

the back are also symptoms that tell YOU
the kidneys and bladder are out of order
and need attention.
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swa1np-Root, the great kidney remedy.
fulhlls almost every wish in correcting
rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys,
liver, bladder aid every part of the urinary
passage. Corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overconies that unpleasant re
cessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
immediate effect Of Swamp Root is
soon realized. It stands the highest be-
cause ofits remarkable o.
health restoring prop s7ss5TFl7' q 5sGi;.,l -
critics. If you need .s.5s5ssss..
medicine you should :s.sssss
have the best. Sold by sgsssggEEi.
druggists in fifty-cent NJ q
and one-dollar sizes. Homs % ss.al,' ,ss,.'
You may have a sample bottle sent free
bymail. Address DR.. Ki1mer & Co, ,Bing-
hamton, N. Y. Mention this paper and
the name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, and the address, Binghamton,
N ~, on every bottle.
Milford chronicle., 1912-03-29


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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09
An Old Friend Protected
Out of Sight

Perhaps YOU have noticed that the old
fashioned brown sugar, like our mothers
used to cook with, has practically disap-
peared from the market.
There is a reason. This reason con-
sists of a Joker in the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law, in the form of a color test
known as Ouch Standard No. 16."
When this test was fixed it meant the
barring out of the old fashioned brown
sugar, cheap and good, and that is why
this brand of sugar has disappeared from
the market. Whenever a tariff bill is in
the making the agents of the sugar trust
are OH hand to see that the Ouch Stan
dard" is maintained, and they had no
difficulty in getting the makers of the
Payne-Aldrich law to accede to their
wishes.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09

The Initiative and Referendum League
Of Allen County has entered upon a
strenuous campaign for the iniative and
referendum, holding its first meeting at
Lima Over twenty meetings will be
held in that county, and speakers will be
furnished for picnics, family reunions,
church clubs and wherever opportunity
presents. There seems to be no organ
lied effort in Mercer County to awaken
the people to the Importance Of the club
they may vote into their own hands to
enable them to have finger in their own
government and retain some control
over their own servants. The people Of
Mercer County should not forget to vote
YES on Number 6 on September 3 if
they vote for no other amendment to the
State constitution.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09

coastwise traffic and imposition Of equal
tolls for all other ships Of whatever
nation.
Navy TO be built up steadily until re-
duetion Of ornaments is made possible by
international agreement.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced the Rep
ublican and Democratic parties as
''husks, 4" with no real soul in either, -
and as "boss-ridden and privilege con-
trolled." Heasserted that the chief con-
cern Of the privileged interests" was to
defeat the new party, and that they cared
little whether they beat il with President
Taft or Woodrow Wilson, regarding the
difference between them as trivial.
81 hope we shall win, he said, "and
/ believe that If we can wake the people
to what tie fight really means that we
shall win"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09

THE DBNocRAT is in receipt of a copy
Of a 100 page book, edited by Allen Rip
ley Foote and sent broadcast over the
State by the INTERESTS, the State
Board Of Commerce being its logical
head, Foote being the paid tool.
The book takes up the proposed
amendments to the State constitution
and gives the plutocratic view of them.
The amendments that give the people a
voice in their affairs and most likely to
be of service to them are the most Sc
verely attacked by Mr.. Foote That,
however, is what he is paid for. The
INTERESTS fear and hate the Initiative
and Referendum as the devil does holy
water The people could use it as a club
over their lawmakers, and legislation
Objectionable to the people wouldn't be
worth much to the Interests, and the
Foote wall shows how we'll they know it.
The Interests are very solicitious about
the people-fear they will hurt them
selves, and to those who understand
their game their antics are very amusing.
The plea against giving women the
ballot is also very strenuous-there is so
many working people with votes now
and they seem to be getting their eyes
open-that they are a menace without
adding the mothers, wives and sisters Of
the common herd as voters. The WHIS-
KY INTERESTS the most outspoken
of the bunch which Foote is working for,
has announced its opposition to women
having the franchise-it would take
something more than a little red liquor
to corral the votes of the mothers,
wifes and daughters of men who spend
their last cent for booze. The Whisky
Interests know their business.
So it is along the line.
Do you know yours, Mr.. Voter?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09
RooseueH's Compliment
TO Wilson

Mr.. Roosevelt, in the outlook, pays a
deserved compliment to Gov Wilson
when he quotes with approval the follow
ing sentiment expressed by the demo-
cratic candidate:
mo one pretends to find a reason for
not voting for Mr.. Wilson in the char
acter or in the ideals of Mr.. Wilson him
self. It is plain that he approaches pub
lie questions from the point of view Of
public interest. What he said the other
day in speech at Atlantic City is gen
uine expression of his spirit. He was
speaking of an issue raised in that place
by lawlessness and corruption, of the
need of moral pride, and of the willing
ness to fight evil at all costs. There
can be, said Mr.. Wilson, so long as we
are honest men, no quarter with any man
who deals privately or publicly in a pract-
ice that is unrighteous: a man who lays
himself, his life, down for that purpose,
ought to die more happy than he lived.
Life is a little thing. Life lasts only a
little while, and if it goes out lighted
with the torch of glory, it is better than
if it had lasted upon dull level a thous-
and years. ...... That is the test Of man
hood, it is the test of humanity, and it is
the glory and sign of Christianity, that
man will lay down his life for another,
no matter what the consequences may be
to himself, either in this world or in the
next.
"These words, especially as they come
from a man Just chosen to receive the
highest gift in the hands of his party,
presents view of public service that
should actuate all men in public life.
They are a pledge Of his own purpose.
SO far as the country at large knows
it, Mr.. Wilson'S record since he entered
public life two years ago has not been
inconsistent with his lofty purpose or his
high character. While in Office he has
been not only the chef executive of his
state, but also the leader of his party in
the state"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09
More of the Taft
Sacred Courts

Why should democrats serve four times
as long in prison as republicans when
both are convicted Of the same crime'
This question is now being asked all over
the state.
Senator Huffman aud Rodney Diegle,
sergant-at-arms of the Ohio Senate, are
both democrats.
Senator Andrews, rich and with hosts
of friends, is a republican. All three OF
these men we're convicted of accepting a
two hundred dollar bribe in the legis-
lature.
A republican judge passed sentence
upon each Of these men. The democrats
got three years, the republican got nine
months. Andrews and Huffman had each
a vote to sell, Diegle was only an errand
boy who did as he was told by his super
iors. Diegle had no vote in the legis-
lature that he could barter. He is now
in prison. Some people think it strange
that thousands of voters are demanding
the recall of judges. The moral Of this
story seems to be "Be a republican.
Why the difference? Why one standard
Of justice and punishment for democrats
and different standard for republicans
Hundreds of republicans are asking this
question also. Putnam County Sentinel.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09

tions as the interstate commerce commits
sion regulates railroads. Corporations
which come voluntarily under this COM
mission and obey its orders to be immune
from prosecution under the Sherman
law Those which fail to do 50 to be
subject to prosecution, and if the prose-
cution is successful through dismember-
ment, the constituent parts not to be
allowed to do business save under condi-
tions laid down by the industrial COM
mission. Conditions determining mono
poly prices to be controlled where these
concerns deal with the necessaries Of life
Adoption of number of measurs to
secure social and industrial justice to
the wage workers" Included in the
list are establishment by law immediate
ly of minimum wage scales for women,
minimum wage commissions to fix stand
ards of wages for all workers, old age
pensions, a living wage, which Colonel
Roosevelt defines as an amount sufficient
to provide for education, recreation, care
for immature members of the family,
during sickness, and accumulation of
reasonable saving for old age; prohibi-
ton of night labor for women and child
ren, eight-hour shifts for workmen in in
dustries in which men are employed "a
hours a day; national and state working
mems compensation laws, guarantee by
law of one day'a rest in every seven, old
age insurance and insurance against
sickness, invalidism and involuntary
employment, the cost of such insurance
to be distributed among employer, en-
ploye and perhaps the people at large.
Legislation to increase popular control
over governmental agencies, including
a national law fer presidential primaries;
election of United States senators by di-
rect vote, the short ballot, corrupt prac-
tees acts applying to primaries as well
as elections, qualified adoption of the
initiative. referendum and recall.
Woman suffrage.
Strengthening of the pure food law.
Establishment of a national health de-
partment.
Creation of permanent tariff commits
sion to study the effects of protection
and the relations of the tariff to labor.
Col. Roosevelt declares against blanket
revisions of the tariff, saying that changes
should be made schedule by schedule.
Measures to relieve the high cost of
living, among which are suggested eli
mination Of middleman, legislation to
stop speculation which initiates prices,
assistance of the farmer by state and nat
ional governments, use Of improved. .bhsi-
ness methods, good roads, reclamation Of
arid and swamp lands and an expert ex-
animation into any tariff schedule which
seems to increase the cost of living.
Development by the federal govern
ment of the Mississippi river as a deep
waterwaw. by use of the plant employed
ON the Panama canal upon completion Of
the canal.
Fertilization of the Panama canal.
Free passage through the canal for
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09
Cost ofLiOing Scars
HIGHER

The cheerful announcement is made
by the Wooden Trust and the Leather
Trust that the cost Of clothing and Of
leather goods will advance. Thus con-
vincing testimony is borne Of the futile
and nonsensical nature Of the trust-bust-
ing methods which all parties have hith-
erto pursued. Lawsuits and criminal
prosecutions do not prevent trusts from
pursuing the even tenor Of their way.
The excuse given for the increased
cost is high wages in the wooden industry
and shortage in production Of wool and
hides. In the light Of disclosures made
at Lawrence, the claim Of high wages is
an insult to the intelligence Of the Amer
iean people. There may be truth in the
claim Of shortage in the supply Of wool
and hides. To raise sheep and cattle
large tracts Of land are needed. The
public domain once afforded unparalleled
opportunities to sheep and cattle raisers
TO raise flocks and herds. But the gov
ernment has allowed this domain to pass
mainly into the hands of monopolists
who demand heavy toll of industry for
the privilege Of IFS use. The result has
been to cheek stock raising so that the
cencus of 1910 actually shows smaller
number of sheep and cattle on farms and
ranges than in 1900.
The protective tariff has ably supple
mented land monopoly in the checking Of
industry. 1t has prevented making up
the deficiency in domestic production.
Duties on wool, woolens, domestic ami
mails and leather have helped to make
good the trusts excuse. Hide we're put
OH the free list three years ago, but as
long as the duty remaius on leather and
Heather products, free hides can not bene-
fit the consumer.
The American people havel long shown
as great love for land monopoly and for
protective tariffs as they have expressed
hate and aversion for trusts and high
cost of living. But they can not get rid
of one without getting rid Of the other.
They may rail at trusts and high prices
and pass all the drastic regulative and
prohibitory laws they wish, but as long
as they allow tariffs and land monopoly
to exist so long will they suffer from the
evil effects.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09
ProtectionistS Find a
Mem Field

The protective spirit, as Buckle wei
named it, finds many manifestations
graduating all the way from protective
tariff to franchise monopoly, and from
the closed shop to the licensed lawyer or
doctor; but one of the strangest yet noted
is that discovered by a writer i'll a recent
number of Lippincotts. The claim is
made that burglary in the United States
furnishes employment for $1,000 honest
people; which, allowing 5000 a year
to each, means a salary list of S45,
600, 900. And after showing in detail
how conservative this claim is, the writer
asks: "What would become of these men
and women and all the millions of inves-
ted capital should the burglar hearken tc
the teachings of morality and religion,
cease stealing and turn to honest pur-
suits?'
Here is a clean-cut proposition.
There may be some excuse for the con-
fusion of the average citizen when he at
tempts to unravel the protective tariff
snarl-for there have been so many inter-
ested in ''mussing it up'-but this is a
simple, concrete statement that should
come within the mental grasp of ali.
Behold! If there were no burglars there
would be no need of the "25, 900 good
American citizens earning their liveli-
hood as private watchmen." Nor would
there be any occasion for the manufacture
and sale of the burglar alarms, burglar
proof safes, &c, &c. Hence, it is as
plain as a pikestaf that since it is desir-
able that honest men should be employed,
burglars are a benefit to society.
The converse also is true:
Whoever reforms a burglar, or in any
way discourages burglary, strikes at the
welfare of seventy-fve thousand honest
American citizens. Arid as it is a fact
recognized by all Protectionists that the
Freetrade advocates in this country are in
thgpay of the Golden Club and other
foreign organizations that are seeking to
destroy our industry system, so it's equal
ly clear that the men and women who
are engaged in the work of reforming
burglars are in the pay Of enemies Of this
Republic. -Stoughton Cooley in The
Public.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-08-09

In no other respect has the majority of
the Democratic caucus in the lower house
of Congress served the country
better than by calling a halt upon
the insane notion that this ma
ton must produce battleships as a
hen must lay eggs-so many so often.
This battleship craze, so far as it really
has any place in public opinion anywhere,
is prompted and promoted by battleship
builders. Take away contractor S profits
and the profits offnanciers in connection
with the annual output of battleships,
and there would soon be little demand for
them, either III this countryo or any other.
The Public.