The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-10-10
REPUBLICANS RI U|!|Bl|L ||cl; ms
extravaganza
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.

and the High Cost Of Living Must
Be Reduced.
Under q proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people Of the United States would save
$2,000,0C0,000 each year, or over 500
per family on manufactured goods
alone.
President Taft's vetoes Of he wool
tariff bill and the steel tariff measure
passed by Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT $65OOOO,000 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
Roosevelt's second administration Gre
publican).
AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SEIZED.
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 s55,000,00O.
The amount appropriated at single
session Of the Sixty-f1rst congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1, 027 ,133, 446.44-
was more than double the amount
1854 ,496, O55.13-appropria for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both SEES
sions of the F1fty-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 Prest
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap
propriated during the four years OF the
latter - 2O3,577.15-was more
than double that appropriated IN the
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, $1,S71,59,S574.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap
preparations - 81, O44 .401, S57.12 - wal
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the last
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was 81 ,04Os
GAS, O26.55.
! In other words, governmental e0
I penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Prea
dent Cleveland's administration dem
ocratic) were only $830B61, 551 80 more
than President Taft's (Republican) es
innate Of the amount necessary to GOV,
er the expenses Of ONE YEAR o.
President Taft's administration. j
Congressman John ]. Fitzgerald Of
New York, a Democrat and chairman
Of the committee on appropriations, IN
addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912, or
the subject OF appropriations said
Thoughtful men have watched with
alarm the rapid increase In the cost Of
government in the United States" HI
further said that two causes seem re
sponsible for many present evils:
zone, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which
an undue share Of income by those
whose circumstances in life are moi
considered more than reasonably com
Portable Is taken through our CUSTOM
laws for the support of our govern
ment; the other, the difficulty or inabil
ity to readjust 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 OF
are not utilized so as to render the
most effective and comprehensive re
suits"
Mr.. Fitzgerald then called attention
to the fact that the Democratic party
pledged itself if intrusted with power
to do two things-REDUCE TARIFF
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB
LIC EXPENDITURES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli
ton of useless. inexcusable Offices.