Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-10-03
REPUBLICANS
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.

Be Reduced.
Under a proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people Of the United States would save
$4,000, 100000 each year, or over 500
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,OOOOOO PER
ANNUM.
The cost of conducting the federal
government MO . 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 SCHBD-
ULES the people OF the United States
pay tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN
TY-EIGHT PER CENT on food and
ordin;-y household articles used in the
home by every family, rich and poor.
The total cost of running the federal
government in 1860 was 100000.
The amount appropriated at single
session of the Sixty-first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1 ,027, 133, AGA
was more than double the amount
1884 1876, o55.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses-
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 Presi-
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap-
propriated during the four years of the
latter - $3,S42,203, 577.15-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, .s71,5s,s57.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid-
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap-
propriations $ ,o44, 401, 857.12 - was
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the last
session of congress for government
648, 026.55.
In other words, governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Presi-
dent CIeveland's administration (Dem-
ocratic) were only $S3o,S61 ,551 go more
than President Taft's (Republican) es-
Innate Of the amount necessary to Gov
er the expenses of ONE YEAR OF
President Taft's administration.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald OF
New York, Democrat and chairman
of the committee on appropriations, In
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-
sponsibie for many present evils:
zone, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST
| - Elm Or lAAA1 AoAN W "hANH
an undue share of income by those
whose circumstances in life are not
considered more than reasonably com
Portable is taken through our customs
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, 80 long as the GOV
EMINENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLI
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 part!
pledged itself If intrusted with power
to do two things-REDUCE TARIFF
DUTIES AND RBTRENCH PUB
Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli
ton of useless. inexcusable offices.