The daily sentinel., 1912-10-23
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 proper downward revision
OF the Republican tariff schedules the
people of the United States would save
$1,000. 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 $3.50, 100000 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
koosevelt's second administration IRE
publicanD.
As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHED-
uLES the people OF the United States
pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN
TfEIGHT PER CENT on food and
ordinary household articles used in the
home by every family rich and poor.
The total cost OF running he federal
government in 1860 was s55 .O00, 600
The amount appropriated at a single
session of the SiXty-first congress for
the fiscal year 19lt-s1 ,027, 1873 ,446,44-
was more than double the amount
1884 ,496 ,055 1S-appropri for the
fiscal years S97 and 1898 at both ses
sions of the Fifty-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 - s3,S42, ,2OS, ,57715-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, Sl,S7L.59.S57,47.
For 1910. the last fiscal year provld-
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt. the highwater mark in ap-
preparations - Sl.O44.4Ol,S5712 - was
reached.
President Tafts estimate to the last
session OF congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1,000
Gas. S.026.55.
In other words. governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi-
dent ClevaIaud's administration Dem-
ocraticl We're only $3.50, 0,S6l .55l 90 more
( than President TaGt's tRepublcanl es.
innate of the amount necessary TO GOV
or the expenses of ONE YEAR of
President Tsft's administration.
Congressman John ]. 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 tho United States He
further said that two causes seem re
spousiblo for many present evils
"One, the UNFAIR AND UNJUST
/ SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which
an undue share OF income by those
whose circumstances in life are not
considered more than reasonably corn
Portable is taken through our customs
laws for the support of our govern
meut; the other. the difficulty or inabil-
ity TO readjust our system of taxation
and to remove many taxes from the
necessariss Of life. so long as the GOV
EMINENT is EXTRAVAGANZA
CCNDUCTED, or the Instrumental.
tics provided for the conduct of the
public service are either inefficient or
are not utilized so as to render the
most effective and comprehensive re-
suits
MIR. Fitzgerald then called attention
to the fact that the Democratic party
pledged itself IL intristed with power
TO do two things REDUCE TARIFF
| DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB
Lie ENpENDIruRES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli-
tlnn of useless. ipe1cusable Offices.
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