Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-03
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The Cost Of our military.
the spesoh delivered in the tinted States senate on
April 1912, this subject 1t would De an eye
opener to the most of them. The appropriation Tor
the army expenses was the and Senator
Sharp Williams of Mississippi, was the speaker.
What said must be greatly shortened for the Coun
allude it, in the interest of the taxpayers
He brought forward facts which proved that while
our population increased 81 cent expendi-
lures 400 eent-four times as much or
Since 1909 there has been reduction in reyenus
with increase in expenses Of s120O0O-
OO0 We actually going the bankrupt gait spending
Said Senator Williams: Counting each American
family at i've members each family is taxed on an
States government this state taxes municipal
taxes and we will discover what tax-ridden people
United states and the natural increase population
spending billion of dollars, and every dollar
of it first be collected out Of the citizenship OF
the United States
with the immense amount appropriated for pensions
this has appropriated an additional
sT5OO00OO But it the high cost of the army which
appealed to my indignation, and the increase IN new
Offices in the government which reached the enormous
of nearly 10000 in two years-new positions with
increased pay, which extorted more than S1o,OooOoe
extra
Mr. williams said that the cost of the house of COM
mons in England was only 100000 per annu ana the
house of lords S212OOO, and the had 1900
members expenses for and we had less than 400
in house and senate yet our public printing Dill was
1t costs nearly 100000 to support single regiment
infantry in the United States. cavalry regiment
costs s62s7SS The additional the horses. sup
pose. The appropriation for cavalry horses in 1919
only 1000 horses in the army, and only 500 to
regiment and 10 regiments Of cavalry Every soldier
the government $1,000 per annum, and this is in
time peace. includes pay his Clothes sup
and travelling when ordered around and
there $4,000 in the army.
Said Mr. Wiliems: 81 lay down the proposition that
this is the most exravagant government that the white
earth today and with the least excuse for large ex-
penditures CAPITA exayagant in the expenditure Of
money with an extrayaganee that is growing day by
employees, additional
ments of the United states The net disbursements in
1878 were $2ss 100000 in 1850 s2sOOOO.OOO in 1898
S444o0OooO Gin round numbers), in 1908 s66oooeooo
These the ordinary not counting public
buildings and other extras.
i wish had time and space to copy all Mr.. VIII
lams said of our world powering' eforts-the war
Spain, Philippine capture, makes good
reading in far giving insight into the drain
from the strong box Of nation while all
pitiful record Of waste and incompetency. will
close with more sentences II have contempt for
anybody, individual nation, who does not go along
and attend his business and let other peoples
alone. have just great contempt for the white
mans undertaking to rule the brown in the brown
mans country, have for any sort OF legislation
looking toward making the brown or the black man
rule the white man in the white mans country"
And so do ], and say Amen to that proposition.
MARINE DISASTERS WITH WHITE STAB LINE
In the 1898 the steamship Mohegan left her
dock in England, starting on voyage to New York
She had So frstcass passengers who sat down to an
elegant dinner two and one-haf hours after passing
Eddystone lighthouse It was beautiful clear day,
and most able and experienced captain with II years
of active service behind him in the ships company
There we're eight large boats hanging from the davts
The captain with second and third officers were on
The captain to be examining the chart
The captain known to be SOBER careful and cap
able man. Everything was lovely when the passengers
filed into the dining saloon
Before the dinner hardly begun slight Jar
felt grating sound, the electric lights went out
and within a few short minutes 40 of the SO passen-
gers and disappeared in the relentless also SO Of
the ships company, and officers went down
also Still in sight England's shores, the calm
days with captain who had crossed the ocean
200 times the Mohegan went TO pieces and
of the eight nfeboats only had time to be launch
ed and the remaining seven went to the bottom also
The board of inquiry said, "a mistake in steering
the wrong course" 1t was the captains mistake and
ne died with the victims. The Michigan was lost by
striking the "AIanacle Rocks" near Falmouth and
lands End They we're well eharted. and every cap
tain understood their situation and their danger
over 100 people were suddenly sucked downward in
ten minutes after the Mohegan struck the Manacle
Tn 1879 the White Star Atlantic steamship suddenly
collapsed carrying down passengers and crew No
body saved there wireless service then Inc
Navorice on her second trip disappeared with all
board It would that the White Star Line has
been strangely hoodooed
THE VALUE OF ETHER.
It was in 1914 that ether was first used to pull
TOOTH that the telegraph Of Morse was put
in operation Just consider what those Two es9iiea
have worked out in the worlds history
But there terrible cutlery against the use Ct
shock of pain beneficial to the patient and there
was hue outcry from many puiplts that pain vas
doned but the outcry hurt the pulpit while 1t con
WINGED the patient that immunity from pain was
great help to recovery.
To pursue this thought its final it would make
God the originator of pain for moral reasons and ms
pulpit claim par with some OF the Iar-le'a"u
doctrines used in martyr persecution.
The conquest Of pain greater discovery
than wireless teegraphy, although the time may come
that human beings talk to each other 100 miles
apart nothing but Gods blue ether atmosphere
to convey the words to waiting
The use Of anestheties has revolutonized the sci
ence Of surgery and of the hardest features Of
the during the civil was the scarcity Of
chloroform in treating the wounded. When skilful
surgeon able show that patient could be kept
asleep and of the scalpels use--a boon was
given to mankind that is simply without or