The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-16

Ee Reduced.
Under proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people CT the United States would save
s2,00O,0C0,0O0 each year, or over 800
per family on manufactured goods
alone
President Taft's vetoes Of the wool
tariff bill and the steel tariff measure
passed ty a Democratic house COST
TIE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT ss50,O00,0O0 PER
ANNUM.
Tie 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 SCHED-
ULES the people Of the United States
pay 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 $55.oeo,ooe.
The amount appropriated at a single
session of the Sixty-6rst congress for
the fiscal year 1s11-s1, ,027 ,123,44s.4+-
was more than double the amount
1854 ,496, ,055. 5.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 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-
proprlated during the four years Of the
latter - $3,S42,203,577.15-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm--v1Z, Si1,oS,oot.4|.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid.
ed fer in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap-
preparations -$ 1904, ,401, ,S57.12 - was
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the last
session Of congress for government
. support for the fiscal year was 81 ,040..
s4S,02e.55. s
In other words, governmental ex.
penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Presi.
dentiCleveland's administration Oem.
ccratic) were only sS30,S61 ,551. .92 more
than President Taft's (Republican) es'
innate of the amount necessary to COW
er the expenses Of ONE YEAR OF
President Taft's administration. =.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald OF
New York, a Democrat and chairman
of the committee on appropriations, in
addressing the house Aug. rs, 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.
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 fife 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-
fly 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 or
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
Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli-
ton OF useless. inexcusable Offices.
The Republicans talk about tariff
revision and vet when q Democratic