Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-10-10
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.

Under 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,00O,0o0 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 SCHED- |
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 100000.
The amount appropriated at a single
session of the Sixty-first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1 OPT 1873, AGA
was more than double the amount
1854 ,496, 055. 13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses-
sions of the Fffty-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 - 1884,, 200, SIT 15-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, $1,S71 ,59,857,47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid-
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in APP
preparations - 1904 ,401, 85712 - was
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the last
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1,O4O,-
: GAS ,026.55.
! In other words, governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi-
[ dent Cleveland's administration Dem
ocratic) We're only $S30,S61 ,551.92 more
than President Taft's (Republican) es-
innate of the amount necessary to COW
. err the expenses of ONE YEAR of
President Taft's administration.
i, Congressman John J. Fitzgerald Of
, New York, Democrat and chairman
, of the committee on appropriations, In
l addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912, on
! the subject Of appropriations said.
Thoughtful men have watched with
q alarm the rapid increase In the cost OF
a government in the United States" He
0 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
g whose circumstances in life are not
e considered more than reasonably COM
$ Portable is taken through our customs
s laws for the support of our govern
8 ment. the other, the difficulty or inabil
s ity to readjust our system Of taxation
y and to remove many taxes from the
). necessaries of life. so long as the GOV
h ERNMFNT IS EXTRAVAGANZA
d CONDUCTED. or the instrumental
- ties provided for the conduct of the
& public service are either inefficient OF
IS are not utilized so as to render the
l. most effective and comprehensive re
h suits"
t. Mr.. Fitzgerald then called attention
m to the fact that the Democratic party
pledged itself II intrusted with power
20 to do two things-REDUCE TARIFF
d. DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB
m Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminating
lp waste in administration and the aboli
C. ton OF useless. inexcusable offices