Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-10-09
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
S2,0OO,0G0,000 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 s65O,oOO,ooo 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
Reosevelt's second administration (Re-
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 1850 was $55.00O,O00.
The amount appropriated at single
session of the Sixty-first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-S1, ,O27, 49,. .44G.44-
was more than double the amount
1854 ,49S, S,055.13-eppropriated 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
O.. the second administration Of Preei-
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap-
propriated during the four years of the
latter - s3,Si2. 203,577.15-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr. Cleveland was at the
helm-Yiz, $1,S71,59,S57.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid.
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highweter mark in ap-
propriations 81, ,044, ,401, ,S57.12 - was
reached.
Sesident Taft's estimate to the last
Il bn of congress for government
Support for the fiscal year was 81 1,O4Or
64S, ,O26.55.
In other words, governmental e1-
penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration (Dem-
ocratic) were only sS3O,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:
"One, sne 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 CON-
Portable is taken through our customs
laws for the support OF our govern
ment; the other, the difficulty or irfabil-
ity to readjust our system OF taxation
and to remove many taxes from the
necessaries Of life, 50 long as the GOV
ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY
CONDUCTED, or the instrumentali-
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 othingsREDUCE TARIFF
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB
Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli-
ticn of useless. ineXcusable Offices.