Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-10-10
REPUBLICANS
extravaganza
Government eost More Thar
Doubled. Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD
Startling Figures Which Show Tina,
the Cost of Our National Existence
and the High Cost Of Living Must
Be Reduced.

dho the figh Cost OF livina Must
Be Reduced.
Under a proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people of the United States would save
s2,G0o,0C0,0OO each year, or over s1O(
per family on manufactured goods
alone.
President Taft's vetoes of lie wool
tariff bill and the steel tari1 measure
passed " Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT s65o,oo0,ooo PER
ANNUM.
The cost of conducting the federal
government MORE THAN DOUBLED
between the close of President Cleye
lands second administration (Demo
cratic) and the beginning of President
Rooseyelts second administration (le
publican).
As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SEIZED
ULES the people of the United States
pay tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN
TY-EIGHT PER CENT on food ano
ordinary household articles used in the
home by every family, rich and poor.
The total cost of running the federal
government in 1860 was $55 900, 900.
The amount appropriated at single
session Of the sixty-first congress TO,
the fiscal year 1911-$l ,O27, 133, 446.44-
was more than double the amount
1854 .496, 055.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both ses
sions of the F1fty-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 tie
latter - $3.s42,203, 57715- more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz. $1,s71 ,59.s57.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid
ed for in congress under Presideni
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap
preparations - s1,o44.4G1 ,857.12 - was
reached
President Taft's estimate to the las
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was 5000,
4 648, O26.55.
N N~1o TIL
penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Presi
dent Cleveland's administration Dem
ocratic) were Only $S30,861 ,551 go NOR,
than President Taft's (Republican) es
innate of the amount necessary to GOV
er the expenses of ONE YEAR o
President Taft's administration.
Congressman John ]. Fitzgerald 9
New York, a Democrat and chairma'
Of the committee on appropriations, Il
addressing the house Aug. 26, 1872 O.
the subject Of appropriations sale
Thoughtful men have watched wit
alarm the rapid increase in the cost @
government in the United States" II
further said that two causes seem re
sponsible for many present evils:
zone, the UNFAIR AND UNJUS'
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by whic
an undue share of income by thos
whose circumstances in life are nc
considered more than reasonably con
Portable Is taken through our custom
laws for the support of our govern
ment; the other, the difficulty or inabi
ity to readjust our system Of taxatio
and to remove many taxes from tn
necessaries of life, SO long as the GOV
EMINENT is EXTRAVAGANZA
CONDUCTED, or the instrumental
ties provided for the conduct of tn
public service are either inefficient o
are not utilized SO as to render tn
most effective and comprehensive re
suits"
| Mr.. Fitzgerald then called attentio
to the fact that the Democratic part
pledged itself if intrusted with powe
to do two things-REDUCE TARIFF
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUE
Lie EXPENDITURES by eliminatin
waste in administration and the abol
ton of useless inexcusable offices.