The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-10-03
REPUBLICANS
EXTRAvAGANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD.

Startling Figures Which Show That thu
Cost of Our National Existence ane
the High Cost of Living Must 8,
Reduced.
Under proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules til,
people of the United States would savt
$2,000,000,OO0 each year, or over $lOt
per family on manufactured good>
alone
President Taft's vetoes of the WOO
tariff bill and the steel tariff measure
passed by a Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITEI,
STATES ABOUT $65O000.000 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 (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 1860 was $55,OOO,0OO.
The amount appropriated at single
session of the Sixty-tirst congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1 ,027, 1873, ,446 44-
was more than double the amount
$954 4,496,05 055.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1893 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 mp
propriated during the four years OF the
latter - $3,S42, ,203 3,577l5 - was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr. Cleveland was at the
helm-yiz, $1.S71 ,509,S5747.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provided
for in congress under President Roose
welt, the highwater mark In appropria
tions-$1 ,044, ,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.-
G4S.026.55
In other words, governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS Of Presi- |
dent Cleveland's administration dem
ocratic) were only $S3O.S6l ,551.92 more
than President Taft's (RepublicanJ esti-
mate of the amount necessary to cover
the expenses of ONE YEAR of Presi
dent Taft's administration
Congressman John ]. Fitzgerald Of /
New York, Democrat aud chairman
Of the committee on appropriations. in
the house Aug. 20. 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
sponslble for many present evils:
Zone, the 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 com.
Portable Is taken through our customs
laws for the support of our govern
ment; the other, the difficulty or inabil-
lty to readjust our system of taxation
and to remove many taxes from the
necessaries Of life, so long as the GOV
ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY
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
% the fact that the Democratic party
pledged itself If intrusted with power
% do two things-REDUCE TARIFF
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB
IIC EXPENDITURES by eliminating
waste in administration and the aboli-
ion of useless, inexcusable offices.