Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-10-05
REPUBLICANS
ExTRAvAGANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD.

Startling Figures which Show That tho
Cost Of Our National Existence and
tho High Cost of Living Must Be
Reduced.
Under proper downward revision
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people OF the United States would save
$2y000.000,0O0 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 Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT $e5ooOo.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
Roosevelt'R second administration (Re-
publican).
AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
ASAAA GILMAN IahArr oOhED-
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 WIS 100000.
The amount appropriated at single
session of the Sixty first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1 OPT, 1873, 446. A.
was more than double the amount
.$954, 496. 055. 13--appropriated for the
fiscal years 1907 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 APP
propriated during the four years Of the
latter = 1892, 2O3, 577.15 : was more
four years Mr.. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, $1,871, 509.8 57.47.
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 Tafts estimate to the last
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1.040.-
GAS. 026.55
In other words, governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration Dem
ocrntic) were only $S3O,s61 ,551.92 more
than President Taft's Republican) esti-
mate of the amount necessary to cover
the expenses of ONE YEAR of Presi-
dent Taft's administration.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald of
New York, n Democrat and chairman
OF the committee on appropriations. in
addressing 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-
sponsible for many present evils:
"One. 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 taxa ton
and to remove many taxes from the
necessaries of life, SO 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 II intruste6 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, inexcusabIe offices.