Duncan Arizonian., 1913-01-01
EpUBLICAuS'
extravaganza
Government Cost More Thar
Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS GREAT RECORD
Startling Figures Which Show Th1 /
the Cost of Our National Existen /.
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
$2,OOO,OC0,000 each year, or over $lO0
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
IHE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT $650,OOO,OOO PER
ANNUM.
The cost of conducting the federal
government MORE THAN DOUBLED
between the close of President Cleve-
lands second administration Demo
crat1c) and the beginning of President
Roosevelt's second administration IRE
publican)
AS the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHEO-
| UIES 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 $55 900, 900
The amount appropriated at a single
| session of the Sixty-frst congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1, ,027, ,133 ,446 81
was more than double the amou t.
1854 ,496, ,055.1 appropriated for he
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
of the second administration of Pl ISL
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap-
propriated during the four years OF the
latter = $3.842, ,203, ,57715-was more
than double that appropriated in the
four years Mr. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz. $1,87159,8 ,857.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid-
ed for in congress under President
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap-
propriations - 81, ,O44, ,4O1 ,S5712 = was
reached.
President Taft's estimate to the last
session of congress for governm ent
support for the fiscal year was 81, ,040,-
648, ,026.55.
In other words, governmental ex-
penses for the FOUR YEARS of Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration Dem-
ocratic) were only $830,861 ,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, Democrat and chairman
of the committee on appropriations, in
addressing the house Aug. 26, 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:
Zone. the UNFAIR AND UNJUST
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which
an unQu0 snare OF IuCOu0 ny IuOS0
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-
ity to readjust our system of taxation
and to remove many taxes from the
necessaries of life, so long as the GOV
ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY
CONDUCTED, or the instrumentall-
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 attentioA
to the fact that the Democratic party
pledged itself if intrusted 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. inexcusable Offices