Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-07
THE cLAMoR FOR
FEDERAL AID.

/ The CLAMoR FOR
FEDERAL AID.
In speaking o sthe increasing teal
ency to ask Federal aid for all sorts
of schemes and enterprises the
Worlds Work says:
Ought the federal government Ia
give money out OF it's treasury 70
build roads, TO conduct schools, and
( to conduct the Peoples farms?
/ So successfully has the farmer vote
been played up that we are in grave
danger OF two Of those projects 1t is a
proper function CT the government to
maintain a road laboratory and to
1 have q certain number OF engineers to
shCw any community how it may hest
construct its roads ont Of the most
easily accessible material II is a prop
er function 1.-THE government 20 main
tain Bureau OF Education which
gives information about schools,
school houses, school methods and
such like subjects. II is a proper func-
ton o. the government TO maintain
farm demonstration service which
shall show a farmer in a reighbornoOd
how he may improve his methods.
All these things the government now
does But it does hot give money to
build roads nor to build schools, nor
20 maintain them (except certain old
land grants1. nor does it cultivate the
farmers land for him"
In the course of some comments
on the foregoing the Progressive
Farmer says:
III the money simriy came from the
air, as so many agitators try to make
IT appear in urging government APP
preparations, there are many things we
might favor. but we must forever keep
in mind the greai truth which Senator
TnlmaH emphasizes in letter NOW be-
fore the writer. The National Govern
ment has nothing Ia give except what
1t collects by taxation
-'TEis is the big fact which our
farmers and the public generally now
realize. Because we have paid our
national taxes indirectly, we have
heretofore frequently not understood
that we were paying them NJ all. The
tariff tax last year was estimated az
$40 for each American family
Whether direct or indirect a tax is
a tax ana the masses have to pay it
To carry on the machinery Of the
federal government costs enormously.
The various appropriations are gigan-
tic-snd growing larger Ell the time.
During national campaigns We hear
much about retrenchment and reform,
bat with every succeeding congress
there is a call .or bigger appropri4-
tons and a mere insistent demand for
federal money for all sorts of pur-
poses. practical and impractical, says
the Courier-5ournal. The public gen
orally may realize, as the Progress
i've Farmer says. that The Government
has nothing to give except what It.
collects BY taxation. but very con-
siderable portion OF the public seems
TO lock upon the federal treasury as
a vast eleemosynary iusti.ation 10 be
drawn upon without limit Tor the ben
n. Of any dreamer who has dream
or any schemer who has scheme.
A tariff tax Of S110 a year fo- every
American family is an exceedingly
heavy burden upon he people. No one
escapes paving a part of The bill. for
the tariff taxes the consumer from the
cradle to the grave, taxes him "a goiE
ar comm g: taxes him where DC.
IS and where he amt: taxes him not
once a year or twice year. but every
dsx in The year There is complaint
cHthe hiSa cost q living THERE Il
elanor for ,tarit, reflection ana with
it all There is a howIifor federal aid
That is as incessant as the tarir tax.
There is no reason why the govern
ment should build roads and schools
fer communities that should build