New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-22
One Industry in Which There l
No Depression.

Nt.,,,. industries have suffered under me Nl'No"
administration Output has fallen Oh anu "'
nlovment has been slack. But there Is one IL
dus,rv which has not known single u'E VI VI
nression since Mr. Wilson took Office mat l. '"V
industry of dispensing the money III the l'u''"'
Treasury in directions in which Democratic "epio
,ortativcs and Senators think it will do them the
most good.
Times have never been better with the Spehue'S
in Congress than in the last sixteen months Even
before Mr. Wilson came into the PRESIDENCY 'ue'
scented prosperity ahead. His election was l'''
sbadovcd Nv the choice of Democratic HOUSE
- REPRESENTATIVES in 1910. When that House or
-anizel in 1911 it had brief wrestle with past
Denocatic professions of economy lhoSe pro-
eosiope were hurled without eulogy. and the Demo
ratio majority got enthusiastically together III
80, oerori to nush the federal eXpendures-coh-
,or,pod q few months before grossly eXtraVa-
INT 10 now high levels The ordinary eXpendi-
,,res Of the government had been reduced from
cc.oo ooooo in 1905 90 TO S6j4 100000 in 19ll-12
I'm, under the influence of the Houses reckless
-. "a, ordinary exDenditures for 1912-13 ran up
70 sss3 100000 and those for 1914 up to $780,
10000
According TO The Tribunes Washington dis
q
will RIM about s23OOOOOO ahead of this year
total For the first time the sum of all the ahnua'
concentrations will exceed S1.1OOO00,OOO In Tom
ceed's time his Billion Dollar Congress was de-
nnunced by Democratic economists as coiossai
.candal Now under Democratic rule we are De
inc educated up TO TWO Billion and Quarter
Congresses
# i one of the GraveSt failingS of the wilson
administration that it has never lifted niger 10
halt extravaganza at the Capitol The President
has dictated other legislation in its minutest de-
tails lie has told Congress what to do and what
not to do. and Congress has yielded Its judgment
10 his But on the question Of restraining eApen-
.iture he has been aS silent as churchyard. lie
has not tried to cooperate with Congress in fran
in, a rational budget. He has not worked TO re-
form the present wasteful system of improving
rivers and harbOrs. He has not threatened to veto
pork barrel" public building acts. Congress has
zone along draining the Treasury without LET or
hindrance from him In order 10 strengthen NM
self and get through his personal programme Of
legislation he has given all the pork hunters at
the Capitol free hand in planning their cam
paicns against the accumulationS in the Treasury.
While industry has groaned and the railroads
have been running short time and short earn
ings the great political industry of spending the
taxpayers contributions has fourished as never be
fore It's benefciares see no signs of hard
times about them and the President reads in their
smiling faces an assurance that the depression
which people talk about outside Washington Is
purely psychological How times be hard
when a Democratic Congress is spending more
money than spent before by any Congress:
There is a reckoning coming, however. The real
industries which have been Jared and joted,
have it in for the little inside political industry
which the President has protected and favored.
The people whose money has been wasted have
it in for the spenders. The sort Of prosperity
which Mr.. Wilson has fostered will fatten out 10
grease spot when they try TO spread it around
next fan at the polls.