Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-08-15
MORE FREIGHT FOR JONES.

Jones, the freighter. or rather the
freight payer, now has a Job that
promises TO hold him for quite while.
The expenses incident to the Mexican
affair and the European war loom
large, almost as large as II we were
at war ourselves, and the people, as
usual, must dig TO pay the bills. A
hundred million dollars deficit Is
threatened because Of the interruption
TO shipping and the consequent loss
In tariff revenues. The money must
be raised in some way. for as Toby
in Polly OF the Circus says, "the show
has got to go on" and special war
taxes will be levied TO raise II. Our
government has spent money lavishly.
extravagantly, recklessly, seemingly
without any thought Of the future, and
now we are up against It. II has stood
valIantly by the Baltimore platform
In every respect except as to the rigid
economy which is demanded. II
we had kept our purse strings a
little tighter. the present emergency
might have been met without any ex-
ira burden being laid on the people.
The Houston Post in discussing the
matter very clearly sizes up the situa'
tion as follows:
"As was inevitable, when the Euro
pean confagration commenced, with
its consequent paralysis of information
al commerce, our government is find
ing II necessary to impose further in.
ternal taxes in order to make up what
IS lost at the custom houses. Later
on we may find our textile manufac-
turers raising prices because OF the
temporary suspension Of foreign com
petition. So we are beginning to see
that European war affects us as II
does the rest of the world.
ut is estimated by treasury officials
that at least 500, 100000 more revenue
will be required to avert a deficiency
and Il is proposed to invoke stamp tax
alton and perhaps emergency duties
on tea and coffee to obtain this sum.
"How much better II would have
been, however II this Congress had
at its very beginning adopted the other
expedient of economy. The govern
ment might have been able to dis.
charge its obligations without this ex.
ira levy upon the people. The Balti.
NOR platform was very explicit in its
demand for retrenchment and econo-
my, and no one denies the presence
in our Federal government OF the most
wanton proaigacy. In every depart
ment OF government there is waste
and extravaganza, and II has grown
and expanded year by year until the
people are beginning to wonder il
there will ever be serious effort
made to restore the old-time simplicity
caution and economy OF the past.
Every Democratic platform of a
generation has proclaimed economy as
a part Of the Democratic faith, and
twice in a half century the party has
been given power to legislate, but the
virus of prohigacy seems to be in the
Democratic blood as 1t has always
been in the Republican blood.
Just see how the people suffer
While the government is about TO in
woke a taxing device to extract 800,
100000 from the people. the mea
packers Of Chicago are already en-
gagged in exploiting them through vas
increases in the price of meat Ant
the millers are raising the price o.
flour. AS heretofore mentioned, will
the cessation Of textile imports from
Europe, our textile manufacturers will
no doubt take their little toll, despite