The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-30
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY AS EXEMPLIHEO
BY THE ADMINISTRATION Of WILSON


Sociated with the tax eaters than
the taxpayers
am wondering if that situation
has been in any degree reversed
am reminded OF a cartoon which I
saw about the time the Democrats
party went into power 1t represent
ed coon leaving the Republican tree
and making his way as fast as he
could tor the Democratic tree Thai
coon was supposed to be the speciaI
interests, or the tax eater Whetbrr
ne has Solidly and securely locked
himself IN the branches Of thar nm
6rageous tree or not | do not know
out person could ahrnSt convict The
party. upon the statement OF the dis
ngutshed leader of the Democrats
party himself ''''>
>, What the Figures Show.
axe their own figures. We are
seeking here to raise SOS. QO0OOO hv
taxation If this Sl050066tS0 =
about $205,0OOOO0 more than ths
amount which the Republicans ex-
pended and if, according to the state
ment which you have made time and
time again the Republicans we're eX-
Fa(agant, will it not be admitted
without further argument that the
inoSlc OF the situation is that this
Slo5,OOO,O0O is due to an eXtraordi9
nary expenditure OF government
hnds' If we had reached the limit
as you SAID where we were subiert
to condemnation, and YOU have eX.
ceeded it by $l05 100000, will any one
nave the temerity TO say to the neonIe
OF TINS country that the excess OF levy
Is due to war in Europe? If YOU are
| spending nearly two hundred million
more than the amount which those
now III power declared to be grossly
! extravaganza how can you justify this
TAX: II you had practiced the eco
'oilly even OF your predecessor in
| power you would not be raising this
hundred million, and the fact thaf rry7
ShueS decreased would not have hurt
your treasury; you would have had
Sufhclent in the treasury notwith-
standing the falling off of revenues
But that is not all. The senate,
from Alabama CHR. Bankhead in
discussing the river and harbor bill
Said that this was but the beginning
said: l'
! believe it is the duty of the
senate to have some regard for
the condition of the treasury.
we arc now preparing to 30 out
INTO the highways and byways
and levy additional taxes. We
are now engaged in the selection
OF items upon which we can raise
aaditlonal revenue to the extent
| OF SluO,OOO,OOO. No man who
does me the honor to listen to
me on TINS occasion can tell how
long 1t VIII be before there will
be another emergency that will
n
And that is true This does NOT |
include the $25,0000OO that we are
to pay to Columbia This does not |
include the $3OO00OO that we are to |
pay Nicaragua for another right of |
way ror canal, the purpose of it |
being, presume, that we having |
Dullt one canal and given it to Eng |
land teel now under the necessity Of |
building another canal and giving it
to Germany.
This does not include the contem-
plated $3O,O0O,000 for ships. This
does not include the forty-odd mil |
lion dollars which, we are told upon
the side, it has been scheduled shall
be put through at the coming session |
to cover rivers and harbors bill. |
his does not include the deficit which |
VIII be made up by an emergency
PHI alter the close Of this congress. |
| venture to say that we will have
another levy regardless of what goes
on IN Europe, and | venture to saw
when the books shall have been
closed up, instead of being SlO5,OOO.- |
GOO in excess of the government ex-
pendltures of the preceding congress, |
this congress will have incurred liza
bIllties and expended in excess of |
$25O,OOO,OOO over that of the pre-
Vious congress.
Yet we say that it is due to the |
war, The war might have had some
thing to do with the amount which |
we have collected, but it has had |
nothing to do with the amount which |
we have expended or which we should |
have expended.
The total appropriation up to date,
as near as | can secure accurate fig |
ures, is not less than $l,l17, 468,777.
his does not include, as | have said, |
the rivers and harbors bill nor the
other expenditure to which | have
made reference. No one places the
amount at less than 81 ,0SQ, 408 TT. |
which is not less than $60,OO0,0OO at |
the present time I'M excess of the last |
Republican congress.
Extravaganza Only Begun.
But this extravaganza has lust be- |
gun. We are inaugurating with mar
velous speed and remarkable incon-
sderateness a system of government
which will devolve upon the people
of this country burden of taxation |
the like of which the people have |
never for moment contemplated. |
We propose now, sir, to have an ex-
pert, special agent, an investigator,
to accompany every citizen and to |
oversee every business and every line
OF industrial activity. The present |
thus being presented to the people
may be what they want, but | warn |
them now it will be costly beyond |
anything they have contemplated.
Such system fattens by what it
feeds upon. 1t creates a govern
mental class always complaining Of |
too mach service and too little pay; |
it invents jobs and fosters all forms !
Of waste and expenditures. We have
today in the federal service near $780, |