The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-10-15
SOME REASONS FOR THE NATIONAL


SOME REASONS FOR THE NATIONAL
DEFICIT.
President Wilson has asked for an
appropriation by congress OF $195,00o,.
900 which he and the democratic con-
gress would lead the public to believe
Is due to the European war. and there's
fore cab II ''the war deficit. Why do
they not admit the truth instead of try
ing to cover up the facts? Let US see
what the records show regarding the
creation OF new offices and the extra
VACANT increase of salaries by the pres
ent administration and see II the real
cause of the depleted treasury cannot
be better charged to extravagant loot
ing than to the foreign. war. number
of the leading democratic papers Of the
east, including the Washington Post and
the New York papers, say so, as does
also Congressman John J. Fitzgerald. of
New York, democratic chairman of the
appropriations committee, who said the
democrats had been so outrageously ex-
travagant and had made such a mess
of things that he felt like resigning
rather than try as chairman to apollo
gize for their conduct.
The records show that in the
treasury department alone in the city
Increased 1858, from 1888 under repub-
lican rule, to 3.541; while the field force
has been increased at the request of
Secretary McAdoo 678; this at an added
cost of $1.750.00O. The post office de-
partment has an increase of over $685.
0O0, 900 for the purpose of allowing
southern democrats to have federal
buildings erected In small and unknown
fhrnnuhntf haf gfof aC Tha
army. navy, agriculture and all other
departments have each been increased
millions OF dollars, while miscellaneous"
calls for an addition of some six
millions
Leaving these larger details of COM
parison. involving as they do such
enormous sums of excess over the work
of other sessions of Congress, and
turning to smaller but no less extra
VACANT accomplishments In the way of
new offices created and salaries increas-
ed by this Congress, the record discos-
es, even by cursory examination, in
stances like the following:
The new banking law creates five new
offices with salaries of $4,000 each
and Increases the salary of the Comp
troller of the Currency from 1000 at
which sum 1t had remained for so years,
to $4,000 per annum.
The new trade commission act creates
i've commissioners at $4,000 each and
a secretary at $1,000.
new board of appeals, consisting of
three members at $4,000 each, Is created
in the office of the Secretary of the
Interior.
For commercial attaches, to be APP
pointed by and compensated at such
salaries as the Secretary of Commerce
may fix, and a clerk each, at 81, 500;
and for travelling expenses, the sum Of
100000 is appropriated for a year.
The salary of the private secretary
to the Secretary of the Treasury Is in
creased from 81. 500 to $4,000 which
means that the private secretary to the
other nine Cabinet officers must also
be increased from $500 to $4,000.
A chief of division. created less than
year ago under the income tax law, is
increased from 81 500 to $500.
Six Attorneys General in the Depart
ment of Justice have their salaries in
creased from $1,000 to $500.
The salary of the assistant to the
Attorney General was increased during
the extra session on an urgent de-
ficiency bill from $1,000 to $4,000
| The salaries of our diplomatic repre-
sentatives to Argentina, Chile, and
Spain are raised from s12. 900 to 81, 500
per annum, and the three secretaries
of the legations to these countries are
increased from $2.625 to $4,000 each.
The mission to Paraguay and Uruguay
1 Is divided and a new minister author
lied. with new salary of $4,000.
| The Democratic House of the last
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three internal-revenue collectors of the
Republican administration at "a, 500 each.
At this session one of them is re-creat-
ed, the place to be filled by a Demo-
cratic administration. If the office was
not necessary to collect revenue then
how can 1t be necessary now, except
to meet some political exigency?
But there is one place the southern
Democrats did economize they cut the
pension appropriations s11 900, 900. The
near completion of the Panama canal
iessened the appropriation for that pur-
pose $20,o00.0O0 this year. But over and
above this $50, 0O0.0 600 saved from pension
and the canal. the 500 900, 900 yet to be
made for rivers and harbors, and the
SAT, 100000 for the ship subsidy propos-
ed by the democrats, this administration
has over run the amount expended nv
the most extravagant republican admin
| istration ever recorded, 500, 000, 600
| practically the amount Mr. Wilson is
4 asking the people to make up as "a
war tax made necessary by the Euro
pean trouble. What do you think of
this plea anyway, dear reader, and what
do you think of Jeffersonian simplicity
and democratic economy as exemplified
by the present administration?
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