Newark post., 1915-11-10
Longworth Reviews
Wilson Administration
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600 a month. The policy of pitt
less publicity would soon have had
to take another vacation. The sit
uation would not look we'll to the
public. They would begin to COM
pare the balance with Republican
balances, and so new method was
hit upon, designed simply and
solely to fool the people.
On the first of October the
Treasury balance was announced
to be some $128,O0O,0O0, and ac-
companying it was brief state
ment to the effect that the Treas
ury officials had changed their
methods of bookkeeping. For the
first time in hundred years the
Treasury accounts were juggled to
make a good showing. Methods OF
high finance had found their way
into the management of the peo-
ple's money. This method was in
genious, if you please, but even it
could not stop the process OF ero-
sion. Within twenty days the bal
ance had fallen to $116,000,OOO, a
loss of S12OOO,OOO even under this
new and enlightened method. Un-
der the old time-honored method
of keeping the public accounts this
shows that there is today a bal
ance in the Treasury of not more
tl.an about S2O,0OO,OO0, and with
the continued loss of something
like SsOO,00O day it is not difficult
to estimate when the United States
Treasury runs dry.
The American people, gentle
men, under this administl alton,
are riding hell-bent to bankruptcy
and paying for the privilege with
war tax. Their boasted prosper
ity has not come. Want and mis-
esy have prevailed in the land.
Some industries, it is true, are
prosperous, but they are indus
tries which are not supplying the
American market, but the markets
of the warning countries of Europe
The cost of living has not been
cut down. On the contrary, from
the day that the Democratic tariff
law was enacted it has continu-
ously risen. The law granting
free tolls to American coastwise
ships in the Panama Canal was re-
pealed. 1t matters not whether
the law was good or bad policy at
the time of its enactment. The
Democratic party indorsed it;
Democratic leaders, from the Pres
ident down, praised it. It's repeal
was fiat reputation of Demo
cratic pledge. SO as regards our
rehabilitated merchant marine,
they have swept the last vessel
of it from the Pacific Ocean and
have turned it over to Japan. If
this law had been drafted by the
shrewdest Japanese statesman it
could not have served more effect
lively to transfer the control of the
carrying trade Of the Pacific Ocean
to the Japanese.
Of all infractions, though, OF
their various planks, that relating
to the Civil Service has been the
most barefaced and brutal. / say
and I measure my words, that un
der this Administration Civil Ser
vice has been debauched and out
ragged. | am not speaking at ran
dom. | know of one revenue dis
trict where in the last year seven
teen men, all Democrats, have beer
appointed, and thirty men, all Re
publicans, have been removed
Where the only Republicans re
naming on the roll are men VIII
cannot be discharged withou
cause because they are old sol
diers, but the process of dealin!
with them is about as effective a
discharge, because they are no
assigned to work and can draw n
pay. Can there be more fagran
debauchery of the Civil Servic
than to drop men Of, in some cases
thirty years of experience, for n
reason except that they are of tn
Republican faith, and to fill thei
places with men Of no experienc
at all solely because they ar
Democrats?