Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-28
Unredeemed Promises
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TT IS now and always has been. characteristic
OF the democratic party 20 promise ell things 20
- ell men and then proceed, n successful in deud-
ing sufficient number Of voters 20 carry out %
repudate Just many Of their promises seem
TO III the demands Of the occasions as they may
arise You remember the solemn protestatiOns OF
good faith that accompanied the platform enunciated
by the democratic convention OF 1917 Each PLANK
was sacred pledge intended to be redeemed to the
letter That was what they said before election
What did they do after election7 Let enumerate
few Of those pledges and leave II 10 you TO be the
judges Of the fact Of their redemption Rigid economy
IN contrsdstinction republican extravaganza; ample
for the support OF the government industrial
prosperity under tariff law which provided for EFF
fectve competition: reduction IN the OF living;
free tolls for American ships in the Panama canal the
rehabilitation OF the American merchant marine strict
enforcement and extension OF the civil service single
presidential term, and many other thnga Merely 60
state them is to effectively bring before your minds
the evidence Of their complete Reputation.
What Of their promised rigid economy The fact
is that the last democratic appropriated Of
the peoples money S17OO.OOO than any repub-
lcan congress in history and 1t would have been
FAR worse worse by millions upon millions, had II not
been for certain republican senator's who not only
waited watchfuly but effectively check the
rapacty Of the pork barrel advocates. All this mind
you In the face Of falling revenues falling
In time Of world peace; falling before
was heard OF dreamed Of; falling reve
nues In spite OF increased importatons, only be-
fore, but after the Then what they called
the war tar, tax burdensome and oppressive in the
extreme; tax imposed objects and business
country itself was actually at The War
Tax is gross misnomer. Some such tax in
evitable war OF no war. to remedy the deficiency
caused by the Underwood tariff law. II de-
ficiency tax and simple but even with the $780,
100000 additional that this tax raised the def
cit grew and the treasury balance continued fall
On the first day Of July year ago the balance in
the treasury than $40 10000. On the day
congress convened when the democracy started their
treasury raid IL had shrunk to Ss6 OOOO BY the end
OF June IL had shrunk to practically nothing at all.
IL was difficult 10 find out just what was because
the policy OF pitiless publicity on a vacation for
time and the treasury balance given TO the
newspapers windfall came, though during the last
two or three days OF June The screws had been put
on as they never had been before to collect the last
possible cent Of the income tax, and the first of
July IL was healded 20 the country that the treasury
balance was something like 100000 Again the proc
ess OF erosion set In and the balance began dwinde
until the last of September Il about cut in half
The treasury running behind more than SO 600 Os0
month The policy of pltiless publicity would soon
have had TO take another vacation The situation
would not look well to the public. They would begin
to the balance with republican balances ana
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 SIPS 900 and n
was brief statement TO the effect the treasury
OFFICIALS had changed their methods OF bookkeeping
For the first time in hundred years the treasury ao
counts were 1uggled to make good showing Meth.
DDS Of high finance had their way into the man.
agement Of the peoples money. This method was in
senous. II you please, but IL could not stop the
process or erosion. Within twenty days the balance
had fallen TO s6OO0 loss of sl2 900 600 even under
this new and enlightened method Under the old time
honored method OF keeping the public accounts this
shows that there is today balance treasury of
not more than about 900 with the continued
loss of something like $4,000 day II il not dffIcuit
estimate when the United States treasury dry
me American people, gentlemen, this admins
traton riding hell-bent bankruptcy ana paving
Tor the privilege with tax Their boasted pros.
pertty has not come. Want and misery have pre-
10 frta
prosperous but they Industries which are not sum-
plying 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 II has continually risen. The law grant
Ing free tolls to American coastwise ships In the paw
anna canal was repealed 1t matters not whether the
law was good or bad policy at the time of its enact
ment The democratic party indorsed 10; democratic
leaders, from the president down praised Il Its re-
peal was flat population OF a democratic pIedRe
90 as IesaLos our reheoitated merchant marine they
nave swept the last vestige OF 1t from the tactic
ocean and have turned It over to Japan II this law
had been drafted by the shrewdest Japanese
could not have served effectively to tranafer
e coho OF the carrying trade of the Pacific ocean
70. the Japanese '
or all nfractlons though OF their various planks
that relating 70 the civil service has been the nost
oarefaced and brutal say. and measure nv words
that under this administration service has beer
deoauehed and outraged. l am not speakinR ar ran
DOM know OF district where IN the las,
year seventeen men, all democrats have been an
poeo' ana thirty men, ell republicans have been re-
moved where the only republicans remaining ON the
ron are men who cannot be discharged without cause
because they are old soldiers but the process OF deal
-ns "i., mem Is ABOUT as effective discharge be-
cause they not assigned to work and ca 49,, -
pay can there be more fragrant debauchery OF the
civil service than to drop Of in some cases thirty
years OF experience. for no reason except that e.
are Of the republican faith and to fill their nlaca
with men OF no experience at all solely because thew
are democrats? '''e'