Evening journal., 1916-09-11
DEMOCRATS SHOW
PROFUCATE Waste
Congress FOrgetS Party Plat
form, Denouncing Op-
preSSiVe Taxation
HUGHES CHARMS
MAINE VOTERS
specIal to THE gvENING IouRNA1

special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW YORK, Sept. live de-
nounce the Drohigate waste Of the
money wrung from the people by op-
pressive taxation through the lavish
appropriations of recent Republican
congresses. which have kept taxes
nigh and reduced the purchasing
power of the peoples toll. We de-
mand a return to that simplicity and
economy which BELTS a Democratic
government and a reduction in the
number of useless Offices, the salaries
Of which drain the substance Of the
people, Democratic National Plat
form. 1919.
Nothing more clearly exempliies
the radical difference between the
platform pledges of the Democratic
and its performances than the plank
quoted and the performance of the
Congress just ended. which has ere
ated innumerable new and useless Of
fees and appropriated S2.000,00O 900 Of
the peoples money. With only the
first session OF the Sixty-iourth Con-
gress completed. the Democrats have
appropriated in exact figures. ST.
947 259.04S. The Democrats have spent
over 100000 a day for every one Of
the PAS days life of this session. in
GLIDING Sundays and holidays. The
administration estimates the total rev.
enues for the next fiscal year at S762.-
900, 900. They contend. however that
the deficit will not be quite as large as
these figures would make IL appear
arsf
ernment's bills can be deferred until
later on. II will, however. require an
even more adroit exhibition Of Jug
Cling with Treasury figures than Sec
rotary McAdoo has thus far displayed
to conceal the fact that Democratic
economy" has produced substantially
million dollar deficit After the
election. the public will be permitted
to know the extent of bond sales
which the administration contem-
plates. Never before in the history
Of the nation has a single session Of
Congress been so prOfiigate in its eN-
pendtures OF the peoples money.
Probably it will be long before the
voters will permit Democratic inefii-
cheney to perpetrate such colossal
economic plumbers as has the present
administration.
What Would Hughes Have DOnei
Certain Democratic papers-they
are few in number-unable to devise
a defense of President Wilson's
course in the railway wage situation
are demanding what Mr. Hughes
would have done had he been Presi-
dent. And Mr.. Hughes is making
clear some of the things he would
have done and some that he would
not. The first step that Mt. Hughes,
or indeed. any other intellectually
honest" man IN the White House
would have done would have been to
strip the controversy of pretense and
make plain to the public the fact that
the railway employees were not de
handing an S-hour day at all, but
merely an increase OF wages. Mr. VIII
sons defenders pretend to believe
that public sentiment was with the
railway employees in the controversy.
If il was-and there is wide room for
doubt on the question: was be-
cause Mr.. Wilson lent himself to the
scheme Of the Brotherhoods to make
it appear that the railway men were
contending for an S-hour day, intsead
Of merely an increase of pay. Mr..
Hughes has made it clear that a Pres
ident who desired to be guided by
public opinion would have first made
clear to the public the question at is
sue. And he has also made it clear
that no question of his own political