Arizona republican., 1916-12-13
A Memorable Session


 The sixty fourth congress a week ago reassembled at Washington with disturbance of the gen era of things than produced by the rising the sun oY the going down of the same There was time when the meeting Of congress was an event But in these days has crowd itself in with other important interesting things that whether it is in session vacation is scarcely noticed.
 In the end however this session of congress ia bound to be memorable for the of it's appropra- ton of public money during the fiscal year l9l7 The estimates put in for year which will end June 30 next, and which therefore has only a little more than six months run from this date the sum of ST. 26S OOO Twelve hundred and odd millions for years expenditures reckon ing that this is substantially required to supply public needs during space of time is not only good deal money itself but also serves to indi- cate that the cost of modern government is rising A large part of this increase is due the of tainng modern navy and a modern army Perhaps we should say. in our 10 the need of procuring and army of the modern type for the army that we now have is only skeleton while our navy although it is good as far as il goes falls good deal short of what most people think that 1t ought to be- The total estimates for two services amount to sG6.O0O,OOO than half of the total estimates for the fiscal year.
 IL is only fair to remember that part Of this in- creased cost. far navy is concerned is due to past neglect When the democrats came into con trol of congress they began a period of saving money by not building warships the yearly propor- ton required keep the navy up to it's old basis Now they faced by the necessity paying up for their misplaced and reckless economy when they first took charge of the business financing the pub lie needs Of the country
 is co,,,,.ra bfe baloo raised by democratic party in 1872 against republican extravaganza The Baltimore platform perpetuates that outcry We were told that the re- publicans were wicbadIy wasteful their of the public moneys, that they had created host of new offices; that they had "wrune" money the hard working toiers and so on Now the democrats are responsible for the amount of our public expendi- lures, and they certainly doing the "wrnging" It IS the same country then and with the same toiers in it. Yet last preceding session of this present congress. without any special demand for military purposes and with nothing on hand for the country except it's regular days work managed with out any effort all make actual appropriations Of Si,lS4OOoooo That was the largest sum ever handed out by congress al single session up to that time Now with better show of reason 1t Is true they are going 10 beat their record by some ss4 900 900
 It only goes to show chat political party has no iueet IsA goes mo power where it will out The democratic party was honest enough in 1912 They looked at millions necessarily spent every year to keep this country going. and their lgnor ance. believed that they could carry on our public business for very much less money. So they made their foolish promises of wonderful economy simply because they knew better They and also those who were creduous enough to believe them have al- ready found out that theory is thing and actual experience a wholly different thing