Weekly journal-miner., 1916-09-20
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCE
 AT VARIANCE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IG- NORES PLEDGE AND MAKES NEW RECORD FOR EXTRAVAGANCE.

hChANN AAAN lA cAAs,siAN NtlHAN VI AlAN money wrung from the people by op- pressive taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Republican congresses, which have kept taxcs high and reduced the purchasing pow CT of the peoples toll. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which behts a Democratic govern ment and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people. Democratic National Platform, 1912.
 Nothing more clearly eXcmpliies 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 $2,0O0,0O0,0OG of the peoples money. With only the first session of the SiXty-fourth con gross completed, the Democrats have appropriated, in exact figures, Sl ,oE, : 259,G4S. The Democrats have spent, over $S,O0O,00O a day for every one Of the 245 days life of this session, in cluding Sundays and holidays. The administration estimates the total rev enues for the next fiscal year at S62,- 000.0OO. They contend, however, that the deficit will not be quite as large as these figures would make it appear because payment of some of the gov ernmcnt's bills can be deferred until later on. It will, however, require an even more adroit exhibition of jug gling with treasury figures than Secre- tary McAdoo has thus far displayed to conceal the fact that Democratic economy" has produced substantially a million dollar deficit. After the cleo ton, the public will be permitted to know the extent of bond sales which the administration contcmplates. Nev- CT before in the history of the nation has a single session of congress been so prohigatc in its expenditures of the peoples money. Probably it will be long before the voters will permit Democratic inefficiency to pcrpctratc such colossal economic blundcrs as has the present administration.
 Diplomats Confounded.
 Latin-American diplomats, of whom many are spending the Summer in New York and the vicinity, are as founded at the declaration in Presi- dent Wilson's speech of acceptance that, "So long as the power of rccog- milton rests with me the government of the United States will refuse to eX- tend the hand of welcome to anyone who obtains power in a sister rcpub- lie by trcachery and violence" MT Wilson referred, of course, to Huerta, but the Latin-Amcricans recall NIT. Wilson's prompt recognition of Col onel Bcncvidcs as president of Peru, Bencvidcs, who gained power on February 1914, as the result of assass- ination and without a shadow of con stitutional right. Bcnevidcs, it is re- called. led an army against the na- tional palace, drove out President Billinghurst and assassinatcd the sec rctarv of war and all others who op- posed him and, without even prctensc of constitutional authority, proclaim ed himself president. And President Wilson promptly recognized him, cX- Dlainine that "expedicncy dictated the recognition of the revolutionary gov ernor of Peru" Hucrta caused Ma dero and Vice President Suarcz to be imprisoned and himself became prcsi- dent under the constitutional provls- ion for the succession of the minister of foreign affairs, which llucrta was. Huerta's responsibility for the mur- der of Nadcro and his brother has never been established and IS doubted bv a number of Americans who were in Mcxico City at the time. In Hayti' Zamor become president in 1914 by violence and assassination and Mr. Wilson not only recognized him, but cmDlovcd the armed forces ot the United States to compel tine people oi Havti to accept him as their presi- dent. Mir. Wilson went even further When the Haytians rcvoltcd againSt accepting Zamor and against altering their constitution as Mir. Wilson dIc- tated. Mr. Wilson ordered our ma, rincs and soldiers to fire on them and 600 Haytians were killed and many more wounded and between 20 and 5' Americans were killed. The Latin Americans believe Mr. Wilson will have to find a new excuse for his failure to recognize Hucrta.
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