The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-11-28
BORAH SAYS RETRENCH
PEOPLE WILL PROTEST
OUTSIDE OF QUESTIONS OF WAR
CURTAiLlNG EXPENSES
is MOST VITAL.

the senate, referring to the enormous
expenses of government and the dis
position to continue them after the
war; Senator Borah said:
Some days ago the senator from
Virginia (Mr. MARTINI, the leader OF
the majority, gave out an interview
upon the question of expenditures by
the government for the future. | read
paragraph from that interview, as
follows:
1--WE have got to stop waste, ex-
travagance, and reckless expenditure
or the country is ruined. Unless there
is an immediate cessation In piling up
enormous indebtedness the people of
this nation will be ''hewers of wood
and drawers of water for genera
lions. want to begin curtailing APP
propriations at once. ! want to get
the country back into normal condi-
ton. This must not be done violent
~, but as rapidly as possible
"This announces wise and states
manlike policy, and for what 1t Is
worth want to commend the sena-
tor from Virginia for his statement
and to assure him that he Will get
vast amount of support If he will
carry forward this program.
sMr President outside of the i'm
mediate questions of the war; the most
vital question with which this country
has now to deal Is that of the curtail-
ment of expenditures and that relates
not alone to war expenditures, which
will necessarily and promptly be
curtailed when the war shall have
ended, but 1t relates to the eNpendi-
lures which have been characteristic
of our government in times of peace.
say this. Mr.. President, regardless
OF what party is in power,
"If the people really knew the
method and the manner in which we
expend money and the waste Of which
we are guilty, they would mob us. 1t
is by reason Of the fact that the de-
tails of these expenditures are kept
from the people that public opinion Is
not aroused to its height in regard to
this matter. was, therefore, exceed
ingly pleased when l saw that the
able senator from Virginia, the leader
Of the majority, at once seized upon
the proposition of initiating a pro-
gram of retrenchment which, | trust,
will not relate alone to expenditures
which have been necessarily incurred
by the war, but to expenditures which
have been characteristic of the gov
eminent in times of peace. We have
for years been a wasteful, eXtrava-
giant government, expanding money as
III II came like mamma from heaven
and not through and by the toll and
energy of the people.
Startling Figures.
"Mr President, there are some
items which, 1t seems to me, ought to
receive the consideration of the de
partments and of congress at once.
want to read statement which APP
peared in a recent Washington Post,
as follows:
"'The war department yesterday
authorized the construction division
to proceed with 13 war projects, cost
ing $4,000, 900, The largest appropri-
alton, one of $7,5OO,0oo was made for
enlargement of Camp Grant, Ill.
"'other appropriations for extern
sions included Camp Custer, Mich
$4,S15,OOO; Camp Dodge, }e~a, w.
SS5.21O: Delaware ordnance depot, ST.
203,1S and aerial gunnery school, Mi
ami, Fla s66O000'
81 am unable to say without yet
knowing the terms and conditions or
the armistice and therefore being UNI
able to Judge entirely of the future,
how far these curtaitments may now
be carried and to what extent we may
now initiate retrenchments: but ii
does seem to me that those items are
well worthy of the consideration OF
the secretary of war, with the view OF
eliminating that further expenditure,
IL possible. believe the terms of the
armistice will be such as to make 1t
impossible for Germany to renew hos
we Will hiloW tht III ~ |
few minutes, and l trust such ex-
penditures as this may be greatly
curtailed.
"Mr. President, the senator from
Virginia will find, as he undertakes to
carry forward this very wise pro-
gram, that there will be thousand
given for the continuance and
of every expenditure
which has been provided for He will
lind that there will be thousand rea-
sons given for the maintenance and
extension of every bureau that is now II
n existence; and before another fort
night has passed a powerful propa-
ganda will have begun in this country
or the purpose of satisfying the peo-
Die that not only are these present |
and institutions and +"
bureaus and officers necessary, but
hat it is even necessary to enlarge
nd to extend them.
Difficult Thing to Do.
There is one thing that congress
as never yet been able to do, and :,
hat is to abolish bureau or abolish
n office Congress has great capac-