The sun., 1919-02-07
'DEPEW CALLS HALT
ON HUGE SPENDING
Appeals for Men of Courage to
Check Lavishness Of Ad-
ministratiOn.
OPPOSED TO BIGGER NAVY
Believes English Speaking
People Will Be the Best Guar
dams of World Liberty.

what this country OF ours needs more
than anything else just now. needs It as
Il needed Washington. TO make the ma
ton possible, and Lincoln TO hold 1t to-
gether. is a man with courage enough to
stand up in Coneess and call halt to
the enormous expenditure OF money this
Administration Is contemplating
The words were spoken yesterday by
| Chauncey NJ Depew. the spry young
| statesman who refuses TO grow old. In
the same clear. analytical logic that
| gained him national fame years ago he
told the members OF the New York
| Genealogical and Biographical Society
| yesterday that the greatest duty OF the
| moment for the United States Is 10 econ
| omize. He was enthusiastically received
! by his audience Cor his appearance
marked Mt. Depews recovery from a
severe fall on a sidewalk that he had
| two weeks ago. when his head and right
hand were injured.
Pretty bad fail" he told a member
! Of the society, but feel first rate now"
Il
! threescore years his Junior.
81 think We have become TOO accus-
/ toned TO talking big fgurcs--the figures
are so big we cannot comprehend them"
! said Mr.. Dcpev in his address. The
J enormous expenditure OF billions in this
! country has reached tho stage where the
! spending OF S6o.ooo,oO0 for a shipyard
| that hasn't turned out a single ship
| doesn't seem 10 be of very much con-
Germ at all. Unless we can appreciate and
| lay stress on small things this country
I cannot survive.
! Opposes e1O,ooo.OOO.OOO Navy.
| The Secretary OF the Navy has
| learned a great deal during the war. Be
| fore the war he was a pacif1st Now.
| accustomed as he Is to these big fig
| ures. he goes before Congress and says
that the United States should continue
| to build ships. so that we will always
have the largest navy IN the world.
And he sends one OF his Admirals before
| one Of the committees whose !nforns-
ton is that II we are 10 have a proper
| navy Il will cost US ten billions year
Then add the army and civilian costs
! and we would he spending maybe twenty
billions a year
II remember when this nation OF ours
| became billion dollar country. and
some people said the United States was
going to the dogs. That was only ten
years ago. Finally It reached two bill
IONS and people said This must not be
continued What We need now Is the
long forgotten statesman-economis..
They seem to proceed along the theory
| that because the rich have money the
way to make possible these huge en-
Herditures is to tar the rich. But ladies
end gentlemen. taxes affect everybody.
Taxes raise prices, rents. food and cloth
ing prices and everything. And until
ton OF high prices Of living or return
to that comfortable living that made
America the paradise It was.
Must save Even by Dollars.
1T Is high time some one called a
halt II anybody stood up in the halls
| OF Congress during the war and cried
halt he would have been accused Of
trying to help Germany. That sort OF
talk doesn't SO any more. The cry OF
halt should be heard all over this land
Whether there is only dollar to be
saved. a Congressman should stop the
spending Of It. and. doing it, will be sent
back by his people"
Then turning to the anti British dis.
cussioa az. sca:..,,cr: which has been
projected more emphat!cally in the last
few days since the British embargo, Mr..
| Dcpew said.
I'VE are now trying TO get UP a fight
with Great Britain. II broke out yes
ter'1ay in the United States Senate with
Look out for Great Britain During
| tho early years OF my lie | fought the
battle OF Bunker Iiill every day. but
that sort Of thing is past About one
hundred and twenty years ago We
placed a tariff. Just as England does
now. and It has been kept up ever
| since While you read of this warn
ing about Great Britain. side by side
with II Is the news that the President is
sitting e az day conference w::H Rs.
four and Lloyd George, and afterward
the three go into private session
Enough OF this DOGGY. Politicians some
times become otficeholders on II, but
lever statesmen"
Referring to tho proposed League Of
| Nations, Mr.. Depew said: There seen,
!nsuperabls difficulties In the league. II
10 we'll enough for us to try 10 take care
| of part OF the world without irving
to take care OF the whole OF It. I can't
! ever picture an American army insur-
ting Hottentots that they have self-deter-
mination. The thing might happen 500
years from now.
Real Guardians of Liberty,
| We don't need the biggest army or
the biggest navy TO insure peace. The
| demonstration We have made OF
power in sending two million men
TO France. the demonstration they
made over there, the demonstra-
ton We have MADE in one year in
raising twenty billions of dollars not
only taking care OF our own people but
our allies, ana the demonstration of
our reserve power will last IN tho
memory OF the world throughout the
centuries.
Humanity is in the keeping of the
English speaking race. The same Gov
eminent and sentiment exists In Brit
ish colonies and possessions that exists
In the United States Together the TWO
nations form a Gordon Of resistance for
Athe protection OF liberty. And as we
understand that liberty II means: YOU
will tight for rights which you know
are yours and you will fight equally
well for your neighbor's rights On
questions OF tariff and that sort OF thing
England and America may differ, but on
the great questions of peace and human
liberty they are and always shall be
as one"
The Rev. Or. Ernest NJ. Stlre.s, rector
OF 81. Thomas's Church. told OF his In
teresting experiences on the battle front
and particularly OF the KIND OF manhood
America sent over TO France and the
supernatural that is coming back n
these shores Morally. physically and
spiritually the American soldier is in
fintely better than when he went TO war
| said Dr Stires