The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-06-24
REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE GOOD
ON THEIR ECONOMY PLEDGES

REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE GOOD
ON THEIR ECONOMY PLEDGES
Administration leaders in and out Of
Congress are severely to be condemned
for their effort to rush through Congress
the left over appropriation bills of the last
Congress without the application of the
pruning knife put into the hands of the
Republican party at the last election by
the American people, with instructions to
use it at the earliest possible moment.
Administration leaders are insisting
that in view of the fact that President
Wilson refused to call Congress into SEES
sion until the closing days of the fiscal
year, the thing to do is to adopt the appro-
priation measures prepared at the last
session of Congress, without material
change, or stand charged with a failure
properly to support the administration
and the government.
If the people had been satisfied with
the financial methods of the old congress
they would not have chosen Republican
majority for the new congress. BY ma
iority Of more than million the people
voted a change; not merely a change in
the faces in Congress and in the names
of the leaders, but in the methods of do
ing business which today threatens this
country with tax burdens beyond the dis
position or the ability of the people to
bear them.
Naturally the Democratic leaders wish
to induce the present congress to track
the old Congress in every possible partic-
ular If appropriations equal or exceed
those Of the last congress for the peace
activities of the government they will
make an issue of this in the next cam
paign. Moreover, by the continuance of
expenditures on the present scale, a vast
army of deserving Democrat office hold
ers will Ike kept on the public payroll.
The idea is held out by the administra-
ton politicians that the larger the appro-
priation put through by given commit
tee, the more credit will go to that COM
mittee for having succeeded in increasing
governmental expenditures along the line
in which that committee is especially in
terested But the sum total of such
achievements by all the committees of
Congress will be increased, rather than
decreased appropriations.
The Republican party must adopt in
Congress an "about face" on the policy
of tossing millions of the peoples money
about as a matter of personal courtesy or
local interest or merely in fulfillment of
bad precedents which should be thrown
on the dump heap. If they do not do this
they will ineitably suffer the same pun
ishment which has been given the Demo
cratic party because of the complete alb
andonment of the taxpayers viewpoint
in making appropriations Of public funds
The startling fact stands out that there
are as many civilian government employ
es in Washington today as there were on
the day the armistice was signed. The
only way in which the magnitude of gov
eminent expenditures will be curtailed is
to cut off the appropriations which fur
nish the warrant for extravaganza. The
responsibility in this matter is squarely
behind the Republican majority in Con-
gress and the effort of administration
politicians to drag out this badly shop
worn cry of "loyalty" to the administra-
ton in support of every scheme of public
extravaganza, is intended to get in the
ground work for the cry of hypocrisy di-