New-York tribune., 1919-03-28
Kansas Senator Says 65th
Congress Engineered the
Worlds Greatest Cam
paign of Wastefulness
25 Years to Pay Bill
symbol on Treasury Seal
Should Be Changed to a
Sieve, Says Committeeman

United States Senator Arthur Cap
per, of Kansas, in statement being
sent out by the Republican National
Committee, says that no orgy of spend
ing and waste in all history compares
with the record of the Sixty-fifth Con-
rress, just closed. He says that one
fifth of every ones income will be
taken from him in taxes to meet the
astounding debts piled up by the Will
son Administration.
"The symbolic device on the seal of
the United States Treasury should be
sieve" says the new Senator from
Kansas. His statement follows:
"Thc Sixty-fifth Congress, just
closed, made such lavish appropria-
tons during and after the war that
the job of spending the nearly 80 bill
ions appropriated was too big for the
spendcrs. Consequently about 20 bill
ions will be saved The ultimate cost
Of the war will be about 60 billions
These figures arc based on an estimate
made in Washington.
None Begrudges Cost
"No true American begrudged the
amplest expenditures for the war-we
had pledged our all if need be--but
dumping our resources in a heap and
going it blind is not to make efficient
use of them. Yet, with the war at
an end, no enemy in sight and the
nations discussing peace and reduction
OF armament, this prodigal admins
tration is urging the appropriation of
nearly two billion dollars for stand
ing army and record breaking big
naval programme, the biggest naval
programme in history
"The symbolic device on the seal of
the United States Treasury should be
sieve. The great pity is that the
millions and billions which now pass
through this great vacuum at Wash
ington must be dug out Of the earth
by our workers and producers and then
taken from the earnings of the com
mon people and the pockets of the
great consuming class, while at their
source they represent natural wealth
which can never be recreated for us.
One fifth of every Americans in
come viii be taken from him this wear
Tor taxes, direct and Indirect This is
result of the worlds greatest fnan-
cal drunk which has been going on
for months at Washington.
Greatest Financial Orgy
No orgy of spending in all history
compares with it. One-tenth of this
countiy's estimated wealth has been
appropriated al a single term of Con-
Grcss.
"On top of this, with a seven billion
lssue OF Victory Loan notes coming in
April-the Treasury meanwhile borrow
'ng money from the banks to meet run
hlhg expenses the war an event
ot the past, this Congress o. KS
'nough lt dld not reach and pass, an
Appropriation of S72O,0O0, 900 for the
navy, the greatest naval appropriation
OIL IN the history of the world: nro-
woes for spending S1,O70,00O. 900 on tho
regular army; and then, like a drunken
sailor strewing the street with his nav,
lnrows away nearly 100000 in
small change on public buildings and
river and harbor pork.
An appropriation for the Federal
employment Service. which might have
been the means of saving US from
SON etning worse than war in Europe
nolsheVism IN America for instance
was ruled out of order,
Hated the Sight Of Money
The drunken sailor. even then has
the best of it over this spendthrift
aam inistratIon, for it is his own money
ne & Is throwing away, not millions and
oiiilons Tor which he is trustee. and
.'iS 1argeness of view, recklessness of
sohscqnences and princcly contempt for
ssnohey or its uses are born of an alco-
aol-crazed brain.
put no drunken sailor. however
pfodi2ai. has ever flung money broad
esSt with the reckless abandon with
"alcn billions have been and still are
osihg spent by the present trustees Of
the nation -
Americans often are accused of
osng dollar worshippers. but their
sufn ufn'nlstrators at Washington appcar
~ nate the sight Of money, judpino
rom the manner with which thcv
'"ro" II away and try to get rid of II
~ is due to this riot Of ndiscrimj-
.dRe and unexampled spending that the
niherican people at the present time
ae ~ tae most heavily taxed nation on
~ BiODe.
VIII Be Taxed 25 Years
me Treasurer of the United State.
rSIinateS u viii cost American tax-
payer 81 200 100000 a year for the
49, quarter Of a century TO pav Off
1of net war debt, less the amounts
'enl % the Allies.
ihlb means we must be taxed every
S7ss o>.a .pr twenty-five years to raise
). 'D'VVV'VVO annual interest to be paid
-, - D1olhaholders. Also for an additional
s,''''VVV'VVO year 10 20 into sinking
80 -, ." 0rdef TO pay off the principal
=, ~ otner words, TO lift this debt on
:. ''6lalfnent plan and we now cfn
- ~ - no other way we must pay $780,
10000. '""'e oeo' % Slo'ooo'-
~. 70 estimated that our total cx-
psHoiturcs for the war itsclf will ao-
1ao aoosate 10000 900 900, or $4,000 900.
s] p more than the combined rcsourcos
ne ne twelve Federal Rcserye banks.
81 G7o oon ~ standing army Of i75,0O0 men
had To,'d TT YOU'D have been appropriated
bin ,rpp1iesb been able to reach the
oy f7x ~ ~ ought 10 give US an army
soldiers. 'V' se"efa's instead OF
Fears National Bankruptcy
- NO country in the world cvor snen,
tI,se ,noen money on it's military arm in
Ia 81 peace as these apDroprations
r,yar1 UT army and navy. The naval an
ssrp'tton ssrpf'atton alone exceeds the romh;ned
the naval budgets Of The world'g |