The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
Mr.. American Voters Misman-
aged Government Business.

dkcu UOttTn fnent BUSINESS.
Mr.. American Voter The business
management of the United States Gov
eminent is responsible to you. 1t is
your Government; it is your business.
When it is a practical, economical
and efficient business management it
benefits you in the good government
you get, in the cheap government you
get, In the falrer and better and
easier way you can earn your living
and husband your income.
When it is an impractical, incompe-
tent, spendthrift management it hits
your pocket. 1t hits your pocket In
the taxes you pay and the higher
costs that thus go into production. 1t
hits your pocket in the capital that
is diverted from legitimate industry
and business to public squander. 1t
hits your pocket in the terrific inter
est rates that are charged to private
borrowers when the Government
squander is draining the banks Of
their loanable funds with billions Of
Treasury o US. II hits your pocket
in the food you eat. the clothes you
wear and the rent yea pay.
Mr.. American Voter: II you had
watched a contractor trying to build a
house for your nelghbor, bungling, the
lob mil ta1x frap tAf no
that the roof leaked, the plumbing
wouldn't stay in order. the windows
wouldn't go up or down right, the
doors wouldn't open or shut right,
and the misbuilt house had cost
great deal more than a good house
should have been built for, and that
man came to you and wanted to build
house for you, would you engage
him or would you tell him you wanted
a contractor who could build a good
house at reasonable cost?
Mr.. American Voter: If you were
member of private partnership and
one of the other partners to whom
had been entrusted the business man
agement Of the concern had spent all
its money, exhausted it's resources,
driven away its customers and in
iured its name, would you say to him
eco on with this wreckage and Con
bless you! ~ or would you demand
dissolution Of the firm?
Mr.. American Voter: If you were
stakeholder and director In a private
corporation and its management had
cut its business all to pieces, eaten up
it's dividends and left it an Industrial
wreck and financial ruin, would you
give your vote at the annual stock
holders meeting and would you give
your vote ut the following board of
directors meeting to sustain that man
agement, to continue it and to license
blew the whole thing up, or would you
vote, and ask every other stakeholder
and director to vote, to fire that man
agement through the skyllght?
Mr. American Voter-partner stock
holder and director in the colossa
business of the United States Govern
ment: When it's cash has been wasted
by billions of dollars. when, TO keep
the squander going, it has been run
into debt by billions of dollars, when
its national shareholders have been
assessed by billions of dollars and
when they must still be assessed by
billions Of dollars, with nothing to
show for 1t but political mistake, adj
ministrative failure, financial stress
and economic crisis, are you going 70
ask that negligent, incompetent, ruin-
Gus Democratic business management
Of your own United States Govern
ment to stay in. or are you going to
put II out?
Mr.. American Voter: 1t Is up to you
next Tuesday. November Second, Nine.
teen Hundred and Twenty.