New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-08-05
PRESENT CONDITIONS ARE
SIMILAR TO THOSE AFTER
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
(By Edward Everett Young)

respects, IS similar TO that April
morning in 1887 when Washington
entered the city OF Philadelphia to
aid in the great work OF adopting the
Constitution OF the United States. He,
above all others, recognized the fact
that the task which was before them,
was a seemingly impossible one. Their
high purpose was to unite, against
their will, a discordant congeries OF
jealous commonwealth, divided by
many conflicting interests.
While waiting for enough delegates
TO form a bare quorum Of the pro-
posed convention, he gathered the
faithful few about him and said to
them: 1T is too probable that nc
plan that we propose will be adopt
ed. If, to please the people, we Of
fer what we ourselves diSapprove,
how can we afterwards defend our
work? Let us raise a standard to
which the wise and just can repair.
The event is in the hands OF God.
For nearly four months that con
v~ention labored patriotically, behind
closed doors, to find that the differ
ences between delegates had increas-
ed in number and become more ac-
centuated. AT last they succeeded in
coming to a general understanding.
This success came mainly through
the matchless personalities and tire
less efforts of Washington and
Franklin.
Then it was-after the long sus-
pense had ended, the crisis passed
that Franklin, pointing to the half
disk of the sun painted on the chair
of the president of the convention,
made the prophetic remark that,
while he had often in the weary and
arduous months of the convention
wondered whether that sun was a
symbol of a rising or a setting SUI
for that America, to which he had
already given more than half a CEN
fury of his noble life, concluded !:
That now at length | have the hap
piness to know that it is a rising
and not a setting sun
The present administration and
Congress are being denounced by the
democrats, because they have failed
in three months hard work, to COM
pletely rehabilitate an economic, po-
litical and industrial structure, prac-
tically wrecked by eight years of
democratic unamerican misrule. Yet
this same Congress has put a final
quietus to the democratic incompet-
ency which headed this country to-
wards bankruptcy and state social
ism.
The animus OF the democrats to-
wards the present administration APP
pears to be deliberate and chronic.
Democratic National Chairman White
has conferred with ex-President Viii
son, and the is Off
cially made that the democratic party
programme will be, to oppose and
attack the Harding administration at
every point. In conformity with this
malevolent and unpatriotic cabal the
Democratic national committee has
begun its campaign of vituperation.
One of the first things published
by hat committee was this: THE
republican party in the last campaign,
promised to reduce federal taxes. A
republican Congress has increased
them the appropriation bills carry
ing $6.OO0,000,0 600, for 1921 and a like
amount for 1922, (Which would be
$7,5000OO,00 by the addition of bon
uses. This means that this admins
tration will spend three times as much
on an army in 1921, as was spent in
1910, and more than three times as
much on a navy in 1921, as was spent
in 1910, when nearly all of Europe
was at war"
This initial falsehood was prompt
ly exposed by Congressman Martin
b. Madden of Illinois, in an article
which appeared in the National Re-
publican July 2. In this, Mr.. Mad
appropriations made by Congress for
1921 amounted to y, 5l035.
OF this sum $lS6,4o2 ,3S3.45 was for
deficiencies for the fiscal year of
1920, and for prior years, with the
conduct of the business of which, the
republicans had nothing whatever to
do.
II also included 100000 on ac-
count of governmental mismanage-
ment and the McAdoodling of our
railroads, with which republicans had
nothing whatever to do. Five nun
dred millions Of this was on account
Of the federal control, and $30O,0OO,OOO
for new loans to the carriers.
Thus it becomes clear, that the APP
propriations for 1921, leaving out the
extraordinary obligations created
prior 10 the induction of the repub-
Leans either into the control of Con-
gress. or the administrative side of
the Government, were 1894, 337, 1900,
instead Of S6.O0.o00.OO0 as mis-stated
by the democrats. The difference
between the statement of the Dem
ocratic national committee and the
facts is only 2.205y6 62,S73.10
Taking up the appropriations for
1922, Mr.. Madden mentions them in
detail and shows that instead of be-
ing S6!OO0.OO0.0W as brazenly publish
ed by the Democratic national COM
mittee, the total amounts appropriate
ed, aggregate the sum of S,538,26,-
618-57. There is quite a difference
between this sum and $.000l0OO.0O-l
a difference of about S2,S00.O00l0O0.
Madden states that the railroad
companies were controlled by the
government of the United States.
under the democrats, for a period of
d months. and during that period
that control cost the American peo-
pie 1905. 100000. That is more than
IT cost to run the government. for
every activity. during the same period
of time. before we went into the
war. There never was a time, be-
fore the railroads were taken over
by the Government. when they did
not function. They could have func-
toned better If they never had been
taken over. and we would o have
this enormous charge against the peo-
pie.