The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-09-10
HARDING ANSWERS DEMOCRATS
Progress Made In Recovering From
Welter of Waste

Washington, Sept. 6.-President
Harding, in letter reviewing the
achievements to date of the Republi
AN administration particularly with
reference to Congress, declares that
surveying the national situation as
a whole, it Is plain that we are work
ng our way out of welter of waste
md prodigal spending at a most i'm
pressve rate
The letter, made public today, was
written by the President under the
aate of August 30, to Senator Nc
'ormick Of Illinois, and it is under
stood. will b used in the campaign
in New Mexico, where Senator Bur
sum, appointed to fill out the unex-
pired term Of Secretary of Interior
Fall, is a candidate for election The
letter, 1t also Is understood is con.
sidered by Republican leaders as
reply to attacks on the legislative
record of the Republican Congress by
Chairman White Of the Democratic
national committee and other leading
democrats.
I'VE have made much progress tow
ard retrenehment and greatly In
creased efficiency" the President as
serts- Il cannot but account it a
monumental accomplishment which
has marked the work of the extraordi-
nary session down to the time OF its
recess.
Looking to the future. Mr. Harding
II his letter expresses the confident
hope that Congress- after the recess
and before the end OF the extraordi-
nary session. will adopt both the tariff
ana taxation measures and that along
with these it will pass the bill to pre-
nit funding the debt owed us BY for.
eign governments
"This, | hope the President adds
will shortly be followed by arrange.
ments under which the debtor coun
tries will begin paying interest on
their obligations Likewise. | am
confident that the bill facilitating the
funding of the debt OF the railways
to the United States will become law
during the extraordinary session, thus
insuring a large and immediate de
mand for employment Of men now
! idle"
The President, in ginning his let
/ ter. expressed thanks to Senator Nc
Cormick for the Illinois senator's con-
Nratulations on the accomplishments
of the administration. as expressed in
letter addressed to the President
under date OF August "a.
The Republican Congress proceed
ing the advent of the present admin.
igtraton is credited by Mr.. Harding
with having patiently and assiduous.
! w labored TO reduce expenditures
with results (which we can sum
Marie in the statement that the ap.
proprictions for the current fiscal year
/ will aggregate s4,25OOOO,O 600 and that
/ this is quarters OF billion less
than the expenditures for the previous
fiscal year.
The President after reciting as
"extravagances INCIDENT to the war
the expenditure Of SO 500 900 600 by
the sh piping board; between $1,000.
600 900 and s60OO,0O0 900 for aircraft,
artillery and ammunition, and be.
tween one and a quarter and one and
a half billion dol ars for the railroad
administration adds
1T is gratifying to be able to say.
therefore, that probably no other gov.
eminent In the word has during a
similar period so drasticaly reduced
expenditures as has the government
NJ the United States during the past
two years on the ins'stence OF the
Republican Congress Moreover ! am
happy to assure YOU that the admin.
strative departments are now in full
sympathy with the program OF rigor
Gus and unremitting economy through
which believe. we will be able dur
ing the next year to cover back into
the treasury so large a sum that the
aggregate OF taxation may be reduced
to 81 500 100000 a year
Half the present total expenditures
of the government arise from wars
OF the past. Similar burdens are i'm.
pO ed upon the taxpayers of other
countries. and well.nigh universal
protest against n possible repetition
of gigantic conflict gives rise to the
common hope that the conference In
November may tighten the burdens OF
both armament and taxation. not only
for this, but for other lands.
Almost without exception the gov
ernments of other countries are faced
with great dehcuS We must
not overestimate our good fortune
and the prudence of our Congress
which permits US to balance revenue
and expend ture at time when do
; iicits are the rule throughout the
world. We shall be greatly aided IN
a policy of progressively reducing ex
penditure by the budeI law, Repub
iican in origin. design enactment ant
execution. | do not hesitote
to say that in ordinary times II alon,
would have been considered a h'ghly
creditable chief product of year.
legislative program. Yet in time OF
such legislative activity as the present
II IS only one among many measures
OF the first Importance to he enacted
1t was quickly followed by the enact
ment of the immigration law. calcu
lated both to limit the inflow of popu
lation during period of depression
and to hasten the day when we ma,
ehect the true Americanization OF al
newcomers to our shores.
The series of measures looking t.
great agricultural industries. would il
other times have constituted strikin,
legislative product a years session