Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-04-05
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MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
Secretary Mellon of the treasury, In
q letter to Representative Fordney,}
chairman of the committee on ways
and means of the house Of representa-
tives, says. Ordinary expenditures
for the first three quarters Of the As
cal year, 1921, have been $3,783, I'll
996.74, or at the rate Of about s., OOO,-
100000 for the year. !. According
to the latest estimates Of the spending
departments. ordinary expendf:
lures during the fiscal year, 1922 in
Guiding interest on the public debt
will be over $4,000, OOO, 600. .s.
1.-THE nation cannot continue to
spend at this shocking rate AS the
President said in his message, the bur-
den Is unbearable and there are two
avenues Of relief, 'One is resistance
In appropriation and the other is the
utmost economy in administration !"
r. G. Lefingwell, formerly an assis-
tant secretary Of the treasury, whom
I have quoted previously in these ar
ticles, and who Is still deeply and ac-
lively interested in securing retrench-
ment in national expenditures, COM
menting on this utterance Of Secretary
Mellon, says: "Why should there be
retrenchment In public expenditure?
Why does the secretary of the treas
ury speak of current and estimated ex-
penditures as shocking? What is the
evil that we are discussing and what
is Its effect?
Government expenditures must be
met from taxes. To the extent that
they are met promptly from taxes and
from honest taxes directly laid upon
the incomes Of the people, and In pro-
portion to those incomes, exaggeration
Of the evil Of government expenditure
is avoided. Government expenditure
takes the money Of all the people for
the supposed benefit of portion Of
the people, honestly or dishonesty,
equally or unequally, avowedly by di-
rect taxation, or. surreptitiously by the
indirect taxation which results from
Imitation OF currency and credit and
Of the public debt.
Government expenditure takes the
fruits of the earth and the labor Of
the people and diverts them from the
productive and reproductive enter
prises Of men, from the natural enjoy
nent Of the men, who by their pru-
dence, foresight and effort, created the
wealth and made it available, to the
sometimes benevolent and sometimes.
belligerent. but almost always econom-
ically wasteful, purposes Of govern
ment.
Government exploits all Of US for
the benefit, or supposed benefit, Of
some of us. Yielding to the vague
aspirations Of men for a better world
Or q better distribution Of the good
things Of this earth, government Inn
poses upon all of US FREDERICKSBURG
burdens In the effort to benefit vocif-
erous and organized minorities.
Each Of the executive departments
10 concerned to improve its service
and to discover new and useful fields
Of service. The entire organization
s Of the army, Of the navy, Of each. Of
the departments, independent Offices
and agencies of the government, Is de-:
voted to an important task. Its par
ticular function seems Of vital use
fulness, even necessity. Experts in
each are alive to its defects and to
the opportunities for usefulness which