The Glasgow courier., 1922-04-07

y. S. REPRESENTATIVE SIMEON
D. FEss, OHIO, CHAIRMAN RE-
BLIcAN CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.
revised the suria9
In this connection it is interesting
to set down the actual reduction of
public expenditures which have taken
place since the Republican Party came
into control of the United States Con-
gress. The operating cost of the
United States Government in the year
1919 was $19,0OO000,OOO. That year
the Republican Congress began to
function. 1t used a blue pencil upon
the appropriations asked by the Demo.
cratic administration chiefs. The op-
Grating costs of the Government in
1920 were only $7,500,0OO,OOO. The Re-
publican Congress continued to econo-
mize, and the cost of running the Gov
ernment in 1921 was reduced to $6,-
500,000,000. Much of this was the
residue of the Democratic administra-
ton. BY close cooperation between
the executive departments and the
Congress in 1921, the expenditures of
the Government for the current year
are to be not in excess Of $4,000,0O
900, and economies which have been
put into effect give promise of cutting
this to $3,500,00O,00O In connection
with this, Congress has enacted the
foreign-debt funding law, which au.
thorizes a commission to take imme.
date steps to place our loans to
foreign countries in collectible shape,
so that we may begin to receive the
interest and principal due US and
thereby still further reduce our do.
mestic taxation.
In summing up, it may be stated
that the Republican Party in March,
1921, found the nation with her rela.
tions with many foreign countries
strained to almost the breaking point,
her fundamental principles under dis.
cussion, her historic significance in
question, her population surfeited with
the profits of war and wild extrava.
gance, her industries inflated by over.
expansion from war demands, and
problems of reconstruction compli.
Gated and imminent
Today sees peace again established
with all countries, foreign relations re.
sumed with honor to ourselves and
complete justice to others, the finest
attitude of the world toward our moral
leadership as evinced in the arms con
ference, a policy of proper regard fo1
the defenders of the nations rights
an economic administration upon the
soundest principles of economy, a re-
duction of our public funded debt to
the amount of $4,000, 100000, and a re-
duction of our loating debt Of $780,,
100000, reduced taxation Of over
quarters of a billion dollars per
year, a rejuvenated agriculture and
industrial fabric sorely distressed by
the havoc of war, the prospect of gen
eral employment of American labor
in American industries, the only coun
try which not only is balancing its
budget, but has really reduced the wal
debt, has restored its credit, and dis
plays signs of promise on all hands oi
a resumption again of our happy and
promising stage which preceded the
Inauguration of the Democratic foibles
of the new freedom and policies Of
suspicion and persecution of success
Such is the achievement of the first
year of the Republican administration
| in control of both the executive ant
legislative branches of our Govern
ment.
But it should be noted that all o.
this splendid program has been car
ried out in the face Of the persisten
opposition Of the solid Democratic
Party, which has attempted to defea
every effort to rehabilitate the nation
and which has opposed every measure
proposed, not because it had anything
to offer in substitution, but because i
is habitually the party Of opposition
complaint and petty criticism.
The Republican Party gladly goe'
to the country upon it's record of con
structive work, confident that thu
memory of eight years of Democratic
misrule is too vivid in the mind of tn
public to leave any doubt as to tn
decision of the American people as Il
which party should have control of tn
Congress during the critical period o
nationwide and worldwide reconstruc
ton.