Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-10-13
THE HIGH COST
OF REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION
MANYMoRE MILLIONS ARE SPENT
UNDER HARDING REGIME
THAN WHEN DEMOCRATS
WERE IN CONTROL.
REPUBLICANS SHOW UP BAD
The Claim To Eeonomlzlna And Saw.
ing Money Scarcely Justified By
/, Appalling Expenditures In
Every Department..

his public statement, showing thnt the
Harding administration has appropri.
ated S5S6,000,O00 more in 1928 than
the Wilson administration appropri.
ated in 1915 for the cunning expenses
OF the government, after deducting all
war expenses, and making q compare
son OF three years before the war with
three years after the war, the follow
Ing detail is given, showing the In.
creased expenditures in each depart
ment, while claim Is being made that
the administration Is economizing and
saving money:
Executive Department and other In
dependent ofIlces-Wilson, 1915. So.
100000; Harding, 1923, $4,000 900: In.
crease, s14,OOO,O0O.
State Department-W Wilson, 1915. So
100000; Harding, 1928. $4,000, 900; in.
crease, 100000.
treasury Observation-Disclosures, 1915,
S5O.OOO,0O0; Harding, 1923, sos, 0O0,-
900; increase, $149, 100000.
War Department - Wilson, 1915.
s1s1,OOo,O0o; Harding, 1928, s3a2, 00o,.
600; increase, S151, 100000.
Navy Department = Wilson, 1915,
s14S.oOo,oOO; Hardfag. 1923, s2s7, OOo,-
600; increase, $14s, 100000.
Interior Wilson, 1915.
S211,O00,000; Harding, 1928, s225, 00o,-
600: increase, S14,00O,OOO
Agricultural Department = Wilson,
1915, s29,o0O,00O; Harding, 1923, $751;
100000; increase. s3O,0OO,0OO.
Department of Wilson,
1915, s11,Ooo,OOO; Harding, 1928, $751;
100000; increase, 100000.
Department of Labor-Wilson. 1915.
100000; Harding, 1923, $4,000 900;
increase, $4,000, 900.
Department Of Justice = Wilson,
1915, s1o,00O,O00; Harding. 1923, ST.
100000; increase. s7,0O0,oOO.
District Of olumbia-Wilson, 1915,
S13.00O,000; Harding, 1928. $4,000
600; Increase, s11,0oO,O0O.
Democratic Prosperity Was "the Meas"
G. o. p. inherited.
The chief feature of Republican
propaganda is a plea In confession
and avoidance. Many Republicans now
admit that they have not kept their
prediction promises, but offer the
mendacious and hypocritical excuse
that the Democratic administration
left such a mess" on their hands that
they have been unable to do more.
This pretense, made for the purpose
of enabling Republican leaders and the
Republican press to dodge the issue OF
broken promises to the people, ia thor
oughly exposed by Cordell Hull, Chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee. After referring to the menda-
cious campaign conducted by these
same Republican "best minds" in
1920, "in reckless disregard Of truth
and morals. which they are now seek
ing to repeat" Chairman Hull says:
Under the rules of testimony in any
court Of justice these authors of every
species Of criminal deception in 1920
are not this year entitled to be be-
lieyed upon any political subject. But
let us see what kind of mess the
recent Democratic administration did
leave to its Republican successor"
Chairman Hull then points out how
the Republican Congress of 1920,
bitterly partisan and vindictive, did
obstruct, delay and defeat the great
reconstruction programme Of the
Democratic administration for. the
early settlement Of all postwar prob
lens, and to this extent created. a
mess which the present Republican
administration inherited.
Chairman Hull then gives in detail
a picture Of Democratic prosperity
which the Democratic party be-
queathed to the Republicans, which
they, the Republicans, now refer to as
"nless." He says:
"Let us see further just what sort Of
q mess the Democratic administra-
tion did leave to It's successor. The
country was enjoying unparalleled
prosperity during 1919 and 1920 under
Democratic rule. Every laborer was
employed on full time at the highest
wages ever received in time Of peace.
Farmers in every section were never
more rich and prosperous. They had
accumulated near thirty billions of
wealth and savings under the eight
years Of Democratic control, during
which, sound and reciprocal foreign
market conditions, enabling the farm
ers readily to sell every ounce Of their
surplus products at top prices, were
maintained.
"All these great outstanding facts
will ALWAYS mark the wonderful
heights to which America climbed In
her financial, commercial, economic,
military and social achievements from
1918 to 1920. These big facts, which
speak for themselves, and which the
most ignorant citizen clearly remem-
bers, are lasting and indestructible
evidences Of the so-called mess which
the present Republican administration
inherited from Its Democratic prede-
cessors"
C. F. YATES