Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24
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ye YOUR VOICE HEARD

....-y Mellon Of the treasury, IN
,..r 70 Representative Fordney'
,,,,,. of the committee on ways
r,.,s Of the house Of representa-
.,s. "Ordinary expenditures
DO rrst three quarters OF the MS
VOC, 1921. have been $3,IS3,711.-
!. Or ot the rate Of about 5000
nnc f..r the year. According
,e,,st estimates Of the spending
,,mants ordinary expendi'
during the fiscal year, 1922, In
inc interest on the public debt
he over s4,OO0O00,OOO.
rhe nation cannot continue 70
Nd a. this shocking rate. Al the
sid.p, said in his message, the bur
4, ppbearable, and there are two
rne, or relief, One 10 resistance
Ippropr!stion and the other u tne
ost economy in administration
G. L4ringwell, formerly an assas-
secretary Of the treasury, whom
s,, quoted previously in these af"
..s md who 10 sill deeply and ae-
ply interested in securing retrench-
n In national expenditures, com
ntlnR on this utterance Of Secretary
3lou, says: why should there b
renchnent in public expendituref
does the secretary Of the treas
nesk of current and estimated en-
bditures as shocking7 What 10 the
tina. we are discussing and what
its effectf
,Goyernment expenditures must b
from taxes. To the extent that
n are met promptly from taxes and
bm honest taxes directly laid upon
incomes Of the people, and in pro-
rtion 10 those incomes, exaggeration
the evil Of government expenditure
avoided. Government expenditure
kes the money Of all the people for
supposed benefit Of a portion OF
people. honestly or dishonesty,
ually or uneQually, avOwedly by d.
Ict taxation, or surreptitiously by the
|Idirect taxation which results from
|hatlon Of currency and credit and
the public debt.
Government expenditure takes the
|uits Of the earth and the labor Of
e people and diverts them from the
toductive and reproductive enter
rises of men, from the natural enjoy
Ient Of the men, who by their pru-
ence. foresight and effort, created the
5ealtb and made II available, to- the
bmetines benevolent and sometimes
|eiligerent, but almost always ecOnom-
eally wasteful, purposes Of govern
bent
Government exploits all Of US for
be benefit. or supposed benefit, Of
)ome Of US. Yielding to the vague
Aspirations Of men for better world
>r q better distribution of the good
,hings Of this earth, government i'm
boses upon all of us 0ver-increasinG
burdens in the effort to benefit vocif.
lrous and organized minorities.
Each Of the executive departments
e concerned to improve its service
hnd 10 discover new and useful fields
pf service. The entire organization
pf the army, Of the navy, of each OF
The departments, independent office.
lnd agencies Of the government, is de.
'roted =" an important task. It- par
|t!cular function seems of vital use
pran uacaccitu Exnarfc ir
Each are alive to its defects and tt
fthe opportunities for usefulness which
have Irut been availed of.
"Thr secretary, or other head oi
the department, drawn from private
life, perhaps wholly ignorant at the
outset of the nature and extent Of itl
problems, promptly becomes the advo
cate II the policies and demands o.
LIS permanent assistants and bureau
chiefs. II he does not become sucl
advocate, he may break down thu
morale of his organization and possibl!
lose the confidence Of his personnel
Behind II all Is the pressure Of or
gahlzed interests In the constituencies
which are the beneficiaries Of specif,
expenditures, operating upon politi
cans, executive departments, senator
shc congressmen. The strident voic'
OF greed is heard In the market plac,
shc IN legislative halls; the voice o
ue reop is barely audible.
The fact that each project is con
soefed separately, without references
ei'he' In executive departments o
congress, IT, ways and means OF finanS
nlS H. prevents concentration Of popu
ia' opinion on the awful total. Al
agree that there must be economy, bu
s each Item is presented all seeming
sGree that that Is not the prope
LAC lot economy. There must be ecoE
om', out there must be a merchan
marine "hatever the cost. There mus
'" economy, but the government mu1
ny high wages to railroad employees
Hne furnish transportation on the raj
.o1uS az lsSa than cost. There mul
Se economy, but the World war 81
u'us must have their bonus. ThaE
. IusI De economy, but Civil war peE
s.Ohs mns' be increased. There muI
=. e'ohomy, but we must prepAsO n
% regardless Of expense"
toH Know this lie true. The NJ
Oo oocee' law will help very much III
~ "u.uoh' but unless you are interes
h'innously, actively, openly a