Evening journal., 1922-10-09

S production OF the minimum sur
tax from s5 to so per cent
;. Repeal of taxes on insurance
e premiums and dues to fraterna
S orders.
Repeal of taxes on musical in
struments. sporting goods and house
hold furniture.
Increase of exemptions in the IN
come tax applying to all heads OF
families with a salary or wage in
= come of less than $4,000 a year.
The increase of the exemption on
income taxes for heads of families
having a salary or wage of less than
$4,000 a year affected more than
1000, 900 heads of families. Accord
ing TO the records of the U. S. Income
Tax Bureau, over 80 per cent. of the
income taxpayers of the country
comprise those whose annual wage
or salary is less than $4,000. The
exemption for heads of families was
increased $500 a year, with an addi-
tional increase from 5000 to s400 in
exemptions allowed for each child or
dependent. This reduction in taxes
saves the average families" of the
United States approximately $780,
100000 a year.
During the first year all the de-
partments OF the government were
in exclusive control Of the Republi-
cans:
The public debt was reduced a.
014,06S,S44.
THE public expenditures were re-
duced s1,74S.31s,7ss.
This is the greatest reduction OF
public debt and public expenditures
any nation in the world has made
since the armistice.
THE Republican Congress appro-
] priated one-third OF billion dollars
I less for ordinary expenditures this
year than were appropriated last
year and over a billion dollars less
than were appropriated two years
ago.
During the period following the
1918 elections) the Republicans had
control of Congress while the DEM
Gratis still controlled the executive
departments the Republican Con-
gressgress reduced requests of Dem
ocratic executives for money in the
sum Of SS,s90,O0O.OO 600 or more than
enough to run the government for
the present fiscal year.
THE Budget Bureau. the creation
OF which is the greatest piece of
constructive business legislation OF a
generation. was created by an act Of
this Republican Congress early after
Il convened In special session April
H. 1921. The Republican Congress
enacted a similar budget law in the
previous session only to have Il
vetoed by President Wilson.
1.-THE fact that this Congress 70
duced the estimates sen. n h., +bo
Budget Bureau In the sum of s172,-
zS'O46'O46. or more than seven per |
cent. proves It was not a spendthrift
body.
THE annual nxed charges as a
result of war are over s1.675 600 OOO
more than they were prior to the
var which shows II Is Impossible
ever to reduce public expenditures
to pre-war basis.
Heavy Democratic Iegacies.
"A few cold facts and figures in
herited from the Democratic ad-
ministration:
The Democratic party went ont
Of power March 4. 1921, after eight
years Of continuous administration
OF the government. It left as a
legacy to the incoming Republican
administration:
"A public debt Of $4,000. OOO.-
900. '''''V'
Five million workmen out of a
Job.
Compare this with quotation
from a recent letter of Francis I.
Jones, director general of U. S. De-
partment OF Labor. 1 quote: It
may interest you TO know that there
Is a shortage existing today of build
ing craftsmen in many parts of the
also for common labor.
Within the past two months en-
ployers of labor have been coming
TO this service asking that they be
supplied with men, whereas, few
months ago this service was looking
FOR opportunities to place men at
work. We are firmly of the opinion
hat as soon as the railroad diff !
guilty IS Strengthened out, a shortage 4,
IF men will exist in most lines of /
ITO go back to my list: I
Higher living costs than prevail I
ID at any time during the war. s
farming and live stock interests {
'acing ruin.
Tens of thousands OF cruelty neg
ected injured ex-service men.
Untold millions of overdue and
unpaid public taxes. J
Unsettled claims of between S12,-
100000 900 and $4,000, 100000 in !
'olving the government.
THE auditing departments of the
J. S. Treasury from several months =
o two years behind in their work
Unprotected foreign loans in the !
UNI of $1,000. 100000. the payment 4
Il which the Democratic administra- Z
ion was trying to have indefinitely A
postponed, looking toward their Ill
innate cancellation. a
The government involved in bill g
ions of dollars of litigation for a
which The necessary records and
comments TO prove its case had c
ither been lost or misplaced. a
II could elaborate on each of these C
egacies from Democrats, but my n
me is limited end more interesting !,
peakers are wd.-.ns. n
Women and Party Rule
1.-The women have been given the
aflot not only as their right as in v
fviduals. whose lives, homes and Il
antilles are vitality affected by the c
ractices of federal, State AID local Il
out in the certain be- t.
eff they could and would bring TO
lie administration of public affairs II