The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-04-22
po1Ncs AT WASHINGTON

Washington. April lOth-When Vice
p-.,,d.,t Coolidge talks about the
co,.t,tutIon. his usual theme, he at
.r.cts on,v ordinary attention. because
onn. rcnt,v he knows no more about It
than any other ayeape New England
country lowver and still more appar.
only iecause he never saws anything
about n that Ia I'm dispute. But winp
bo spe.ts ahout IAN Incredible achie-
vc,,ent IN efonomy." as he did recent.
Nv in BROOKLYN, he is sure to attract
attention. because Mr.. Coolidre per-
xono,,v has n record and a reputation
for economy. Az Governor of Massa.
chusetts he paid s34 80 a month house
rent when the rest of us were in the
hands Of profiteers and rent.hoxs.
when he was a candidate for the vice
presidency. one old New Englapder
nsked another what salary that ONCE
mid and on learning that It was 12,.
OoO a wear, remarked In a tone Of sat
isfaction, Well Cal can save S11.5OO
of that
unfortunately the almost incredible
achievement I'm economy to which
yive President Coolidge referred In
his BROOKLYN speech had no personal
application; he was talking of the
MINER savings of the Harding admins
tration. which mikes the almost in.
credible achievement In economy al.
together Incredible, principally be-
cause there was no such achievement.
To begin with, Mr. Coolidge states
that the anpropriations prior IN the
war were a little over a billion; for
the last fiscal year (lO2l) Ave billion !;
for the present fiscal year (estimated)
at four billion and for. 1923 (also es.
timnted) at three and half billion.
He estimated thaht by reducing items
of permanent expenditure created by
the war the present cost of running
the government would not exceed the
pre-war cost by more than two or
three hundred million dollars
In these spurious partisan claims Of
economy between 1921 and 1923 no ac-
count IN ever taken of the fact that
In 1927 seven hundred millions were
expended ON the railroads, whcrea.
no amount liz appropriated for this
purpose for 1923. Nor do the claim.
ants ever refer to the fact that thro-
ugh reductions made In eoin, from n
war to a peace basis the Democrats
turned back into the Treasury over
seven billions Of war appropriations
In 1910.
With reference to Mr. Coolidse.s
claim that by eliminating fixed expen.
ditures created nv the war the or,i.
nary EXPENSES Of the Government will
only he two or three hundred million
dollars more In 1923 than under pre.
war conditions, the oflicial figures Of
1916 COMPARED with the estimates for
1929 show nearly four times as much
as stated nv Mr. Coolidge. Here are the
figures.
President Hardins's budget estimate
for 1929 ia tbre., billion e,yht hundre,
million. From this IN IN no det,uctad
nine hundred million. interest IN thc
war debt : five hundred million for tho
Veterans Bureau and-three hundred
million for the Sinking Fund amou,.
ing to one billion eight hundred, mil.
lion. This shows TINT the ,dm,nistra.
ton proposes to appropriate eight bun.
dred million more in 1ooa-poar,v ono
billion more-than WINS onnronr,. .e,,
in the pre.war wear 1016 Attept,on
In also called IN the foct that tho p-o-
sident's budect estimates for 1ooa arc
ss7 OFT 40 more than Copures. ammo.
priated for 1922.
Vice President coo,,d.s.. s..,.m.,,