, 1922-05-17
Making Good

THE ACTUAL COST Of conducting the government
l. for the fiscal year July l, 1920, to June 80, 1921,
was $5,55S, 040, $50. During nine. months of this
period the administration agencies of the government
were wholly in the hands of the Democratic party.
During the current fiscal year, which began July
1. last, and ends June so, next, it viii cost 1922
3T2 ,303 to run the government During this period
ali the executive agencies of the government have
been under Republican control.
This is a saving of $1,000, 900, 900 which this Re
publican administration has made in one year as COM
pared with the last year of Democratic rule.
These figures are not guess work. They are taken
from the books of the government. They are set
port just made to congress by the director of the
budget They answer conciusively and most en-
p~hatically the charges of the Democratic party that
Republican claims to public economy are not based
upon fact
Going into details, the report shows that the ordi-
nary expenditures for the operation of routine bust
ness conducted by the executive agencies of the gov
eminent amounted to 5 2,673, 435, 079 during TIE fiscal
year July 1, 1920, to June 81, 1921, during nine
months of which all the executiv offices were filled
by Democrats.
During the current fiscal year which ends June 80.
next, the ordinary expenditures for the operation of
the routine business conducted by the executive
agencies viii be s1,765, S75.672. During all this
period these executive offices have been filled by Re-
publcans.
This is a direct and very concrete saving of seo7,-
'5s9,407, which must be credited to the policies of the
Republican executives. All of these expenditures are
wholly subject to the control of the executive officers
in charge of the several departments, bureaus and
commissions which made the expenditures.
This saving of over 5000, 600, 900 in the conduct
of the executive agencies is not as the Democrats
charge, a bookkeeping saving The saving is actual
1t Is concrete; it is expressible only in terms of dol
lars and cents; it is a saving which means 1907, 900,
600 less monev o he taken in taxes from the pockets
of the American people. 1t is a saving which is SET
forth in the report of the director of the budget to
the last details in dollars and cents. 1t is not mag.
mary; it is not ESTIMATED p it is there; it has been
made; it is as concrete as a grindstonc.
The other 500, 100000 saved by this administra.
ticn as compared with the expenditures during the
LAST year of the Wilson administration is accounted
fol largely by the abolition of the United States Rail
road Administration, the United States Grain cor
poration. the Sugar Equalization board and other wa,
activities which the Republican congress elected in
1918 made an end of as rapidly as possible.
This is a 100 per cent, plus, tulfillment OF the 1920
campaign pledges of the Republican party to put
more business in government" 1t is the first and
most important step in the program of reconstruc.
systems and methods that viii permanently keep then
down is the first and most important duty of every
government today. Since March 4, ! 1921, the United
States has made. more drastic reductions in public
expenditures and greater reductions in public take,
than any nation in the world. With the execution Of
possibly two others, it is the only nation which ha,
made any reductions in public expenditures and taxes
All this was done under a Republican administra
ton.
The Republican congress made it possible by the
carly enactment of the budget law.
The Republican executives, from President Hard
ing down, made the possibility a glorious reality by
taking every possible advantage of the BUDGET, ACT
to install and compel economies.