The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1922-02-24
THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS or
THE REPUBLICAN ADMIN
isTRATIoN

atOr from Massachusetts, on the t14th
lof February gave out to their party
a set of valentines in the shape of key
note speeches, the former as rally
ing cry to stiffen the backbone of the
western ye0manry, who, under the
Kansas, and Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin, are about to go far astray;
and the latter to give little concila-
tion to the manufacturers of the east
who have fattened on the favors and
spoils of government by the levying
of a high protective tariff-a tax on
which they have fattened since the
memory of the present generation
runneth not to the contrary.
Now. what was the burden OF these
keynote speeches?
That the appropriations were some
billions less under the administration
of Mr.. Warren Harding than under the
administration of Mr. Woodrow Will
son.
Think it it!
When the estimates were made for
the operation of the various depart
ments of the government under the
Wilson administration the war was
on in full blast and no one had a
dream that it would end so suddenly,
hence the estimates were made as if
it were to last for term of years
and any one possessed of ordinary
intelligence knows that the expendi-
lures of war are made regardless of
cost if the arms of the nation can
be made triumphant.
AS the talented senator from Miss
issippi, Hon. Pat Harrison, stated:
In those estimates, running into
the billions, it was estimated how
much these millions of men who were
to be maintained in France and Bel
GUM would have cost for the coming
year. The estimates of the Shipping
Board, the estimates for aircraft, for
artillery, for munitions, for the Navy,
and for everything, were based upon
the assumption that the war probably
would run throughout the following
year; and SO, when it suddenly col
lapsed and these men were brought
back home, through the efficient adj
miniStratiOn of the overnment at that
time and through the economies that
were worked by the departments at
that time these enormous sums. run
ming into the billions of dollars, were
saved to the taxpayers of the country;
and yet the American people are to
be buncoed, hoodwinked. and deceived
by Republican spokesman claiming
that as an achievement of the present
administration. Sirs, if it had not
been for the magnificent messages of
ex-President Wilson, and the terms he
laid. down upon which peace should
come-messages that disheartened,
discouraged, disorganized. and broke
the morale of the opposing armies
these large appropriations estimated
for would have been necessary, and
billions in addition.
"Sirs, the Senator from Massa-
chusetts, who made this remarkable
speech, a keynote speech for his own
campaign in Massachusetts, to be fol-
lowed and copied by other Republican
spellbinders, said that the appropria-
ton of $5.337 200, 900 asked in the es-
Inmates were cut to 81, 42S, OO0, 900. The
facts are that the estimates for 1922
were $5,337 100000, and that we ap-
propriated over $4,000, 900 900, not ST.
42S.O0O,000. He is just two and one
half billion dollars OF, that is all. That
does not amount to much, especially
in this day of Republican political
hypocrisy and deception"
What think our readers that special
ly provoked those keynote speeches?
The ears of those distinguished
party leaders were held close to the
ground and they heard the mouthings
OF discomfort that is so prevalent in all
sections of the country and they made
use of that pitiful argument merely as
smoke screen" hoping that it would
gloss over things until after the con-
gressional elections.
A hitherto good Republican wrote
Hon. Pat Harrison a letter in which
he stated that dozens of bill boards
in Salt Lake City are placarded with
numerous posters telling that prosper
ity is just around the corner
The posters caused some wag to
compose poem that was also sent to
the Mississippi senator which he read
for the delectation of the senate.
This is the poem:
The BiIIboards on the Street
Mark Hanna gave the dinner pail
That made us feel so fine:
Theodore used the big stick
To keep us all in line;
But Harding, in his great wisdom.
Has outdone all such feats,
He's given US prosperity
! On billboards on our streets.
A quick return to ''normalcy"
The thing he's striving at,
And Il we'll tighten up our belts.
Some time he'll make us fat.
Instead OF the old dinner pail.
Fuh of good things to eat,
He'll serve US with prosperity
On biilboards on the street.
For many years l served you