Evening star., 1923-12-22
Budget System as Salvation
OF the American Taxpayers

Despite the tangled situation which
has resulted from the clash of the
tax reduction and bonus adherents,
editors continue warm in their praise
of the utterances of President Cool
idge in connection with the budget.
incidentally, once again it is mani
fest that editors consider the budget
system a fixture and the probable
salvation eventually of the country
from pork barrel methods.
The President openly is for econ
omy," the Springfield Republican Gin
dependent). points out, but most
significant is his strng support of the
budget principle in practice. 1t will
not fail for lack of support at his
hands. No sound system of govern
ment finance can ever be established
unless the budget makes an impreg-
nable position for itself" Inasmuch
as today the American taxpayer
carries a load from three to four
times as heavy as he did before the
war" the New York Post Cinde-
pendenD believes ''the issue between
the President and the soldier bonus
supporters is clearly drawn" by his
budget declaration. "Mr. ,CooAdge
has met the financial problem in
way that has won him fresh prestige.
Now It is for Congress to show how
promptly ii can do It's part in light
ening the country's burdens" This
view has the warm Endorsement of
the Brooklyn Eagle independents
democratic), which insists the mes
sage is a challenge to those who
insist 1t is possible at one and the
same time to cut down taxes and
nate" in the belief of the Hartford
Courant (republican), that Congress
Is able to do a lot of things with
the budget, and it's members will do
we'll not only to consider carefully
the advice and suggestions of the
President, but also to inform itself
as to how the country at large feels.
They will discover that the people
are with him."
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"The budget message" the Albany
News independent republican,, ar
CUES, sis a plain business statement
with a common sense business pro-
gram to reduce the taxes by practical
business economy. Congress knows
1t is its duty to approve the Mellon
program and save the people of the
United States more than 100000, 900.
And the stockholders want their cor
poration, the United States, run on a
sound economic policy, not on poll
icy of political expediency." The OBJ
legation. however, the Chattanooga
Times (democratic), feels, rests upon
the people of the country themselves,
They may, by a thorough and sound
understanding of what the President
proposes, the methods he suggests
and the amendments to the laws he
recommends. force action in Congress
that will afford them relief; or they
may, by listening to the special pleas
of the radicals, the half-baked opip-
ions of demagogues and self~seekers
and the actual enemies OF our system
of republican government, not alone
sustain the present burdensome laws
but make it possible for legislation to
add TO the heavy load they now are
Carving" To which the New Or
leans Times Picayune tdemocratic),
adds, "Mr. CooIidge's presentation is
5ispassionate. 1t should persuade
MANY Americans to cool-headed and
cIear-headed consideration of the all
tentative courses he yfsualizes before
them"
"If the present Congress breaks
down the budget as the last Congress
broke down the Harding budget"
then the Lincoln Journal, .Gndepend-
ent republican,, feels 1.-The budget
system is very much of a farce. The
country cannot permit it to be that,
The budget system is the only means