The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-05-07
COOLIDGE SAVES THAT TAX
PAYERS MAY SPEND MORE
Propaganda Being Sent Out of
Washington Seeks to Cloud
Presidents Real Plans

There is on foot a deliberate and
vicious attempt to belittle President
Coolidge's program of economy. There
is no doubt in the minds of many in
| Washington that this attempt is be-
ing made not only by political oppon-
ents, but also by some who are in
| terested to see that the government
shovels out money in expenditures
which would result in their personal
gain. This is evidenced by the heter-
ogeneOus collection of rumors, in
nuendoes, skillfully thought out
propaganda, infantile imaginings and
double-meaning articles which, with
the Washington date line, is being
broadcast throughout the country.
Under the classification of vicious
and misleading propaganda one can,
by carefully reading articles sent out
from the nations capital, discern the
effort that is being made to miscon-
strue the attitude of the President in
the matter of economy. 1t is ex-
tremely doubtful, despite the efforts
of some of the writers of this kind
of matter, that any impression has
been, or will be, made upon the people
of the nation. The originators of this
plan have overlooked one important
factor, namely, that the people of the
country have witnessed a material
| demonstration of the benefits of the
Presidents plan to stop the wasting
Of the taxpayers money. 1t is not
an easy matter, even for clever
propagandists, to fool the people
when they know that the present plan
OF stopping wastage has resulted in
the saving of their dollars. 1t must
be recognized that national economy
and the decrease in the expenses of
the government has brought about q
decrease in federal taxes.
President CooIidge's program Of
economy, put in plain words, is this:
he is determined to stop the wastage
of government funds, funds secured
by taxes upon the people of the ma
ton for inconsequential, non-essen-
tial, bureaucratic activities. This
means that with these expenditures
eliminated less money has to be paid
to the government in the form of
taxes. Consequently, it means more
money for the individual to spend as
he Or she pleases. The President in
tends to stop the wasting of the tax
payers money, and there certainly
has been great wastage of the
peoples dollars since the beginning
of the World War.
President Coolidge is concerned
only with the manner in which the
government spends the taxpayers
money; what the individual man or
woman do with their own wages or
income is matter that the President
considers their own personal bust
ness.
Already this effort to belittle his
work is in evidence. Some of these
stories are feeble attempts to be wit
ty; others are yelled attempts to dis
credit the Presidents determination
to save the taxpayers dollars.
There are those who, for purely
| selfish personal reasons, would be de-
| lighted to see the Presidents policy
of economy killed-killed in order
that they might put their hands in
the taxpayers pocket and pull out
every dollar therein.
There are some very clever propa-
gandists sending out stories from
| Washington. One thing is certain, the
| President will not be harpooned by
those who now seek to belittle his
economy program, as the public COM
nonsense already detects the objec-
tive aimed at. The public will do we'll
| to continue to analyZe stories of the
| before character so they
can draw the conclusion as to what
particular selfish interests are to be
benefited by the stopping of an
economy program. Those back Of
movements of this character have not
the courage to come out and openly
attack Calvin Coolidge. They realize
full we'll that he possesses the re-
spect and esteem of the people; if the
instigators of this class of propa-
ganda had the sense of an infant in
arms they would realize that no
method of propaganda, no mater how
sugarcoated it may be, is going to
stop the President from carrying out
his plan of stopping government
wastage. This conspiracy will be de-
feated by the support of the decent,
thinking citizens of our land
and by the Presidents unfinching
continuation of the program which he
has outlined and is already executing.
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