The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-01-17
SEEN@d HEARD
. around the
National Capital
. BY CARTER rIELDi

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westinghouse great deal OF peer
Ing into the future as to effects In
the years between 1895 and 1910 OF
the present heavy spending by the fed
erai government is being done by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his advisers. In
cidentally. the recent message to con-
gress and the budget message which
followed give an inkling OF this to one
who reads between the lines.
What Is botherlng the President Is
that unless there Is very sharp and
fairly speedy curtailment OF the 30
called extraordinary budget expendi-
lures. such as public works and re-
lief, 1t will not be possible to avoid
| putting on very much heavier taxes
The additional impositions, or at least
| any very burdensome additions, may
be postponed for few years. But
they cannot, by any stretch OF the Inn
agination. be postponed until after the
end OF the second Roosevelt admin
istratIon.
Which Is not to say that Mr.. Roose
Welt Is looking at the situation with
purely political eye. There Is some
politics In the lens, OF course, but there
Is a good deal more. Roughly. the
continued spending of amounts far In
excess OF revenues can quite easily
turn on and wreck all the social re-
forms the President is very DESTROYS
OF bringing about.
Imagine, for example, an electorate
In 1910, which Is sick and tired of
high taxes-so annoyed that every
time one Of the reforms the New Deal
has brought about Is mentioned the
taxpayers want to scream. Which,
far from being I Pigment or some
comedians Imagination Is very real
danger In the mind OF none other
than Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The result OF such a state OF mind
might easily be that some dema-
gogue might be nominated on an OPP
position ticket who would promise to
sweep the whole Roosevelt program
off the books and out OF the window.
Or from the Roosevelt standpoint, to
turn the clock back for twenty years.
True, from the radical standpoint this
sort of thing would bring on the rev
olution, and would actually get us
ahead faster than II the Roosevelt
program had stayed on the books.
Not Acceptable
But neither Is acceptable to Roose-
welt He neither wants the clock
turned back nor the revolution.
But how is he to curtail emergeny
spending rapidly enough to prevent
the danger Of excessive taxation In the
years Just before 1910?
For 1t Is imperative. Ia his view,
to keep on spending fast enough to
prime the business pump. Mr.. Roose-
vet believes that government emer-
gency spending In various ways Is d.
rectly and almost solely responsible
for the revival In business that Is now
generally conceded.
He hopes that II this printing Is
continued just little while business
will get going on It's own momentum,
and that would mean such an increase
In taxes without increasing the rates
or the imports
And 1t Ia also imperative to prevent
starvation and freezing, whether or
not the states and local communities
take over the @unemployables' from
the federal government. Or rather
whether they are able to take care Of
them after they have been forced off
the federal rolls.
In the meantime the mental attitude
on Capitol Hill is not at all sympa-
thetic with Presidential fears. Con-
gress Is positively drunk with the sue
cess OF past and promised government
spending, as demonstrated ar the No
vember election. Its fundamental at
tltude toward appropriations Is way
out Of line with Rooseyelt's viewpoint.
1t Is not worrying about the place In
history of the New Deal reforms.
Roosevelt Is.
New Liquor Order !
A boon 10 bootleggers" Is what
nigh officials In Federal Alconol Con-
troll administration, and In the various
liquor code authorities, say of the
new order of the treasury requiring
liquor to be sold only In bottles with
blown In words forbidding their IL
legal use.
Secretary OF the Treasury Morgen-
thau imposed this ruling over the pro-
tests Of The liquor code authorities
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