The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Administrations Record
Draws Fire of LandOn
Pledges of Sound Money and Balanced
Budget Broken-Kansan Warns of
Crushing Debt Burden

In his acceptance speech at Topeka, Governor
Landon's earnest, fortnight attack on wild govern
ment spending struck answering chord in the
hearts of all intelligent Americans.
Every wage Garner and salaried worker knows
that if he makes thirty dollars week and spends
sixty, he goes bankrupt
&c. too, with the nation For every dollar that
Uncle Sam has been "makng'-in taxes-he has
been spending TWO since Mr. Roosevelt took office.
Without rancor, but with unmistakable sincerity,
Governor Landon said:
I'VE recognize that society, acting through
government, must afford as large . measure Of
protection as it can against involuntary unemPloy-
8nent and dependency in old age. WE PLEDGE
THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL DO
ITS PROPER SHARE IN THAT TASK.
But it must be kept in mind that. mount
ing debts and increasing taxes constitute threat
to all Of these aims.
"They absorb the funds that might be used
TO create new things to reduce the cost Of
present goods.
price Of everything.
by taking more and more out Of the family
purse, they leave less for the family security.
"Let Us not be misIed by those who tell US
that Others will be made to carry the burden for
"A simple inquiry into the facts and figures
will show that our growing debts and taxes are 50
enormous that, even if we tax to the utmost limits
those who are best able to pay, THE AVERAGE
T Tx ITH Will still HAVE TO BEAR THE
MAJOR PART.
while spending billions Of borrowed money
may create . Temporary appearance OF prosperity
we and our children, taxpayers, have yet to pay
FOR EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR SPENT WE
WILL PAY BACK TWO DOLLARS"
Contrast the downright honesty and common
.1o.nSa Mr.
Roosevelt's promise and performance, as shown IN
the pictures on this page.
The "sound currency" which Candidate Roose-
welt promised in plain English to preserve at all
hazards-what has become Of that7
Well. bv executive fiat, President Roosevelt has
clipped 1904 cents from every dollar in the United
States reducing its REAL value to 59O6 cents
A lOO-cent dollar from which 40 cents has been
extracted is no longer sound dollar It is no longer
dollar It is so cents. That is plain arithmetic,
as well as plain English. And it is precisely what
the Roosevelt Administration has done to the cur
rency, IN COMPLETE DEFIANCE of its specific
pledges to the people.
AS for the deficts-those deficits which Candi-
date Roosevelt so often declared MUST be ended
what Of them?
The two lower pictures in this page tell that
story in damaging-we had almost said damnlng-
detail.
Though CANDIDATE Roosevelt promised
balanced budget, PRESIDENT Roosevelt closed the
books for 1888 with red ink item of more than
FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SEW
ENTY- -FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
He closed them in 1894 with red ink item Of
more than FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
AND SIX MILLION DOLLARS.
He closed them in 1885 with red ink item OF
more than SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
AND FORTY-THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
And he will close them this year. according to
his own Secretary Morgenthau, with red ink item
of SEVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND
FORTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
"a budget annually balanced; estimates
WITHIN revenue"
That was the promise
A total deficit, in four years, Of more than
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS.
That is the performance
Governor Landon, like every humane American,
believes in ample expenditures for relief.
Like every humane American, he would not per-
nit single one of his fellow Americans to 60 unshe-
tered or hungry during worldwide economic
cataclysm.
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