The Washington times., 1936-08-05
STOP USELESS SPENDING,' SAYS
Crushing Taxes Are Result
of Raw Deal Folly
BoondoggIing, Under Plausible Guise
OF Helping People, Held Response
Bile for Waste of Billions

bic for Waste of Billions
Crushing debts and taxes are usually in
cured, as they are being incurred today, under
the suise Of helping PeopIe-the same people who
must finally pay them.
They invariably retard prosperity and they
sometimes lead to situations in which the rights
Of the people are destroyed.
This is the lesson Of history, and we have
seen it occur in the modern world.
Our party holds nothing to be Of more urgent
importance than putting our financial house in
order.
For the good Of all Of US, we must
establish responsibility in the handling Of Gov
We MUST RECOGNIZE THAT A GOVERN
MENT DOES NOT HAVE AN UNLIMITED
SUPPLY OF MONEY TO SPEND. -
IT MUST HUSBAND ITS RESOURCES JUST
AS TRULY AS DOES THE HEAD OF A FAMILY.
Unless it follows such a course it cannot
afford the services which the people themselves
From Governor Alfred NJ. LGndOn's speech Gc-
cepting the Republican Presidential nomination,
Topeka, July %, 1886.
With millions of their fellow-citizens thrown out
of work by a worldwide economic crash, The Amerl-
can people cheerfully imposed heavy taxes on them
selves to care for these unfortunates
That was right.
There was no other course.
The Hearst newspapers, even before Mr. ROose-
velt was elected urged the use of funds up to FIVE
BILLION DOLLARS for NEEDED public works.,
to give jobs to the jobless.
Had that sum been appropriated promptly and
spent USEFULLY, depression in America would
have ended long ago.
Well that sum WAS appropriated eventually.
That and TWENTY billion dollars
And some parts of it WERE spent useful y-on
New York's Triborough Bridge, for example; San
Francsco's Golden Gate Bridge, and few score
other projects of similar type.
But when the American people saw that billions
upon billions of THEIR dollars were put into in
vestigatons of the love life of the and the bull
frog, into such monuments of mis-spending as
steam-heated dog pound in sunny Memphis, Tenn,
or a palatial monkey house in Joe Robinson's town
of Little Rock Ark; into Quoddy dams and pig
pogroms and thousands of other schemes OF like
lunacy, they felt that the time had come to demand
an accounting.
1t DGs THEIR money that IOGs being thrOUn
1t uUas THEIR credit that uas being dralUn
against.
1t Uas THEIR chiIdren-bOrn and unborn
vhose future Uas being mortgaged by the billion
dollar boys at Washington
When they heard Mr.. Ickes tell of shovelling
off million dollars at every milepost from Wash
ngton to the Pacific, the pictorial record this
page reveals they had an uneasy suspicion that the
When they found Uncle Sam supporting Com
munist-infested national theatre, brigade of Com
munist artists and writer's, and Hopkins only Knows
what other seditious freakish fantastic enter
prises, they had food for thought
One of these Americans who began to think and
think hard last year is portrayed in the two lower
pictures on this page.
His bill for government in 1928 Uas S2O.62.
His bill for government in 1885 IUaS $I29.3O.
More than SIX times as much, in only seUen
years.
Maybe he has concluded that this 1885 bill was
not for government, but for MIS-gOUernment.
We believe he is of the millions of plain
Americans who say "Amen" to the sane, careful,
common-sense remarks Of Governor Landon which
are quoted at the head of this column.
"Crushing taxes incurred under the guise
Of helping peopIe-the same people who must
finally pay them.
Government does NOT have an unlimited
amount Of money to spend.
ut must husband it's resources just truly