Show 4 pI SpELLING INC THE FOG 6 by charles michelson president resident es ident roosevelt told the th ay to go S ahead and buy its iti tied aed corn beef wherever it was t and cheapest ere was a terrific onslaught or on for favoring a south ameri amer w P product product over what the home ekers s put out he was accused t li beling the american cow and pre ere were impassioned speeches congress with dark prophecies t the democratic party had overboard the vote of the rown wn ile states by giving mhd busi ys to uruguay and the argene ne for the sake of getting the lined ed stuff at nine cents a pound ing the 23 cents which the merican square cans would cost As a matter of fact the amerin cow is not being li belled her eat at goes into steaks and roasts id hot dogs only the meagre annanis nants left when practically evy 4 saleable salvable sa leable bit has been sold oes es into the cans down yonder k the other hand they have so any nj cattle and so sparse a steak V a roast consumers market that retty atty much all of the cow or teer goes into the brine which is for example it was dincov that in the senate restaurant at anly south american corned beef I 1 aras as on the menu 4 ft it Is not na a matter of great im corta fiance politically or otherwise athe the president had told the navy to buy the chicago or kansas city ity product he would have been 4 just list as bitterly assailed for ex 9 trava gance in wasting the people s oney money and favoring the packers by paying them a triple price for in inferior product and forcing our heroic gobs to eat it in order to cy curry favor in the cow country i well this being a political year too much censure of the republic ican defamations is perhaps not justified some of them see a mirage of G 0 P victory next year and realize that they have to ito discredit the roosevelt administration aaion to make their dream seem etnie true every time a republican orator opens opens his mouth ht he expresses his horror of roosevelt extravagance directly we will coine come to the era of f statistics and the monumental figures will be presented coupled with shock that the president makes no move toward cutting down the expenses of administration and relief you will wilf scan the old guard newspapers in vain for any mention of the circumstance that whenever he has sought to cut expenses congress has boosted then them for example in his budget message he asked for lor for the agricultural program approximately what the house of representatives appropriated but ichen it came to the senate that body hoisted the amount by nearly and lest the public attention be directed to the individual senators who boosted the appropriation of course without any thoughts about the farm vote they would permit no record vote they likewise carefully abstained from providing any additional rev denue denue to take care of the increase vi in nothing are the critics of the president in and out of congress congles more insistent than that he is cars crying ying on the government payrolls innumerable unnecessary officials fici als and they protest that he must cut expenses along that line yet the house of representatives other day voted an additional f three quarters of a million dollars to provide each member with one more clerk they had two not counting the multitude that appertain to the houses half a hundred committees etc whether the average run of the mine representative needs another secretarial ecret arial assistant any more than he needs a third le leg 91 2 as s some ot familiar with responsibilities seem to think I 1 s illde the issue and perhaps in the question whether the 1111 building of his political ma c chinery ery at home comes under the head of public necessity the con gressmen Eress grell men by viva voce vote have hav determined that the increase jr in lie clerical ric al help is required and that the end of f the story naturally al IY here too loo it was d deemed lerned unnecessary to have F record d vote so that the home finger could not be pointed dafin bitely ely at any individual congress mm man by and bye the bills for these thes i increases lc leases have to be paid there bule being efficient mcle nt re revenue ventre provi ded it means much larger lency appropriations this in turn means that wh when en the anti admin adain orators get on their hind legs begs next year they will point out that hat e ven even tiie the inordinate sums bu d get 1 I 1 for governmental ex benses have been ignored and e exceeded x by a reckless administration obviously the agricultural he in the senate and the secretarial nike in the house must show up either in the form of a still larger national deficit or the imposition of higher taxes to pay the bill possibly by the time this letter lette is published the house may have modified the agricultural increase flere fl ere is no chance that the senate will interfere in the other matter because the comity between the two houses of congress precludes uch such interi interference arence never yet has a republican spokesman mentioned in his denunciations of the administrations failure to approach a budget balance the billions that figured in the deficit as a result of congressional overruling over ruling of the presidents I 1 veto of special appropriations theirs the glory of helping a numerous group with bonuses of various sorts his the crime of the on sequences on the national balance sheet what they forget is that the voting population has learned something about politics and will understand der Jer stand what lies in the campaign ora oratory tory of the foes of democracy mo cracy |