| Show I COUNTTHE COST I Secretary Gage has said that the deficiency for the fiscal year which closes with the end of the present I month will be over 5100000000 Other authorities estimate the shortage at 150000000 Tills Is an enormous deficit to be staring the people in the face while they are paying war taxes in every way that human ingenuity could devise de-vise a levy and have been for a year or more When we take into consideration the facts that the Dingley bill is in full force compelling the foreigner to pay n large share of our expenses a protectionists pro-tectionists will insist that there was enough money on hand when the Span ish war began to carry it to the conclusion con-clusion reached that the country was bonded for several hundreds of millions lions more than enough to meet every contingency and settle every reasonable reason-able complication growing out of the have war that internal revenue taxes been increased and stamp taxes kept in force for almost a year after the cessation of hostilities with SpaliJ it Is a sorry showing in the federal treas ury uryBut what does It matter The McKinley Mc-Kinley administration is expending at least a hundred millions on its Philippine Philip-pine policy While the war may be reduced re-duced to a necessity now notwithstanding notwith-standing the overtures the natives have made for peace it could have mae pce been prevented easily five months ago by the exercise of n little commonsense common-sense and the slightest indication of a friendly policy The deficit and the death roll continue con-tinue to grow under the reign of William the Conquerer The hundreds of lives that have been sacrificed in the Orient and the millions of treasure are worth more to this countrv to civilization to humanity and to freedom free-dom than ten times the glory and the satisfaction and the profit we are likely to get out of a conquest of the Philippines |
