Show NATIONAL FINANCES The President and Secretary of the Treasury have advised that the lax reduction re-duction be kept within 30000000 The House bill cuts off an estimated 10060 000 and the Senate bill makes a cut of nearer 50000000 The wisdom of so large a reduction IB seriously questioned ques-tioned by treasury onicials who are keeping In mind the possibility of a business reduction or depression which would affect the revenues materially In that case a rcductlqn of 50000000 would result In a deficit After making that statement the Springfield Republican Republi-can sneeringly says But how business busi-ness depression can be possible under a prosperity tariff and the great prosperity pros-perity policy of Asiatic expansion Is something we do not understand The doubting treasury ofTicials ought to explain i ex-plain F That Is on a line with the argument of every newspaper that wants such a reduction that there will be a deficit Great business prosperity always I loads to more or less speculation and when great stores of gathered money are anxious for investment It always leads Ito ito i-to reckless ventures There are fires I mid Hoods and drought and the fly Chat j destroys the crops and sometimes catuolyHmft which change the face1of naljiVeT find nono of these are Jfe stralnod by m pncsl > purpose to ex tend the domain anti Lime power of the United States and open neYllcklg for rapidly accumulating people to expand in It Is but common prudence to keep these things in mind and certainly to avoid getting Into the fix that the country coun-try was in under the President whom the Springfield Republican thinks is j greater than was Washington whereby forced loans had to be levied In time of peace and a syndicate in New York made rich |