Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-06 | Page 3 | Favors Check on Immigration

FAVORS CHECK 01 IMMIGRATION Senatof uThomas Likewise Points to Saving Possible by Efficiency. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Ordinary efficiency effi-ciency in public administration would save the people of this country $600,000,- i 000 a year. United States Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado told tho Assoc ia- tion of Life Insurance Presidents in a "thrift conference" which began here to- : day. Senator Thomas is a member of the senate committee on finance. ; "The war leaves us a leKucy of a stupendous stu-pendous debt," declare-I Senator Thomas. "It will reach, if It docs not exceed, ' $35.000,000, 000, or twice as much as the combined debt of the allied nations, in- , cludinf? Jluss.a. when the war I-okhp. The annual interest upon this sum will he $1,400.01)0.000. nearly twice the net total to-tal of the nation's annual pre-war expenditures. ex-penditures. This means a vastly increased in-creased rate and radius of taxation. Tho people must bear the burden ; fr Germany Ger-many cannot make indemnity. They will bear it willingly, if economy in public administration becomes the policy of the government. Thev will not and should not be content if the Kron.s extravagance i of the past continues." Senator Thomas declared that A niTi-can niTi-can shores have been flooded with a mass i of hu man ity appareu t ly u ti,- ssim i Ih blf. The im in (grants' colon ies have became "hreedi ng places for all the ugly (lis - ' o r '1 e rs of the century." I 'is ru pi km of the central powers, lif believed, would remove all restrictions upon emigration and tfiir people. "The. dam,'' lie doc la red, "must b erf e ted on 1 this Ride of the Atlantic and no time should be lest in iis construction" t