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Show A FEW HARD FACTS The Roosevelt administration increased increas-ed appropriations $105,000,000 in a single year. What the Old Guard Republicans really want and hope for is a return to tariff graft, wholesale. Any tax which does..'c pass along a little something on the side doesn't suit them. . Total cash appropriations the last year of Taft administration $1,093,-000,000. $1,093,-000,000. Total the Jfirst year of the Wilson administration--$l,109,000,000. Increase $11,000,000. ' Awfully horrible, hor-rible, in view of the wise purposes for which t'.e money has been allotted. When Ssnator Smoot is he'd up to you as the friend of the workingman, jnst look for yourself into the reasons ins Salt Lake Federation has for absolutely abso-lutely repudiating him, which action they took some ten days ago and advised ad-vised all union men in the state to do likewise. If this country were at war with Mexico the cost would probably exceed $400,000,000. If we were drawn into war with another first-class power, Congress would be compelled to give at least a billion as a starter. As it is, a light tax on beer and whisky foots the bill. And incidentally, is it more harmful for two parties in Utah to join forces to accomplish much-needed reforms than it is for Vermont and Pennsylvania two of the most substantial states that go to make up this great commonwealth. common-wealth. The Democratic and Progres sive parties have there combined to brii.g about much needed housecleanings also. The man who asserts that emergency taxation is unnecessary that imports are normal at a time when the principal nations of the world are unable to export ex-port anything ought to be subjected to an exmination by a commission c f inquiry to ascertain whether he's a fool, or a liar, or both. In the matter of state politics just secure (if you can) a copy of the platform plat-form adopted by the Rebublican state convention and compare it with those adopted by the Democratic and Progressive Progres-sive conventions The latter platforms pledge all candidates to work for conditions con-ditions in the matter of state government, govern-ment, that will lift this state to a plane with the most progressive states of the union giving us reforms that every man, women and child needs, and must have. |