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Show appropriated only $3,717,441,484; but that the for the year, as estimated by Secretary Mellon, ' till amount to $5,602,024,861. The charge is made that while the Republicans were gloating over the apparent saving of many mil- dollars under the Democratic estimates, as a matter of fact jon of for the actual government needs, which hev Killed to provide money rill he ."pent anyway, and might as well have been appropriated in ies aii a , ? fie m What are the facts? In June of last year, after all the appro- n- riatimi bills for 1921 had been enacted into law, the committees of e senate and house issued a financial statement based on the them by the executive department and igurc actually submitted to le amounts actually allowed in the appropriation bills. That state- lent ;iows that the executive estimates totaled $6,177,271,259, of ihicli 859, 890, 327 was appropriated, demonstrating a saving of : $1,474,422,602. In its extraordinary Table Number One, the Herald charges tlat congress made no provision for railroad and public debt but that those expenditures will amount to about $1,880,000,-5)- 0 before the fiscal year ends. As a matter of fact congress did appropriate $725,000,000 for the railroads and $1,240,000,000 for inter-r- t; jgt ami sinking fund payments on the national debt, in providing for pay-men- ts, ter co, expenditures for 1921. a No one will assert that the Republican congress appropriated j with strict accuracy for the necessary expenditures of the year ending jjine 30, 1921. There may have been some unavoidable deficits this ects year as in other years. The fact is, nevertheless, that the excutive asH departments of the Wilson administration, which was in power for nto tKe first eight months of the present fiscal year, set a pace in expen-- I te lc diturc and contracted obligations which defensible deficits which the Republicans ; resulted in huge and in-- ! must appropriate money t! The Republican party must assume responsibility for the expen- ditures it makes after July 1, next. Upon its record it will be judged atithe election of 1922. SPECIAL PRIVILEGE CANNOT SURVIVE. lemer es ECHOS OF LEAGUE PROPAGANDA. hat sum congress ctual expenditures : be days of special laws like the cigaretts law special regulations, special wage agreements, special privileges for different interests, and special everything for individuals or for industries, e sav: .a queer combination of problems continually arise. I For instance the American seaman who has s pecial laws for reduc . hist comfort above the seamen of all other nations may be forced ns fie ij 'tohip on a foreign vessel in order to get a job, because the laws, which are so favorable to him on land, have put many of the American ship owners out of business, er cfc The bricklayers union, that set a rate of $1.25 an hour, has anyet failed to find a way to force the nation to build houses with In these e rot 0: . . jjjwjk. American trainmen, while successful in securing legislation requiring the payment of wages to them out of all proportion to the general labor scale now find over half their number out of jobs bc- - ; ald fait j sack railroad business, Tr,lc nianilaclllrcr who shows his patriotism by shoving up the commodities to abnormal figures, has suddenly discovered people are going without, or using substitutes, lie calls it Wllle a beers strike. re afr is a mistaken idea for any industry, individual, or .h manifestly crC nation to proceed on the theory that if it can get things right ?C fetself, the rest of the world can go hang. The fallacy of this eory is coming home to roost to many who have tried to extend ),H scason profiteering well past its age of senility. No he laws prosper at the expense of all others. aulKnr"lll) can with their compensating check and balance, work slowly. c?! always toward a common average. None may escape this law. icd mu' .Individuals, both rich and poor, arc interdependent and cannot T n tain special privileges at the expense of their neighbors r fcT111 r.fmfting di saster to ad. f f s avc done with these special privilege stunts and get back tbi 5. o in ;l sanc an( noniial basis. fr 11 wcii-..- ; i An echo of the propaganda being insidiously spread throughout this country to further entangle us in foreign affairs, was recently voiced by Edward A. Filene, who declared in an address made at Boston, that greater political and social stability cannot come in Europe unless the United States helps. For the love of Mike, what are we supposed to do? Is this country to take all Europe under wardship, loan the continental entities all the money they can spend, feed the hungry, pay all the bills, settle the war debt, work and struggle under the full burden of the late world madness, while Europe plays at her e game of dividing the spoils of war? For over two years now this country has been handing out money and food to Europe, and by reason of lax immigration laws, has provided a haven of rest for several hundred thousand of the most explosive elements of European society. Shall this country ever do anything tangible, anything sensible and constructive for old-tim- herself? Harding seems to think the time has about arrived for the United States to get back to normalcy. Getting back to this stag means that the United States must shift for herself ; must take both horns of the situation in hand, foreign and domestic, shake Europe loose from her delirium of an easy existence at the expense of American industrial life, and forge again to the fore ranks of democratic nations along the lines laid down by Washington and Lincoln. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY SYSTEM. The twenty-sixt- h annual report of the Santa Fc railway system, makes a remarkable showing, everything considered that had to be contended with. This transportation system owns and operates 11,674.54 miles, and has joint ownership in 567 miles of railroads-- , increase of 191.42 miles. Net corporate income for 1920, $43,098,657, as against $37,534,-75- 1 for 1919, a net increase for dividends and surplus of $5,463,906. Net increase in capital account for 1920 was $15,483,428. mostly for betterments and acquisition of new mileage, and $6,850,543 for equipment. Maintenance of equipment charges was $58,375,927, and maintenance of way, $40,121,638, about 50 per cent more expended for these purposes than under government operation. The Santa Fe properties were not returned to the owners in as good condition and complete equipment as when taken over by the government. SUGAR BEETS INCREASE OTHER CROPS. Economists who have studied the subject have come to the conclusion that food production does not keep up with the increase of to population because we have depended upon an increased acreage an increased producproduce this increased production, rather than tion per acre. Anything, therefore, that will increase the production of food per acre will directly benefit every resident of the United States. Observing farmers who have grown sugar beets for several years have learned that there is a large increase in the production of other reaches as high as 100 per cent. crops following beets. This at times These results arc not problematical, but have been attained in term of years. The fostering Europe in actual practice over a long and protection of the growing of sugar beets anywhere in the United States automatically lowers the high cost of living. 1 The Citizen will pay its respects to the first sleuth who arrests a law. In this respect let it he violator of the state known that the word respect may have a' subtle meaning. anti-cigaret- te to judge recently sentenced two alleged pickpockets ilteiid church regularly for six consecutive months. Evidently it was fit the crime. he idea of the learned jurist to let the punishment A Chicago |