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Show CLEVELAND'S ECONOMICAL WAYS, Some time ago our now Republican friend said, in referring to the extravagance extrava-gance of the first half of Harrison's term: Where the Republicans found a surplus sur-plus of $100,000,000 they leave an empty treasury and a deficit at the close of the fiscal year in 1802 of about $100,000,000. While doing this they have increased the taxes from 15 to 25 per cent. All this was accomplished in the first half of Mr. Harrison's term. Of course, no more extravagant; legislation can be had during the last half of his administration, adminis-tration, because there is a Democratic majority in the lower house of Congress to check it. But with a Republican senate and a Republican executive the wronurs perpetrated by the late con-congress con-congress cannot be undone by the new gress. It remains for the people next year to see that the executive and the upper branch of the legislative departments de-partments are turned over to the Dem-. ocrats, Xot until then can they hope for a return to the economical wavs inaugurated in-augurated during the Cleveland administration. |