| Show sg 1 a Q TOO ann buu malm fin NOW huff wro an ABD YM YET THE ME alti X F WOULD ADD TO THE BURDEN r seduction reduction or of expenses in all branches of public ervice and not increased customs R receipts is what is needed by the americans americana the say they want more protection so that the tariff will yield enough revenue for the expenses 1 of the government they forget that there was a much better and easier I 1 way of making receipts and expenditures balance this was the cutting I 1 down of the extravagant appropriations I 1 from the figures set by the billion I 1 dollar congress of 1890 and which the subsequent democratic congress reduced a little but brat not i enough if the republicans had been sincere in their professions of a desire i to have a tariff which will give abundant revenues they should have refused infused to appropriate millions of dol lars for useless and corrupt purposes j reduction of expenses and not ini creased customs receipts was the sure and simple remedy for the Treas treasury urT i deficit i it is time for the Ameri american amerlean ean people I 1 without regard to party or theories of i taxation to earnestly protest against any increase in the public burdens i national state and municipal taxes are already far too high and the tendency has steadily been in the diorec tion of greater extravagance and new armies of tax eaters salaries of pub lio lie officials have been advancing all along the line though money has a greatly increased purchasing power band and buys twice as much of most kinds I 1 of goods as it did twenty years ago the wealth creators of the country are supporting far too many office holding parasites who give little or no ne return i to the men who pay taxes i 1 taxes means work over 1000 goes every evert year to pay ex benses of the municipal state and i i national governments A large part of this immense sum is practically wasted the labor which go goes to duee duce this worth of I 1 wealth is so ranch much poorer by every 1 dollar for which it does not receive a I 1 full fall equivalent Is it any wonder that I 1 the people cannot buy back as aa much goods as they produce e when so much of their products is is taken to support non producers it is unfortunately true that politicians clang of all parties are inclined to favor big appropriations but the centre of the evil lies in the protectionist theory that tariff taxes are paid by the foreigner and that any way extravagance in spending public funds annd will jut tiby higher duties on goods the people buy from other countries every citizen who thinks he is already paying too much taxes should vote against and its threat of more tariff taxation taa tion greater economy and less taxes are what the of I 1 americans really need |
