Show IS JUST THE CORNER now MOW that the election la Is over and the major operation of the political campaign has been performed to the satisfaction of the majority of citizens the main task b before the representative houses of government is the balanca balancing ng of the federal budget through the reduction of expenditure and thus put the principles of public finance upon a sound basis reason for the demand for economy and conservative expenditures in the government is the ever increasing tax burden which has been ste steadily adaly growing while the income of the taxpayer has just as steadily been decreasing in some instances said income depreciating almost half it would be a good thing if both political parties would con tate on devoting a little more time and thought to the practical farmer instead of the poli ical farm leaders they would probably find for one thing that the most effective stimulant to confidence in their leadership would be the reduction of bureaucratic activities of the government and the cutting of costs and axes not in wasting time and thought to ways and means for promoting schemes to involve the government in nobody knows how many millions or hundreds of millions of new expenses for the taxpayer to bear |