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Show How to Get Rid . of "Pork." Economy has never been much of n voto getting issuo. Tho people angrily an-grily denounco extravagant appropriations. appro-priations. At tho same tlmo thoy clamorously demand extravagance In their own districts. Congressmen know perfectly well that n big public pub-lic building In their own district will bring them moro votes than they will loso by voting for a log rolling pork measure. Political platforms nil denounco extravagance. Then whichever party goes In proceeds to Incrcaso tho appropriations, ap-propriations, tho previous slzo of which they attacked. No wonder tho weary voter regards party platforms plat-forms as merely tho modern form of high class fiction. Of courso It is universally admitted admit-ted that half of tho public building bill nnd half of tho river and harbor bill Is pork, that tho thing Is extravagant, ex-travagant, full of propositions not sound on a business basis. Hut it will novor bo stopped until It bo-comes bo-comes politically dangerous for Congressmen' Con-gressmen' to back theso bills. Now It Is politically dangerous for thorn not to scramblo for their own share. Tho people should bo mndo to re-allzo re-allzo that one Item In tho high cost of living Is tho high cost of government. govern-ment. As long as tho government will Incur an Interest and expenso bill of $5000 on a public building, whero rented quarters of flOOO would do perfectly well, tho taxpayors taxpay-ors must foot the bill. If tho American people do not want tholr money thrown away they should condemn waste" wherever thoy Beo It. They should punish It In their homo town Just as severely as thoy condomn It at a distance If a project is uncconomlcally unsound, un-sound, tho business men of tho locality lo-cality should protest against It. Whon that spirit prevails, a great many cxponscs will be cut, nnd tho rldlcuIouB scandal of tho present day pork bills will disappear. m |