Show MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD I Secretary Mellon of the treasury In Ina Ina ina a letter to Representative Fordney of the committee on ways and means of ot the house of representatives representatives tives es says Ordinary expenditures fl's for the first three quarters of the fiscal fis Us- cal year ear l 1921 21 have been or at nt the rate of about for the year ear Accor According to the latest estimates of the spending departments ordinary expendi expenditures tures Lures during the ft fiscal cal year ear 1022 In eluding Interest on the public debt t. t will be over The nation cannot continue to spend pen l at this shocking rate As the President said In his message the burden burden burden bur bur- den Is unbearable and tind there are two avenues of relief One Is resistance In to appropriation and the other Is the utmost econom economy in administration R. R C C. C Leffingwell formerly an assistant assistant assis assis- tant secretary C of the treasury whom I have ha quoted previously In these articles articles articles ar ar- and who Is still deeply an and l actively actively ac ac- ac Interested In securing r retrenchment retrenchment retrench trench ment In national expenditures commenting commenting commenting com com- oh on tl this is utterance of Secretary of-Secretary Mellon says as Why should should there be retrenchment In public expenditure Why does the secretary of the treasury treasury treas treas- nr ury speak penk of current nn and l estimated expenditures expenditures ex ex- ex- ex as shocking What Is the evil e that we are ure discussing and what Is Its Us effect Government Go exp expenditures n must be met from taxes To the extent that they are met mt promptly from taxes nUt and from honest taxes directly laid upon the Incomes of the people and in proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion to those incomes exaggeration of ot the evil e of government go expenditure is avoided Go Government expenditure takes the mone money rit m all the people for tor forthe forthe the supposed l benefit of ot a portion of the people honestly or dishonestly equally or unequally avowedly by direct dl di test taxation or surreptitiously b by the Indirect tax taxation t which results from Inflation of currency nn and l cre credit and sf It f the public debt Government expenditure takes the fruits of the thc earth curth and the labor of the people and diverts crts them from the productive and reproductive enterprises enter enter- of men from the natural enjoyment enjoy enjo- ment meat of the men who b by their prudence pru pru- pru dence foresight and effort created the the wealth an and l made lt h. available n to tt the sometimes benevolent and sometimes b belligerent but almost always economically econom econom- wasteful purposes of government government govern govern- ment Government Go exploits all ull of us for tor forthe forthe the benefit or supposed benefit of some lIme of ot us Yielding to the vague aspirations of men for a n better world or a better distribution of the good things of this earth government imposes imposes im im- im poses upon all of us Increasing ever bur burdens lens In the effort to benefit vociferous erous and organized minorities Each of the executive departments 9 Is concerned to Improve Its service an and l to discover new and useful fields ls of service The entire organization of the arm army of the navy of each of the departments Independent officer and agencies of the government Is devoted devoted de lIe- voted otc l to an Important task Its particular particular par par- function seems of ot vital usefulness usefulness usefulness use use- even necessity Experts In each are alive to Its Us defects and to the opportunities for usefulness which have not been availed of The Tine secretary or other bea head l of the department drawn from private life p pel perhaps haps wholly Ignorant at the outset of the nature und and extent of Its iti problems promptly becomes the advocate advocate advocate cate of the policies nn and l demands demunds of his permanent assistants an and l bureau chiefs If Ithe the Jie does not become such advocate h he break down the he morale of his atlon nud possibly lose the confidence of his personnel Behind It all is the pressure of or op organized Interests In the constituencies which are the beneficiaries of specific expenditures operating upon pout clans executive departments senators senator i and congressmen The strident voice olce of f greed Is heard hear l in the market place and In legislative halls hulls the thc voice ol of th the people is barely audible The fact that each project Is considered con separately without reference either In executive departments 01 of congress to ways was and means of financing financing ing It prevents concentration of ot popular tar lar opinion on the awful n total All Allagree agree uree that there must be economy econom but butas butas as us each ench Item Is presented all seeming seemingly I ly agree that that Is not the proper propel field for fOJ economy There must be even om omy but there must be a ft merchant marine murIne whatever er the cost There Thele must be economy but the government must pay llY high wages to railroad employee employees and amI furnish transportation on the railroads rail raU roads at nt less than cost There must be economy eC but the World war so sol soldiers diers must have ha their bonus bonns There must be he economy but Civil war pensions pen sloes must be Increased There must be economy econom but we must prepare foi to war regardless of expense You know this is true The new flew budge law will help very much this condition but unless you ou are interested interest ed continuously actively openly Interested Interested In In- your jour ou money will wilt nC not t be saved land |