Show A PEU PER CENT JUMP 1 AND MORE TO FOLLOW senator felix harpert of rhode island in a recent speech in hi the U S senate said that between 1900 and the present time the per capita cost of the federal government increased from to or about per cent continuing he said with a never ending extension exten slon of the activities of government into other fields than those originally contemplated by the founders these increased costs are inevitable in other words those groups and cliques which campaign so strenuously and successfully for government operation of this and government supervision of that are now paying the piper along with the rest of us who were willing to let well enough alone in the beginning |