Show your taxes go is how W uncle sam spends your money in conduct ing your business by EDU EDVI ARD G lowita A uvo 21 2 d ow md d V email mw A aratri Art lwft tri t to adi reua kl d sal sa W L att mi uumaa a cdale cuale az J C W W uni aw w LUM JUST K KEPT EPT GROWING the origins ort ins of these antiquated cua belsome ber some costly inefficient pieces of oatho national machinery that thal we call the th exec executive autive departments show low how any establishment if well watered with COlern government ment money will expand and hold together no matter ho how w conflict ing and incongruous its functions hardly one of these great business W for that I 1 Is a what they are was as planned P lanne ct As they are today they jt ast happened take talce the ocr dayts t ent of agriculture lor for example one ot of the greatest and most complex and wide spreading of all the departments it Is la in closer touch bud ald more dirc directly etly affects he greatest number of people in the united states t than ban any other branch of the government with the possible exception ot of the post it began in 1839 with an AM appropriation ot of IWO taken from rom the patent funds for the tion of free reeds end and th the collect collection loa of agricultural statistics by the patent office fice If then a bureau in the state de pirt ment now look at the darned thin thing it Is all over the place the title of the department indies Ind tes its most important held of activities but ita its functions have been beep extended to include the whole range 0 of rural indus try and some nome branches of tion only very indirectly related to agricultural interests b bor or about 60 ears subsequent to tho the revolution the Rel general lerat interests ot of agriculture were left almost entirely to individual initial live F I 1 theral acal activity ity was as confined to narrow limits and was mas merely sporadic soon after the national government was organized some attempts ere made to establish a board of agriculture lut but neither the first proposal in 1790 nor a second effort in 1817 was mus successful shortly after fter the revolution folio ving the example of benjimin brunk krank lin while in england as agent as wit of tle the colony of pennsylvania during the years 1704 1764 to american annerl n consul n ul and naval began ten the h e p practice ar tic c e of sending home foreign seeds and cut ting tings for new crops and of aiding in the introduction into the united states of new breeds of domestic animals cien ei ea such email small governmental gov pation was in the beginning rather extra official in 1830 1836 the commissioner of pot pat ants one 11 II L L ill orth began bogan the distribution of considerable quantities of reeds and plants rece received led bioni government representative in foreign countries and three rear years late later through his influence an appropriation of 1000 was made for the purpose e ot of I 1 iro ro curing and dig distributing seeds of new plant plants carrying agricultural in and colliding agricultural this ing the historic be ginning of the much bilked about free ree seed dl ily by nu an ad at of cui giess in moy 1502 gener generally nily tallmo the organic act ti 11 e activities of llie the effect ing agriculture meie feie faced un under der a se larate and distinct organization bromn as the of agrical ture lure in charge of n commissioner of 0 tirl agriculture culture it did not rank how er u witia I 1 t ii tho the other executive lu lvin enri ments and the inor aa 1 jt N tri entitled titled to a sea beadli tl president a cabinet fan B X i ton chief of the agricultural section ecklon in the patent kofl n lifts the first AM A W arf by lie n fact included u ed t d statis if clan a caliern chemist an wt om and i superintendent oc of the propagating gar garden an and id experimental fana farm the chr sails was as now ready to be broken lu in 1880 1889 the department of ag AX j rl culture iras was cleaned 0 to o ahe of ti e autive departments and its commissioner a as made ad secretary of with a seat in the president presidents cab cabinet luct this was in grover cie cleveland eland a administration in honor of ita its new rank a few taw more inore functions anc tlona were taken on but that e enough detail it kept oa on growing beginning with ampro pria privation atlon tion of 0 1000 had kad 1 two to or three clerk jerks tho depart department min I had in IRO 1010 to the number of oi aiso ana eta 1023 give pars eara lafed laj t A had bud abe eni P to the employees fn in may lo 10 1020 10 numbered and the appropriation op given by congress for the deal year 1021 wa was the department de artmont bis increased its ita cost COA ot of 0 8 years from rom a mere mer sloko 1 that 14 la a month to td more than a IL yar 42 2622 at 9 M every month that shown as clearly and as sharply ne as it can be shown bow how the high cost of govern bent ment living allvin affect affects your own cost of we you and 1 I paid out of our ear aar I 1 inga and earnings earol nga every red cent of that hat t increase from 1000 a year to more than 31 it may have been well spent we pr ably ably got a run for our oar carmoney money but nobody know knows ex capt in a general way we have a rl ht t to know s it is U simply neu mess on our part pan cot 0 o iian cut |