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Show OUR WAR MONEY. There can be no great response to President Taft's demand for retrenchment in government while the expenditures for war purposes, pur-poses, including pensions, total two-thirds of the expenses. Last year this country spent $163,000,000 . for the army and $116,000,000 for the navy, and only $220,000,000 for all civil purposes, pur-poses, and yet we are told by young Rogers, who has studied foreign war preparations, and by the head of the German artillery, that the United States is wholly unprepared for a conflict with Japan or any other first-class power. Better stop this pretense at armament and military prowess, save our money for more useful purposes, and take our chances on escaping a Japanese or other foreign invasion. We are told that our present efforts are futile and only a waste of energy; so why persist per-sist in the deception and the extravagance? |