Show republican ECONOMY four years ago the republican platform promised economy at that time with the end of the world war many months past the people of the united states were still paying war taxes and highly burdensome war figures are available for nearly four years of 0 a republican administration and those figures are the best answer to whether ether that platform pledge has been carried out the public debt on february 28 c 8 1921 a few days before the end 0 of the democratic administration then in power amounted at the end of june this year three and a third years of republican rule the public debt had been brought down to it is difficult for any mind to realize what a billion is this reduction amounted to GSG more than three thousand million dollars this much has been cut off the principal the cut has saved american taxpayers more than in interest charges each year more than athard of a mill lion llon dol lars a day public expenditures the cost of running the federal government have been slashed with a determined hand during the republican regime the figures show for the fiscal year ending june 30 1921 all but three months of which was under a democratic administration the outlay tor for this purpose was for the fiscal year ending june 30 1924 this figure amounted to an annual saving of more than two thousand million dollars lars these accomplishments are a direct aid in lifting the burden of taxes from the shoulders of individuals and of industry |