Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — WANTON WASTE BY DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

WANTON WASTE BY DEMOCRATS

Uttar Dlsrsgard for People's Money Proved by Facte of Extravagant and Inefficient Democratic Administration. EXAMPLES ARE RIVEN / * It la now powible very closely to arrive at what the European war has coat the people of the United States la money, bow it was spent, and what It was spent for. At the .tart of hostilities the-in-fluence of the President defeated a proposal fpr a joint committee oC <JjMr gross to supervise war contrasts and expenditures. The Democratic control of Congress surrendered its judgment and proror atives in the matter and tor the first ttmo to history left th. President an absolute unchecked, free band in expending its unprecedented appropriations. , Since the war ended Congress has passed under the control of the Republican party. Committees oa war expenditures are neartag the end of very thorough and widespread investigations. “And when their te voeturaHnoa are completed.” said Representative Edward R. DeniseO of Illinois, in an oxhaeetiva preseataI Mm to the house ofHbe facts so ter 'as learned “and the results are fully disclosed to the American people there will be a political, if not an actual revolution. There has boon an orgy of waste, extravagance, of diehonesty, of fraud in the disbursemeat of these biUions taken by taxes and borrowed from the people that not only surpasses everything ever recorded in connection with any government but exceeds the wildest Imagination.’’ Boiled down, the statements of proven expenditures made by Repro rotative Denison were as follows: “1. The Treasury Department reports that it paid out between April C, 1917, and February 29, 1920, on warrants of the various executive -deportments, the sum of 936,911,000,900. When from this amount is taken the normal cost of conducting the government f ( eighty-three and one-third million dollars a month) the war cost

mit m •* to date has ’been approufiastsiy 994,otMtti*. ■■r. _ -g . So tar m made reports of cbairmro of invootigattag rommitteos Aow that of the glt,gW.«oe.dM onpeadod by the war dspsrtmrot atone practically has boon wasted, tort or spMU ob»MM. ware fooltoh, are wholly useless now, were totally taeffectivo la pfweoeuttag tbs warP “8. Thore wa* sgbSF at iCbtadert tea, Norfolk, BdMba and other piaeed IISMWH tor tert t mtaMi white mo chip durfhg tht war over saitoft* Build Pert la Swamp. “4. A port terminal was begun la a bog and' swamp tM ; nriM4 up the river from Charleston and after 9rtH PM,009 had beea spent fa comstruoUoa it was found teat ships could aot reach tee terminal until tee river hag been. Aeodged for the purpose. -8. - :l yWMtnlO-ptamt* fIBMW,W was spent-inn visionary scheme aad aot a pound of-nitrate was produced. Prmttoally f1t0,808.9W L wf thio sum wm soak tot Muscle Skoals, Ala..- aad the war department bow asks addltfoaai mllHrts to turn tho abortive aitrate iato fertlltosr prodnesrs abort tee fsaslMlity of which » ports dtfitor “C Itor powder plants gIM.OM.OM was «BMl;0d art a poufS was made la them; Ths eno at-Nitro, W. Va.,cost 870,900,404 aad was sold roeoatly 9«,MdW>wtte tee ' proopert that the government w« never got very taMb of the wight milltea “7. There was fI,tOO,WJM spMt for shells aad Mly .17,t0t AaraetaM shells were firtd by tee Amerteaa fusees in the war. Wo fired very oftok ns maayM SM.MB la a single barrage on a single ws had to buy er bog them * from our allies.i “8. We spout pro1 parted 4to mMufhrture aorOplauMr 'we dM'iart produce one Mittaa onechin*" 1 Wb 1 did meko a purely bbmbiing piano—a teir of thdm. AH wo 1 made hiid goat to the front in Fkaaco word tIS observation planes aad thoy were dangerous and dafbetive. “9. For -tanks wo spent 81M.M0,009. The drrt American tank did not reach France until after the armiw tics had- been signed and> the war was "liS There wad 8117,000,000 ew psadot tor the msasutecture of gas. There never was a pouad of dm trod on teo - battle front in American sheik: “11. Guns cost us (to mako in this counts Wo saly ow ceodsd in getting .48 of tee A74nsh guns aad M at the gdneh bawttseroa total of n Amosican PUP — to whoso our bear in battto oooM neo thssn.” IsaMMlmlmauMM hRWwvWvWu IWETITWIOww/ •

Bucb is tbe stssy of extravagance aad iaeMdeaey of the war- departmeat. * The camo is true to ocuM entaat et the wavy orthbUtemeat. The war aad havy departmeats togethdr epart within a radius of 98 mitoe of Nortete Vs., 9980,008,000 tor tbo ' construction of. cantonments, warehouses and training stations where it has bean found impossibe to got* suppir-of water suteciMt to moot theta nooda. The navy department put one training catap ta n swamp nsur Ncrtslk tat a co* and every dollar of HISm now disetocod, will bo lost “The pee*ie; , ’ said RapreoMtativ. DentoM, W•• mrforstand who is roopoadible ter tee awful revelatioßr which teem invastimticas are discloetag. Goatlemea from North Carollao aad TOanoaseo say there to aa Attempt botag made to discredit the FroeMrtlt It win not - ' 7 - -- .-6- ’ »’ 1 WWM|C tee wnrto aad inelfettivo tavestmeats of oMb a coastdorable part of tee war ospoadituroe has booa-dne -largely to the autoeoatic aad dUteteMM oaeronehaMmb by tee PreoMontTcanteo csartHntiMCi prirt togea of Coagroos aad tee oervfle eute ■laoiM - tee Detaocratto asbjortW fa>ted hwueo white togetbar pre appetatmaat of *a jsiat eoasmitteo to- eupervloe war eapoate tueea.A thereby eppoatet - oad eddtel any aettoa botag Utas at tb\ beginnine to prosuht ar at Mart loeeoa tee probability of aush waste"