Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — Worse Than Waste. [ARTICLE]

Worse Than Waste.

New York World: With vast areas of land in the West that by the expenditure of a few million dollars for irrigation would sustain millions of white men in comfort and happiness; With the slums of our cities crowded with men and women and children who clamor for the education that will tit them for citizenship in the republic; With public improvements, roads, bridges, etc., imperatively needed even in the oldest and most thickly settled parts of the country; With taxes pressing heavily upon those least able to bear; With opportunities for the expenditure of every dollar of surplus money in advancing the enlightenment, the comfort and the civilization of the masses of the people who live in these 45 states We are spending $713,000 h • lay. according to the official figures, upon war. Is this good sense? Is this patriotism? Is this glory? Is this duty? Is this destiny? Subscribe for The Democrat.