Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1909 — WAKING UP TO EXPENSES. [ARTICLE]

WAKING UP TO EXPENSES.

Are the American people at length waking up to the fact that if the present scale of governmental expenditures is to continue they must go down deeper into their own pockets to furnish the needed cash? There are some, signs which seem to indicate that this unpleasant but practical truth is better appreciated than it was six months ago.—Philadelphia Bulletin. If the people do not wake up they will deserve all they get. During the late campaign the Democratic party did what it could to educate the voters on the subject of public expenses and in this state the voters responded by electing a Democratic governor, and 11 congreessmen out of 13. Much is expected of Governor Marshall. His position as the chief officer of the state keeps him in touch with what is going on, and where it is not within his power to prevent the imposition of unnecessary burdens on the people he can make a protest so emphatic as to lead later to the conviction of the abuse. As the Philadelphia paper says, "there are signs that the people are ‘waking up.’ ” They are not going to submit to unnecessary expenses much longer, either in the form of taxes or other things,