WWf!
t
'TTrcliaso that living, aiid
jblS bo of no practical advantage
"ufho cutting down of tho cur
If Allows its natural law, and
f'fho me effect as heretofore, it
bn. Sll our land with tramps and
g about a general bankruptcy of
onr slmiZ calamitous results
H..T follow considerable reductions
hlvolumo of money, I think con
,nta Jhould pass a law to stabilize
anWUons by keeping al
tl he same relative proportion
Seen o volume of business and
U volume of money in circulation,
IS make it a felony for any number
fpS oib to conspire to reduce the
T iSrao of money in circulation rad
,... i.oinw this nronortion.
I suggest that if our law-making
hodles, as the creators of all corpo
LS mtiiuinir them with all their
owers'and privilege will provide for
counts, expenses, and capital in
rested, and allow them to charge
only a reasonable profit over and
above all legitimate costs and ex
penses, of operating their business,
they will stabilize business and get
a practical solution of this problem
of reducing "The High Cost of Liv
ing." T. D. Jones, 221 West Second
Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The Commoner
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pie, and in 1910 it had increased to
91,972,Z66, a gain in ten years of
15,977,691, or 21 per cent. Const
officials now decline to predict as to
15)20 lurtner thau to say that the
numerical increase will equal that
between 1900 and 1910, or 16,977,
691, which would give us 107.977.000
people. A 21 per cent increase, as
was the case between 1900 and 1910,
would give us a gain of 18,314,174.
There were in 1910 47,332,277
males and 44,639,989 females. The
number of voters in 1912, two years
later, was 15,022,827, mainly men.
inga, pass tho billion-dollar mark.
g oft1? J?18 th0 amuiit was
$1,931,772,013, virtually all of which
camo from Income and profits taxoB.
Beginning with $279,213,777, in
'. 1917 disbursements grew
steadily until the billion-dollar
months began in Docember of that
year, tho expenditures not falling be
low that mark until last month. The
greatest expenditure in any one
month was ?2,060,975,865, in De
cember, 1918.
"So largo a nart of tho wnr .
penditures has been paid or provided
will bo ablo not only to meet IUb
further tomporary requirements fori
tho dooreaslng scale of expenditure
by tho salo of Treasury certificates
of indebtedness bearing intorost at
tho rate of 4 per cent or los, but
also to fund na many of those as it
may bo desirable to fund, by tho issuo
of short-term notoH, In modorato
amounts, at convonlont intervals,
when market conditions are favor
able and upon terms advantageous to
tho government." Washington Star,
At the same ratio, leaving out of the:01" out of taxes," said tho secretary's
statement, "and out of tho isMuo or
bonds or notes already sold, and so
small a part is unfunded that I con
fidently expect that tho government
WOMEN UPSET ALL BETS ON 1030
FIGHT
Political leaders of both, major
party organizations, jastnoware
more concerned with the- women vote
than any other phase of' the 1920
political campaign.
Regardless of whether the federal
suffrage amendment is ratified so as
to permit the women, of all the
States to participate in tlifa, 1920
election, several million new 'women
voters will go to the polls In Novem
ber of next year.
Theso organization leaders, whose
training impels them to admit noth
ing discouraging, but to claim every
thing, frankly have adopted new
tactics with regard to the. women
vote. They admit that they are at
sea, and say they have good' reason
to be at sea.
Many leading members , of con
gress are swinging to the "opinion
that tho amendment will be .ratified
in time to permit the women of the
entire nation to vote at the next
presidential election. They are tak
ing this view knowing that a num
ber of the southern states are ex
pected to turn down the amendment.
rernaps the best guess is. that
lo.uoo.OOO women voters will .par
ticipate in the next election. This is
the estimate now most generally ac-
Between 1912 and 1916 the ballot
was granted to women in several
suites, among them California,. Kan
sas and Illinois. Consequently, the
ir rJ0,1? for President in 1916 was
iffiS!7, an increase of about
tn.0i . and witllIn 15'0 of 'the
2Bf)ifrom 1888 t0 IS. That
vfttit i , was due t0 the women's
ha? ltho twelve state8 "wWo they
retnrn f80 is clearly shown by the
above 0m the three Btates named
tra? f MfJK,a the total vote In 1912
oma!73'!27' but in 1916 ter
S T999 78iage Ua? en granted, it
000 t t5 a Bain of abtmt 826
votev,0 S??1 s in 1912 th total
629 VJf 36M97' but in 1916 it was
:r.u or over 2Kn (ut
hnto -. --" bM.i.cA.
--.o
elect!
on
cast
of 1912
n.t.
the presidential
1,145 781 t Jl a total vote of
tlal SuS Ume conrred presides
2,192 707 g 0n tlle wmen, it cast
1.046 92 r a gain of no less than
fo 1900
computation Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah and other smaller states where
women had the ballot, the number
of women of voting age was perhaps
15,500,000. Assuming that the pro
portion of men to women is tho same
as in 1910, there should be. at the
very least 15,000,000 women voters
in 1920.
in- California in 1912, the vote
between republicans and democrats
was almost a tie 283,4ft6 for
Wilson and 283,010 for Roosevelt,
Taft Tp oiling 3,914, there being no
regular republican Electoral ticket.
Four years later, when some hold
that the women had thrown the state
for Wilson, the latter had 4G6,289
votes and Hughes 402,516, again al
most a tie.
Kansas is scarcely a state where
popular sentiment on political ques
tions is sufficiently stable to make
comparisons valuable. Possibly Illi
nois is a better guide in the matter.
In 1912 the republican vote Taft
and Bposevelt combined was G39,
839 and the Wilson vote was 404,
990. In 1916, with the women vot
ing, the republicans cast. 1,152,549
and the democrats 950.229. The re
publican plurality in 1912 was 234,
849 and in 1916 it was 202,229.
' .This-would go to sliow that .the
cry, "He kept us out of war", had
its. effect upon the women of repub
lican antecedents, as the republican
rgain was less than might reasonably
hayo ;been expected. owensuoro
inquirer
V?XR DEBT sOF THE UNITED
STATES
The" war debt of the United States
amounts to $23,043,190,346, no de
ductions for money lent other na
tions or investments in ships or the
war finance having been made from
this figure, according to statistics
submitted to the congressional ap
propriations committees by Secretary
Glass of the treasury department.
Almost half of the foregoing sum is
Offset by loans made other nations
and by assets in this country.
The total cost of tne war up to
June 30 last was $30,177,000,000, of
which $9,384,000,000 was met by
taxes and other revenues otner uiau
borrowed money. By rigid economy
and the continued application of a
comprehensive program of taxation,
tho secretary told the committee, no
further issues of bonds will he nec
essary before the maturity of the
Victory bonds in 1923. Govern
mental expenditures are constantly
decreasing, the disbursements last
month having been less than for any
preceding month since September,
1917
In'detailing tho government's op
erations, Secretary Glass showed that
$5,479,323,405 of the Payment for
war expenditures came from income
and proPfit taxes, $2,491,293,849 from
mi2llaneous internal revenue such
as taxes on miuv, tni
touries, ?9G9,940 485 from miscel
laneous revenue $429066,751 from
customs anal. " "t th0
jfanamu. uiiutw. ";-" , March
jnr period, June, 1918 and March
o.l Tnne. liJiy, b
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