p. 16 | Public Expenditures

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

Public Expenditures

Public Expenditures.—It is stated that during the last four Congresses of the United States, in eight years' time, three of which were especially hard times, more than four billions of dollars have been appropriated. Of this amount nearly $1,200,000,000 was for pensions. But while the pension appropriation of the last conference fell off over $50,000,000, the aggregate appropriations reached $1,043,437,018. What will the present Congress do? And what will the end of such extravagance be, which continually rolls up the burden of taxation upon an impoverished people?