Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1928, Page 6

~ "THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. ‘D. ‘€., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17.- 1028 By the Assoclated Press. SEDALIA, Mo, October 16. - Gov Smith's speech last night, as prepared for delivery, follows: No political party is entitled to the confidence of the people if it conducts ® campaign of misrepresentation. ‘Throughout the country the Repub- lican party is conducting such a cam- paign. propose to expose the grossest misrep- | Tesentation so far made by the Repub- lican party as a reason why it, should remain in control of the Government. Lacking an issue and unable to point to any constructive achievement, the Republican has, through its officlals, its pre:s | an4 through its national com- | mittee, attempted 1o put into the minds of the people of this country that by what they are pleased to term Coolidge | economy they have actually reduced the | cost of operating the Government. | 1 shall paint for you tonight three pictures. Picture No. 1 is what the Re- | publican party would like to have you believe. This picture was started as far back as 1924, when the Republican platform and the Republican campaign boox of that ar started their | naganda and made the claim of re- ducing the cost of operating the Go nment. At that time the statement was technically correct, because the | figures in the 1924 book were based on | a comparison between peace time and war time appropriations expenditur and revenues. Cites War Costs. The picture shows one fact and that | is a substantial reduction in 1924 as) st 1921, because in 1921 the Gov- | ng. and paying dearly, for necessary expenses incident to the war. It took years to disband and return to their homes the two million soldiers who were abroad Whn‘nl the armistice was declared. It tooi | years to muster out of the service and | Teturn to their homes the two million men in camp in this country. It took | years to reduce the Navy to a peace- | time status and to disband the various other costly agencies set up by the Gov- | ernment, for the purpose of progressing the war. It is, therefore, quite natural that | during 1921, 1922 and 1923 the enor- mous wartime expenditures began 1o | drop, and because of that fact entire | pages of the campaign book of the Re- publican party of 1924 were devoted o | & recital of the great reduction in the | cost of the Government. The cam- ign text book of that year did mot, ?Lo\ve\er. give the true cause of the re- duction, to wit, the completed change | from a wartime to a peace basis, bu! ascribed it for political purposes to what they claimed to be Coolidge economy. In that manner the economy myth since made so much of by the Republican party had its origin. | The children in our public schools | know that it costs a great deal less tc run the Government in time of peace than it does in time of war. To show how this false picture was built up we have to consider some cf the public statements intended to lead the people to believe that Republican economy is responsible for reducing the cost of Government. Quotes Mills' Speech. In a recent speech over the radio| ‘Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills said, when comparing 1921 with lts’ great war expenditures and 1928: “We | spent $1,895,000,000 less.” | That statement was undoubtedly in-| tended to make the people believe that there has been a reduction in the cost of government under the two Re- publican _ administrations. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Republican national committee in an attack made upon me after the delivery of my speech of acceptance,| ‘While Federal expenses were being | reduced, New York State expenditures | were almost tripled.” There again, pyve find an attempt to fix in the minds of the people that the Republican party reduced the cost of government. It is strange to see in the very same statement that, in at- tempting to explain increases in Fed- eral expenditures, they criticize me be- cause they claim I ignored a $3,000 in- crease in the Vice President’s salary Three thousand dollars is a very small | amount in a saving claimed to be as high as two billion dollars. They also said 1 overlooked a large item of expense to make the White House a safe place in which to live. I hope they did not expect me to criticize that item. I would be in favor of that. Certainly if there is @ man/ in the United States who wants thel White House safe to live in, I am that man. “Could Go On for Hours.” I could go on here for hours recall- ing the different public statements and public speeches made by Republican | orators during the last four years, all | stressing their claim that ~Coolidge economy was reducing the cost of the Government. - They went so far as to find fault with States and municipali- ties for not following what they called | the good example of the Federal Gov- ernment when these various States and civil divisions required more money for the operation of government. By con- stant repetition they hoped to induce a great many people in this country to think there was something to their con- tention. = J The chief orator on this subject is the director of the budget himself, Gen. Lord. I personally heard him say at Poland Springs in June, 1925, while 1 was attending the conference of gov- ernors, that because of the budget sys- tem established under President Hard- ing it was possible to come within $48,000,000 of reducing the cost of | Government by two billion dollars, be- tween 1921 and 1925. The true ex- planation of this reduction, however, | he did not discuss | How a man of Gen. Lord’s ability | could get it into his mind that the | people of this country would be pre- pared to believe that you could reduce the cost of Government by two billions of dollars simply by the introduction of a budget bureau is more than I am able to understand. It was necessary, however, for the director of the bucxet to try to make these figures stand: up, and, consequently, there were printed and distributed "all over the United States some extraordinary statements about alleged Coolidge economy. Some of the samples from his report are both interesting and amusing. He speaks about a messenger in the Navy storeroom in Washington going through the waste paper basket and saving pins, paper clips and pieces of pgneils. He tells the story of the Amer- ican consul in Java who rearranged the lighting of his office 50 as to save $45.21 a year. He speaks of the American consul at | Flcwers for Autumn Weddings Autumn bride-elects are invited to confer with us regarding Wed- ding Flowers and Deco- rations. Suggestions and estimates gladly made. SPeuLAL PRICES NEW STORE | cording to the postmaster in tha | there In the last three weeks I have | ber of mail bags to distribute the Chris- exposed a large part of it. Tonight 1 mas mail. While he was talking about | | management of the Government Curacao, in the West Indian Islands. cutting out -office lights sufficient save the Governmeni $14 a year. | e Spoke at great length about the {and figured how much the Government would save by leaving the blue stripe off the bag, at the same time taking | no account of the great loss in money | and inconvenience to the people of Chi- |cago only last Christmas, when, ac- [ city, was not a sufficient num- stripes he also eliminated the red stripe {in_Government towels. He explained about seven barrels of «poiled souses seal shoulders shipped | from Alaska that were unfit for con- | | sumption. | shoulders were shipped, but they were 1 do not know to whom the spoiled en route and, by great economy, they wcre sold for crab bait and brought the Government $20. In every publication of the Budget Bureau claims are made of billions of dollars saved and, in order to back them up. there are always some small economies listsd. Here is a shining ex- ample: In the 1925 report said ‘The use of both sides of the paper in printing mimeographed publication | and administrative orders and circulars, where there is no compelling reason why only one side of the paper should be used, has been recommended.” Loyal Order of Woodpecker. In order to give color to the great saving of billions, there was organized among Government employes the Loyal Order of Woodpe Let me quote the language of Gen. Lord himself: “All hail to the Loyal Order of Wood- peckers, whose persistent at waste will make che Government offices and workshops coming year! No reports will required #nd_only such record kept the agencles themselves think necessar, or_desirable. There is another item of great sav ing at the Au ta Arsena After re- ducing his personnel, the commander sought- further economy and he turned off the electricity used for lighting the roads and walks on moonlight nights. Now. let it not be understood for a moment by the American people who will hear or read this speech that I am attempting to belittle economy in the 1 would be the iast man to suggest that, because T have insisted on it in the op eration of the Gevernment in my owh State. What I do want to bring to your gttention in the printing of this picture is the attempt that is being made to lead the peopie to believe that by the elimination of these insignificant expenditures the Government is being more cheaply operated today than it was when President Coolidge first took office Refers to Hoover Speech. ‘The Republican candidate, Mr. Hoover, hed a large share in the painting of this picture when in his speech of acceptance he sald: “By rigorous economy Federal ex- penses have been reduced by two billion dollars per annum.” No more misleading statement could be made in campaign than this state- ment taken from the speech of accept- ance of the Republican candidate. He knows better, or should know better. He nows, or he should know, that the two-billion-dollar reduction is the'dif- ference between the peace-time cost of government and the war-time cost of government. If he were talking out straightforwardly and fairly to the American people, that is what he would say. He chooses, however, to attempt to conceal the true state of facts. I challenge him to make good his state- ment that Republican economy made a difference of two billion dollars in the cost of running the Government. He knows that is not so and he could never mhills lifetime make good his misleading be false picture by the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, in a {alk over the radio only a few nights ago, when he said that Gov. Smith and the other Democratic speakers were seeking to withhold credit from the Coolidge ad- ministration for reducing expenditures. Well, we certainly are, because there has been no reduction. In fact, the expenditures have been increased. And Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover know that to be the fact. Charges G. 0. P. Alibi. Now that I have finished the false picture, let me paint for you the real picture. Anticipating just such a speech as this, the Republican campaign man- agers produced their alibi in advance. their campaign book of 1928 they say the following: “Neither 15 there any denial that more money is being appropriated to operate the Government than was ap- propriated three or four years ago.” In painting the real picture, it is Obvious that a comparison between 1921, when the country was on a war- time basis, and the peace time of 1928 w&uld in no way reflect the true situ- ation. your attention to the fact that $2,600,- 000,000 worth of assets acquired during the Wilson administration for the pur. pose of progressing {he war re turn- ed into cash in peace time by the suc- ceeding Republican administrations and no credit given on the Wilson side of the ledger. This the Secretary of the Treasury admits in his annual re- ports. 1 The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the year 1927 shows that if it had not been for the ministration there would have been deficits in the years 1923 and 1925, and very substantial reductions in the sur- plus in the years 1924, 1926, 1927 and 1928. The public to discover this would be compelled to delve into the Treasury reports. We would never hear of it from Republican campaign orators. We would represents a We realize ‘deeply appre pressions of have been te $125 up, has heo 1407 H St. Telephone Main Bk e 2 e 2. ue stripes that we sce on mail bags | he director | 1o | 000,000 in 1924 to $156,000,000 in 1927 claim, The finishing touches were put to the | They destroy the false picture when in | In the real picture let me first call | assets left behind by the Wilson ad- | Every Family —in which w High quality service, at from valued friends. DEAL FUNERAL HOME o7 reference, Ask your ne 816 H STREET N.E. Phones, Linco never learn this from the political | bookkeeping of Mr. Hoover and Mr.| | Mills, or the Republican national com- | | mittee. But. of course, when you are | painting a false picture. overlooking a | little item like $2.600,000,000 is not of | | much consequence. | Charges Executive Increase. | In painting the real pleture, let us| | go first into the office of the great| apostle of economy. the President him- | salf. and we find that in 1921 the ex- | utive department, limited to the office | of President and Vice President, cost | the people $210,000. In 1927 that! figure moved up to $686.000, but as long | as the national committee says that | this increase was caused by an ex- | venditure for putting a new roof on lh“{ White House to make it safe. we will | let it go at that. But what about 1928 | when there was no roof to be paid for, | and the avpropriation moved from | $210.000 the first vear of President Harding's administration to $528.000 in | | 1928, considerably more than 100 per | cent’ increase? Let us take the District of Columbia, | which is a city run by the Federal | Government. In the first year of the| Harding administration it cost the | people ‘of the country $21.921,000. In 1928 1t jumped to $40,058,000, almost | face of the Republican claim that citie: and municipalitics of the country out- | side of the Ty'strict of Columbia were | | responsivte fct destroying the effects of | alleged Federal economy. 1t Coolidge economy has reduced | the cost of Government, it should be | reflected in the expenditures of the| various departments of Government. | Let us take & look at the figures. Lists Department Figures. The cost of operating the Depar nent of Agriculture jumped from §143 The Department of Commerce from | $25000.000 in 1924 to $31,000,000 in 1927, the Department of the Treasury | from $117,000,000 in 1924 to $144,000.- | 000 in 1927. And so goes the whole story. For the purpose of painting the pictire properly, let us take all the de- | partments of the Government, and we will find an increase in expenditures in 27 a5 against 1924 of about $200,000.- | and the appropriation acts o so far signed by the President | w that expenditures for this fiscal r will be greater than in 1927 There is nothing there that makes | good the first picture. It destroys it | ntirely. And it was because of that | the Republican managers saw fit to set | |up an'alibi in the Republican cam- | | paign book | | At this point let me say that the| fiscal reports of the United States | Government come as near to a Chinese puzzle as anything I have ever seen. They were in the same condition in | | my own State until T devised a system {of direct accounting to the people in plain, ordinary words and figures that | 19: 000 1928 | understand. The fiscal reports of the | | United States Government challenge | |even the ingenuity of accountants, and for that reason they readily lend them- selves o misrepresentation. The Fed- |eral procedure in appropriating and | expending money is hard to follow and | difficult to analyze. It looks as though |the whole system was devised to con- | fuse ‘and mystify, ~Certainly that has {been the effect. Charges Political Move. When Congress convenes in Decem- | ber, according to the Director of the | | Budget, it will be compelled to meet a | | deficiency of approximately $100.000,000. | That means money that should have been appropriated at the regular ses- sion, but was not, and I see a certain significance in that, entering a presi- | dential campaign, when there is a de- | |sire on the part of the Republican party to paint for the people of the country a false and misleading picture | of economy. You may sure, however, of the fig- | | ures T gave you tonight, because they |are correct. T have given you the real | ! picture as it would be given by any | man who_ desired to talk plainly and honestly to the American people. There is still a third picture that I would like to paint tonight and lay be- | fore the American people. That is a | | picture of what should have been done | |and was either neglected entirely or | | postponed, or was started with a grossly | inadequate appropriation so that ad- | ministration could get the credit in the | { election of doing something without | | paying for it. In order (o put this pi ture properly before you I must first call | | your attention to what I consider to be | |trick bookkeeping. Under the system | at Washington we have what is known as deferred appropriations. This is a | device under which undertakings are started with small appropriations and the Government is committed to large | | appropriations in succeeding years, | thereby passing the buck to the next | administration after election. | Cites Rent Roll, | There is no greater waste in the coun- | try today than the annual rent roll of | the Federal Government, which is about | $20.000,000. Can you imagine an ad- | nistration claiming credit for great economy that expends in rent in one | vear $20,000,000? I am informed in some | | instances the rental paid gives a yield | to the property owners in excess of 12 | | per cent per annum. There is no econ- | [ omy in that; that is cold-blooded waste. | Let me put into this picture exactly | what is going on in the Government at | Washington with respect to property ac- | quired for public buildings of various kinds throughout the country, and as| | against the first picture of alleged econ- | jomy let me show & picture of willful | waste. Bear in mind that when the | Government acquires property for pub- | lic use 1t is immediately lifted out of | the taxable values of the community | wherein it is situated. That means that | | if the Government acquires-a plot of | | land in any city, town or village, the | municipality loses the tax revenue of ! that plec e have ever served group of friends. this fact, and we ciate the many ex- gratefulness that ndered us. won us a host of whbor’ 00-8201 Gov. Alfred E. Smith shown guenching his thirst at the old Lincoln well on the Lincoln Memorial Farm at Hodge- | the world would tolerate for one week | ville, Ky. waste it is nol onl, the Government itself to have reels of land standing idle for years with no buildings on them, In your own State of Missouri thete are several all acquired in 1917 and 1918, for which no construction has yet been provided. They remain idle ‘There is no economy in that. to the city, but to Waste 1Is Charged. Let us take a few shiung examples {In the borough of Brooklyn. in the City | of New York, a site was acquired as far back at 1915 at a cost of 0,000, and not a single thing has been done to put a building on it. In the meanwhile the Governmetn is renting outside quarters at an annual cost of $60.000. This is not economy. This is deliberate waste. In Binghamton, N. Y., as fa $100,000. Not a single thing has been done to put a building on it. Over a year ago a site was acquired in Chicago at a co: to four mil- lions of dolla) he new Federal Build- ing there is designed to cost $14.250,000. | The last session of Congress appropri- ated just $300,000, not enough for the foundation, and the Government is pay- ing in rent for postal facilities in the Cily of Chicago $243,000 a year. This is not economy. It is gross waste. Aside from that, the Postmaster General, in a recent report, sald that a large part of the increased cost of operating the postal service of this country was di- ctly chargeable to antiquated facilitie Withholding appropriations for up-to. date facilities is not economy; it is loss, and would not be permitted for a mo- ment in any well organized private busi- ness. Cites Richmond Plans. In Richmond, Va., the Gdvernment, as far back as 1916, acquired a site for a post office that cost $450,000, and not a single dollar has since been appropri- ated in all that time to put a building on the lad. In the city of Pitishu Government expended $2,077.000 for a post office. The post office is designed to cost $6,425,000; and this year they appropriated $300,000. not sufiicient to make any kind of a start on the build ing. In the meanwhile they are pay ing $173,000 a year rent, and losing in addition $95,000 a yeer which the As- sistant Postmaster General testified coild be saved in the operation of the post offi nen the new building is completed, I cculd go through the list and take your time for the rest of the night Let me sum up by saying that there h, Pa., the are almost 100 sites acquired for Fed- citigens that it would' tolerate long and has a back as | [the man of the street can readily 1916, a site was acquircd as a cost of | ‘| country could las | eral buildings since 1915, and also | number of sites acquired between 1913 and 1915, on which no buildings ha as yel been constructed hese sites are lying idle The interest on their | cost in running against the Government and they are lifted out of local taxa- | tlon. In the meanwhile the Govern- is spending large amounts of | in rent L is not economy. It aste, and it is worse than that— it Js inefficiency. Kefers to New's Letter. One the glaring effects of failure to provide post office facilities | is illustrated in a letteh from the Post- master General to the chairman of the { Joint Commission on the Postal Service. | In bis letter the Postmaster General as far back as 1921: | “Let me call your aitention to the fact that the business of the post offic doubling every 10 vears, can never be placed on an efficient and stabilized basis until the erection of suitable | buildings in suitable places is planned, not only on an economical basis, but rom a scientific and service viewpoint.” In this connection it is also worth while to point out that the Postmaster | General rents furriiture on the basis of | a 20-year lease. This has been done in | order to keep up the fiction of econom in spite of the fact that the Postmaste | Genera! admitted in 1927 in the hea |ings before the House appropriations | commitee that if a sufficient appropri: tion were made to buy furniture, a sav- ing of 72 per cent could be effected in of is there any economy in doing business that way? No business concern in the | to conduct its business the way the | Federal Government does. Let me take up a subject in which | the State of Missourt is vitally interest- |ed. That is the Mississippl flood control bill. It constitutes as fine an illustra- tion as you can get of Republican shift- Ling of ‘the burden. While they have been discussing pro and con and back {and forth the share that should be | borne by the Government and by the | States for flood control on the | Mississippi, millions and millions of | dollars’ worth of property. and even human life, have been in jeopardy. The | improvement of the Mississippi River, to | my way of thinking, is a matter of na- tional concern, and should be paid for |by the Federai Government. It is not sensible to assume that the rest of the ! country is not sufficiently inierested in the lives and property of millions of its the | the course of 20 years, amounting in | the aggregate to over $530,000. Where | that would attempt | p Assoclated Press Photo. useless discussion, instead of going ahead with the work and completing it. Talks on Flood Relief. The Republican sadministration fs | looking tor a great deal of credit for bringing relief to the flood sufferers nd expecting a cure for floods in the future. While the Mississippi flood control bill authorized an appropriation f 00,000 it actually appropriates 000,000, The rest is to be d along to the next udministration. ad of trifling with the situation, hould at once bring our great dralnage system under control and the enormous amount of waler now run- ning to waste in destructive floods should be harnessed and made to work for us instead of working against us | Let me give you a few ilustrations of palpable neglect, brought about through a false economy which, in my opinion, amounts to a national dis- grace. The United States Government |owes & duty to the American Indian, and last May Dr. Work, then Secretary |of the Interior, issued to the public a |report which 'shows that owing to | neglect by the Federal Government and failure to make adequate appropria- tions, the Indian wards of the Govern- ment are rapidly dying of dis to the low standard of living. | schools for Indian children the aver- age spent per child for food was as low as 9 cents a day, and malnutrition was evident. do not ask you to take my word for Let us take the report of the Secretary of the Interior him- self in 19: when he said: Years of financial neglect require rger appropriations if the Govern- ment is to perform its full duty to the American Indian." This neglect complained of by Dr. Work resulted in inadequate school |and hospital facilities for the Indians and their children What has Dr. Work got to say about { this today when, as head of the Res | publican national committee, he is a party (o the false pieture of economy in the Fall of the year, when the Re. | publican party is seeking to return t power, and one of its severe critics | when he is talking as the head of the ‘great Department of the Interior? What explanation can be made by any of the members of the Republican party who helped to paint the false picture, for this palpable nsglect of the health and comfort of the helpless chil- dren of thase India | Laughs in U | Gojug over the Federal records is a | hard and tiresome job, but if a man ense of humor he can occasion- TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S SPEECH AT SEDALIA, MO., LAST NIGHT Jally get a laugh out of it. Here is)lican lack of ability, lack of effietency { something (hat gave me a real one and and lack of business methods. want to share it with you. In the | flles of the Department of the Tnterior | Holds Economy Lies in Management. | there was found a letter from Albert _Mr. Hoover has been identified with | B. Fall, Secretary of Interfor. 1 will | the administration of our Government | read it to you, It is addressed to Presi- | for many vears. If he is unable to | dent Harding. see these three pictures in their true My dear Mr. President: light, T am forced to the conclusion thank you very much for handing | {Nat he does not understand the opera- |me the letters of Gen. Dawes, com- ;:‘"-‘U"f ”‘1;2 Gov@‘nlxmem.l If he u%?s enti i ¢ Lhese three pictures, am unable | Tetorence "By e sactrers ‘ot Yoy it | to understand how he could have made | partment. 1t is very gratifying to know | 13t exaggerated and grossly mislead- | that Gen. Dawes is in accord with my- | oo Statement that by “rigorous econ- | self in the matter of true efficiency, as | g, Federal expenses have been re- | T perfectly well know that he must be | ““;t.jf’gcg,‘,‘:m"“‘::"“ e it when he understood the subject of my | affairs, Is not only proudent manage | departmental activity from my stand- | ment and expenditure by farslghied point. ~Through you I would like 10| planning in the interest not only of | convey to him my appreciation of both | the people of today but of thoss of the the tone of and the assurance contained | future. It involves the protection snd in his letters which I am retuzning for | the development of oue matural rer your files as requested. sources of all kinds. It means faeing “Very sincerely yours, { the problems of the country end meet- “ALBERT B. PALL” |ing the cost—whatever it may be. Here Is the laugh. This letter about| While it is fondamentally true faa’ | efficiency .and economy in the Depart- |10t & single dollar should be wasted, | ment of ‘the Interior was written at :([ is a)s.') true that no obligation or the very time that the Secretary was b:zm““‘vj“m of the Government should | taking the first steps to get control of D¢ Postponed or hidden, nor should | taking the first leht | conditions be allowed to arise and con- | the naval oil reserves so that he might | fonaitions b - {lease them to private interests from | RIS CROror o o grent Nation which, according to the record, the NAton. | private Interests were to make $100.- |, ACCOrding to my ideas of economy the last two administrations have been | 000,000. There is economy and effi- | 4o Jast two adminis { ciency for you, running wild. e S0y Jhe S codiiny e | | ever seep. They attempted to give In all the record of the public busl-| away our natural resources. They n';\e ness at Washington there is no more | postponed and neglected the most palpable evidence of neglect than the | pressing needs. | trestment by the Republican admin- |~ when 1 take | istration of the question of proper of this great Nation I will meet these housing for the Army. problems squarely and without the | " y waste of a single dollar. I will explain Hits Army Housing. 1o the people the financial needs of I could go into this at very great!the country with frankness and hon- length to show a willful and a known | esty. xolr: llhe rec}gldl r!ht' Republican T | party is helpless. Relief can only come Heglech dt the property of the Feleal) [V S co L SiE L oy o (e B o Government used for housing our sol- | November. diers. Suffice it for me to say that no well-organized business institution in my place at the head | what has been going on in the Govern- | ment at Washington auring the present WATCH ANO CLOCK |administration. ~ Page after page of | ment appropriation bills testified to it | f| Clocks Cailed For - Delivered ~Guarantee iu language stronger than I could use.| > MANTEL {For the ime being, let me quote the | i Secretary of War, who said: “I have not hesitated to say quite fre- | GRANDFATHER quently that I think the conditions of CLOCKS our housing is a very serious matter and almosi amounis to & national scanda | These words come directly from a | member of the administration. In| order to try to make the first pictur stand up a member of the administr: |tion s compelied to say that the con- | duct of his own party in power at Washington on the question of housing | | our soldiers amounts to & national scan- “ dal. It is also a matter of record that | Army officers of high rank have been | reprimanded because they have publicly | referred to the disgraceful housing ‘con- | |ditions in the Army. What does Mr. | Hoover think of that kind of econom | He should not pass that question along | to Dr. Work. The American people are | | entitled to know from his own words | whether or not he approves of an econ- | omy that starves Indian children and | fails to provide adequate housing and proper eating and sleeping quarters for the American soldier. | Will Talk on Reorganization. In a later speech in the campaign I| propose to take up the question of the reorganization of the Government, a | great reform designed to bring about | real. economy and promised by both | President Harding and President Cool ; idge and by spokesmen for both of their | administrations, and which, because oi (weakness and lack of leadership and questions of patronage involved, was never carried out even in the slightest | degree. i 1 have painted tonight for you three ! pictures. | Pirst, the picture that the Republican | party would like to have the American | people believe as showing great effi- \clency and great economy always, with | the hope of making you belleve that be- | ause of their wonderful handling of |the Government it is costing less toda: {than it did in the first year of Presi | dent Coolidge’s administration. I have made this picture full and complete. 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