What he must keep before his eyes is the principle
that the best way of helping commerce and, what is far more important, of helping the working man to get a better share in the good things of this world, as all right-minded men desire that he should, is to lift the burden of taxation. He must make up his mind as to what is the greatest sum that the nation can bear without injuring the sources of industry, without, that is, drying up the river which fertilizes our industrial fields, and he must resolutely refuse to raise a larger revenue. That is the only amount legitimately available for expenditure. It must, of course, be jealously and minutely allotted to the various departments, and, further, not only must every department be cut down to the minimum required, but the Treasury, as in old days, must sce to it that value is got for whatever money is granted. And here the great thing to remember is that value is not got by huge crowds of bureaucrats and Government employees.
