The expenses of the government reach everybody. Taxes take from everyone a part of his earning, and force everyone to work for a certain part of his time for the government. When we come to realize that the yearly expenses of the governments of this country [skips] is a stupendous sum of about seven billion, five hundred million dollars, we get [skips] million dollars is needed by the national government, and the remainder by local government. Such a sum is difficult to comprehend. It represents all the pay of five million wage earners receiving five dollars a day working three hundred days in the year. If the government should add one hundred million dollars of expense it would represent four days more work of these wage earners. These are some of the reasons why I want to cut down public expense. I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves.