Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-05-18
From the Cleveland Herald-1
a Broken Vessel which can hold NO wnser

~ q oACfC-dA O4u DochCt-d HOgS
head all bung hole. The Treasury
like hose, merely a conduit through
which the money passes, its outlet being
a little larger than its inlet. The Treasu
Try is like X in Algebra, an unknown
quantity, an imaginary amount, de
pository of taxes, having the shadow
but devoid of the substance.
Turn to any branch os our State
government, and Treasury bleeding is
the "order of exercises" The "suck.
ers," hang on as if the Treasury was
an old bladder of exhilarating gas, and
the more of the sweet beverage they
inhale, the harder it is to jerk the de-
licious fountain from their mouths; and
drinking deeper and deeper they run
thieving mad, and throw the peoples
dollars around ike seed, which they ex-
pect to spring up and bear fruit, some a
hundred fold, some fifty fold, some thir-
ty fold. Even when the vaults are
drained, these COMMANDERS lay about
like loafers hanging over the rim of an
empty sugar cask, smackIng their lips
and digging out from crack and crevice
any little sweet morsal of coin which
may have escaped the scoop shovel
And after nothing is left of the old
money box but the holes they have bored
INTO it, the 'jolly companions" Join in
the chorus:
"You may break, you may shatter the vase if
you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it
still"
The Board of Public Works is one
sluice way from which flows an abun-
dant stream; the committee appointed at
a late day by the Legislature to examine
the cause of this leakage, report that
they have no time to spare for investiga-
ton, and are thereupon discharged from
farther duty. Thus a license by au-
thority is granted for two years more to
this reckless Board to scatter the public
funds without restraint.
The Lunatic Asylum management,
has riD'ed ont its bung-hole so as to in
crease its discharge Jyty per cent
This, too, is permitted to flow on un-
and like all the other drains,
should it be damned or stopped by
sudden spasm of Locofoco repentance,
t is but momentary, and serves only to
Increase its head, and swell its after cur
rent.
The Statesman lately gave an able
Irticle upon the subject of taxation, and
IS hence springs the ''leakage" which
n speaking or Tne 2turtot- -o-reputv"Nj-
SO, that paper says:
"In his statement, he shows that, for
he support of the State government,
legislature, executive Judicial
Y, and benevolent departments, etc..
here was S593, 1896 "a, being an excess
# S85,814 over 1859, in that one de-
In the payment of the priH-
ipal and interest Of the State debt, there {
vas raised in 1858, an excess over 1852 .
f S171 $50 81; and for the support Of I
schools in 1853 an excess over 1852 of I
1899, ,342 AZ. Now, be it remembered, s
hat it is over these items-little items I
hat the Legislature has control. By s
legislative action, there is an excess of a
tile less than ONE MILLION TWO HUN I
RED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS of '
he State levy of 1853 over 1881"
Here is a startling picture for tax {
ayers to gaze upon, and as they gaze, {
It them weep. What swells this bur-
hen from year to year? We answer {
rEALING-no milder term-STEAL- c
Nc. The worst form of stealing, for S
is robbery from a friend who has de- t
osited his funds in full confidence for il
afe keeping. c
The Statesman well remarks: C
"We do not mistake the signs. The n
the PEOPLE of Ohio d
Vhig, Democrat or what not-cannOt C
nderstand why Ohio should Be one Of Il
,e yorst tdzed States IN the Union, not Il
go for parallel to the despotisms of p
uropel' o
Another hole knocked into the Treas t,
ry has Just been discovered, from out o
which, at a moderate calculation c.
ghty thousand dollars of the hard S;
armed money of the people has flowed; f
ke water upon the sand never again to il
2 gathered up. We refer to the new d
tate House. T.
w. r. West, the architect of the G,
uilding has resigned, and in his letter o
resignation says: d
81 expected during the two seasons of d
352 and 1858, to have been able to
lish the exterior stone work, Except I"
e terrace, and to put the permanent il
'of on the building. To accomplish n
is, l stated that S250,OOo would be a.
quired, and in my report at the close Il
the year 1851, recommended that not
IS than that amount should be asked b,
the General Assembly, which amount Of
IS since been appropriated"
The Journal states "that it will re-
lire from ssventy.fre to eighty thousand
liars to bring the work to the state
omised when the appropriation was
anted" OF course these eighty thou
nd dollars are lost to the State, and it :,
comes an interesting question to know &,
ho has got the money. 81
We do not question the honesty of
e Commissioners who take issue with
th the Architect, but it certainly was
lie to the reputation of all concerned,
d to the interests of the State, that nc
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