Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-09-24
The Benevolent Institutions to be Re-
O3eYcd.

We are not in the secrets of our State
administration, and know its purposes
only as they are proclaimed by its organ,
or as they may be inferred from its acts
We are therefore quit, as much surprised
as any boly else to learn that it is in con
temptation to reopen the Asylums on the
lst of the coming month. After some
six months perseverance in the closing
policy, and without the occurrence of any
circumstances that could change the rela-
ton OF the State authorities to these IN
stitutions, they are to be re- opened. We
are glad Of it. They should never been
closed, and with a Governor able to appre-
ciate his responsibilities and guide his own
action, they never slould have been clos
ed. But how comes it that they are to be
re opened now? No Legislature has met.
No forgotten law has been discovered that
authorizes the State officers TO apply the
public money to such purpose. Nothing
has transpired that can make the reopen
ing now more legal than it was last April.
And nothing can transpirc now that can
make it moro necessary than it was then.
Why Is it determined upon at this late day?
We might find a good many plausible
reasons for it, but we prefer to think that
at last the circumstances of the more dis
erect members of the state Ministry have
prevailed over the natural and induced OBJ
i stinacy of the Governor, and brought him
to consent TO bear his share of the rcspon-
siblity OF these certainly unauthorized,
but necessary proceedings. We arc will.
ing to believe that it is the result Of an
honest purpose to serve the people, and
with that belief we feel impcllcd to ask.
why in the name Of the distressed Blind
and Insane of Indiana, was II not done six
months ago? If tits an assumption of the
responsibility of using the States money
without an appropriation, it could have
been as easily assumed then as now. And
then il was ten-fold more imperative than
now, for a vast injury would have been pre-
vented BY it then which is now past rem
Iedy. The assumption Of this responsible
lily now cannot give to the Insane the ben
eft of the months of careful attention, and
the probable restoration, that they have
lost by the closing Of the Asylum. IL
cannot restore to the Blind the knowledge
they would have acquired in those wasted
months. 1t cannot give to the deaf the
training they have lost in the long vacation
1t cannot bring back the lost time. And
by Just the injury which that loss has done
was it more imperative that this re-openine
should have been made last April thar
now, or rather that there should never have
been closing to make re-openins
necessary. This injury is to be set dowr
to account OF Gov. Willard and the State
Administration. If they can restore tn,
Asylums to usefulness now, they conlt
have prevented them from becoming use
less at ALL That this late perception Q
their responsibility has at last penetrated tn
/, State officers, is amatter Of congratuIation
That il did not result in action before tins
attributable, we are sure. to Gov Willard
/. The State Treasurer, we believe. has avo:.'
ed his willingness all the time since tn
s Institutions were closed, to take his shar
of the responsibility Of opening them, ant
making them useful. But Gov. Willard
: twas bent on making capital out Of the clos
: ling, and would cot act. Now ne ma
e found out that he wasn't making any cap
tal III that way, and has concluded to I'D