Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-08-24
81 ,92S.OI

Remainder 81 ,92s01
In making the apportionment, each mother, wife,
or widow, is counted tour; each motherless
child as two and all other children as one, and the
number in each county is the aggregate OF those
thus estimated. E,ch child, therefore ii none OF
the ecun.erat.d had "otherwise sufficient means
for their comfortable support" would be entitled
to receive 81 cents per month; each mothcrless
child 81 "a per month"; and each mother, wife, or
widow, S270 per month. But owing to the fact
that large number OF the enumerated are not EN-
titled to the benefit OF the act under its terms, on
account of having other means Tor their support,
which the Township Trustee. being the discussing
officer, is to determine; and the further fact that
majority of onr soldiers have themselves returned
take of their families the re can be doubt
but that the fund will be ample to allow each ac
tual beneficiary the full amount contemplated by
law from the time of It's passage, March 4, leG5.
Under the law, the County Commissioners are
authorized and required to borrow, from time to
time, as may be deemed necessary, fourftths of
the amount set apart to their respective couLtes in
the foregoing schedule.
LOOK INTO THE FIGURES.
The figures ,de BY the Auditor in apporton-
ing the amount due each county are, OF course,
based apon TIE returns OF the Auditor and the As
Of the several counties, aud it is plain that
it would be quite easy matter for such county
authorities to mike such return of the number
of benefciaries in their county would secure 10
them larger proportion Of the relief fund than
the county is fairly entitled to receive, thus feed
ing their poor ut the expense Of other counties.
10 not say this has been done in any case, but
some of the figures look little queer. For in
stance take Marshall county, as compared with La
Porte county, the one living contiguou. to the 9TH
er. Marshall returns 29lo beneticiares. and re.
ceiyes 23,5II4l OF the fund, while La Porte re-
turns but 2,l6S benetciaries, and only receives
SlI ,5lI.4f of the relief money. And this, too,
while the relative population OF the two counties
rs determined by the census of lo6O, stood fol
lows: Marshall county, II, 122; La Porte county
22,9l9-nearly double that OF MARSHALL Now
how is this to be explained? Two things are Ger.
trinly true; LIST, La Porte county has increased in
population as much, relatively, as Marshall; and
III, La Porte has sent more soldiers to the field
than Marshall. | wouldn't be afraid to guarantee
that La Porte has sent three soldiers to MARSHALL,
one, for the latter is one Of the meanest, drties
Butternut counties in the whole State, and only
furnished men for the war upon the compulsion @
various and sundry drafts. 1t is the county in
which Marcus Aurelius Orestcs Packard. jim
1 Thompson, John G.. Osborn and Charles II. Reeve
reign supreme where men were armel and drilled
I To resist the CONSUMPTION and to overawe u nior
men ut the polls. and where the New York Ne,cs
Day Book and the Chicago Tunes are both law anC
gospel. only mention these things incidentally
by the way of illustrating what I conceive to be
the unequal workings of our relief law. The sta,
at home. non fighting sections Of the State shoult
not be clothed and fed at the expense of the loya
ones. Ii nav be all fair and square. but trankl
confess don't see it. What does La Porte coun
f, ~ think about lit