The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-02-13
Democratic Extravaganza.


There is no county in the State in
which the mass of the people earn their
money with more difficulty than in Cam
bria. Long winters, frosts every month
in the year, barren soil and very rocky,
all require more than an ordinary amount
of courage aud endurance to make the
earth yield her increase. Yet a profigate
party now in control of the county squan-
der the wealth of these hardy and hard
laboring people as though i were obtained
with as much ease as it is scattered.
BY the tabular statement lately pub
lished, the expenditures of Cambria coun-
ty for last year, including amount paid
Poor House, amount to thirty-seven thou
sand nine hundred and seventeen dollars,
(s37, 7,917) Twelve thousand three hun
dred and thirty-seven dollars (S12, ,33O
were required for the Poor House, of
which, about four thousand dollars
(S4,000) are not included in the foregoing
amount. At the close of the year, the
The average number throughout the year
would Eot reach that. Counting the av-
erage number at 30, the county paid over
four hundred dollars for u years mainte-
nance of each pauper.
The entire expenses of Indiana county,
larger both in population and extent than
Cambria county, were last year twenty
one thousand aud eighty-nine dollars,
(S2l, ,089,) or nearly seventeen thousand
dollars (sI7, ,0OOj less than the expenses
of Cambria.
In Blair county, the expenses for the
past year were less than twenty-nine
thousand dollars (S29, ,000-more than
niue thousand dollars CSC, less than
tho expenses of Cambria. In Blair coun-
ty, the entire cost of the Poor House is
eight thousand six hundred and ninety
two dollars, ($8,692,) or nearly four
thousand dollars $4,000 less than the
cost of the Cambria county concera.
Look at these items Last year, the
following amounts were paid out of tho
treasury of Cambria county:
Commissioners of Cambria CO.,. 81 ,9T6 90
Clerk of Commissioners. ........ 450 90
Commissioners counse!.............. 275 90
During tho same period, the expenses
of the Commissioners establishment In
Blair county were:
commissioners of Blair co............$ 542 90
Commissioners clerk..................- 600 90
Commissioners counsel. .-.... ...... 40 90
Total..... ....-...............'.'.'' l,Ioz w
Excess of Cambria over Blair, 81 ,5l9.
1t will thus oe seen that the Commits
sioners Office Of Cambria county costs the
TAXPAYERS more than twice as much the
like office costs in Blair county. Cambria
is under Democratic control-Blair under
Republican control.
The Commissioners Office Of Hunting
don county last year cost 81 ,67l-or $S3C
less than Cambria county. During the
same period, the Commissioners Office ot
Indiana county cost 81, ,704-or 1897 les:
than Cambria county. Huntingdon anc
Indiana are Republican counties,
Let Us LOOK at the Auditors Office
last year, the Auditors of Cambria coua
ty were paid S243. For the same period
the Auditors OF Huntingdon county were
paid sl51 the Auditors OF Indiana coun
", SIIO; Auditors Of Blair county, $50
Such is the rule we have over US Of
fees intended for the benefit OF the peopl
are made a burden to them. Their wei
earned money is scattered about with mos
exiravagant pr9lusion.