Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-08
From the Salem Republican.
The Economy of the General
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Assembly.
1t IS worthy Of remark, especially
by the tax-payers that the Annual
Appropriation bill, passed by the Gen.
erAl assembly this year, is almost s
half a million of dollars less than last
year, when it was Republican. This is
q pretty handsome reduction of our
Democratic friends.-Ohio Patriot.
ait Is worthy of remark, especially
by the taxpayers, that the annual ap-
preparation bis, passed by the Gener-
al Assembly THIS YEAR." foot up. in
the aggregate, within a very fen dollars
as much as 'Last gear" and in order to
accomplish that Insignificant reduction
when the appropriation bill came fem
the Senate to the House, the various
Benevolent Institutions of the State
were reduced, in the allowances voted
by the Senate, to be necessary to their
support, more than three hundred
thousand doAraS. The Democracy went
even so far as to deprive the unfortu-
nate Deaf and Dumb, and blind, and
conyalescent Insane of their Chaplain
or Moral Instructor, in order to make
q show through their papers and on
the stump, in this fall's campaign, Of
reduction in the public expenses
Had it not been for the persistent ef-
forts of Republicans, they would also,
on the motion of Hon. II. ]. Jewett,
of Muskingum county, stricken out
the clause appropriating the mere pit
lance of too hundred dollars to buy
books for this poor unfortunate class
of our people, with which to while
away a few lonely hours of Asylum
life.
1t is a well established fact that the
dominant party, in the Legislature last
winter, Wal opposed to intelligence
and education, and disfranchised stu
dents, simply because they were
students; but they carried their
hostility 20 books even into our sylums.
and proposed, in order to make poEti
cal capital, to'starye the minds as well as
the bodies of the States helpless and
unfortunate citizens. Such economy!
and then boast of it.
In keeping with their hostility to
schools, they also reduced the contin-
gent fund of the State School Com
missioner TO such an amount as TO
cripple his efficiency in the discharge
of his duties. They utterly refused
him q single penny for travelling ex-
penses, yet the law requires the Com
missioner 10 travel, attend Institutions
and look after the general welfare of
education in the State. They legislat-
ed entirely on the principle that where
ignorance prevails, Democrats abound.
That, too, is az economy they boast of.
The Democracy also struck out the
appropriation of five thousand dollars
necessary to complete the Soldiers
Record" by which the very valuable
statistics of the Ohio Army might have
been preserved. Every Republican
voted for the measure, because in as
to procure & soldiers dues it
was actually necessary to have such a
record. Every Democrat, on account
of hate to the soldier, and the PTstsnse
of economy, voted against it. What do
they care, whether 8 boy in blue,
who fought their Southern friends,
gets his pay or noti Every item
in the appropriation bill was in like
manner cut down-far below what the
ocudlc hOLcQ " Uc lECccsAI1s
Now, we unhesitatingly aver that all
parsimonious, niggardly meanness
on the part of the Democrats, was
70 enable them to say to the
this fall, that the Legislature
Of Ohio appropriated less noasy for the
wants of the State. than the proceed
ing Republican Legislature, which
will be, in fact, not true.
Again, the reason the Democrats ad-
burned the Legislature to the 23d of
instead of to January, as
usual, was, that the ssctoHseTing apprO-
made by them last winter,
would principally be exhausted by
hat time, and tie. balances necessary to
ustAin the State Government for the
emaiadz of tie fiscal gear, woHh neees-
hare to Be provided for. The only !
Inference in the way OF doing these J
hings is simply this,-the Republicans,
asst year, included all that was needed
n their general appropriation bill, and {
djourned to January. without any
expense to the people. The |
for eleetoHsering purposes J
lone, made only partial appropriations, {
nd meet again more than forty days !
arLer than the Republicans did, at an t
to the State of more than ]
orty thousand dollars, extra IN one year, TO {
their appropriation bill. Nothing s
lse than that to do. Which plan do /
ir-pdyers like best. I
Next week. we shall endeavor to
.nish this subject, from the same text
80 l. d.
his false cry of Democratic economy, d,
Te intend shall be understood. We
peak from books, and know where