The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-07-16
.;s' Prom the Salem Repubacan.
The Economy of the General
ts.r Assembly. asil fs& Z

The Economy of the General
rS.t Assembly. a,i fG 4
It is worthy Of remark especiai.
ly by the taxpayers, that the An
-Dnal Appropriation bill, passed by
the General Assembly this year, is
almost a halfmilIion dollars less than
last year, when it was Republican.
This is q pretty handsome reduc.
tion of our Democratic friends
Ohio Patriot. A
1T is worthy of remark, especial.
ly by the taxpayers, that the An
nual Appropriations bills pissed
by the General Assembly THIS
WAR; foot up, in the aggregate,
within a rerySfe,o dollars as much
as "ldSt year." andin order to ac.
colnplish that insignificant reduc-
tion when the appropriation bill
came from the Senate to the House,
the y yariOus g q s.!.s BsacpO!snt .InstitutiSas
allowances voted by the Senate, to
be necessary to theirsupport, more
than three hundred thousand dollars.
The Democracy went even so far
as to deprive the unfortunate Deaf
and Dumb, and Blind, and conval-l
escent Insane of their Chaplain or
Moral In instructor, in order to make
d show through their papers and
on the stump in this falls cam
paign Of reduction in the public
expenses. Had it not been for the
persistent efforts of Republicans,
they would also. on the motion of
Hon, HI. Jewett, Of Muskingum,
4 have stricken out the clause ap
propriating the more pittance OF
iwo hundred dollars to buy books
for this poor unfortunate class of
our people, with which TO while
away a few lonely hours OF Asylum
lifc.guyr aIyHU2 loI.LF
1t is a well established fact that
the dominant paity,in the Legis.
lature last wintor, was opposed to
intelligence and education, and
disfranchised students, simply be-
I cause they were students; bnt they
!, carried their hostility to books
even into our Asylums, and pro
posed, in order to make politicd
capital, to starve the minds as wei
as the bodies of the States helpless
and unfortunate citizens. Sue
Of economyi and then boast OF it.
,ht In Keeping with their hostilit..
Is to schools, they also reduced th
i ;, contingent fluid ofthe State Schoc
Commissioner to such an amour
: as to cripple his efficiency in tn
discharge Of his duties. They ut
5, terly refused him asingle penn
p for travelling expenses, yet the ls'
of requires tho Commissioners to tray
el, attend Institutions and look a
ter the general welfare Of Educa
ton in the State. They legislatc
y entirely on the principle th'
where ignorance prevails, Dem
IT, T., Gratis abound. That, too, is an ecoI
,pt omy thoy boast Of. H..
M The Democracy also struck OF
+ the appropriation of FIVE thousaI
: dollars necessary 70 complete u
: SOLDIERS Record by which Il
9. very valuable statistics ofthe Oh
sg sg Army might havo been preserve
81, Every Republican voted for Il
Pbs, bs measure, because in assisting
procurela soldiers dues it was az
}. ually necessary to have such a re
ord. Every Democrat, on accou
OF hate to the soldier, and tho pi
IN tense of economy, voted against
@ Ut:' What do they care whether q b
Ter, in blue, who fought their Southe
y friends, ever gets his pay or mo
: - Every, item in The appropriate
III i bill was in like mannor cut do'
Vt far below what tho Senate vot
,sh- to be necessary. 'Aa
COS Fy's Now, we uhhesitatingly az
" that all this parsimonious, nigga
/, ly meanness on the part of
~ ~, democrats, was mainly to ena
pes, them to say, to the people. this 4
hiO' that the Legislature of OHIO
ptiated less money for the wants
= 1.-The State. than tho preceding .
iIw' publican Legislature, which will
r fact, be true. ttnlil dd1Ti
IL, Again, the reason the Democt
adjourned the Legislature TO
4 23d Of November, instead OF
- January, as. usual, was, that
-. etect,oneertng appropriations m
ors.i by them last winter, would priI
- pally be exhausted by that ii
= i and the balance necessary to
OI tain the State Government for
remainder of the fiscal year, ,r'
'cheS necessarily haze 10 be provided
Z |The only difference in the wa,
doing thesethings is simply thi
table, / ipS the Republicans, last year, INC
anger ed all that was needed ntheirl
eral appropriation bill, and
AIN journed to January. without
aims, further expense to the people.
as Democrats, for eiectioneering
p poses alone, made only partial
, preparations, and meet again =
me- than forty days earlier than
Republicans did, at an expen'
:, the State Of more than forty
7 sand dollars, ertrd, in one yea
!. ''por For finish their dppropridtionbM. N
,..., ling else Than that TO do. Nv
"iy. plan do tao pdyerslike best?
.J Nextweek, we shall endeav
y finish this subject, from tho
- text furnished us above, by
'i .'i.- Patriot. This false cry of D
n !! cratic economy, we intend AehS
OK understood;I We speak from
,unts books, and know whereof W
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