The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-04
The Proposed Children's Home

We copy the following article on
the subject Of the Children's Home
project from the Mahsning County
(Canfield) Nc,os. 1t expresses oar
sentiments exactly:
We have been earnestly contending
for months past for economy and re-
form in the matter of taxation and
public expenditures. Yet right on the
heels of all we have said and in the
face of hard times and empty purses,
made SO largely by enormous outlays
for public purposes, the tax payers of
Mahoning are met with the not very
flattering prospect of having their
burdens in that direction largely in
creased next year for the erection of a
Childrens' Home, at Warren, Trum-
bull county.
In the first place, even if the people
were in q condition to pay the increas-
ed taxation that this new project
would impose, we can see no necessity
that would then call for such an eX-
penditure.
We have only eight children at our
County Infirmary now, three of whom
are wholly incompetent of being edu.
Gated, and if we 60 into the Childrens'
Home project il will cost this county
at least fifty thousand dollars for its
share of the building fund. to say
nothing of the amount that will be
consumed annually in running the in-
stitution.
The interest on the $4,000 at s per
cent. would be $4,000, and the amount
necessary to carry on the Home that
will be required OF this county after it
is established is placed at very
low estimate-SS,OOOa year. There is
S12,0 600 year that it will cost this
county for the support of five children
with no assurance in the world that
their condition will be improved by
the change from the Infirmary to the
Home. We could have the whole
eight children supported in private
families I'm this county where they
could enjoy the privileges OF our COM
mon schools, for one thousand n year,
thus saving the county at the very low
estimate we have made, at least S11, :
600 q year. '-"'''ae i-f. 24f
Ifit is proposed to only educate and
care for our InfirInary children at the
Home. then the cost is too much for
the benefits derived. Or if it is de-
signed to throw wide open the doors
Of this Institution and conduct it at an
enormous expense, on the plan of
State institutions of this kind, then it
will cost this county. thrib5le what we
have estimated it at. And indolent
parents, who would gladly shirk the
responsibility and expense of bringing
up their own children, would have it
done at the expense of the tax payers.
We hope that our Commissioners
will pause long enough to feel the
pulse of the county Before entering
into any permanent arrangement for
the erection Of q "Childrcn's Home"
We believe we speak the true scnti-
ment of the property holding citizens
OF this county, when we say that nine-
tenths OF; those who understand the
matter ithorOughly, are opposed to this
establishment of such an institution.
Nj" Schillinger, and others who are
opposed to tho establishment of this
Home. are now basiIy engaged circu-
iatipg petitions demonstrating against
such an undertaking, Let every, one
complaining under their already griev-
Gus Burdens of taxation sign this Pc
tition, and have it returned to|'the
Auditors office of this county by the
14th of February next. as the matter
is to be decided on the 10th, as to
whether we shall have this Home or
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