National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-02-27

everything connected with their manage
ment, the care and treatment OF the pupils,
and such other matters as arc necessary to
the good government of the schools and
proper compliance, both in letter and spirit,
with the law institutlng and maintaining
them.n
Scarcely any reform has been effected In
the state of Pennsylvania In recent years
that has not been inaugurated and pushed
TO completion by the press Of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. The Philadelphia Record
has earned public gratitude by this revolt
ing exposure, and It's local contemporaries
have shown commendable spirit In
warmly seconding its efforts.
No other state IN the Union has more
generously cared for the soldiers and their
orphans than has the great and generous com
monwealth Of Pennsylvania. One Of the
beneflcent features Of this care is a system
Of schools for soldiers orphans. Up to
this date the state has appropriated $685.
S4l for this purpose. The taxpayers who
furnished this money have supposed that
by means Of 1t the children Of dead Union
soldiers were relieved from present need
and fitted to be useful and respected cit
liens hereafter. But II the Record tells
the truth, and we believe II does, bare
subsistence is all these children are recelv-
ing, "while the money furnished by the
STATEN excess of that needed TO keep tho
children alive Is divided among syndi-
cate who speculate upon charity and grow
rich by maintaining orphan asylums.n
N eta hat 10, t6
by the syndicate who have undertaken the
disbursement of this state charity for four
Of these schools, located at Mount Joy,
Lancaster county; Mercer, McAllstervllle,
Juniata county, and Chester Springs, are
$4,000 year, and the excessive profit on
the other schools Is $4,000. It Is charged
that the instruction contemplated by the
state is not given to the pupils Of these
schools; that they are fed scantily, clothed
lightly, and their moral and physical we'll
being cared for scarcely at all.
The details OF the abuses practiced are
sickening, and II the charges are sustained
the scoundrols who have grown rich by such
crimes will undoubtedly share the society OF
much better men than themselves In the
pcnitertiary.
It appears that there has been fear Of ex-
posure and retribution. In the summer Of
1884 the Grand Army Of the Republic was
about to hold an encampment at Lancaster
city, and the proprietor Of the Soldiers Or
phans' School at Mount Joy was therefore
uneasy lest members should drop in at the
school unannounced on their way to and
from the encampment. lie writes to the
principal that he has ordered some good
coffee to be used during these perllous en-
compliment times; he does not wantthe poor
thrown out, but "see that 1t is put out Of
the way sure" "See the cook" he adds,
land all other departments, and have no
mistakes anywhere. ] much fear trouble
from this eDcampment for Mount JOY. If
frozen feet, toe nails dropping OF, itch,
&c., with your four months record of
deaths, &C., do not warm up our G. A. Il.
friends l shall feel ! am no prophet. All
these matters are sure TO be investigated
and brought up at the encampmeut, so get
in shape to meet charges and receive Wis
itors.m
The investigation that was unfortunately
missed at that time is now to be had, and 1t
is hoped that the infamous scoundrels who
are implicated in these hornd crimes will
get their deserts. II the courts donot know
how TO meet the emergency, the inventive
genius of the G. A. Il. may come in play.