Telegram-herald., 1888-09-30

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10 lie poor kooss - Ers@g iss ooontTs -
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ceuid Rot val in TIA generous Stale OF
ours and we Constructed tos HoUe ~
Grsad Rspics tAsg takes care Of foaF IAN
crsa u them sDp-sase
l .sil You fsllos clllLens. these things
eOsI money. lacy have kn0s L. eva
Il, ] plead guilty.
Ne hsi 10 t4ks care 0f The oriaiaal elsss
10 pfOtecg the lives and property OF 0ar eau-
Lsns. We tAks care OF TIE educational Ia
slItutiOns Of this STATE Ne ssSad ia tAe
front rank. No other state 3 ap With us
No state Ia this respect eompsres wigh
Michigan ia the grandeur OF It's support 10
our great educational institutions NOw.
fellow citizens lei me ask you frankly. do
yoa want We should tear away that Reform
school; do you want We should lock up the
asylums, do you want We should tear dow
Ghs Soldiers HOms and let ths old wan
cerer 20, 10 yeu want we should stop teach
Jag the blind-snd | forgot them. next 20
the most Afflicted Of all our creatures. We
have got place where We sducats thea by
patient care and tOsl 10 read with their
nngers the words they never would have
known except for . blind asylum. But
this too costs money. DO you want We
should lock up thst blind asylum and let
these children 90 ignorant and blird and
afflicted through lie: do you want We
should tear out any of these institutions,
IN YOU do. vote for Mr. Burt, don't vote for
me because l am not Ia sympathy with il
Applause
Now. fellow. citizens. am going 10 read
little while. Mr. Burt SAYS that Ne used
up $4,000 last year for pin-moncy, or 10
the support of the State government
proper. tie saws that 1910 900 was used up
right around the capital, and not a dollar Of
| IL went To- any institution. lie repeated IL
| dozen times when / heard him make the
| speech, and b ad a stenographsr take down
| tae speech 50 that / had an opportunity TO
| refer 10 IT, He repeated IL over and over
| again that of1hat $4,000 not a dollar
| went TO any State institution. He said In
| 1880 they run the State government for
| $5l6. 900. That is true. That we used up
| last year $4,000 it is true. That much is
| all so. Now let me show you. In 1879 the
| Legislature changed the law in relation to
| the care of the INDECENT insane. There are
| old Supervisors before me, and they know
| that previous to that time the Superntend-
| ent sent the bills 10 the County Treasurer.
| Each county took care OF its own
| INDECENT insane. In 1879 that law was
| changed so that after two years as county
| patients they became State patients. TnaI
| law took effect in 1873. We are today sap
| porting more than one thousand SIX hun
/ dred Of the 2 40 insane in the State insti-
| tutions by the State instead OF by the coun-
| ties. That fund appears in the general pur-
pose fund right along with the others Now
| will tell you what that general purpose
| fund does: Ii pays ali the supreme Court
Judges and the Circuit judges. the expenses
| OF the Supreme Court, II pays the salaries OF
all the State officers including the Cover
nors; it pays the salaries of all the clerks; it
pays for heating and lighting the Capitol;
| IL pays for all that vast printing We have
| done; il pays tor the care and decoration
| and furniture that goes into the Capitol; IL
DAYS If we have law suit and We have a
good many; it pays all the expenses OF law
| suits. l aIn sot certain whether have en-
bracsi ell thstit pays or not, bat in ad-
dition u that it pays for the care OF these
indigent inDsne State patients; it pays for
conveying sisonsrs to the State prison,
that used +, be done by the counties, but
WAS changed.
Now, having told you substantially what
it paid In 1880, and that is the year they
compare with, and the lowest State tax year
In sixteen years. We paid for the care of
the insane. $94, ,7s0; we paid for conveying
| prisoners, 0,o02. These two items make
$l05. 1892. We paid. in 1887 1888, 900 for the
care of the States patients insane; We paid
for conveying prisoners, S26. 500; We paid for
members of the Legislature, we had no ses-
sion in 1880. Sl30, 900. These several items
make $4s9.5 500 of the 100000. Deducting
the $105, 1872, that we paid for these purposes
in 1880. leaves 1884, ,1lS. paid in excess for
| these purposes what was paid in 1880.
That came by the change eff the law. and by
the session of the Legislature. Tue differ
ence between the expenses of those two
funds for the years 1880 and 1887 is 1891 ,950
deducting the amount that we paid for the
insane in excess of 1880 aud the session OF
tie Legislature, leaves the years State
expenses for tho current or general purposes
81, s32 more than II was in 1880, eight years
ago. and that is all. [Applause.l pledge
you my honor that this Was taken abso-
lutely from the books in the Auditor
Office and can be sworn to by a hundred
men.
Now, let Us look little further. In 1888
the State tax will be S492 500 less than ii
| was in 1887. The general purpose fund for
this year 1888, is 753, 100, where for 1887 II
was $4,000 There was $4,000, you
know. to pay for the Legislature out oil
that. Deducting the addition for the insane
and for conveying prisoners in 1887 over
4
| eIpcns es Of 1883, this year the second year
OF nv administration, S499. .S32. SIS. 1862 less
than it wss in that low tax year OF 1880.
| Applause
Now, that is a complete answer TO all
this bslderdash and stirring the people up
by A. A. Files, who has shown his unfit.
ness for the high Office Of Attorney General
and he is corrocorsted oy Mr.. Burt-but
will not say anything about him any
further than that.
Now, say to you va.ie thought Al first
he was mistaken. ! know now that hs
knows better. II knows thst'hs IL falsfying
the recora. and | speak earnestly because
the cases deserves IT,
Now. TIE other part of the expenses foi
the inNtutions. We paid in lSS7-nov, listen
just threa minutes sud / am dOne-to the
University, s9i 600. omittIDg the hundreds
more than We did in lss0. Ne paid in $50
$4,000 70 the University. and -s paid in
| 1887 Si55.0O0e ei more than we did IN 1850.
We PAID to the Normal school t5I,00l
more than Ne did Ia 1880 TO
construct q building. ve paid for the
Mining School, us- institution. t47. 500
~s paid Tor the Agricultural College $1,000
more than We did IN lss1, making a tOtsl
70 these four educational institutions Oi
s2I0 SO more than vs paid in 1850. Nov
| il may 90 ne have been running strong for
these appropriations l an myself. ss
told y0a. etsrnslly opposed TO raising mors
nonsy tas8 We aeed. bGt ~s -ant 10 tsks
! good care of these things. Many Of you
Know that I stepped in and saved 70 the
! people q this Sisle In one wsv and an
other n tee appropriation Of 1887. nor'
| tha1 $1p0 COZ. Whether right or wrong
this sas certainly 5oas by yo1r Executivs.
We paid last ysar for the Soldiers Home
sll60V9. That - Bev iastit0ti91. Is Es'
not here IL ls39. ne paid for TIE prison ia