Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-17

! insane asylum tunu TO be ODtalncu from tlle
| issue of bonds. AS the heating apparatus
| had already been provided for by levy, We
! and host Of democrats with us-dd not see
| how the $4,000 asked was to be absorbed
However, we think the county commission
ers had better publish a statement which we
would be happy to print.-Cumberland NecS.
The JOURNAL is not partisan Of
the present board Of county commits
sioners, but it is an advocate of fair
dealing with them.
1t is not disposed to hold either
them or their predecessors to account
for any evils growing out Of original
miscalculations as to permanent and
current costs Of the institution.
Nor is it inclined to impute to
either an intention to spend cent
more than was Or is actually neces-
sary.
The facts appear to be-and we
shall mention nothing that the Nevs
does not already know
l, That the people, partly at the
Neacs' suggestion and advocacy, voted
for the erection Of the asylum.
,, That the sum voted-$3O,000
was found inadequate to carry out
the designs and complete the equip
ment of the establishment.
3, That the $5,730.94, levied last
June, does not represent "current
expenses" but is part Of the cost
of the asylum, and so inherited by
the present board under the law COM
pelling them to provide by levy for
all Indebtedness not otherwise taken
care of.
4, That had the bond proposal car
ried the sum named, $5,730,94,
could have been lifted from the peo-
pies shoulders at this time along
with about $4,000 more, which must
be saddled on the county next June
in the same expensive and oppressive
/ way.
5, That the expenditure of over
$4,000 by the preceding board,
! $5,730.94 of which they did not hare
to spelld, made the disbursement of
the later sum Of about $4,000 neces-
S07y. Otherwise, all previous costs
paid would have been thrown away.
That is the whole story as briefly
told us it can be stated Still the
NelCs has by implication made some
people believe, no doubt, that the
previous board had nothing to do
with the embarrassment which besets
the present board, and that the latter
body, in adopting the plan which
lighters the burden on the people by
distributing it over series of years,
are guilty of some grave offence to
the taxpayers. 1t has made the same
impressionable people credit its no.
tion that the $5,73094 spent by the
preceding board for indispensable
equipment and about $4,000 spent by
the present board for equally indis-
pensable equipment-both indispen-
sable as the ground and building
themselves-are ''current expenses"
And in doing all this it "and a
host of democrats with it-"did not
see how the $4,000 asked was to be
absorbed" Certainly not. How
could they when they were deliber-
ately blind enough to be unable to
distinguish between plant costs and
''current expenses :"
In an article on its election bulle-
tins the NewS said:
We dealt fairly with the public, too. We
bulletined nothing that was not genuine and
we suppressed nothing.
Why could not the NeWS deal as
lalrly with the public" anu the COM
miSsiOnerS in the insane asylum bond
question ? Are genuine bulletins Of
more consequence than accurate, full
and fair information concerning a
matter which reaches the peoples
pockets? If bad news in one case
was not Suppressed" why was in
formation in another quarter substi-
tuted by inuendo ?
And now, in speaking of "the
Creek Vote" the NcoS closes par
dOnably eXultant article with the
following moral:
This great vote shows how utterly worth
less the free coal'' fraudulent campaign
dodge was and it ought to show the demo-
cratic leaders Of this county that even in pol
itics honesty is the best policy"
Why should democratic leaders"
learn such a lesson =? Have they u
monopoly of all the learning to do !?
We know they are bad enough
''the leaders," We mean - and we
know that democrats generally are