Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-13


6vGenuf Beaver hns his innings upon
0prupesa&ions now that the Iegis-
~ NJ adjourned. The governor
Gen1ly distinguishes himself, upon
- eccoslons, BY some sensible vctoes.
y ~ mot Often agree with him, at other
- Int when he takes out the hatchet
Tim down the extravaganza OF the
i1akive appropriations he seems to
~ rood business sense. He has an
-, S6r instance, that the states expen-
lnle should be kept within its income
~ that b ~ good policy for a state as
6 individual. Again he thinks that
- should be Just before II Is generous
Which y another policy that recom-
|onds Itself ~ strongly to governments
W 70 men. There are plenty Of men who
- IIot Observe either Of these proper
q individual conduct aud
fefh6l1t0res are n negligent. II is very
WelI Indeed, when the governor seeks to
G(ne k1 veto power in accord with them.
The members Of the Legislature, which
~ lust adjourned, seem to have had
40 opinion that Il was their right to
EVUke sway the states money for any pur-
8nooe for which II pleased them to direct
- expenditure, from the charter Of an
24xCursion boat for their pleasure In New
1xork harbor, to the gift Of money
& . every Tom, Dick and Harry
Slbr expenditure In what they
|sUpresented to be holy charity.
J: Perhaps the Legislature has the
pCwer, the governor asserting, to spend
6he states money for any purpose what
Eovef but II certainly has no right
4 - spend II for any purpose but the main
& tenance Of the state government and an
1oxcursion In New York harbor, and an
appropriation for the benefit Of the poor
- one section Of the state which Is not
I part Of general appropriation for the
kpoor Of the whole state, is not such a
4 Suppose. The Legislature has got very
much into the habit of making such
appropriations, and the special charities
% special sections every year enjoy its
bounty.
Gov. Beaver shows disposition to
check these appropriations and to re-
I; member that the states charity should
4 te equally distributed in all its quarters.
He has vetoed sn- appropriation for n
charitable institution that proposes to
take care of certain poor old people Of
J; The vicinage, upon the very sensible
(. ground that, while the charity was good,
4 q was not right for the state 10 select
any particular number Of the poor for
TIE enjoyment Of better fare and treat
ment than the rest. We are told that
ne legislature Missed this message when
E3t was read; which was just the degree
w disfsvor which might have been
B hooked for from men Of the miser-
able class to which many Of these fel-
lDws belonged but there were not
4 <onOugh Of them to override the veto.
" We consider II to be very great wrong
& that the immense amount Of money
which the state annually appropriatcs
y to charitable institutions, In not 80 given
- to be sowed evenly and broadcast
over the state, NO that every citizen of 1t,
who is proper object of charity, shall
get bis just and equal share Of the bounty.
IL b very well for individual charity to
select its object but the state cannot
Justly give to one citizen what II does not
\ give to another equally needing its gift
The private charities, ofwhich there are
20 many In the state, are very well I; but
they should he maintained by private
4 contribution, aud not recline upon state
n taxation for their support. They have no
right to cent Of its proceeds. The
4 people who have instituted them and
i who have claimed the credit for the
good deed, mus maintain them to de-
serve the credit and it will not do for
them to take the glory of the benefac-
n ~ 80 many Of them do, tossing the
ourthen finally up, n the state.
The state yearly spends sum of
money In charity that, if it was poured
out upon its own institutions In each
county for the care Of the poor and the
aMtcted, who are its proper charges,
would comfortably provide for every
one In the state who stands in real need
u its charity.
But what do we see, notwithstanding
all that is yearly supposed to be ex-
pended for the poor? Nothing but mis-
ersble county poor houses, that are
wholly unfit for the use for which they
are intended and that fail of their mis-.
sion they are places to which the poor
will not go unless In extremity.
What the state needs TO do il To estab-
lish system ofexpending all the money
II has to expend, for charity, through its
own agents and in its own institutions.
II has the starting point Of the organi-
salon in its boardd of public charities,
whose duty 1t should be to provide for
the distribution Of all its charitable ap-
& propriation, through agents and insti-
tutions In every county providing the
ncedy with relief at their homes, taking
the afflicted into hospitals and the
homeless into their houses. 1t should
- very simple thing to effect
- proper relief of all those in the
;Gsate who are entitled to it from the state
- every one of its citizens is who is too
ebls for self support and too poor to
nrchase support. With "a well provided
E1espltal. poorhouse and workhouse in
seFy county, and system which will
eovide for the poor also at their homes
- susie will have done its proper char
nblc work which it should not dele.
$50 to Others and should not perform i'm
z>1x ss'A general way that will reach
equAliy every needy citizen.
Tho German Riots,
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