Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-04

paid $414,o54. for criminal costa In
1889 and 1890 the state paid &539. o93 for
criminal costs Here Is an increase Of
sf25, 033. But in 1870 there were only
T97 convicts In the penitentiary, while
Id 1890 there were 1,6S6. This shows
there were far more prosecutions in
1889 and 1890 than there were in 1859
and 1870. And very naturally so. for
during those twentyyears nearly !, oO0,.
COO were added to the sum of our popu-
lation. The per capita expense to the
people on this account was less in 1889
and 1890 than in 1859 and 1870. The per
capita in 1869 aud 1870 was "a cents,
while in 1889 and 1890 it was only 20
cents
EXPENSES OF STATE GOVERNMENT.
Turning from his lamcntation over
the expenses entailed in the proeecu-
ton of criminals, the major throws his
eagle eye over the entire state, and
asks why the necessity of expend-
ing s1.60o, 900 for the support OF
the state government In 1890, when
only about $1,000, 900 was required
for that purpose during previous years?
In the first place the state government
did not cost 81 ,6o0, 600 In 1890, but cost
only 81, 155, 6ss. In 1850 the total ex-
penditures did aggregate e1,664. 169.
Now the large increase of expenditures
incurred In 1889 in excess Of those In
CURED in the years preceding and fol-
lowing is due, first, to the fact that 1850
was the year in which the long
revising session of the legislature
sat, and. secondly, to the fact that
very large sums were appropriated
that year for necessary public build
ings. The ordinary expenses of the
government were not larger than they
had haor hafn%o ho "a ham esySco
While on this subject and at this point
/ might make another comparison
pertinent to the question am now dis
cussing. The expenses of the state gov
ernment in 1869 amounted to 81 ,024, 467
and in 1870 to 81, lat ,658 "a total for the
two years of q, 172, 125. The per capita
expense of the taxpayers in 1869 was
$1.26 and in 1870 was e1.O3. Now the
expenses of the state government in
1889 amounted to 81, 6o4. 100 (the in
crease being occasioned by the causes
to which l have alluded), and for 1890
the expenses amounted to 81, 15s, 500
making total for the two years of ST.
$50, S95. The per capita expense to the
taxpayers in 1889 was sixty-scven cents
and in 1890 was forty-three. The per
capita expense Of the state government,
therefore, for the years 1869 and 1870
was double that of 1889 and 1890.
In this connection call atten-
ton to this further important
fact, that in 1869 and 1870 not a dol
lar was paid out of the state treas
versity or any other educational insti-
tuition; while in 1889 and 1890 the sum
of s175,519 was paid by the state to the
support Of the university, the School of
Mines. the normal schools and the Lin
coin institute. Further still, in 1859
and 1870 the eleemosynary institutions
of the state consisted of one lunatic asy.
lum, one deaf and dumb asylum and
one blind asylum. The sum appro-
priated for the maintenance of these
institutions in 1869 and 1870 amounted
to s201 200. Now, in 1889 and 1890 the
eleemosynary institutions of the state,
and those supported by the state, con-
sisted of four lunatic asylums, one deaf
and dumb asylum, one blind asylum.
one reform school for boys and one
industrial home for girls. For the sup
port of these institutions, so largely in
creased in number and sheltering many
hundreds of additional inmates, there
was appropriated in 1889 and 1890 the
sum of 1928 1856. So that it will be OBJ
served that in those two democratic
years s49S, S54 more were expended for
the maintenance of our educational and
benevolent institutions than were ex-
pended for those purposes in the two
republican years. These two items
alone are sufficient to explain why it is
that the expenses of the government
now are as great, or even greater in the
aggregate, than they were twenty years
ago. But, in addition to these items,
during 1SS9-90 large sums were appro-
priated for charging the state capitol
and the supreme court building; for
mine and factory inspectors in the in
terest of labor, and for veterinary serv-
ice and to pay farmers for animals
slaughtered to prevent the spread of
disease among domestic animals. These
are all new and recent sources of ex-
penditures- The truth is. however, that
the ordinary annual expenses of the
state government are not larger now
the per capita expense to the taxpayers
is less than one-half what it was at that
time.
Mr.. Chairman, I can not pursue this
line of discussion farther. 1 think l
have gone far enough to show, first,
that Maj. Warner in his desperate
eagerness to find some substantial
ground upon which to attack the DEM
ocratic party in this state has per-
verted, suppressed and evaded facts
with the object in view of creating
people; and, secondly, I have devel-
oped mass of facts in detail sufficient
to overwhelm the radical party with
the charge l make against it, that in
the administration of our state affairs
it was both extravagant and corrupt.
But, sir, that party was not only ex-
travagant and corrupt, it was proscript-
i've and intolerant.
PRESCRIPTION AND INTOLERANCE.
Mai. Warner makes complaint that
republicans are disfranchised under
the new bill redistricting the state for
congressional purposes. Nobody Is
DISTINGUISHED in Missouri to-day. There
is not a republican in the state who
the polls this fall without any sort of
apprehension, and with the absolute
assurance that his vote will be re-
ceived and honestly counted.
But let me call to Maj. Warmers
elusive memory a chapter in the history
of his party, which will be familiar to
him, for he towers high among those
who were most conspicuous in it.
When the great civil war between the
states was concluded, the ragged vet
Grams of the confederacy surrendered
the Union under a pledge that they
should return in peace to their homes
and be again clothed in all the immu-
mites, and enter again undisturbed
upon the discharge of all the high du- |
ties of citizenship. As rule, the real,
non-political soldiers of the federal |
army were always ready and willing to
keep that pledge the politicians were |
not. But let that pass. will not talk |
about the confederate soldiers When |
they entered the army they took upon |
themselves the hazard of war. If the |
politician spat upon the solemn pledge |
Grant and Sherman. those great cap
tains of the federal armies, gave; If |