Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-04
TIE PROPER DIsrosAL OF IT.

The PROPER DIspOsAL OF IT.
We are inclined to believe that the dissi-
patton Of the irreducibie school fund would
be unwise The fund has reached an
amount where the income derived from 1t
is Of advantage. There is danger that It's
dissipation would be an injury instead OF a
beaeht. School teachers would demand
larger salaries and longer terms. and the
whole school system of our State would be
artiicislly stimulated for few years when
affairs would again have TO assume their
normal condition, then trouble would be-
GIN. Besides IL the Democratic party car
RES out its pledge 70 repeal the 10 per cent
tax on State banks, this fund would serve
as q basis 70 give cur State banks a stand
ing enjoyed by few States Ia the Union
Gr,cHbrter Independent.
All these objections to the "dissipa-
ton" Of the fund would be met by the
adoption Of the plan proposed by the
ROOSTER for d.sDosing of the accu-
mutation by the reduction OF the
school levy TO, say, SC, the deficiency 20
be made up out OF the fund as lorg as
it lasts. Let the Independent urge
this aud 10 will fnd itself advocating
a line OF policy that will meet with
popular approval, and grant relief 20
those who most need it, the taxpayers.
We admit that the sudden distribu-
ton OF the fund among the schools
would lead TO extravagances THAI would
DO better avoided even though the
maintenance OF the fund were necessary
TO do it, But the Independent must in
turn admit that it would be very weak
and childish to relinQuish needed re-
form at the very first obstacle that
arose in our imaginations. 1t
must further admit that there
would be no sense at all in
keeping up the fund for the use Of fu-
ture generations, who will not need it
nearly so much as we do at present,
which must be the result If the consti-
tutional amendment is defeated as it
would surely be by pursuing the hide
pclldcnfs plan. And in that case the
fund would be as good as lost to US for
any purpose.
What fairer. more economical or
wiser plan could be suggested than
to dispose Of it by reducing taxation?
ARE SIBERIAN HORRORS MUCH
WORSE?
The average American will rise in
wra.hful denuncIation, and in mass
meeting assembled will, from the bot
tom Of his warm, generous heart, pro-
test against the intolerable oppression,
unspeakable cruelty and outrages
oracticed upon the dOwn-trodden and
oppressed in Siberia by the Russian
government. All Of which is very
proper and commendable. We have no
doubt the people OF the State Of Mary
land, for instance, have had their hearts
blood stirred by such indignation and
sympathy. But what would the good
people Of Maryland think II they should
read of the Russians holding indigna-
ton meetings all over the Cars do
main protesting against the tyranny
and horrible cruelty, extending to
the manning and numbering Of individ-
uals, practiced by the captains OF oyster
boats in Chesapeake bay?
Here is the awful story told by the
Baltimore american:
con Saturday, December 81, one Of the
meu went aft aud told Capt. As0ury Mills,
OF the Bertha May that Samuel Mcllhaney,
one of the crew, was unable TO work, as
his hands and feet were frozen. The cap
tain swOre and declared that if McIlhaney
did not work ne would got nothing to eat
This would not have made much difference
10 the poor fellow, as he, with the rest oil
MS. had only received enough TO keep US
from actual starvation.
"McIlhaney tried 10 get out Of his bunk,
but was unable 70 move. The captain or
dercd the mate TO rig line to the foremost
and haul the poor wretch out OF the lore
peak. A rope was made fast around the
waist Of the suffering man and he was
dragged out on the icy deck and ordered 10
go 10 work. He was forced 10 take turn
at the wlndlass and tried TO do as he was
told. but the effort was too much and he
fell exhausted.
''NcIlhauey could not get his boots on.
as his feet were swollen 10 twice their
natural size, and were as black as ink.
His hands were SIS bad and in his strug-
giles three OF his fingers dropped OF. we
had 20 stand by and see all this without
SAYING q word.
"Mcllhancy was put back in The fore
peak and lay there until the following sat
urday, January :. He received no atten-
tiOn Whatever from the captain or mate.
He might as well have 0een in an ice box,
for the stove in the hold gave no heat and
we were surrounded BY ice all the time.
He had TWO or three meals during the week.
We lost tract Of Mcllhaney when he was
taken on the other boat. but heard ftom
some Of she crew that he was cut Of MS
b cad and begging tor death. His legs and
arms were black. when we last saw him,
and we were sure he could not live long