Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-25
DEuouRATIo REFORM IN VISION
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Wisconsin has had but taste Of
Democratic rule as yet; still already
from $50, eco 10 over = million dollars
have been saved to the State by it..
Heretofore her Republican State Treas
urers have been in the habit OF pocket
ing the interest on all State funds in
their possession, and they have been al
lowed to do so as a matter OF course.
For twenty years Republican officials
have carried on this ROBBERY, looking
upon it as their right, so long as they
returned to the State the principle and
the legal rate Of interest.
Thus was Wisconsin Systematically
robbed by her Republican rulers year
after year, the State officials never aP-
paaring 20 regard it as wrong TO allow
the treasurers to use the peoples money
for speculative and other investments.
This has never been Democratic doc
trine. Ia West Virginia not long ago
we had a Treasurer. who, though be
had deposited the State funds in legal
repositories and accounted for principal
and legal interest, was impeached and
turned out of Office because he used the
funds to make money for himself. Ey-
ervwhere have Democrats, in handling
trusted funds, always been actuated 0y
the common law doctrine that these
funds and all their accumuIations be-
long to the State, and nothing but the
legal commissions belong to the OIL
cial.
Acting upon this principle, the Demo-
crsts Of Wisconsin carried the case OF
these Republican official populations TO
the state supreme court which, of
course, held that State treasurer sis
only trustee, and his bondsmen are
held for the faithful discharge Of mis-
trust. The increment Of the States
money in his custody belongs to the
State. He is a mere custodian. not an
owner of the public money. He does
not owe the amount to the State as
debt. His responsibility is merely for
the safe keeping Of the treasure, and its
PAYMENT from time TO time to the credi-
tors Of the State, as required by law
or it's delivery to his successor in Office. "
Democratic rule has already done
this much for Wisconsin and it is prob
able that the ex-treasurers affected by
this decision, or their bondsmen, will,
through the energetic and faithful work
of the young Democratic Attorney
General Of the State, be compelled TO
restore TO the people the money OF
which they have been robbed.
THERE was an error in the REGIS
TIERS reference to Mr.. C. w. Brock
USIEE's Joint resolution introduced IN
the House yesterday submitting aa
amendment TO Article II Of the Con-
stitut.on ia regard TO the irreducible
school fund. The amendment provides
that the school fund" heretofore ex-
listing Shall not continue as Derma-
nent fund but the principal and all the
interest accruing shall be gradually APP
piled to the support Of the free schools
OF the State, until exhausted. 1t pro-
yides that not more than So, 600 Of the
principal all the interest on the unex-
pired part Of the fund and all the money
accrulng to the State under the present
law shall be annually dis6ursed. 1t
ought TO pass without opposition.
A RENUNERATIYE OCCUPATION.
The young man Just starting out in
life is in need OF advice and council in
choosing an occupation. Unless he has
a particularly strong inclination in some
direction he will have a serious difficulty
to solve and be in great danger Of max
ing a mistake. Even if he is convinced
that he has hit upon the right thing he
will have trouble in finding an opening
in an probability. The professions are
crowded, while the business world is so
limited and bound by monopoly control
that success in that line is far away and
the means Of making a fortune precar-
ious.
The COURAGEOUS youth, however, will
not be discouraged. Denied admittance
TO his fayorite avenue Of fortune he will
quickly seek auother-the next best.
There is always an opening somewhere.
In casting about the fields Of remuner-
alive activity he will strike the follow
ing list giving a statement during TIE
year 1892 OF the earnings Of the gentle
men named:
j. j.. Corbett..S - O)0Johu Van HeeSt l,SO0
George Dixon. lt,5JOW. Naher........ Lon
Joe Goddard. $3.50 Jack wilkes. Loo
Jack NcAulHe- $500 NJ. Costello. LOO
r. FiJzs,mmous 9lJO A. Greggains... Loo