The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-16

er'S article show that In thlS case the
State was served by competency in the
person of Mr.. Sanders. This fact is estab-
lished by these others, namely, that the
displaced Superintendent has served
seven years, with one exception longer
than any other State official. That he
took the institution after it had for sew
eral years been superintendent by those
who have their eyesight, and yet had
not attained that measure of success
that was looked for by the people, or
that has been proved under Mr.. San
ders to be possible. That he has been
not only Superintendent but teacher,
having developed peculiar capacity in
that direction, and thereby saved the
State $500 a year. That he has in
creased the average monthly income of
the institution 100 per cent, while the
pay roll-under enlarged employment
and augmented industrial production
has increased but ~ per cent. That to
July /, 1895. under the Sanders admin
istration, the earnings of the home
paid into the State Treasury amounted
to nearly $127, 900, and for the first five
months of the present fiscal year
nearly $1,000, making total of $133,-
606.
AS one of the directors, Mr. Irish, who
opposed the displacement of Sanders,
well said no private employer would be
disposed to remove a trusted en-
ploye who could make such a success
full showing of his administration. But
beyond this, we observe from the re-
ports that the number employed in the
home has been augmented, and thus
| the measured beneficence of the insti-
tuition has been enlarged. Further
than this it is shown that during the
Sanders regime the cost per capita per
diem for maintaining institutions for
the blind in the several States has
| been, with a single exception. higher
our figure falling to forty -four cents,
while in some of the States it rises to
eighty-three cents, and in South Caro-
lima is forty-one cents.
Further still, as compared with the
per diem per capita cost of other Cali
fornia institutions for dependents, the
blind home costs considerably less than
the average. Before the promotion of
| Joseph Sanders from the workbench
of the home to the Superintendency,
thUe appears to have been no proper or
effici&nt books of record and accounts
kept beyond the cold records of the pro-
ceedings OF the directory but Sanders
has successfully introduced system OF
accounts and records such as are
deemed necessary in a commercial and
industrial establishment.
In the absence, then, of any showing
in contradiction os these statements
made before the new board, we submit
that a. mistake has been made. We
do not know Sanders; the subject is
treated as it appears of record and I'M
contradioted. With the strongest pos
sible desire, in common with all good
citizenship, that all State institutions
shall be wisely, humanely and eco
nomically conducted, and each State
administration attain the largest
measure of success possible, and unin-
huenced by partisan motive or sugges-
ZION, the Record Union again repeats
that in the change of SUPPLEMENTARY
at the blind home mistake has been
made, and indeed an injustice has been
done that will go far toward deepening
the impression that no matter how
faithfully one may serve the State, 1t
is apt to prove ungrateful.