The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-12
A SWINDLING SCHEME.


From Muhanoy City Record.
Our misguided local contemporary is evil
IDENTIFY under the impression that tue editor
of the Record stands in awful awe Of the
names of Charles ID. Kaier, John A. Reilly.
John L. Reilly p. j. Ferguson, Dallas
Sanders, A. p. Blakeslee and "othcrs
Of the most prominent men Of this section,
some Of whom, we are allowed to infer, it
forbears to mention, probably because il
would not do to mention their names un-
advisedly. The Record has but to reiterate.
as regards the American hospital scheme that
it has never seen any good reason to believe
il to be other than a political and advertising
dodge from s,art to finish, and it does not
matter a button to us whose names may be
used To bolster il up before the public. The
whole scheme is as rancid as some of the
means which have been used to secure sub
scripuOus from some of the very parties
named, who have ridiculed the whole scheme
in our hearing. Aud we repeat that no matter
how many names the American may choose
to connect with its stupid hospital fraud, with
or without consent Of their owners. the effort
TO secure an appropriation Of $4,000 for
surgical instruments for an institution that
has no existence anywhere except on paper,
not one stone of which has been laid, or site
secured is a swindling scheme of the first
magnitude, and no amount of hiding behind
the names of Charles D. Kaier John A.
Reilly, and other equally respectable people,
will disguise the fact to an honest and dis
eliminating public, that cannot be deceived
and bliudtoded by % designing politician.
In this connection our contemporary takes
good care to allude TO the fact that Charles
ID. Kuier is "a Record advertiser, and in this
~ a. Al 6 o IL. "a T.
Charles d. Kaier owns and pays for column
Of advertising space in the Record, and we
know how to appreciate good advertiser.
But Charles ID. Kaier is not the owner Of the
Record, and neither he nor any one else can
dictate its policy. That is the business Of
the writer Of this article.
Something further We do not know that
we approve Of this hospital movement at all.
We certainly condemn the methods that have
been used to advance it thus far To a po-
litical schemer, ambitious to distinguish him
self all that is necessary TO inquire i'm ref
erence to the matter is, will it accomplish
my selfish purpose But viewed from a
broader standpoint, SchuylkiH county has
already two hospitals one wholly and the
other largely dependent ON state aid and at
IIazleton, but few miles distant, is another
hospital wholly dependent ON state support
We cannot go ON creating hospitals iudef-
nitely, and may well pause q while 10 ask
whether this immediate section is not as well
provided for i'm this direction, at present, as
il has right to expect. Considerations of
this kind will not weigh with the political
demag0gue, or even the uuthiuking, who,
because hospitals are conceded 20 be good
things, jump to the conclusion that there
canuot be too many Of them, but they do
suggest TO the thinking man that it is pos
sibe TO overburden the public revenues
even for hospitals. This does not apply, Of
course, 10 hospitals endowed and maintained
by private munhcence,