The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01
Food For Thought.

Much comment has been provoked
by the action of the Legislature, dur
ing the past few days, on certain
measures of interest to the people of
Schuyllill county. Especially is this
true in reference to the appropria-
tions made for charitable institutions
in this county. 1t is certainly bad
state of affairs when the Legislature
will appropriate $40, 600 to a paper"
hospital projected solely to bolster up
waning political ambitions, and
neglect proper provision for highly
lneritorious institution like the
Miners Hospital at Fountain Springs,
which has proved its usefulness and
which ranks among the best institu-
tions of the state. This state of
affairs furnishes food for thought,
and the working people of the region
are doing some tall thinking just at
this time.
We are not to be understood as
opposing hospitals But we are un-
qualifiedly opposed to the prostitu-
ton of charity to the political ad-
vantage of repudiated political
vultures, at the expense of well-cOn-
Quoted institutions from which poll
tics are, and should be, rigidly
excluded. The Miners Hospital at
Fountain Springs has been crying
loudly for years for increased appro-
priations to enable the management
to properly care for the increasing
number of cases which rapidly
increasing population forces upon the
institution, and the $4,000 thrown
away upon political project would
have assisted materially in giving it
the increased facilities so badly
needed.
The press of the county, with but a
single exception-and that Senator
Coyle's personal organ-condemns
the action in strong terms. And this
condemnation cannot be attributed
to personal motives, because it ex-
tends 10 the leading dailies of the
state. The Philadelphia Record con
ElQEEh IL a AhAND"" ADA WV '1tNNN W
attempt to build more hospitals when
it cannot rake up money enough from
the living or dead to run the ones
already in existence Commenting
upon the same subject the Press, Of
the same city, has this to say
,.Representntlve Voorhees, exposure of the
fact that aH appropriation Of $4,000 to the
American Hospital Association was for she
alleged purchase OF surgical instruments Tor an
institition that has not been built and for
which not even a site has been selected, did not
r,revent the House from going ahead and pass
ing it ID would be dihicut 20 find langunge TO
properly characterize such proceeding. Any
body would suppose the state had money TO
burn"
We're it deemed necessary we might
ouote from many other leading jour
mails. the criticisms of which all tend
in the same direction This is suili-
cient. however, to refute the charge
that personal motives actuate the
Dosition of these journals. The HER
AID is pleased to be classed among
those that have the courage to expose
the fraud perpetrated upon the work
ing people of the region, and it will
continue on the same line until it has
been shown to the satisfaction of
those most directly interested that
the charge, made in public print, and
up to the present time never denied,
that the 'roll Of honor is as iicticious
as some Of the personal expense
bills in the Legislature, is entirely
unfounded, and that the protector is
honest in his efforts
1t appears to be waste OF words
however, to present further argument
TO show what we have said on this
question has been solely in the inter
est Of the legitimate charitable insti-
Buttons. The mere statement that
but single newspaper Senator