The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-10-28
sdulteration OF food products. Then

come a splendid instrument for the |
enforcement Of the Ohio law in re-
gard to pure food and against the coun-
terfelting of food products, the ratio
Of expenditures seems entirely too
small.
Labor's Demands.
The same can be said of the depart
ment of the inspector of workshops
and factories. At the urgent request
of labor there has been an immense
improvement in the state inspection Of
buildings, and in the rigid enforce
ment of good laws designed to bene-
At those who toll. Ten years ago al
most any kind of building, whether
rickety or strong, whether unhealthy
or healthy, was allowed to house la
boring men during the daylight hours.
Now, under the operation Of the de-
partment created by the Republican
party, there is every safeguard and
every beneficent environment given in
all workshops of the state.
But lately there has been a further
increase in the work of this DEPART
ment, that of the inspector Of bake
shops, the purpose being to insure the
sanitary publication of all such build
ings.
BY every species of care and atten-
tion the state has endeavored to make
the condition of it's laboring classes
better. The mine inspectors depart
ment Is charged with this duty in re-
lation to the miners. The commission
er of the bureau of labor statistics is
constantly endeavoring to ascertain
the conditions Of labor, with view of
suggesting such improvements as will
have beneficial effect upon their lives
and their prospects.
For All the People.
Not content with doing all this for
the laboring classes, the Republican
administrators of the state govern
ment have done all possible for the
people at large in every branch of the
state service which could initiate
against bad conditions or existing
evils.
The insurance department has es-
tablished proper rules under which in
surance companies can operate and do
business in Ohio. A large amount of
revenue accrues to the state each year
| from licenses and fees paid for such
privileges by the insurance companies.
| Whatever increase there may have
been in the cost of this department
has been brought about by it's natural
| enlargement and by the fact that
+ new branch of it's work dealing with
the inspection and supervision of build
! ing and loan associations has been es-
tablished. The same rule of increased
efficiency and enlargement of purposes
has obtained in the department Of
railroad commissioner, it having been
the aim of the party which has fos-
tered that branch of state work to
give ample protection as far as state
| law and state work can effect it. The
cost of that department, however, falls
upon the railroads of the state, by
which it is cheerfully sustained.
Remarkable Expedient.
The utter discontinue of thos who
have been seeking to find some flaw in
| the strong armor of state Republican
| ism this year, is demonstrated by the
remarkable expedient of Incorporating
in a statement of the expenses Of the
state departments, an item relating to
the judiciary of the state. 1t is stated
that in 1885 the judiciary cost $685.
539.46, while in 1896 the cost was $685.
04O.94. The annual increase in the
population of the state and the conse-
quent increase in the judicial business
is entirely responsible for the larger
amount now paid to the judiciary; in
other words, the responsibility Of the
state for this increase in the cost of
maintaining the judiciary is about
equivalent to that brought about by
the birth rate which adds continually
to the burden of the commonwealth.
An Open Book.
The financial record of Ohio under
Republican administrations has always
been an open book. The fact is that
the funded debt is being steadily re-
duced, that no new indebtedness has
been incurred, that the people have
not been called upon to pay more to
the state, and that the state has not
made in the year 1897 single ad-
vance draft upon any county treasury
speak in more glowing terms for the
Republican administration than any
extended argument or eulogium.
All assertions tending to deceive and
confuse the people will fall on barren
ground. because before the minds eye
is now presented financial condition
as remarkable as it is satisfactory
Juggling of figures and wilful mis-
statements of facts can have no effec
at this time. The people know tha
the states funded debt is now at the
lowest point since the foundation of il
was contracted by the building of the
L Il1b in u,nrlrC of 0hin iS known